The Colorado statesman., 1920-07-10
FOREIGN

Poland and full military authority
have been vested In a national council
of defense created by the Polish diet.
Keeping pace with the times, the
London Daily Mail has installed it's
own wireless receiving plant for the
receiving of news dispatches ON the
roof of Cnrmelite house, home OF the
Northcllffe papers.
Germany is 100000 tons in arrears
of her engagements concerning the
delivery OF coal in execution OF the
treaty OF Versailles, according to an
Interview with Louis Louchcur printed
in the Petit Pnrisien In Paris.
Provisional President de Ia Huerta
of Mexico, has abolished the moving
picture censorship and the censorship
department of the ministry of the in
terror will hereafter be used "to fos-
ter rather than hinder the Industry"
Polish forces on the Bolshevist front
have evacuated Mozir and kalenkowitz
in Polesla, according to an official
statement issued at army staff head
quarters at Warsaw. This step was
taken, IL is Shlus lOl phibpSN Va
shortening the front.
The French Chamber of Deputies
voted an additional 10000 francs
wear for cabinet ministers and 15,00t
francs for secretaries OF state, In rec
ognltion of the increased cost of liv
ing The vote, which was taken by the
raising of hands, was almost unani-
nous.
The Mexican national debt, is more
than 546000,000 pesos, including in
terest, il was announced officially. OF
this. more than 100000 pesos is owed
abroad, Efforts will be made TO reach
an agreement with Mexicos credit.
ors regarding the resumption of inter
est payments.
Fire has swept the entire FISHING
district on the western shore of the
sea of Okhotsk. which was leased to
Japan under the treaty of Portsmouth
The area burned includes the city OF
Okhotsk, according to n wireless report
received by the Hokkaido Fisheries
Company from the steamer Kan
chatka. The financial loss is esti.
mated at $4,OO0,O00.
GENERAL
Newcomb Palmer, young farmer OF
Momence, ILL.,, is being held ut Chica
go, and Byron Caldwell, former EN-
ploye of Palmer, is in Jail at Kanka-
kee, ILL.,, charged with an attempt tc
extort $4,000 from Lem Small, candt
date for the Republican nomination for
governor of Illinois.
An express car on the Charleston
and Western Carolina Railroad was re-
ported robbed near Augusta, Ca, by
bandits who gagged and bound an ex.
press messenger and an armed guaro
and made away with S59,725, consti
tuting the pay roll for the marines al
Paris Island, S. c., station.
In a pistol duel at Spartanburg,
c., William p. Cooper, blacksmith
and Oscar Godfrey, horse trader
killed each other. Each man emptied
the six chambers of his weapon anc
when the police arrived Cooper was
dead and Godfrey, though dying, was
still swapping his empty gun at the
body of the dead man. The cause OF
the fatal quarrel has not been learned.
Georges Carpenter, the French
champion, has returned to New York
to make preparations for sailing home.
Jack Curley. who has been in charge OF
Carpenters tour, announced that Car
pentier will positively return to Amer
| lea to fulfill his agreement to meet
Battling Levinsky. The match has been
set forward to Oct. 10. Curley added
that he has received word that Jack
Dempsey and his manager, Jack
Kearns, would be in New York shortly.
"And 1t looks very much as If articles
will be signed and sealed for Demp-
sey-Carpentier match before Georges
Sails" Curley concluded.
A S25,OOO,OOO loan to Switzerland
will be raised in the United States
as result of negotiations concluded
between the Swiss government and
American bankers, 1t has been an-
nounced in New York.
The Big Four Railroad Company suf
fered a loss estimated at between
500, 900 and 100000 at Elkhart, Ind,
when fourteen freight cars piled up on
q curve. The cars contained coal and
merchandise No one was injured.
In a collision between three cars on
the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley
railroad, near South Piston station,
eighteen persons are reported killed
and 100 injured. The accident occur
red when lightning struck telegraph
pole along the line of the track and the
pole fell over on the tracks in front OF
a car hound for Scranton.
According to an announcement made
by the War Department, four army
aeroplanes, one of them driven by
Lieut.. Clifford C. Mutt of Denver, will
leave New York on July 10 for flight