Gilpin observer., 1920-07-01
FOREIGN

4He IITbI CIIlCldl Injecting u Ihe
League Of Nations will be held at Cen
eva next November. according to In
formation received from the principal
allied capitals.
The commission Of jurists In session
for formation Of permanent court Of
international justice. as provided in the
League of Nations covenant, has unan-
imOusly decided that the court shall be
located at The Hague.
American missionaries stationed at
Ressht, Persia, near the Caspian sea,
retired from that town when the Boil
sheviki approached 1t and are safe, the
State Department was advised by the
American legation at Teheran.
OF all Industries in Japan, ship
building made the greatest progress
during the war, reports the depart
ment of agriculture and commerce. Be-
fore the war Japan ranked sixth
among the powers in the number of
vessels. Last year she ranked in
third place after the United States
and Great Britain.
The department of overseas trade is
dispatching an official trade circus"
to tour the British dOminiOns to adver-
tise British goods. Those to Far East,
South America and the United States
have been postponed because manu-
facturers cannot work off present
commitments, say the American Cham
ber of Commerce at London.
More than 5000 Americans will here
after he entitled to wear IL new bronze
decoration on their uniforms hanging
from ribbon striped alternately red
and white. Tie medal is the new serv-
ice badges of the French army, com
memorative of the war. The 5000
Americans entitled to wear it have all
served with the French army
Mrs. Richard Mansfield, widow of
| the American actor, and Colin Glenn
ents of New York, poet and play
| wright, have returned TO Paris after
being held prisoners by the Turkish
| Nationalists at. Urfa. Mesopotamia,
| for three months. They escaped to
Jerablus, on the Euphrates. and from
there were taken to Aleppo by friendly
| Arabs.
Two thousand British, Austrian, Ger
man and Finnish prisoners of war
We're drowned when IL Bolshevist
| steamer was sunk recently in the Neva
| river, according to II Helsingfors dis
| A Reuter- report from Stockholm
would seem to confirm this dispatch.
saying that ship was sunk June 6
with 1000 repatriated prisoners on
| board
The Canadian government has de-
cided to introduce n bill providing an
increase in pay from $500 to $4,000
| a year for members of the Senate and
House of Commons, Sir Robert Bor-
den, the premier, announced mt Otta-
wa, Can. Salaries of Dominion cabi-
net ministers, of the speakers of the
two houses of parliament and of virtu-
ally all Canadian judges also are to be
increased, it is understood.
GENERAL
The State Legislature of Tennessee
will be called to meet on Aug o ut
Nashville, to consider the federal suf-
frage amendment, 1t was stated mt the
capitol
Between $2,O0O,OOO and S4,OOO,OO
damage was done to corn, tobacco and
cotton crops by hailstorm which
swept Wayne, Pitt, Lenoir and Greene
counties in North Carolina. The grow
ers declare little of their crop can be
saved
| nf
Pacific Company and proprietary COM
panies for 1919, as disclosed in the an
nual report published in New York,
amounted to S239, ,65I .2I2, an increase
of S1S.046. .Od6, or S.14 per cent over the
preceding year.
A S3,OOOOOO cargo of South African
gold, consigned to the banking firm
aboard the steamer Mauretania, has
arrived in New York. The metal was
purchased in the London open mar
ket last week.
The sum of S500OO and an annuity
of $4,000 were left Miss Mary kim,
for twenty-sevcn years secretary to
George w. Perkins of New York. by
the will of the financicr The bulk of
the estate was left To Mrs. Perkins and
the two children.
President Lowell has announced gifts
to Harvard during the year totaling
SS,3'2.6l5. This amount does not in
clude sums less than 100000, or pledg-
es. Total subscriptions to the pro-
posed endowment fund of Sl5,2jO. .OoI
have reached Sl2, 2,157,76i.
Since the beginning of the World
war In 1914, the United States has
, rolled up trade balance of approx.
mntely $17,000,000,O0O against the
world. This exceeds by several bill.
| lions pf dollars fhn tntnl hnI,,n,a T.,