Taiban Valley news., 1920-04-30
FOREIGN.

tion. A gigantic aerodrome will be es-
tablished at Bilboa as the starting
place for postal flight.
Another heavy attack by the Boil
sheviki on the Polish front, which was
beaten off by the Poles by hard fight
ing, is announced in an official com
just issued at Warsaw.
Fifteen workmen were killed and
eighty wounded during recent labor
i'm the Asturias region, ac-
cording to reports received at Madrid,
Spain. Order has been restored every
it is announced.
A decree has been issued providing
for the reduction of the Italian army
to ten army corps. Reduction in the
number of officers and the establish
ment of uniform system of recruit
ing for eight months service are pro-
vided for.
Polish newspapers give reports from
a Russian source that after the con
quest of ROstov and NOvorossisk by
the Bolshevists, the red army muir
dered more than 5000 officers and
soldiers of Denikine's army in hos
pitfalls and prisons.
BOlshevik attempts to threaten China
by advancing from the Ingoda valley,
northwest of Chita, have been entirely
frustrated by Japanese and ail-Russian
forces as a result of a battle fought at
April II, according to
a report issued from the war office at
Toxic.
Negotiations with the Reformed
church at Wieringen for the purchase
Of local presbytery "as permanent
residence for the former crown prince
Of Germany" have been begun by the
Dutch government, according to the
Wieringen correspondent of the Tele-
graaf.
An African lion which escaped from
it's cage at the menagerie at ChuX de
FOnds created panic by running
through the streets of the town. 1t
eventually jumped high wall into a
where it was surrounded
by gendarmes and firemen; then its
keeper came with cage and laSSGoed
It.
There has been fierce fighting be-
tween factions of the southern troops
in the Anhai district, and that city has
ahn N dc in as,f
week. The soldiers are footing the
armory. 1t is reported that more than
a thousand persons have been killed.
Hundreds of the inhabitants of the re-
glon are fleeing to Annoy.
GENERAL.
After sleeping for four months, Mrs.
Charles Erickson, 80 years old, Claren-
don, Pa, died in Warren Hospital at
Buffalo, n. Y.
The New York Assembly adopted
the Fowler bill, designed to repeal the
saving law. The vote was rs
to 5S. The bill, which has already
passed the Senate, now goes to the
governor.
Initial gifts of $25O,O0O by John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., and 100000 by the
Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial
to the Interchurch World Movement
campaign have been announced in
New York.
American Red Cross supplies en-
route from Marseilles to Constantine
pie have been destroyed in the burning
of the steamer Reye, which caught fire
in the harbor at Saloniki. The ship was
a total loss.
Latest reports at the office of Gov
ernor Kilby indicate that seventy-six
persons were killed in Alabama by the
tornado, upwards of 500 injured and
more than 1000 farm buildings de-
molished
Three hundred disabled veterans of
the World war are taking agricultural
courses at the Mississippi Agricultural
College, where they were placed for
training by the Federal Board for Vo-
cational Education.
After being forced to dig their own
graves, five Bolsheviki, captured By
japanese troops in Siberia, were ex-
ecuted by japanese officer who be-
headed each with his saber, according
to Capt A. Millard of the Twenty
seventh Infantry, U. S. A., just back
from VladivOStok
Thomas w. Lawson and L. G. Van
Ripper were fined $1,000 each in Mu-
nicipal Court in Boston for violation
of the state law concerning the ad
vertisement of mining stocks. Lawscn
and Van Ripper, together with several
curb brokers, were arrested recently
in the campaign of Attorney General
]. Weston Allen against illegal adver-
tising of stocks.
The recent outbreak of violent crime
in London and throughout England
generally has reused the British police
authorities to realization that blue
uniform and funny helmet are insult
ficient equipment to enable a police
man to deal effectively with a violent
criminal who has learned all about the
use Of lethal weapons in the war.
These authorities are now discussing