The Ordway new era., 1920-07-30
FOREIGN


and buildings were destroyed.
The German airship L-6i, slightly
larger than the British dirigible R34,
which last year made n transatlantic
voyage has been surrendered Mt the
Pulhham airdrome at London in ac-
cordance with the terms Of the treaty
of Versailles
An official statement has been Is
sued declaring Germany's complete
neutrality in the situation arising from
hostilities in progress between Russia
and Poland. The statement was signed
by President Ebert and Foreign Minis
ter Simons.
Peasant scythemen of Modlin. re-
viving the traditions of the scythe-
men of Kosciuszko. who fought the
Russians in 1874. marched thru War
saw en- route TO Poland's eastern from
tier TO take stand against a posi-
BILE invasion of the bolsheylki.
France Will carry out her agree
ment with Great Britain to furnish
armed support to Poland in event eff
forts to effect pacific solution of
differences between Poland and soviet
Russia fail, Premier Millerand told
the Chamber of Deputies in Paris.
A number of Sim Fein employees Of
Harland and Wolfrs shipyards were
badly mauled at Belfast and several
were taken to the hospital in conse-
quence of an attack by unionist work
ers, more than 5000 of whom held a
meeting and adopted a resolution To
boycott all Sim Fein workmen in the
yards.
A war office statement says an
agreement for the suspension of hos
tilities in the western part of trans
baikalia was signed July IS between
the Japanese and the verkhne-Udinsk
government pending complttion of ne
government pending completion of ne
sian and japanese committees in 81
beria.
Francisco villa, the rebel leader, is
trying to surrender, but the govern
ment will not negotiate with him, ac-
cording to an official statement. More
than 5000 men are opposing villa in
the state of chihuahua, the statement
says, and the federal forces are oc-
cupying all his supply bases and sur
him.
There was a real kick" In a
corpse" found by prohibition agents
in hearse passing through Seymour,
a suburb of Greenwich, Conn. The
agents, undaunted by the figure of a
man, clothed in clerical robes, seated
beside the driver, halted the hearse
and pulled out the coffin. They found
the coffin filled with spirits-yes, SOC
gallons of spirits. The driver and cler.
ical assistant were arrested
GENERAL
Three armed bandits held up the
cashier of the Borden Condensed Min
Company today In front Of the COM
pany's office on the West Side, In New
York and escaped with $4,000 in cash.
Announcement was made today Of q
gift of approximately $5O0,OO0 by ].
II. Wade of Cleveland to the Cleve-
land Museum of Art. The interest on
the money will be used for the pur-
chase of works of art.
Andy Deuser, aged II, of Indianapo.
lis, is in the detention home, at his own
request, and his mother, Mrs. Rose
Deuser, and brother. Louis, 20, face
charges mnde by neighbors that the
boy had been chained to post in the
barn and made to stand there fol
more than fifteen hours as punishment
for running away. His chums re
ht. ha al, In
Suddenly stricken nv appendicitis
Herman Carlson, n coal passer OH the
of the Swedish-American
line, was rushed to an operating table
while the ship was stopped In mid
ocean for two hours. The liner drift
ed while DIR. Moritz Simon, the ship
surgeon, performed the operation
ing when the steamer arrived in port
at New York.
The second death from sleeping sick.
ness in Annapolis has been reported to
the state board of health at Balti
more. The victim was Earl Gibson
Webber, 13 years old, who succumbed
after two weeks illness.
The armies on the Feng Tai, Lang
Fang sector of the Tien Tsin railway
line of Gen. Hsu-Shu Cheng, former
resident commissioner of inner Mon.
golia and one of the Anfu leaders are
reported to be disintegrating like the
forces to the southward of the capital.
Ten thousand of his men, comprising
the Third division, under General
Sung Tze-Yang. have advised the gov.
ernment that they are ready TO obey
the orders of the war ministry.
Six hundred million dollars was
added to the pay envelope Of the ma
tion's 100000 railway workers in the
first award handed down by the new
United States railway labor board at
Chicago. Rejecting the demands of