, 1920-04-29
FOREIGN.

tenn of European aerial c~ommunica-
ton. A gigantic aerodrome will be es-
tablished at Bilboa as the starting
place for postal flight.
Another heavy attack by the Boil
sheviki on the Polish front, which was
beaten off by the Poles by hard fight
ing, is announced in an official com-
munique just issued at Warsaw.
Fifteen workmen were killed and
eighty wounded during recent labor
disturbances in the Asturias region, ac-
cording to reports received at Madrid,
Spain. Order has been restored every
where, 1t Is announced.
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
ment of a uniform system of recruit
ing for eight months service are pro-
vided for.
Polish newspapers give reports from
Il Russian source that after the on
quest of Rostov and Novorossisk by
the B~olshevists, the red army muir
dered more than 5000 officers and
soldiers of Denikine's army in hos
pitfalls and prisons.
Bolshevik attempts to threaten China
by advancing from the Ingoda valley,
northwest of Chita, have been entirely
frustrated by Japanese and all-Russian
forces as a result of q battle fought at
Werkneinskoje, April IL, according to
a report issued from the wal office al
Toxic.
Negotiations with the Reformed
church at Wieringen for the purchase
of a local p~resbytery ''as a permanent
residence for the former crown prince
of Germany" have been begun by the
Dutch government, according to the
Wieringen correspondent of the Tele-
graaf.
An African lion which escaped from
its cage at the menagerie at Chux de
Ponds created a panic by running
through h streets of the town. 1t
eventually jumped a high wall into a
courtyard, where it was surrounded
by ~gendarmes and firemen; then its
keeper came with a cage and lassCoed
it.
There has been fierce fighting be-
tween factions of the southern troops
in the Anhai district, and that city has
changed hands three times in the past
week. The soldiers are looting the
armory. 1t Is reported that more than
a thousand persons have been killed.
Hundreds of the inhabitants of the re-
gion are fleeing to Annoy.
GENERAL.
After sleeping for four months, Mrs.
Charles Erickson, 55 years old, Claren-
don, Pa, died in Warren Hospital at
Buffalo, N. Y.
The New York Assembly adopted
the Fowler bill, designed to repeal the
daylight saving law. The vote was ~
to So. The bill, which has already
passed the Senate, now goes to the
governor.
Initial gifts of S250,OOO by John D..
Rockefeller, Jr., and 100000 by the
Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial
to the Interchurch World Movement
campaign have been announced in
New York.
American Red Cross supplies en-
route from Marseilles to Constantine
pie have been destroyed in the burning
of the steamer Reye, which caught fire
in the harbor at SalOniki. The ship was
n total loss.
Latest reports at the office of Gov
ernor Kilby indicate that seventy-six
persons were killed in Alabama by the
tornado, upwards of 500 injured and
more than 1000 farm buildings de-
molished.
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.
After being forced to dig their own
graves, five B~olsheviki, captured by
Japanese troops in Siberia, were ex-
ecuted by a Japanese officer who be-
headed each with his saber, according
to Capt. A. Willard of the Twenty
seventh Infantry. U. s. A, just back
from vladivostok.
Thomas w. Lawson and l.. @. Van
Ripper were fined $1,000 each in Mu-
nicipal Court in Boston for violation
of the state law concerning the ad-
vertisement of mining stocks. Lawson
and Van Ripper, together with several
curb brokers, were arrested recently
in the campaign of Attorney General
]. Weston Allen against illegal adver-
Using of stocks.
The recent outbreak of violent crime
in London and throughout England
generally has reused the British police
authorities to n realization that a blue
uniform and a funny helmet are Insult
ficient equipment to enable q police
man to deal effectively with a violent
criminal who has learned all about the
use of lethai weapons in the war.