The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-25
FOREIGN

Ada Bazaar, twenty-three miles east
Of Ismid, has been captured by Greco
British troops, after sharp skirmish-
ing.
Representatives of Italian employers
and the striking workmen who have
seized the factories have accepted Pre-
mier Giollttis offer of mediation, It is
stated in advices from Rome.
Three persons were killed and six
injured in an explosion in the Ionfolo
powder factory at Mantau, says Rome
dispatch. The explosion, which dam
aged several houses, is believed to have
been caused by parties unidentified.
A dynamite bomb exploded in front
of the Friends club, in Talayera, SUI
burb of Madrid. Spain, doing enormous
damage but inflicting no casualties.
Tine police have found number of
dynamite cartridges and also a deto-
nator.
The suggestion accredited to Pro
visional President de la Huerta Of
Mexico that dry" zone be estab-
lished in Mexico within siXty-five
miles of the United States border viii
be discussed at an international con-
vention of the border chamber of
commerce at El Paso, Oct. 4, o and G.
1t Is officially announced that the
total killed I'm the recent earthquakes
in Italy was 174. The mountainous
zone affected was thinly inhabited and
places. Normal life is being resumed.
The houses destroyed are being re-
placed by huts.
The Chinese foreign office notified
Prince n. A. Koudachef, minister OF
Russia, in charge of the Russian
legation by appointment OF the late
czar, that in view Of the nonrepre-
sentative status of the Russian lega-
tion, voluntary cessation of function
ing of the legation and Russian con
sulate would be welcomed.
Departure of $50 japanese mostly
women and children, who sailed for
Japan on the Canada Maru was de-
clared by shipping authorities to be
evidence of alarm felt over relations
between Japan and the United States.
Numbers of the Japanese admitted
they were leaving the country because
of the anti-Japanese sentiment in this
country.
Canada is settling Its housing prob
lem by government action. The do
minion government agreed TO loan the
provinces $25,0000OO at per cent,
the loan to be repaid in twenty to
thirty years. The provinces were EN-
powered under certain simple cOndi-
tions carrying responsibility to lend
money to municipalities and munich
palities were empowered to lend money
to builders or to housing organiZa-
tions, which are forbidden to pay diyi-
dendn in excess of six per cent.
GENERAL
The Supreme Court OF Maine has
decided that Il woman should not be
required to tell her age in order to
qualify as n voter.
Department of justice agents and
the police are still without definite
clew to the identity of the persons re-
sponsible for explosion in Wall street
Robbery, jealousy and other ele-
ments entered into the brutal Staying
of John Zelek, foreman of the stock
department in large warehouse,
whose body was discovered in a small
waShroom in Chicago. He had been
beaten to death in most savage man
ner, plank and hammer being the
weapons. Scattered about the floor
near the body We're II number of love
letters which the police are investigat-
ing.
All this talk about the horse becom-
ing extinct because of the universal
use of automobiles is idle gossip, ac-
cording to the delegates who assem-
bled at Chicago for the twenty ninth
annual convention of the Master
Horseshoers' National Protective Asso-
ton. Not only are horses increasing
in numbers, but also in value, accord
ing to official statements, and trans
portntion by horsepower still costs less
than by motor truck.
]. Milton Smith, as counsel for
James O'Brien of Mount Vernon, has
filed suit for $4,000 against the
city of New York for injuries received
in the Wall street bomb explosion.
Charged with shipping more than
100000 worth of automobiles stolen
in Detroit thru eastern ports to Scan
dinavian countries, six Detroit per-
sons, one of them woman, have been
arrested at Detroit, and are being held
by federal authorities under the Dyer
Interstate automobile theft act.
held under guard.
Two suits of $1o,00O0O0 were filed
by the city of Chicago, on orders of
Mayor William Hale Thompson against
the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Daily News, respectively. The suits,
according to Corporntion Counsel S. A.