Gilpin observer., 1920-08-12
FOREIGN

begun a campaign against the intro
duction of extensive quantities of cold
storage meat from Argentine and Aus
tralia.
Count Salvetierr, former governor
of Barcelona, was seriously wounded
at Valencia when an attempt was made
to assassinate him. His sister-in-law
was killed and his wife badly hurt. A
bomb was thrown at their carriage
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
full authority, according to report
from the Anglo-French mission In
Warsaw.
Grent Britain has begun war prepar-
ations to intervene in behalf Of Pol
and Steps are being taken for the
mobilization Of the British army on a
war footing. The government is re-
ported to be considering the calling of
volunteers for service in Poland.
Lower California is in state of
blockade, the Mexican government
proclaimed Instructions were for
warded to Iglesias Calderon, Mexican
representative at Washington, to ad-
wise the State Department that the
ports of Lower California were closed
Brigands who have terrorlzed the
upper reaches of the Yangtsze river
in recent months found a sudden check
put upon their activities when Ameri
can and British gunboats We're dis
patched into the upper river from
Shanghai, according to reports from
Shanghai.
DIR. Walter SimOns, minister of for
eign affairs, in an interview in Berlin
says Germany is prepared to 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 1913.
Fighting continues in the regions
disputed by Armenia and Azerbaidjan.
The Armenians have met with success
in Chaour from which they have
driven the soviet troops and occupied
the city of Gueroussi. Nouri Pasha,
brother of Enver Pasha, is trying to
gather bands in the Chaous regic to
fight the Armenians.
The lives of eight persons, including
four children, living i'm n two-family
house in the Brownsville district, were
saved by the heroism of Samuel Fein,
16, who fought his way thru flames
and smoke to rescue others who were
sleeping in the house. He carried four
children thru flame and smoke to
including his parents
The first new railroad line built by
Poland since the armistice was form
ally opened for traffic recently, the
line saving seventy kilometers between
Warsaw and POznan, the two largest
cities in the new republic. Completion
of this line connects more intimately
the residents of the Poznan district,
for generations under German rule.
GENERAL
After shooting and killing his father
mt Fairview, n. j., in defense of his
mother. Louis f. Gross, Jr., u years
old, telephoned to the police and await
ed arrest
A national convention of postmasters
will be held in Cincinnati Sept S-11,
according to announcement of Post
master Colin NJ. Selph, president of the
National Association of Postmasters
The national gathering will supplant
the tris state conventions this year, he
said.
National guardsmen were called to
protect Miami, Fla, from disorders
threatened by 400 negroes, natives of
the Bahama Islands and British sub
jects, who were aroused over the death
of Herbert Brooks, one of their num-
ber charged with assaulting white
woman.
West Frankfort, ILL.,, has settled
down to its normal life again. The
men have gone back to the mines
which will resume operations without
the scores of Italians who have fled
from this district.
With the bodies of 1915 American
soldiers in caskets below her deck and
fifty-two living, khaki-clad men serv-
ing as attendants, the United States
army transport Antogone 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 ceme-
teries," were made.
Five sailors were severely wounded
and score OF men received minor in
jurles in II battle mt Revere Beach,
Revere, Mass, between Metropolitan
park police, whe were barricaded In
the police station and several hundred
attacking sailors, marines and soldiers.
The battle, precipitated by the at
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