The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-02
FOREIGN.


the government owing to its attitude
towards the Ruhr workers, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Berlin.
Russia is prepared to export large
quantities Of platinum, gold, silver and
raw materials as soon as the allies per-
init the reOpening of trade, according
to statement prepared by V. Kopp,
Bolshevist representative at Berlin
Polish troops facing Russian Boil
shevfk forces on the Podolian front
have 'repulsed repeated attacks by the
enemy and have recovered some ter
| ritory lost, according to an official
statement issued at general headquar-
tiers.
| Bonds and stocks to the amount of
60.O00,O00 crowns were recently found
in a leather bag. in Paris Warsaw
| train by a Polish customs official 1t
is believed the bag was destined for
Bolshevist propaganda in central
Europe.
Rumania is appealing to Japan to
help in the reconstruction of the coun-
try, and is hoping to obtain something
which Rumania desperately needs,
| said Crown Prince Charles to the cor
| respondent of the London Daily Mail
at Cairo.
Prohibition party leaders of British
| Columbia are to ask the provincial
| government for referendum on the
| question of bone dry prohibition. AT
| present liquor can be obtained in Can
ada on prescriptions and under the
permit system.
The Federation of Labor at Rio
Janeiro has called off the general
strike following a promise from the
government to release most of the
strikers who have been arrested and
TO permit the reopening of union head
quarters, closed recently.
The Russian soviet drive against Po-
land, according to advices from Berlin,
is merely the first step in an amb-
tious military project which contemp-
Iates a drive through Rumania, Aus
tria and Hungary to form Il junction
with the italian Socialists and set up
soviet government in Italy.
The Rev l.. w. B. Jackman, an
American medical missionary, who re-
Gently shot and killed Maj. H. d. Cloete
at the northeast frontier post of Sad
| iva, Asam, has been sentenced TO two
years imprisonment Domestic rea-
sons were said to have been responsi-
Bile for the tragedy.
Three thousand five hundred three
| inch fold hou fon I, ha
interallied commission in the vicinity
of Berlin alone, and altogether 10000
of these guns have thus far been dis
covered throughout Germany, as well
as 5000 airplanes intact According
TO the terms of the treaty of Versailles
the German army should now have
only 204 three-inch guns and no air.
planes whatsoever.
GENERAL.
Sir Auckland Geddes will sail for
New York on April 10, to take up his
post as ambassador to the United
States, according to announcement
just received from London
Seventeen scholarships ranging from
$1,000 TO $4,000 in memory of Prince
ton men who fell in the war, have been
established at the university, Presi-
dent John G. Hibben announced in
New York
The death list of the Palm Sunday
tornadoes that swept sections of eight
states stands at 161. The known dead
in six west central states number 1O5
while fifty-five We're killed in Georgia
and Alabama. The property loss il
the Chicago area was estimated al
S6,O0O,000, while in the other states af
fected the material loss was large. Ell
gin, ILL.,, suffered the heaviest prop
erty loss, the damage there bein.
S4,OOO,O0O.
Harry Winitzky, executive secretary
) of the New York Communist party
convicted at New York Of violating the
: states criminal anarchy law, was sen
fenced to not less than five nor more
than ten years in state prison.
/ Earnings of the National Leather
Company, organized last year to take
) over the tanning properties of Swift
& Company, were S4,603, ,20S in the las
, six months of 1919, according to the
first report of the concern made pub
lie at Chicago.
} Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy
young Philadelphian, recently court
martialed for desertion because of his
alleged failure to report for military
service under the draft, was sentenced
! to five years in prison, according to q
decision of the court in New York.
The body of young woman taken
from the Illinois river three miles
above Peoria, ILL.,, is believed to be that
of Jeanne de Kay, the heiress who dis
appeared Christmas eve She walked
out of Hull house, Chicago, and no
trace of her was ever found. The
body found answers in all descriptions
that of the missing girl.
A wireless telephone conversation