The Colorado statesman., 1920-10-30
FOREIGN


followed Mayor MncSwiney only one
day. Murphy was a member of the
Irish Volunteers, and was well known
as an athlete.
An Increase of $1.15 day in the
wages of Alberta coal miners, granted
by operators In conference with repre-
sentatives of the United Mine Workers
of America, has been announced in
Calgary, Alberta.
Total value of fish and fish prod
ucts marketed in Canada during 1919
was 56,4S5,579, compared to $6O,2o0,-
544 in 1918. These figures were an
nounced Mt Ottawa by the dominion
bureau OF statistics.
Fifteen thousand Russian Bolshe-
visit soldiers have been taken prison.
ers. and many cannon and large guam
titles of war material have been cap
tured in raids carried out by General
Baron Wrangel's forces recently.
Incontrovertible evidence, it was
said, has reached the Spanish and
Portuguese authorities that the rail-
road strike in Portugal was the be-
ginning of an attempt by the Bolshe-
visit elements TO seize power.
The imports into France for the
nine months ended Sept. 80 were 81
S9,000,000 francs, as compared with
q, ,567 100000 for the same period of
1919. The exports were 1851, ,000,0 900,
as compared with 100000.
Fourteen japanese soldiers were
killed and nine were wounded in re-
cent fight with bandits at Chein-Tao,
Manchuria, in which the outlaws were
routed say dispatches received. The
bandits lost sixteen killed and the to-
tai casualties inflicted upon them are
said to be heavy.
Action by the French government
to recover $1,372, 100, alleged to be the
value of war equipment which went
down with the steamship North Cam
bria Aug. ., 1918, has been instituted
in Admiralty Court in Brooklyn against
the Commonwealth and Dominion Line,
Limited, of London.
Panama maintains sovereign rights
over the territory upon which Ameri-
can wireless stations have been erect
ed, Secretary of Justice Alfara ruled
in ordering the arrest of wireless OPP
orator at Puerta Obaldio on a charge
of wounding citizen of Panama. The
operator will be tried under the Pan
anna laws
Canada's trade with the United
States continues to develop on both
sides of the account. September fig
ures, issued showed exports to the
United States amounted to $40 943, 900,
as against 43,457, 900 in the same
month last year, an increase of 10 per
cent. Imports from the United States
totaled $S1, 900, against $65,917 900
an increase of % per cent.
GENERAL
New York trucking companies
adopted resolutions refusing recent de-
mands of their $4,000 employees for
shorter hours and increased pay, and
notifying them that they must work
ten hours for the present nine-hour
wage.
Edgar Carlton Singer of Clear
Lake, Mimi, sent a gold watch and
chain to the Democratic national COM
mittee as his contribution to the
ming, the watch was received at head
quarters in New York, with a letter
from Stinger.
The Otis Company announced at
Ware, Mass, that its cloth department
would operate only four days week,
beginning at once, because of lack of
orders. About 1000 operatives are af-
fected. A part of the underwear de-
partment already is on a four-day
schedule.
Three trainmen were killed, five
others injured and five or six pas
sengers shaken up in head-on col
lision between two Norfolk & West
ern passenger trains at Rural Retreat,
Va, according to an official announce
ment at the railway headquarters at
Roanoke, Va. The trains met on
siding.
The convicts, George Stivers and
Marcus Bassett, who escaped from
Sing Sing prison, were captured in
the woods at Warner, n. III.
The speed typewriting championship
of the United States and Canada was
won at New York by George L. Hoss-
field of Paterson, N. j., who typed ap-
proximately 131 words a minute for
sixty consecutive minutes. The con-
test featured the opening of the seven
teenth national business show.
Testimony taken at the New York
hearing of the joint legislative COM
mittee investigating the alleged build
ing trust, relative to the payment of
$4,000 by e. B. Levy, real estate
owner and builder, to have a strike
settled on one of his building projects,
will be submitted to the proper
prosecuting authorities for immediate