Gilpin observer., 1920-01-29
FOREIGN

are about to occupy Odessa and or
ganlze the defenses of that Black sea
port against the BOlsheviki, according
to the newspaper Hurjer Po Banay.
DR.. W. H. Solf, former foreign min
lister of Germany, has been appointed
German ambassador to japan, accord
ing to Toxic cable to Nippu Jiju,
Honolulu japanese language newspa-
per.
The appropriation of $20000,0OO for
good roads by the Dominion Parlia-
ment, presages unprecedented activity
in road making throughout Canada
during the coming year. Main high
ways and market roads Will be prOvid
ed in every province.
British officials declined to COM
ment on the newspaper reports from
Paris that the Supreme Council would
send 100000 troops to the Caucasus
to oppose the Bolshevki 1t was said
that no official word relative to the
matter had been received from the
peace conference.
The plight of retired Austrian Off.
ficers is illustrated by an incident re-
ported from fashionable suburb of
Vienna. A house owner was in search
Of porter and made his want known
to the officers league. Among the
applicants were major general, three
cOlonels, two lieutenant cOlOnels,
seven majors and eighteen captains.
There have been serious food riots
in the Moravian cities of Stanburg,
nd nd
have been called WOrkmen are de-
manding immediate requisitioning of
supplies by the army and their distri-
button under workmens committee
In the Olmutz district the authorities
have conceded this demand.
Thirty-eight Americans, members of
the railroad guard detachment on duty
at POsolska, near Verhyne- Udinsk, cap
tured one of General Semenoffs ar
mOred trains. The Cossack general
commanding it was killed and all Of
ficers were captured. The train, with
out provOcatiOn, had attacked the
American detachment sleeping in box
cars.
The British navy may soon be given
new and unsurpassed weapon in a
large caliber shell which will pierce
the heaviest armor without shattering,
said Sir Robert Hadfield, chairman
and managing director of Hadfields,
Ltd, steel manufacturers, recently.
He indicated that possession of such
II shell during the great war would
have been of inestimable value to the
British fleet.
GENERAL
Horses and mules sold by the Amer
lean forces in Germany between Nov.
21 and Nov. 2S. last year, brought to-
tai of Sl03,97S, or about $40 each.
The animals sold were reported as un-
serviceable.
"The jazz must go; it is on the
wane; fashion decrees that 1t must
Co." was the declaration of W. J. Karn-
good of st. Louis, secretary of the
American Federation of Musicians, in
annual convention at Detroit.
The American relief administration
announced that 500 banks in the
United States already are cooperating
of famine threatened sections of south
central and eastern Europe. A cam
paign of publicity through the foreign
language press is planned
Although it is the popular impress,
sion that the prohibition fight in the
United States is over. the Anti Saloon
League insists that it has just begun
in declaration emphasizing its APP
peal for $25,OOO,OOO to keep up warfare
on the demon rum, Notwithstanding
its shackled condition.
Laying of the keel of Il new 15.5OO-
ton passenger steamer, which will be
named the Calgary, for service between
Liverpool and Montreal and Quebec.
WAS announced by the White Star line
The ship is under construction at Bel
fast and is expected to be ready for
service in 1921. The vessel Is designed
to carry $50 cabin and 1000 third class
passengers.
Suits have been filed demanding
more than S1,0O0,OOO in damages from
the city of Chicago for deaths, injuries
and property damage in last sum-
mer's race riots. OF this more than
100000 is sought by relatives of
twenty-five men and women claimed
to have been killed during the rioting
Robert Petit, foreman in n machine
shop, living In West Allis, Wis, hit his
wife over the head with II crowbar, in
flicting serious wounds Petit was re-
covering from the flu, but suffered
relapse. In II delirious fit he attacked
his wife. When he saw what he had
done he shot himself, dying Instantly
Several hundred ministers and lay
men representing the general synod of
the Reformed church In the United
Stntes met Mt PhiIudelphIn and dis