, 1920-03-11
FOREIGN

tiers will be left to her.
1t is officially that two
Japanese w%arships have arrived at
Saghalin island, off the coast of East
Siberia, to protect Japanese residents.
Aviator Casle established what was
claimed to be a new speed record in
France for conditions under which he
made the flight, when his machine at
tanned n speed of 2S3 kilometers
(175.T4 miles) an hour.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow
says the red army has VIGOROUSLY
broken through to the shores of the
Arctic ocean" 1t adds that the Muir
mansk railway is free of the white
forces as far as Murmansk.
]. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of
the exchequer. has %nounc that
England and France had agreed not to
renew the Anglo-Freuch loan issued
in the United States in 1918 and were
taking steps for its repayment.
Hundreds have frozen to death in
the worst storm in South Russia in
twenty-seven years. The mercury
was 40 degrees below zero and for
eighty hours a sixty-mile gale swept
the country, piling up great drifts of
snow.
mira Horthy's salary as regent of
Hungary has been fixed at 100000
kronen per year. After his election the
national assembly sent n deputation to
escort him to the chamber, where he
took the oath and was presented with
a draft of the law creating his office.
Garrisons of from fifty to 100 sol
diers are to be established in all oil
camps neal Tampico, Mexico, accord
ing to orders received there by Gen.
Nemesio Lopez. Hitherto the activity
of federal soldiers has been limited to
pursuit of rebel bands who have COM
mitted d~epredations.
Europe is in danger of permanently
losing the position she held in the
world before the outbreak of the
world war, says Premier Nitti of
Italy, in al interview printed by the
Manchester Guardian. He points out
that Europe is no longer a creditor,
but is on the debit side of the ledger.
GENERAL
President Gray of the Union Pacific
announced at Omaha the system had
bought S6,000,000 worth of locomotives
and $4,000,O00 of refrigerator cars.
John F. Jelke, convicted Chicago
oleomargarine manufacturer, who has
paid the government for his freedom
from II prison term S27S,0O0 in fines
and back taxes.
The high cost of living has no ter
rors for the head porter of a New
York hotel. Henry ]. Choucerie, who
holds that job at the McAlpine, has
just leased the Colonial hotel for
eight years at a rental of $250,0OO. In
the meantime he will hold unto his old
job.
Fifteen days field training and not
to exceed four days special instruc-
lions for officers and selected enlisted
men are provided in this years Ma
tional Guard training program, made
public by Major General Carter, chief
of the militia bureau. General Carter
recommended that encampments be
held before July l..
The highest price ever recorded for
the sale of one share of stock in the
history of the New York Stock TX
change was paid when ten shares of
Atlantic Refining Company common
stock sold for $3.50 a share. The
previous record was made May 8,
1901, when Northern Pacific touched
$1,000 during a panic.
The American Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton, at the closing session of its
first annual meeting at Chicago,
adopted a resolution denouncing the
attempt to ally the agriculturists of
America with the radicals of the in
dustrial world. The federation is
composed of 100000 members of the
farm bureaus in twenty-eight states.
Ratification. of the suffrage amend
ment failed in the West Virginia SEN
ate, when the resolution for its adop-
ton was met by u tie, IA to IA. Sen
ator II. w. Hammer, father of the reso-
luton, changed his vote so that he
might be in a position to move recon-
sideration. This made the record vote
10 Il 10 against ratification.
The Havana Post, oldest and most
important English language newspaper
in Cuba, formerly published by George
NJ. Bradt, who died recently in New
York, has been purchased by Charles
A. S%toneham, principal owner of the
New York National League baseball
club, and Mason Peters of New York,
who for many years has been connect
ed with American journalism.
Fifteen gallons of wine a year is the
maximum quantity a family of Jewish
faith may receive for religious cere-
monies, according to a ruling received
in Hartford, Conn.,, from Washington
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