Taiban Valley news., 1920-03-05
FOREIGN


strOyers under command of Admiral
| Fremantle have arrived and anchored
in the Bosphorus.
A sapphire eight inches long and
weighing more than five pounds is re-
ported to have been found at Mogok,
India, by Burmese. Its value is esti-
mated at between f35,000 and 100000
One hundred and ninety thousand
| prisoners of war, including 43110 of
ficers have been repatriated from
French camps since Jan. 20, according
| to an announcement from the French
war office.
Ignace Paderewski, who recently re-
signed as premier of Poland, will re-
| turn to America soon and resume his
musical tours, according to William
| IIemphill manager of Paderewskis
ranch and other properties at Paso Ro-
| bles.
Lieutenant BNkpara of the Italian
army established what was said to be
| a new worlds record when he arrived
at Turin in an aeropane. Brakpara's
machine, carrying four passengers at
tanned Il maximum speed of 1872 miles
an hour.
Forty-one political and other organ
iZations in Japan are planning a pa
rade of $4,000 persons in Toxic on
March | in support of the universal
suffrage movement, according to
Toxic advices to the HOchi, Jnpa
nese language newspaper at Honolulu
The Mexican government has or
army avatOrs, G. L. Usher and nj. l..
Wolff, held with their planes below
the border, the State Department has
been advised. The order said the avi
ators with their planes would be re-
turned to the United States immediate
ly.
A Moscow wireless dispatch says
General Tolstoy's army, defeated at
Guriev, in the government of Uralsk
southeast Russia, has fled to the Cas-
| plan sea, retreating under terrible con
dtions. The dispatch adds that 1,00O
of the men lay down to die in the wa
terless steppes beside their horses and
cameIS. and that nothing remains of
the white army.
The Excelsior of Mexico City de
clareS that DR. Y. Takabatake, Jap
anese physician, for ten years resi-
dent of Mexico City, has been arrested
| ON TO IN Sa1 NN-h Tu
anese warship awaited him. The
newspaper says "it was learned that
years ago the physician was inter
ested in the Korean independence
movement, and it is believed he is be
ing taken back to Japan for trial and
punishment"
GENERAL
Memorial certificates from the
French government have been present
ed nt Philadelphia to the next of kin
of more than 1000 soldiers who gave
their lives in the world war.
Whisky for medicinal purposes vii
be placed on the federal fair price list
for Illinois along with butter eggs
flour and other necessaries of life, il
has been announced by Harry Mayer
collector of internal revenue.
New York will be shown by the 1926
census to be indiSputably the biggest
city in the world. Results of the cen
sus, which will be available in Wash
ington about March 10, will, according
to census officials, give to the metro
politan district of New York popu
lation of S,3O0,000, as compared to ar
estimated population of 100000 fol
the metropolitan district of London
an excess of 100000 in favor of New
York.
Seven armed bandits entered the
headquarters of the United States
navy food supply bureau in New York
while DR.. Jonathan c. Day and his
seven assistants were preparing tC
place $4,000 in Il bag preparatory tC
taking the days receipts to Il bank
The workers Obeyed the command tC
stand against the wall, and the intrud.
ers took the money and sped away ir
an automobile.
Ten persons were held for deporta
tion at Cleveland following radica
raid in which twenty-siX persons were
rounded up. Sixteen were released.
large amount of radical literature wa.
confisCated.
Chapel cars, each equipped with liv
ing quarters for a minister and his
family, and with seating accommoda
tions for ninety persons, will be bull
for every railroad out of Chicago "as
money is available" according to an
announcement made by the Northern
Baptists Seven such cars already
are operating across the continent, the
announcement said, and 10000 men and
women have professed conversion ir
them, and S,437 were baptized.
A pipe line to carry oil from the Kan
sas, Oklahoma and northern Texas
fields to Chicago, with distributing
center at st. Louis, will be constructed