Gilpin observer., 1920-04-01
FOREIGN

| from a minimum of 81 900 to a maxi.
mum of $500, according to revolutions
adopted at the annual convention of
the Great War Veterans Association OF
Canada
Polish troops facing Russian Boil
shevik forces on the Podolian front
have repulsed repeated attacks by the
enemy and have recovered some ter
ritory lost, according to an official
statement issued at general headQuar-
tiers.
Bonds and stocks to the amount of
6O,OOO,OOO crowns were recently found
in leather bag In ParisWarsaw
train by Polish customs official. 1t
is believed the bag was destined for
Bolshevist propaganda in central
Europe.
Rumania Is appealing to Japan to
help in the reconstruction of the coun-
try, and Is hoping to obtain something
which Rumania desperately needs,
said Crown Prince Charles to the cor
| respondent of the London Daily Mail
| at Cairo.
The Federation of Labor at Rio
Janeiro has called off the general
strike following Il promise from the
government to release most of the
strikers who have been arrested and
| to permit the reOpening Of union head.
quarters, closed recently.
The Russian soviet drive against Po-
| land, according to advices from Berlin,
is merely the first step In an ambi-
| tiOus military project which contemp-
| lates Il drive through Rumania, Aus
tria and Hungary to form a junction
with the Italian Socialists and set up
| Il soviet government in Italy
The Rev. l.. w. b. Jackman, an
American medical missionary, who re-
Gently shot and killed Maj. II. D. 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
Bile for the tragedy.
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-
ary, have been captured and, accord
ing to the military officials, executed
near the scene Of thee rime by a troop
of Mexican cavalrymen from lower
| chihuahua garrison.
| Three thousand five hundred three
inch field guns have been found by the
interallied commission In the vicinity
OF Berlin alone and altogether 1900
of these guns have thus far been dis
covered throughout Germany, as well
as 5000 alrplanes intact According
| TO the terms OF the treaty of Versailles
| the German army should now have
| only 204 three-inch guns and no air.
planes whatsoever.
GENERAL
Sir Auckland Geddes will sail for
New York on April 10, to take up his
post as ambassador to the United
States, according to announcement
| just received from London.
Seventeen scholarships, ranging from
$1,000 to $4,000, in memory of Prince
| ton men who fell in the war, have been
established at the university, Presi-
dent John G. Hibben announced in
New York.
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.
| The death list Of the Palm Sunday
tornadoes that swept sections of eight
states stands at 181. The known dead
in six west central states number 1O5,
while fifty-flve were killed in Georgia
and Alabama. The property loss In
the Chicago area was estimated at
S6,OOO,0OO while in the other states af.
fected the material loss was large. d.
gin, ILL.,, suffered the heaviest prop
erty loss, the damage there being
S4,OOO,OOO.
| The body of young woman taken
from the Illinois river three miles
above PEORIA, ILL.,, is believed to be that
of Jeanne de Kay, the heiress who dis
appeared Christmas eve. She walked
out of Hull house, Chicago. and no
trace of her was ever found. The
body found answers In all descriptions
that Of the missing girl
| William II. Meyer, director OF the
X-ray Department of the New York
| Postgraduate Medical School and Hos
pital, has announced discovery of a
new method Of treating cancer by z
ray which resulted In fifty consecutive
cures of superficial cases In the last
four years. He says his success was
due to determining the correct dos
age"
That the boxing game Is a big sue
cess in the state OF New Jersey IL