Cheyenne record., 1920-05-13
FOREIGN.

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by the Giornal DItalia in Rome. i
Maj Gen. Chase w. Kennedy, COM
mander of the Panama canal depart |
ment at Panama, has raised the re-
strictions prohibiting American officers
and men mingling with Panaman Off
cials Of the republic.
, Germany's presidential election prob
ably will be held late in August, ac-
cOrding to a Berlin dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company. The
Deutsche Zeitung is quoted as saying
President Ebert will not seek re-elec-
ton.
Negotiations between Japan and the
Vladivostok Russian government for a
buffer state in Siberia as a preliminary
to the complete withdrawal of Japan.
ese troops in that region were reported
by Viscount Uchida, japanese foreign
minister, to be proceeding satisfactory,
according to the newspapers.
DIR. Pasticci, a noted Italian chem
ist, has discovered a method of cheap
ly producing liquid hydrogen. 1t may
be used in driving automobiles, one
gallon being sufficient for $50 miles.
1t also may be utilized in railway To-
comotives and in the engines of ocean
steamers, he declares.
A fleet of twenty-five American mo-
tor trucks is engaged in transporting
merchandise within the city of Shang-
hal. 1t is the first public motor truck
service to be established in China and
is conducted by the China Garage Com
pany of Shanghai, which started this
improved system of transportation last
August.
Canadian farmers will get not less
than 40 cents Il bushe on the partici-
patton certificates issued by the Can
adlan wheat board on wheat sold
| through that agency, according to an
| nouncement by James Stewart, chair
man of the board. This, with the $2.15
a bushel already guaranteed, will
| bring the price to $255.
| Representatives of the American
War Department at Paris estimate
that about GO per cent of the American
soldiers buried in France will be ex-
humed and taken back to their native
land. A little more than 1900 Ameri-
can burials have been registered by
the graves registration service and
about 1000 of these are in France.
| The total cost of the world war in
lives has reached the appalling figure
of 35,3SO,OOO, according to final esti-
mates made by the Copenhagen Soci-
ETY. for the Study of the Consequences
of the War made public. These figures
were reached after an exhaustive study
| of the decrease in the birth rates of
! the countries involved, as we'll as in
crease in deaths from causes directly
attributed to the war. Actual military
deaths in killed totalcd 9,S29, 900, ac-
cording to the report. Each nation in
volved lost the equivalent of S.S per
cent of its population from all causes.
Each nations actual killed equaled %
per cent Of its population. Serbia was
| the heaviest sufferer of all the bellig-
crents She lost 35 per cent of her
total population, while her actual killed
equaled 14.S per cent.
GENERAL.
The emperor Of Japan, whose illness
recently necessitated a visit to the win
ter palace at Hayama, has returned to
Toxic, according to Toxic cable to
the N1ppu Jill, Japanese vernacular
newspaper at Honolulu.
| Spokane, wash, ranking as ferty-
eighth city of the country in 1910, had
a decrease Of 19S in population in the
last ten years and now has 104, ,204
people, the Census Bureau announced.
Two men were killed and nine
1 wounded in a conflict between civil
1 ians and military at the railway sta
ton at Praga, a suburb of Warsaw,
where troops from Posen were entrnin-
| ing for the front. According to the
military authorities the conflict arose
between some Of the soldiers and a
group Of Jews.
President Deschanel Of France has
refused TO permit Madame Deschanel
to accept the 5000 hat offered her by
5000 American milliners for her in
dorsement of the -four seasons for
millinery"
Chicago IL to have the worlds great
est hotel, to cost Sl5,O0O.OO0 and con
prise 1000 rooms This will mean
hostelry larger than the combined
Pennsylvania and Commodore hotels of
New York, at present the worlds big
gest.
Indications that volcanic eruptiOns
were taking place on the Island of Old
Providence in the Caribbean sea were
reported to New York by the United
Fruit Company steamer Calamares. A
wireless message from the ship said
that volumes of white smoke were OBJ
served ascending from one of its tall
est peaks.
Supreme Court Justice Lydon of