The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23
FOREIGN.

collapsed at Wolverhamton, England.
Spain has decided to enter the sys-
tenn of European aerial communica-
tion. A gigantic aerodrome will be es-
tablished at Rilboa ms the starting
place for postal flight.
Several large foodstuffs warehouses
in Harburg, six miles south of Ham
burg, were burned April 10, say dis
patches from that town. The loss on
the contents alone is estimated at 25,-
100000 marks.
Fifteen workmen were killed and
eighty wounded during recent labor
disturbances in the Asturlas region, ac-
cording to reports received ut Madrid,
Spain. Order has been restored every
where, it is announced.
monument to Edith Cavell, the
British nurse who was shot by the Ger
mans at Brussels, has been erected in
Charing Cross road, just off Trafalgar
square and almost under the shadow
of the Nelson monument in London.
One German battleship and six tor
pedo boats, allocated to France under
delivered to the French government.
The battleships Oldenburg and Posen
will be delivered April % at Rosythe,
Scotland.
A decree has been issued providing
for the reduction of the Italian army
to ten army corps. Reduction in the
number of officers and the establish
~ -
ing for eight months service are pro-
vided for
Polish newspapers give reports from
a Russian source that after the con-
quest of Rostov and Novorossisk by
the Bolshevists, the red army mur-
dered more than 5000 officers and
soldiers of Denikines army in hos
pitfalls and prisons.
GENERAL.
American Red Cross supplies en-
pie have been destroyed in tfe burning
Of the steamer Reye, which caught fire
in the harbOr at Saloniki. The ship was
a total loss
Swedish princesses may henceforth
marry commoners, for the government
has introduced in Parliament bill to
amend the old law which forbade them
to wed any one not of royal blood. Un-
der the proposed law only the kings
knowledge and consent is requisite for
such unions.
After being forced to dig their own
graves, five Bolsheviki, captured by
Japanese troops in Siberia, were ex-
ecuted by Japanese officer who be-
headed each with his saber, according
to Capt. A. Millard of the Twenty
seventh Infantry, U. s. A., just back
from Vladivostok
Louis Joseph, Brooklyn manager for
Wilson & Co., has been arrested and
held in $500 bail for examination on
charge of profIteering. Federal agents
complained that he used the railroad
strike us pretext to increase prices.
Representatives of two other packing
companies have been arrested.
Opposition to a flat bonus payment
to all ex-seryice men and women and
Endorsement of the plan for land grants
payments to those disabled during war
service was expressed in a resolution
adopted at Joint session of the con-
ventiOns of the National League for
Nursing Education, the National Or
ganization for Public Health Nursing
and the American Nurses Association
at Atlanta, Ga.
:.t1
in London and throughout England
generally has reused the British police
authorities to realization that a blue
uniform and funny helmet are insult
ficient equipment to enable police
man to deal effectively with violent
criminal who has learned all about the
use of lethal weapons in the war.
These authorities are now discussing
seriously proposal to supply the Lon
don police with revolvers and perhaps
with sword bayonets.
Three hundred disabled veterans Of
the World war are taking agricultural
courses at the Mississippi Agricultural
College, where they were placed for
training by the Federal Board for vo-
cational Education.
Leading temperance societies of the
country will make every effort to have
the present Congress pass law with
drawing the protection of the Ameri-
can flag and consuls from persons who
enter foreign countries to do business
which is against the law in the United
States, according to DIR. Clarence T.
Wilson of the Oregon conference, who
spoke at the New Hampshire Meth
odist conference at Haverhill, Mass,
recently.
Deflation in America at the rate of
$750,000,0 per month and in Great
Britain at the rate of $4,000 900 900 per
annum-35 per cent of total tax in
c0me-wields a steady advance in the
buying value of gold and of silver,
and hence gradual lift in the profits
from investment. Wages Is the least
of thq commodities thnt will show lose