, 1920-01-15
FOREIGN

NlSlOn Oh the TURKISH enplfe VIII
make the East a hotbod of disturb
ances.
a German sportsman has hought he
yacht owned by former Emperor WI.
liam of Germany, paying 100000
marks for the craft, it is learned at
Zurich.
Prince August and Prince Joachim,
respectively, the fourth and sixth sons
of former Emperor William of Ger
many, have brought suit for divorces,
according TO Berlin advices to the
Matin.
The Dutch aviator and inventor,
Fokker, who gave his services to Ger
many during the whole of the war, Is
now constructing n new machine capa-
BILE of carrying sixty passengers. The
machine will weight 100000 k,los,
will have six motors and make a speed
of 2 kilometers per hour.
The housing commission operating
under the city's housing plan will make
a loan of 50 per cent of the net cost
of the home, it was announced at Win
nipeg, Canada. A first mortgage will
be taken on the property for twenty
years, ~repayable at the rate of $7.13 n
month for each $1,000 borrowed.
Street fighting in Irkutsk, in the
anti-Kolchak revolution. is reported in
a Toxic cable to the Nippu Jill, Jap
anese newspaper at Honolulu. Vladi-
vostok workers have voted to strike in
a demonstration of dissatisfaction over
the Kolchak rule causing suspension of
transiberian traffic south of Nicholisk.
a French aviatriX has arrived at
Rabat, Morocco, from Paris by air,
having made the flight in two days.
This is the first case of n woman fly
ing from France to Morocco. Her
route was via Toulon, Barcelona, Va.
lencia, Alicante, Granada, Malaga and
Tangier. The distance was about 1,15O
miles.
Ygnacio Bonillas, ambassador to the
U. s., will r%elinquish his post and re.
turn to Mexico City Jan. 9th to become
n candidate in the presidential elections
according to information from '"reli.
able soruces" published in Mexico City.
The same sources are quoted as stating
that lose Diego Fernandez, at present
in charge of the foreign office, will
succeed Senior Bonillas as ambassador.
Nikolai Lenine, Russian BOlshevist
premier, has made a new peace Offer
to the allies, which is being aiken ia
London by Colonel Talents, British
representative in the Baltic states
Among other conditions included in the
offer is a promise TO abolish terrorism
and the activity of revolutionary tri'
bunals, according to an Esthonian
newspaper.
Thirty million men, women and chill
dren have died in Russia from vio-
lence, famine and disease during the
last three years, according to a state
ment made by Princess Cantacuzene.
S~peransky, granddaughter of Ulysses
S. Grant, in an appeal in behalf of the
Aerican central committee for Rus
sian relief. The tremendous death
toll was exclusive, she said, of 5000.
600 men who had been killed in the
war.
GENERAL.
tpe bRS@Asee estntIa5sd Il $4,000 was
.huahAf at0MaAppEyS by Wire which de.
xrdseAd tb~eyraaAeAfS On Swift K Co..
yishaas' ~SSSSggahsssa am ~
BodeSN biISSSSss dsAaFs is NEEDED to keep
bE,mase Iron anarchy aid save the
.Naasar from Bolshevism, Sir George
faish, BritS3dWAial expsrt, told zoe
A90A& at Philadelphia.
J One e6stlg'swiftest murder trials in
N-,->zJsf ,t,to nD,1nl ,rlan n i,,r,y ~
E2GookTyn, after ten minutes delibera'
ton, found Frank j. Kelly, negro,
guilty of murder in the first degree fol-
Staying Catherine Dunn, a maid in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sperry
Clark on Dec. 18th last.
Maude Powell, well known through.
out the country as a violinist, died In
a hotel at UniOntown, Pa. She suf.
fered a nervous breakdown and became
so i'll that her concert was cancelled.
A threatened strike Of teachers in
New York public schools was averted
when the board of aldermen was au.
thoriZed to issue revenue bonds to the
amount of 100000 in order to pay
teachers salaries for December.
The National Association of Shoe
Travellers closed its convention at Gin.
cinnati with the adoption of n resolu-
ton voicing vigorous opposition to the
activities of the /. w. W. and the Reds.
The delegates, who reach every part
of the country, pledged themselves to
spread the gospel of Am~ericanism."
Gift of 500 600 from Sir George
Watson, noted British manufacturer,
for the establishment of a travelling
professorship in American history in
the various universities of the United
Kingdom, has been announced in New
York. The purpose of the donation is