Gilpin observer., 1920-08-26
FOREIGN

tial.
A resolution advocating general
boycott of Belfast farms owing to al
legged persecution of Catholics has just
been adopted by the Leitrim county
council.
Ten million pesos of the 100000
carried off during the flight of Car
ranza' from Mexico City, have been re-
covered, according to a statement by
the treasury department of Mexico.
An official list of imports and ex-
ports from Jan. 1 to July 81, 1920,
shows Increases of 2,73S, 500, 900 francs
in imports and 1890 22S, 900 francs in
exports over the same period last year
in France.
China is confronted with n serious
situation as result Of the retirement
in Siberia of between $4,000 and 10000
Semenoff and Kappel anti-Bolshevist
troops eastward toward the Manchu-
ian frontier.
Andreas Zorn, the Swedish painter,
died in Stockholm. He visited the
United States in 1911. He was con-
tributOr to the fund to enable Swedish
scientists to pursue their studies in the
United States.
The Swiss police have taken meas
ures to protect the British premier,
David Lloyd George, declaring they
have discovered n plot against his life.
The police claim to have the plotters
under supervision in Geneva.
Polish emigrants for America to the
number of $50 have been stopped by
the Danzig authorities on the Polish
frontier on the pretense that many of
them are of military age and might be
used in the warfare against the BOlshe
visits, according to Berlin dispatch to
the London Times.
Soviet Russia has concluded an
agreement with Armenia by which the
provinces Karabagh and Zanzgourg, In
Southern Armenia, will be neutralized.
Entente circles are alarmed regarding
this convention, which they believe is
equivalent to permission by Armenia
for the Bolshevists to cross the coun-
try from Baku into AnatOlia, where
Soviet forces can join those led by
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Turkish Ma
tionalist leader.
According to Ell Heraldo, President
de la Huerta has announced that no
condition for the recognition of the
Mexican government have been i'm
posed by the United States or France.
"The Mexican government" he is
quoted as saying, sis giving all guar
antees to foreign countries and not
seeking to break promises with foreign
countries, and it does not believe for
eign nations have any reason to i'm
pose conditions belittling our dignity"
GENERAL
Every indication points toward
total motor registration In the United
States by 1925 of double the present
figures-or 100000 passenger cars
and trucks.
The greatest Improvement in the car
shortage situation since January is
now being accomplished by the rail-
roads of the country, the railroad car
service commission announced this
week.
George Griffin, millionaire Chicago
sportsman, who died recently in Cali
fornia, left an estate valued at 81, ,5OO,-
coo, including $4,000 worth of liquor,
it was learned when an inventory was
filed in Chicago.
Four masked and armed taxi bandits
hal ta Of th, nj N
publican Club mt Brooklyn, robbed
them of $500 in cash and $500
worth of jewelry and made their escape
in "A waiting taxi.
1t Is estimated that during 1919 the
automobiles in this country carried
three times as many passengers as the
railroads in the United States, and
conveyed them over n total mileage
equal to half again the railroad pas
senger mileage.
The Pennsylvania state highway de-
partment is erecting standard scales
at various points along the main high
ways for testing overwelghts of trucks.
Marshal Foch will visit the United
States when the European situation
permits, he told Supreme Knight James
A. Flaherty, in response to formal in
vitatlon, extended by Mr.. Flaherty Mt
banquet at Metz.
Explosive Trades. Limited, of Lon
don, has acquired S25,0O0,000 interest
in the General Motors Corporation of
America, according to ndvlces received
today from London by the department
of commerce. The British company Is
one of the largest trading concerns in
Europe.
The five Socialist assemblymen Of
New York who were ousted from the
State Legislature have been renomi-
mated and will fight for reelection at
the special elections September 18TH
Is I.a., a 4.