The Ordway new era., 1920-04-02
FOREIGN

Amsterdam and Rotterdam. A num-
ber of ships were loaded after n SIX
weeks ticup.
Germany is threatened with seri-
ous food shortage, especially in Ber-
lin and the larger cities, unless imme-
diatc measures are taken to restore the
country's demoralized traffic, accord
ing TO semi-officinl advices at London.
Canadian ex-service men want n
bonus from the government ranging
from Il minimum of $1,000 to a maxi
mum of $500, according to resolutions
adopted at the annual convention of
the Great War Veterans Association of
Canada
The police barracks at Gortntlea,
seven miles southeast of Trales in
County Kerry. province of Munster.
were blown up and destroyed by fire.
Three policemen were seriously in
jured. but there We're no civilian cas-
ralties.
More than 1000 Communists were
killed in violent fighting between Ebert
troops and the Reds in the regions OF
Wesel, Gotha and Hennersdorf, ac-
cording to dispatches. Fighting be-
tween Belgian troops and the German
reds was reported in the Duisberg dis
trict.
The Rev. l.. w. Il. Jackmsn, an
American medical missionary, who re-
Gently shot and killed Maj ii. ID. 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
bic for the tragedy.
The Spartacan movement in tife
Rhine provinces has long been organ
lied, with the cooperation of Russian
aid and the offensive against Poland,
with the joint object that Trotzky,
Russian Bolshevik minister of war,
would be at the gates of Berlin at the
beginning of July, according to a
Munster dispatch to the Cournnt.
Strikers in Canada for the fiscal
year ending March 81, 1919, caused an
estimated loss of 763,341 working days,
compared with 1,134,970 days lost dur
ing the previous year, according to the
report of the minister of labor, made
public. There were 1856 strikes in
191S-19, of which forty-one were of
less than three days duration.
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
of Mexican cavnlrymen from II lower
chihuahua garrison.
Moslem priests at Cairo, in the at
tempt to adapt their religion to mod
ern conditions, are find new interpre-
tations of the Koran to show that the
restriction of Mohammedan women
was not at all the intention of the
prophet. Great stress is being laid
upon the liberty of Moslem women in
the days of Mohammed and the sue
ceeding religious chiefs, to prove that
misinterpretation and misapplication
of the Koran has resulted in the pres
ent-day beliefs.
GENERAL =
Three bandits, with show of po-
liteness, held up clothing shop in
Philadelphia, bound and gagged four
men and girl, gathered together
nearly $i00, four watches and some
clothing, and escaped. They refused
to take the money of n girl customer,
saying they would not rob lady.
That the boxing game is big sue
cess in the state of New Jersey is
clearly shown in the report just fur
nished by the commission to the state
officials. 1t shows that since the or
ganizlng of the commission on April
8, 1913, to March /, 1920, the commits
sion has turned into the state treasury
S9T, ,934.95. 1t is expected that the
state will get an additional $4,000 by
June 30.
Lewis Gompers, brother of Samuel
Gompers, the labor leader. is dead aft
er Il long illness Mt his home In Brook
lyn. MIR. Gompers was president of
the Retail Tobacco Dealers Associa-
tion.
Joe Stecher, world champion heavy
weight wrestler, disposed of Mort Hen
derson in two straight falls Mt New
York In thirty-seven minutes and fifty
seconds and fourteen minutes, re-
spectively.
A resolution to strike from the book
of discipline of the Methodist church
that section known as the "blue law"
or amusement ban, which forbids
Methodists attending dances. theaters
and horse races, was adopted at the
Newark Methodist Conference at New
ark, n. ].
More than 67 per cent of Chicago's
total population, based ON unofficial