The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-05
FOREIGN.

committee in Berlin by Chancellor
Mueller.
The Armenlans have accepted an in
vtntion from the Russian BulsheVists
to send delegates TO Moscow, according
to Information received by the French
foreign office.
Field Marshal Szetozar Borocvlc,
commander of Austrian forces on the
Italian front from late In 1915 until
October, 1918, Is dead, his death being
caused by n stroke Of apoplcNy.
Edward Valpas. editor and leader OF
the Finnish Socialist party and of the
Finnish revolution IN 1918, has been
sentenced TO prison for life. He was
tried on the charge Of high treason.
An explosion during experiments in
the chemical laboratory of Muenster
University resulted in the death of six
students, says wireless message from
Berlin Several others were seriously
injured
Germany has submitted a statement
to the allied control commission de
claring that $1,000 pieces of German
artillery remain to be destroyed and
that 500 have already hrcn broken up,
according to the Echo de Paris.
Feeling Is growing that the Russian
Bolsheviki are directing their armies
toward Persia, as they have concen-
trated about 10000 troops in The ricin-
ity of Baku. These troops have not
participated largely in the fight
against the GeOrgians and Armcnians.
Resht, an important city in Persia,
sixteen miles southeast of EnZcli, the
most important Caspian seaport of
that country, and about $50 miles
northwest of Teheran. has been occu-
pied by Russian Bolshevist troops, ac-
cordin2 to udvices received by the Per
sian legation at Constantinople.
| Concern is felt in commercial mar
kets throughout France because of II
rapid decline i'm prices of stable com
modities. In the past thirty days, cot
ton has declined 2i4 francs per fifty
Kilograms i'm the Havre market, while
coffee has fallen Sevcnty-siX and wool
thirty-five points in the same time.
The well-known Swiss aviator Tad
dioli fell into Lake Constance and was
drowned while flying Il seaplane in Il
contest nj Romanshorn. Taddioli was
the first aviator to cross the Alps, ac-
complishing the feat in July, 1910,
when he flew from Sesto Calande,
Italy, to Geneva in two hours.
The Ukrainian mission has addressed
n protest to Premier Lloyd George, TO
be forwarded Ia the supreme economic
council, claiming for Ukrainia II pro-
lportional share of the gold which the
mission understands Gregory krassin,
Russian soviet minister of trade and
commerce, proposes 10 use to buy sup
piles for soviet Russia.
GENERAL.
Fire destroyed a section of pier at
Galveston owned by the Morgan Steam
ship line. The loss, including pier,
warehouses and their contents, was es-
timated at $2,000,0O0.
Herbert Hoover is being considered
by the executive committee of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| Corporation for president of that in
stitution, to succeed the late Richard
G. MacLauren, it has been reported at
Boston.
The American WOolen Company of
New York, the American Woolen Com
pany of Massachusetts and William NJ
Wood, president of both companies
were charged with profiteering in
wooden cloth in an Indictment returned
at New York by the federal grand jury.
A gift of $1,000 to Their retiring in
ternational president, Charles G. Shay
of New York, was made by members
of the International Alliance of The
atrical Stage Employees and Motion
Picture Operators of the United States
and Canada at the closing session Of
their annual convention at Cleveland.
Ohio.
Tie United States is in no danger of
eXhaustmg its coal supplies in the near
future, for about 1000 years supply
is available, :. NJ. Darling of the bu-
reau of mines told the twelfth annual
convention of the International Rail
way Fuel Association. He estimates
the supply of minable coal at 3,553,
G37, 100000 tons. Last years consump-
tion, he said, was 530,000,00O tons.
Neutrality-suspicious. and Senate con
ferenceS ON the army appropriation
bill tentatively agreed to fix the APP
preparation for the army air service
ut S33,0OO,00O, of which S6,00o,OOO
would be used for new equipment and
s., ,25O, 600 for research work. The
House bill fixed the appropriation at
S27 ,255 600 and the Senate increased it
20 S4O,O0O,00O.
Race rioting in Waukegan, suburb