, 1920-07-08
FOREIGN

represented themselves as big business
men, are alleged to have been caught
smuggling opium from Annoy, China, to
Manila.
The first official meeting of the
League of Nations will be held at Gen.
eva next November, according to In
formation received from the principal
allied capitals.
Germany is 100000 tons in arrears
of her engagements concerning the
delivery of coal in execution of the
treaty of Versailles, according to an
interview with Louis Loucheur printed
in the Petit Parisien in Paris.
Polish forces on the Bolshevist front
have evacuated MOzir and Kalenkowitz,
in Polesia, according to an official
statement issued at army staff head
quarters at Warsaw. This step was
taken, it is said. for the purpose of
shortening he front.
h Mexican national debt, is more
than 546,O00,0O0 pesos, including in.
%terest, it was announced officially. OF
this, more than 100000 pesos is owed
abroad. Efforts will be made to reach
an agreement with Mexico's credit
ors regarding the resumption of inter-
est payments.
The secretary of foreign affairs has
ordered the boundary commission to
investigate complaints by farmers of
Ojinaja, state of Chihuahua, Mexico,
that recent rains had moved the bed of
the Rio Grande southwark, leaving
lands of Mexicans apparently on the
American side.
lore than 5000 Americans will here
after be entitled to wear new bronze
decoration on their uniforms, hanging
from n ribbon striped alternately red
n white. The medal is the new serv-
ice badges of the French army, COM
! m~emorative of the war. The 5000
Americans entitled to wear 1t have all
served with the French army.
Gen. Frederick Monies, former gov
ernOr of the state of Guanajuato, who
has been detained in the military pris-
on in connection with the death of the
late President C%arranZa, has been or.
dered set at liberty by Provisional
President de La Huerta of Mexico. The
president acted OF the request of the
Chamber of Deputies so that Monies
might take his seat as a deputy.
Two thousand British, Austrian, Ger
man and Finnish prisoners of wal
were drowned when a ,Bolshevist
steamer was sunk recently in the Neva
river, according to a Helsingfors dis
patch to the Central News in London.
A Reuter- report from Stockholm
would seem to confirm this dispatch,
saying that a ship was sunk June 6
with 1000 repatriated prisoners on
board.
GENERAL
The State Legislature of Tennessee
will be called to meet on Aug. 0 at
Nashville, to consider the federal suf-
frage amendment, it was stated at the
capitol.
Three men were killed in Chicago
when a scaffold on which they were
working collapsed in the Interior of a
concrete smokestack at the Iroquis
plant of the Steel & Tube Company of
America, on the south side. The men
fell 125 feet.
Meat packers from all parts of the
country will meet In Atlantic City,
Sept. ID, IA and 10, to discuss problems
affecting the industry, Thomas e.
Wilson, president of the Institute of
American Meat Packers, has an
nounced Mt Chicago.
An express car on the Charleston
and Western Carolina Railroad was re-
ported robbed near Augusta, Ga, by
bandits who gagged and bound an ex-
press messenger and an armed guard
and made away with S59,T25, consti-
tuting he pay roll for the marines at
Paris Island, S. c., station.
A S25.OOO,OOO loan to Switzerland
will be raised in the United States
as a result of negotiations concluded
between the Swiss government and
American bankers, it has been an
nounced in New York.
]. S. Eubanks, president of the st.
Louis Yardmen's Association, and the
Rev. j.. Z. Aregood. a Baptist minister
of ST. Louis, were escorted out of town
by a citizens committee of nine as
they were about to address a mass
meeting OF labor union people at Pin
Bluff, Ark. They were taken three
miles from the city. partially stripped,
whipped, INT told to leave the city
and stay away.
Yale University. at its cloth ON
mencement exercises in Woolsey hall,
conferred the following honorary de-
grees of doctor of laws: John Joseph
Pershing, who commanded the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces; Thomas De-
Witt Cuyler, railroad administrator
and wartime chairman of the Associ-
alton of Railroad Executives; the
Right Hon. Sir Auckland G.. Geddes,