The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-03
FOREIGN.

In Germany have declared a war on
the government owing TO its attitude
towards the Ruhr workers, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Berlin.
Russia is prepared to export large
Quantities of platinum, gold, silver and
raw materials as soon az the allies per
nit the reopenlng OF trade, according
to statement prepared by V. Kopp,
Bolshevist representative ut Berlin.
Polish troops facing Russian Boil
shcvik forces ON the POdolian front
have repulsed repeated attacks by the
enemy and have recovered some ter
ritory lost, according 10 an official
statement issued ut general headquar-
ters.
Bonds and stocks To the amount of
60,0O0,000 crowns were recently found
in a leather bag in Il Paris-Warsaw
train by a Polish customs official. 1t
is believed the bag was destined for
Bolshevst propaganda in central
Europe.
Rumania is appealing to Japan to
help in the reconstruction of the coun-
try, and is hoping to obtain something
which Rumania desperately needs,
said Crown Prince Charles to the cor
respondent of the London Daily Mail
at Cairo.
Prohibition party leaders of British
Columbia are to ask the provincial
government for referendum ON the
question of "bone dry" prohibition. At
present liquor can he obtained in Cam
ada on prescriptions and under the
permit system.
The Federation of Labor at Rio
Janeiro has called off the general
strike following a promise from the
government To relensc most of the
strikers who have been arrested and
TO permit the reOpening of union head
quarters, closed recently.
The Russian soviet drive against Po-
land, according to advices from Berlin,
is merely the first step in an ambi-
tious military project which contemp-
lates n drive through Rumania, Aus
tria and Hungary to form Il junction
with the Italian Socialists and set up
n soviet government in Italy.
The Rev. l.. w. B. Jackman, an
American medical missionary, who re-
Gently shot and killed Maj. ii. d. Cloete
at the northeast frontier post of Sad
iya, Asam, has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment. Domestic rea-
sons were said to have been RESPONSE
BILE for the tragedy.
Three thousand five hundred three
inch field guns have been found by the
interallied commission in the vicinity
of Berlin alone, and altogether 1900
| of these guns have thus far been dis
covered throughout Germany, as well
as 5000 airplanes intact. According
| to the terms of the treaty of Versailles
| the German army should now have
only 204 three-inch guns and no air
planes whatsoever.
GENERAL.
Sir Auckland Geddes will sail for
New York on April 10, to take up his
post us ambassador to the United
States, according to announcement
Just received from London.
Seventeen scholarships, ranging from
81, 700 to $4,000, in memory of Prince
ton men who fell in the war, have been
established at the university, Presi-
dent John G. Hibben announced in
New York.
The death list of the Palm Sunday
tornadoes that swept sections of eight
states stands ut 161. The known dead
| in six west central states number 105,
while fifty-five were killed in Georgia
and Alabama. The property loss in
the Chicago area was estimated at
| S6,OOO,000, while in the other states af-
| fected the material loss was large. El-
gin, ILL.,, suffered the heaviest prop
erty loss, the damage there being
| $4,000,00O.
| Harry Winitzky, executive secretary
of the New York Communist party,
| convicted at New York of violating the
states criminal anarchy law, was SEN
fenced to not less than five nor more
than ten years in state prison.
Earnings of the National Leather
Company, organized last year to take
over the tanning properties of Swift
& Company, were $4,G03,20 in the last
six months of 1919, according to the
first report of the concern made pub
lie at Chicago.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy
| young Philudelphinn, recently court
martialed for deSerton because of his
alleged failure to report for military
service under the draft, was sentenced
| to five years in prison, according to>a
| decision of the court in New York.
The body of young woman taken
| from the Illinois river three miles
| above Peoria, ILL.,, is believed to be that
| of Jeanne de Kay, the heiress who dis