Taiban Valley news., 1920-09-24
FOREIGN

Fifteen thousand cholera cases have
been reported officially from Korea
with 5000 deaths, in the present epi-
demic.
A number of the members of the diet
are planning to visit the United States
next summer with hope Of improving
the relations between Japan and the
United States.
The Chinese government has ar
ranged short term $1O,00OO0O loan
to meet urgent demands for famine
relief in the Shantung, Chihli and
Shansi provinces.
| The dominion bureau of statistics Of
Canada has issued an estimate on the
Canadian I. crop; wheat, 289, ,49S, 900
bushels; oats, 556, 10000 bushels; bar
ley, 64.257 bushels; flax, 1000 BUSH
els.
Three companies Of italian infantry
have seized factory at Lucca, which
had been occupied by workmen and
have forced the men in the plant to
surrender 10000 bombs, according to
dispatches
According to. estimates by the jap
anese press, japan will have 120 sub
marines by 1927, when 1t is expected
eight battleships and eight battle crui-
sers on thefnaval building program
will have been completed: ..........
The soviet government of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1e19 program the total Red
army strength. actual and potential,
was 4,750,000 men, and that this pro-
gram has been restored as a result Of
the Polish campaign.
Thirty men were killed, scores
wounded and damage amounting to
$250,OO0 was done by the explosion Of
dynamite In Cailao bay at Lima, Peru.
Negligence in handling the explosive
is declared to have caused the acci-
dent. y,s
Baklanoff, baritone of the Chica-
go Opera Company, arrested in Chca-
go last year for immortality, has been
refused an American passport wise.
from the American passport bureau Of
Paris, which acted on advice from
Washington. This bars Baklanoff
from the United States.
1t is officially announced that the
total killed in the recent earthquakes
in Italy was ia. The mountainous
zone affected was thinly inhabited and
the destruction was limited to small
places. Normal life is being resumed.
The houses destroyed are being re.
placed by huts. - - :,
The Chinese foreign office notified
Prince N. A. Koudachef, minister of
Russia, in charge of the Russian
legation by appointment of the late
czar, that in view of the nonrepre-
sentative status Of the Russian lega-
tiorEi voluntary cessation. of function
ing lof the legation and Russian con-
sulate would be welcomed.
GENERAL; =. -s
Liquor bandits in two raids on ware
houses at Chicago, escaped with whis-
kies and rare wines worth $4,000. One
of the band, which included five men,
was wearing a policeman's uniform.
Rural letter carriers purpose to start |
a campaign among congressman and
United States senators for the enact
ment of legislation granting them an
allowance for maintenance of equip |
ment, 1t was learned at Indianapolis, |
when the first annual convention Of |
the National Federation of Rural Let |
amount to- be asked will be 5000 an
nually, it was said.
Robbery, jealousy and other ele-
ments entered into the brutal Staying
of John Zelek, foreman of the stock
In large warehouse,
whose body was discovered in n small
washrOom in, Chicago. He had been
beaten to death In most savage man.
ner, plank andfa hammer being the
weapons Scattered about the floor
near the body were number of love
letters which the police are investigat-
ing. Theys.beIieye Zelek was mur-
1ered by a jealous rival.
Bodies off763 American soldiers
we're brought home fromSSt. Nazaire
md other points in France on the
transport Sherman
A spread of infantile paralysis in the
1icinity Of Boston, which, while not an
EPIDEMIC. yet constitutes a condition
hat has caused some concern among
health officials, was announced by the
state department of health. A total Of
cases in the state was re-
ported with the addition of fourteen
lew cases in reports received. The
lumber of cases il theNgreatest in the
tate since the epidemic Of. 1915
Two suits Of $1O,OOOOOO were filed
W the city "a. Chicago, on orders Of
Mayor William Hale Thompson against
he Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Daily News,s respectively. The suits,
according to Corporation Counsel S..A.
lttleson, allege that charges made by
hese newspapers in the primary cam.
'aign have injured Chicago financial
y. The charges alleged false state
nents. to the effect That. the city is