Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-03-12
FOREIGN

Y OAbA1AGN
The supreme council of the allies In
London have decided that Turkey shall
have no navy. Only u few eyenu cut.
tiers will be left to her.
Aviator Cnsle established what was
claimed to he u new speed record In
France for conditions under which lie
made the flight, when his machine at
tained II speed Of 2S3 kllometers
u75.T4 mlles) an hour
The British government has been
formally notified by the state Depart
ment nt Washington that the appoint
ment of Sir Auckland Geddes rs Brit
lsh ambassador to the United States
will be agreeable to President Wilson.
Hundreds have frozen to death in
the worst storm In South Russia In
twenty-seven years. The mercury
was 40 degrees below zero and for
eighty hours . sIxty-mIle gale swept
the country, plling up great drifts of
snow.
Winnipeg, Canada, doctors issued
more than 100000 prescriptions for
liquor, permitting the holders to Sc
cure 156,7lO gallons OF liquor during
1919, according to J. N. MacLean, adj
minlstratOr Of the Manitoba temper
nncc net.
NlscOunt UChldn, foreign minister,
announced 10 the cabinet council that
| Japan had advanced 90 China thru the
Specie bank 100000 yen, II part OF
the $26,OO0,OOO loan agreed upon by
n consortIum Of four great powers, In.
Guiding Japan.
Admiral Horthy's salary MS regent OF
Hungary has been fixed at 3,000,00O
krOnea per year. After his election the
national assembly sent II deputatlon to
escort him TO the chamber, where he
took the oath and vas presented with
a draft OF the law creating his office.
The Italian government has ordered
greater restrictions In the feeding OF
the people than during the war. This
Is because Of the diminished food i'm.
portntlOns. In addition, %rutloning by
card for all necessarles has been re.
established. Two meatless days have
been ordered, MS well ns the closure Of
all restaurants, hotels, at II o'clock at
night.
Great Britain, which within n year
or so hopes to get off the red Ink side
Of the national ledger, faces an out.
look until April l of n daily deficit Of
$780,, 900. From England's standpoint
that Is quite an Improvement over
1919, when the national expenditure
was S~0,252,000 daily more than income.
These figures presume the pound to
he worth $500.
GENERAL
Ten persons were held for deporta-
tlon at Cleveland following n radical
raid In which twenty-slx persons were
rounded up. Sixteen were released. :
large amount of radical literature was
conflscated.
A bill designed to repeal the liquor
tax law aud provide for the licensing
OF the business of trnfficklng In bever-
ages containing not more than q per
cent of alcohol was introduced In the
Legislature ut Albany, n. Y.
The high cost OF living has no ter.
rors for the head porter Of II New
York hotel. Henry j. Choucerie, who
holds that job at the McAlplne, has
just leased the Colonial hotel for
eight years at II rental of S250,0O0. In
the meantime he will hold INTO his old
job.
Fifteen days field training and not
to exceed four days special lustruc-
lions for officers and selected enlisted
men are provided In this years Ma
tional Guard trimming program, made
public by Major General Carter, chief
of the militia bureau. General Carter
recommended that encampments be
held before July l..
The superdreudnought Maryland will
he launched at Newport News March
20. She is the largest ship yet con.
structed for the navy, being 600 feet
long, ninety-seven feet broad and hay
Ing II displacement of $1,000 tons. Her
main battery win be composed OF Gig
sixteen.lnch rifles, the heaviest guns
used ON naval craft.
Ratification Of the suffrage amend.
ment fuiled In the West Virginia Sen,
ate, when the resolution for its adop.
ton was met by a tie, IL to ii. Sen
utor II. W. Hammer, father of the reso'
luton, changed his vote so that hs
might be In n position to move recon.
s%lderation. This made the record vote
18 to 10 against ratification.