The Colorado statesman., 1920-08-14
FOREIGN


ship traffic.
Tens of thousands of rats which in-
fest Paita, Peru, have caused the Pc
ruvian government to order the town
destroyed and rebuilt In rat-proof
manner. Yellow fever Is raging In
some districts of Peru.
Private advices from Danzig predict
that Great Britain will in all probable
lty be forced 10 proclaim state or
Siege over the territory nf the free
city should the soviet army threaten
to enter the Polish corridor.
The Polish general staff has defin-
itely rejected the offer Of General Wey-
gand of the French army to take com
mand of the Polish army If granted
fun authority, according To report
from the Anglo-Frcnch mission in
Warsaw.
The American motorboat Miss Amer
lea, owned by Garfield A, Wood of De
troit and representing the Detroit
Yacht Club, won the first race for the
Harmsworth trophy, the international
motorboat prize, contested in the So
lent off the Isle of Wight.
Lower California is in state OF
blockade, the Mexican government
proclaimed. Instructions were Tor
warded to Igles;as Calderon, Mexican
representative at Washington, to al
wise the State Department that the
ports of Lower California were closed.
Brigunds who have terrOrized the
upper reaches Of the Hangtsze river
in recent months found a sudden check
put upon their activities when Ameri-
can and British gunboats were dis
patched into the upper river from
Shanghai, according 10 reports from
Shanghai.
Dr. Walter Simons, minister of for
eign affairs, in an Interview in Berlin
says Germany is prepared 10 resume
diplomatic relations with Russia when
satisfaction is given for the assassina-
tion of General Count Won Mirbach,
German ambassador To Russia, in Mos
COW, in 1918
The lives of eight persons, including
four children, living in two-famlly
house In the Brownsville district, were
saved by the heroism of Samuel Fein,
and smoke To rescue others who were
sleeping in the house He carried four
| children thru flame and smoke 10
safety, and aroused four other persons,
including his parents.
The first new railroad line built by
| Poland since the ar1nistice was form
| ally opened for traffic recently, the
line saving seventy kilometers between
4 Warsaw and POZnan, the two largest
cities in the new republic. Completion
of this line connects more intimately
| the people of Congress Poland with
| the residents of the PoZnan district,
for generations under German rule.
GENERAL
Two persons are known to have been
| killed, five missing and Il number re
ported injured in wreck of Il car
nival train on the Lexington division
of the Chesapeake & Ohio, near Ash
land, Ky.
\ national convention of pOstnasters
will be held in Cincinnati Sept. S-ll,
according to announcement of Post
master Colin NJ. Selph, president of the
|
The national gathering will supplant
the tr-state conventions this year, he
said
Announcement was made at New
York that new unofficial record for
transcontinental automobile grip was
established when five-passenEcr tour
ing car carrying United States mail
from San Francisco to New York ar
rived in New York after Il run OF four
days, Il hours and 43 minutes.
The railway labor board at Chicago
handed down decision increasing
wages of employees of the American
Railway Express Company S30,O00,OoO
yearly. Eighty thousand men not pro
vided for by the recent S6OO,OoO,OOO
railway wage award are affected. The
award is retroactive to May l, 1920.
West Frankfort, ILL.,, has settled
down to its normal life again. The
men have gone back 10 the mines
which will resume operations without
the scores of Italians who have fled
from this district.
With the bodies of 1878 American
soldiers in caskets below her deck and
ffty-two living, khakl-cI2d men sery'
ing as attendants, the United States
army transport 4ntogohe arrived IN
New York from Danzig, Antwerp
Brest and Bordeaux. The soldier dead
were landed at the army piers, where
] preparations to forward the bodies to
their last resting place in home GENE
| teries," were made.
Five sailors We're severely wounded
and a score of men received minor In
iuries in battle at Revere Beach,
Revere, Mass, between Metropolitan
park police, whe were barricaded In
the police station and several hundred
attacking sailors, marines and soldiers.