, 1920-09-30
FOREIGN

ing.
Representatives of Italian employers
and the striking workmen who have
seized the factories have accepted Pre-
mier Giolitti's offer of mediation, it is
stated in advices from Rome.
Three persons were killed and six
injured in an explosion in the Ionfolo
powder factory at Mantau, says n Rome
dispatch. The explosion, which dam
aged several houses, is believed to have
been caused by parties unidentified.
An official report issued at Dublin
castle shows hat the attack on a mo-
tor lorry containing six policemen
near La Hinch was more serious than
announced. Six c~onstabies were killed,
while soldiers assert they saw four Of
their assailants drop.
The Poles have reached Zbrucz river
along the entire line, according to
Tuesdays official communication, and
Ukrainian troops lave crossed the
river. In the Pruzana region prison
ers taken number $3.50. The communi-
cation adds that cavalry has occupied
Oysterog, Bubrin and Derazono.
France will pay every dollar Of the
$25O,000,000 loan due in New York
October 10Th, NJ. Francois-Marshal,
minister OF finance, officially an
nounced to the cabinet council at Par
is. This sum is Frances share of the
$500, 900 Anglo-French loan floated
in the United States during the war.
The suggestion accredited to Pro-
v~isional President de la Huerta of
Mexico that a dry" zone be estab-
lished in Mexico within slxty-five
miles of the United States border will
be discussed at an international con-
vention of the border chamber of
commerce at Ell Paso, Oct. 4, 5 and 6.
1t was stated on reliable authority
that the jewels belonging to the Ro-
manoffs, Hapsburgs and Hohenzol-
lerns, deposited for safety with Swiss
banks and private firms, are worth
fST, 100000, while the jewels sold or
pawned in Switzerland since 1911 by
these families amounted to double this
sum.
Canada is settling it's housing prob
lem by government action. The do
minion government agreed to loan the
provinces S25,000,OO0 at 8 per cent,
the loan to be repaid in twenty to
thirty years. The provinces were en-
powered under certain simple condi-
lions carrying responsibility to lend
money to municipalities and munich
palities were empowered to lend money
to builders or to housing organlza-
lions, which are forbidden to pay divi-
dendn in excess of six per cent.
GENERAL
The Supreme Court of Maine has
decided that a woman should not be
required to tell her age in order to
qualify as a voter.
Department of Justice agents and
the police are still without a definite
clew to the identity Of the persons re-
sponsible for explosion in Wall street.
J. Milton Smith, as counsel for
James O'Brien of Mount Vernon, has
filed a suit for $4,000 against the
city of New York for injuries received
in the Wall street bomb explosion.
Manager ]. NJ. winn announced at
Lexington, KY, that the Kentucky
Jockey Club would offer $4,000 and
a gold cup valued at 5000 for a race
to be run in Kentucky this fall be-
tween Man o. War, Sir Barton and
Exterminator.
Jail for not less than six months
nor for more than n year will be
the penalty for landlords who refuse
to rent apartments to families with
children, under a bill introduced in the
assembly by Assemblyman o. ]. Smith
of New York.
Substitution of metal for wood In
making shipping cases would Increase
the annual output of newsprint 4,0O0,-
900 pounds, e. w. Morgan of the
Pneumatic Scales Corporation declared
in an address before the American In
stitute of Chemical Engineers In New
York.
Charged with shipping more han
100000 worth of automobiles stolen
in Detroit thru eastern ports to Scan
dinavian countries, six Detroit per-
sons, n of them a woman, have been
arrested at Detroit, and are being held
by federal authorities under the Dyer
interstate automobile theft act.
held under guard.
A milllon-dollar endowment fund for
an institution where, speakers said,
the worlds most scientific bakers
would be developed, was started by
the American Association of the Bak-
ing Industry in annual convention at
Atlantic City. More than 100000 was
pledged. Cheaper, better bread" will
be the slogan IN which h institution
will be founded, 1t vas announced.
All this talk about the horse becom-
ing extinct because of the universal
use of automobiles is idle gossip, ac-
cording to the delegates who assem-
bled at Chicago for the twenty-ninth