The Colorado statesman., 1920-03-06
FOREIGN

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France for conditions under which he
made the flight, when his machine at
tanned speed of 2S3 kilometers
Q75.74 mIles) an hour.
The British government has been
formally notified by the State Depart
ment at Washington that the appoint
ment of Sir Auckland Geddes as Brit
ish ambassador to the United States
will be agreeable to President Wilson.
Hundreds have frozen TO death in
the worst storm in South Russia In
twenty-seven years. The mercury
was 40 degrees below zero and for
eighty hours sixty-mlle gale swept
the country, piling up great drifts OF
snow.
Winnipeg. Canada, doctors issued
more than 100000 prescriptions for
liquor, permitting the holders to Sc
cure 156,719 gallons of liquor during
1919, according to ]. n. MacLean, ad-
ministrator of the Manitoba temper
ance act
Viscount Uchida, foreign minister,
announced TO the cabinet council that
Specie bank 100000 yen, part of
the $25,O00,000 loan agreed upon by
consortium of four great powers, in
Guiding Japan.
Admiral Horthy's salary as regent of
Hungary has been fixed at 3,OO0,O0O
kronen per year After his election the
national assembly sent Il deputation to
nrt IN hn .l, N-h ha
took the oath and was presented with
a draft of the law creating his office.
The Italian government has ordered
greater restrictions in the feeding of
the people than during the war. This
is because of the diminished food i'm
portatlons. In addition, rationlng by
card for all necessaries has been re
established. Two meatless days have
been ordered, as well as the closure of
all restaurants, hotels, at II o'clock at
night.
Great Britain, which within year
or so hopes to get off the red ink side
of the national ledger, faces an out
look until April l of II daily deficit of
$S92,0 From Englands standpoint
1919, when the national expenditure
was $6,252,000 daily more than income.
These figures presume the pound to
be worth $500.
GENERAL
Ten persons were held for deporta-
tion at Cleveland following a radical
raid in which twenty-siN persons were
rounded up. Sixteen were released.
large amount of radical literature was
confiscated.
A bill designed to repeal the liquor
tax law and provide for the licensing
of the business of trafficking in bever-
ages containing not more than per
cent of alcohol was introduced in the
Legislature at Albany, n. Y.
The high cost of living has no ter
rors for the head porter of New
York hotel. Henry J. Choucerie, who
holds that job mt the McAlpine, has
Just leased the Colonial hotel for
eight years at rental of S250,000. In
the meantime he will hold onto his old
job
Fifteen days field training and not
to exceed four days special instruc-
tions for officers and selected enlisted
men are provided in this years Ma
tional Guard training program, made
public by Major General Carter, chief
of the militia bureau. General Carter
recommended that encampments be
held before July l.
The superdreadhought Maryland will
be launched at Newport News March
20. She is the largest ship yet con-
structed for the navy, being 600 feet
long, ninety-seven feet broad and hav-
ing n displacement of $1,000 tons. Her
main battery will be composed of eig
sixteen-inch rifles, the heaviest guns
used on naval craft.
Ratification of the suffrage amend
ment failed in the West Virginia Sen
ate, when the resolution for its adop-
ton was met by tie, IA to II. Sen
ator Ii. w. Hammer, father of the reso-
luton, changed his vote so that he
might be in position to move recon
sideration. This made the record vote
13 to Is against ratification.
Destructive radicals, working with
the Communist party made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to take over the ship
building industry by starting at the
Baltimore Dry Docks and Shipping
Company with a scheme for gaining
control through a shop committee sys-
TEN, are now making new effort to
seize this plant in connection with the
present strike situation at that ship
yard.
Immediate appropriation by Con
gress of $50,00o,000 food credit for
the relief of Central European coun-
tries is urged in cable message re-
ceived at New York by John McHugh,