Taiban Valley news., 1920-04-02
FOREIGN


Germany is threatened with seri-
GUS food shortage, especially in Ber-
lin and the larger cities, unless imme-
date measures are taken to restore the
cOuntry's demoralized traffic, accord
ing to seml-offlcial advices at London.
Canadian ex-service men want
bonus from the government ranging
from a minimum of $1,000 to a maxi
mum of $1,000, according to resolutions.
adopted at the annual convention of
the Great War Veterans Association of
Canada.
The police barracks at Gortatlea,
seven miles southeast of Trales in
County Kerry, province of Munster,
were blown up and destroyed by fire.
Three policemen were seriously in
jured, but there were no civilian cas-
| ualties.
More than 1000 Communists were
killed in violent fighting between Ebert
troops and the Reds in the regions of
Wesel, Gotha and Hennersdorf, ac-
cOrding to dispatches. Fighting be-
tween Belgian troops and the German
reds was reported in the Duisberg dis
trict.
The Rev. L. w. B. Jackman, an
American medical missionary who re-
Gently shot and killed Maj H. ID. Cloete
at the northeast frontier post of Sad
| iya, Asam, has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment. Domestic rea-
sons were said to have been RESPONSE
bic for the tragedy.
The Spartacan movement in the
Rhine provinces has long been organ
lied, with the cooperation of Russian
aid and the offensive against Poland
with the joint object that Trotzky,
Russian Bolshevik minister of war;
would be at the gates of Berlin at the
beginning of July, according to a
Munster dispatch to the Courant
Strikers in Canada for the fiscal
year ending March 81, 1919, caused an
estimated loss of 763341 working days,
compared with 1,134,970 days lost dur
ing the previous year, according to the
| report of the minister of labor, made
public. There were 1856 strikes in
| 1918-19, of which forty-One were Of
less than three days duration.
Six members of bandit gang,
which is said to have raided the Los
| Torres mine in the southeastern part
| of Sonora, near the Chihuahua state
| line, during the latter part OF Febru-
| airy, have been captured, and, accord
ing to the military officials, executed
near the scene of thee rime by troop
| of Mexican cavalrymen from a lower
Chihuahua garrison.
Moslem priests at Cairo, in the at
tempt to adapt their religion to mod
ern conditions. are find new interpre
restriction of Mohammedan women
was not at all the intention of the
prophet. Great stress is being laid
upon the liberty Of MOslem women in
the days of Mohammed and the sue
ceeding religious chiefs, TO prove that
misinterpretation and misapplcation
of the Koran has resulted in the pres
ent-day beliefs.
GENERAL
Three bandits, with show of po-
likeness, held up clothing shop in
Philadelphia, bound and gagged four
men and girl, gathered together
nearly $400, four watches and some
clothing, and escaped. They refused
to take the money of a girl customer,
saying they would not rob lady.
That the boxing game is u big sue
cess in the state of New Jersey is
clearly shown in the report Just fur
nished by the commission to the state
officials. 1t shows that since the or
ganizing of the commission on April
$, 1918, to March /, 1920, the commits
sion has turned into the state treasury
$9793495. 1t is expected that the
state will get an additional $4,000 by
June 80.
Lewis Gompers, brother of Samuel
Gompers, the labor leader, is dead aft
er a long illness at his home in Brook
lyn. Mr.. GOmpers was president of
the Retail Tobacco Dealers AssocIa-
tiOn
Joe Stecher, world champion heavy
weight wrestler, disposed of Mort Hen
derson in two straight falls at New
York in thirty-seven minutes and fifty |
seconds and fourteen minutes, re-
spectively.
A resolution to strike from the book |
of discipline of the Methodist church
that section known as the "blue law"
or amusement ban, which forbids
Methodists attending dances, theaters
and horse races, was adopted at the
Newark Methodist Conference at New
ark, n. J.
More than 67 per cent of Chicago's
total population, based on unofficial
and incomplete census figures, is com
posed Of foreign citizens. OF the esti-
mated total of 2,SS4,S27, IA per cent
are Germans, the count of that ma
tiOnality being given as 403,795. APP
940, ,452 native white Amer
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