Gilpin observer., 1920-12-30
FOREIGN

The effectiveS OF the German army
have been reduced to 100000 in ac-
cordance with the Spa agreement with
the allies, 1t was announced in Berlin.
A serious labor riot occurred recent
ly in Petrograd in which many persons
were killed or injured. The riot was
crushed and 105 laborers were ex.
ecuted.
Two firemen were killed and four
injured in fire which destroyed the
Star theater at st. Johns, N. r. One of
the walls collapsed, burying the six
men. The loss was placed at $4,000
Emile Massard, Paris municipal
councillor, demands that the Paris po-
lice clean up the city of undesirable
foreigners. From police records it is
estimated that there are more than
100000 undesirables in France.
A dispatch to the Handelsblad from
Dusseldorf says the interallied Rhine
commission, alarmed because of the
spread of militarism in German
| schools, has issued an order prohibit
| ing the use of scnpols for military pur-
poses, on penalty IF confiscation of the
schools and arrest of those held re-
sponsible.
The Tientsin government mint has
concluded loan for $1,0O00O0 with
the SinO-French bank, giving that in
stitution the right to purchase all bull
lion and also to take charge of the out
put of silver dollars and copper coins,
according to reliable reports from that
city. The funds supplied through the
bank are japanese.
| Under the convention signed by Pre-
mier Leygues and Lord Hardinge, the
British ambassador, fixing the bound
aries between Palestine ard Syria, the
River Yarmull and the upper part of
| the Jordan remain Syrian territory.
Palestine will be entitled only to what
ever surplus of water may be avail
able.
Official cognizance has been taken
| by the State Department of the action
of the British embassy in writing di-
rectly to Chairman Kellogg of the Sen
ate committee investigating cable COM
munications, denying testimony of wit
nesses that the British authorities i'm
| posed censorship on cable messages
coming to the United States from
Great Britain.
Striking miners in the Rhondda coal
| field district of Scotland have voted to
resume work pending negotiations be-
tween their employers and the South
| Wales executive committee. A general
strike of the miners in the district was
reported Dec. %, following refusal of
one company to reinstate eleven men
who had been dismissed on the ground
| that their work was not remunerative
| to the firm.
GENERAL
Four men are known to be dead as
result of an explosion in No. . pack
ing mill of the DUPONT Powder Works
at Moosic seven miles from Ccranton,
| Pa.
Boston is said to have become the
greatest fishing port in the world with
the announcement that 122,226,06O
pounds of ground fish had been
brought there during 1920, shattering
all records for the last thirty-two
years.
The second degree murder trial of
William ii. McGannon, chief justice of
the Municipal Court in Cleve-
land, Ohio, charged with slay-
ing Harold S. Kagy last May, was fea-
tured by the testimony of Miss May +.
Neely, who swore that the judge Of
fered her $500 to keep her mouth
shut" about the shooting.
For an indefinite period, employees
of the Newbern Iron Works and Sup
ply Company, one of the largest plants
of It's kind in Eastern North Carolina,
are to receive all profits made by the
concern above cost of operation. This
agreement was reached between the
workers and the management follow
ing disagreement over a 20 per cent
reduction In wages.
Wade Thomas, negro, who shot
and killed Policeman Elmer Ragland
during raid on dice game at Jones'
boro, Ark, was taken from the Jail BY
a mob of about 400 citizens, and after
being paraded through the business
streets, was hanged to telegraph pole
near the scene Of his crime. The body
then was riddled with bullets.
John Doyle, an A. +. +. veteran, was
killed in the subway when he leaped
In front of an express train at the Sew
enty-second street station in New
York. Doyle served in France with II
machine gun battalion and was suffer
ing from shell shock when he returned
Up to two weeks ago he worked in
ship yard, but because of the state of
his nerves, due to shell shock, went to
base hospital.
Plans have been completed for new
six-story $4,000,000 postoffice building
| at Chicago to handle parcel post exclu-