, 1920-05-13
FOREIGN.

ana demonstrators have been reported
by the GiornaI DItalia in Rome.
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
Gals of the republic.
The emperor of Japan, whose illness
recently necessitoted a visit to the win
ter palace at Hayama, has returned to
Toxic, according to a Toxic cable to
the Nippu Jill, Japanese v~ernacular
newspaper at Honolulu.
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
s'resident Ebert will not seek re-elec-
ton.
DIR. Pasticci, a noted Italian chem
list, 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.
1t is semi-officially announced from
Warsaw that a man named Posrednic-
Ike, who is declared to have beer one
of the group which assassinated for
mer Emperor Nicholas, was taken from
Jail and handed over to the ~Bolsheviki,
who took him to the Red front. There
he was shot for high treason.
Two men were killed and nine
wounded in a conflict between civil
ians and military at the railway sta
ton at Praga, a suburb of Warsaw,
where troops from Posen were entrain-
ing for the front. According to the
military authorities the conflict arose
between some of the soldiers and a
group of Jews.
Canadian farmers will get not less
than 40 cents a bushel on the partici-
patton certificates issued by the Can
adam 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 $2.55.
II tOtdt COSt VI HE WOElu war Ii
lives has reached the appalling figure
of 35,3S0,OO0, according to final esti-
mates made by the Copenhagen Soci-
ETY. for the Study of the Consequences
Of the Wal made public. These figures
were reached after an exhaustive study
of the decrease in the birth rates of
the countries involved, as well as in
crease in deaths from causes directly
attributed to the war. Actual military
deaths in killed totaled 9,S29,000, 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 rs
per cent of its population. Serbia was
the heaviest sufferer of all the bellig-
erents. She lost IS per cent of her
total population, while her actual killed
equaled 14.S per eel
GENERAL.
The BARRIERS Supply Dealers Asso-
citation OF America, with headquarters
in New York and branches throughout
the United States, prosecuted under
the Sherman antitrust act, has been
ordered dissolved by Federal Judge
Augustus N. Hand.
Because she could not read, Anna
S~herbetjian, a young Armenian won
an, at Ellis Island, has been ordered
depOrted back to Turkey. where she
may face death for her escape from a
harem there to come to the United
States to an unseen prospective BRIDE
groom.
Four hundred and fOrty-seven Illicit
stills were destroyed in the state of
Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee dur
ing the month of March, according to
reports received by the prohibition
commission at Washington. The seiz-
ures include those made by state pro-
hibition officers, federal revenue Off
GERS and civil guardians of the law.
The Belts bill. making it a INSIDE
meanor to furnish false news to a
newspaper Inns been signed by Gov
ernor Smith of New York.
The Delaware Legislature stands ad-
journed until May 18th, when suffra-
gists will make another attempt to
force passage of the resolution ratify-
ing the federal suffrage constitutional
amendment in the lower house.
Friends Of suffrage in the senate OBJ
tanned the recess after a bitter fight.
Indications that volcanic eruptions
were taking place on the Island of Old
Providence in the caribbean sen were
reported to New York by the United
Fruit Company steamer Calamares. A
wireless message from the ship said
that yOlumes of white smoke were oh
served ascending from n Of its tall
est peaks.
Supreme Court Justice Lydon of
New York issued an order permitting
the Equitable Trust Company OF New
York TO sell approximately $2,O00.OO0