Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-09-03
FOREIGN

| boycott of Belfast farms owing to al
legged persecution of Catholics has Just
been adopted by the Leitrim county
council.
Major tombstone. justice Of the
peace, was assassinated at his home
in Londonderry by men who fired
escaped.
Bolshevist officers taken prisoner by
the Poles say that the Polish army
will not meet serious resistance until
1t reaches the line running through the
railroad points of Wilma, Ida. Bnran-
ovichy and Luniniets.
Japan has decided to subsidize Jap
aneses steamship lines plying to South
America and also to Aslatic and Afri-
can ports, according to advices re
ceived at Buenos Aires through diplo-
matte channels.
Dispatches from Constantinople re-
port the massacre of 400 Armenians by
Kurds in Anatolia. The Kurds shot
the men. but the women and children
were locked In a church and burned to
death the dispatches, say
NJ. Ramadana, rebel chief In the dis
trict of Mesureata, Tripoli, has been de-
feated and killed by government forces,
says telegram from Trlpoli. Two
thousand of the followers Of the rebel
leader also were killed or captured.
A municipal strike has been called
In Cardiff, Wales, according to dis
patches received at London The ceme-
terry workers are affected and the
families OF those dying have had to dig
graves for their dead.
More than $50 separate forest fires
in the district south of the Campbell
river in British Columbia have been
reported within the past few days.
The Still Water districts are said to
be vast sea of flames.
Great Britains external debt on
March 31st, last, amounted to f1,277,-
sSs,000, according to White paper re-
Gently published OF this amount FL
046.774,0O0 is due to the United States,
including some small amounts borrow
ed from Continental countries which
have to be paid back in United States
dollars.
Andre Liesse, editor of the financial
journal Economists, published in Paris,
declared in an article that France will
be obliged to import 4,409, 24O, 900
pounds of breadstuffs, and that the
United States has the largest available
quantity for that purpose. He remarks
France Will be able to profit by the
fall in the Chicago wheat market.
GENERAL
Leslie Allen, negro, was shot and
killed near Virgilina, Va, by a posse
of Halifax county citizens, following
charges that Allen had insulted two
small white girls at Buffalo Springs,
Va.
Announcement that the gunboat Sac
ramento had been ordered to La Celba,
Honduras, ready to protect American
interests IL necessary, revealed that OF
ficlals have been watching with grow
ing concern revolutionary movements
developing in several Central American
countries.
Clarence Coombs, alternate pilot of
the '"Texas Wildcat" one of three
American entries in the International
airplane race, has sailed en- route for
Paris to assist Roland Rohlfs, former
holder of the worlds altitude record, in
his attempt to lift the Gordon Bennett
aviation cup.
The marquis of Blanford and Lord
Ivor Churchill have been left $1,000
600 each by their grandfather. William
X. Vanderbilt 1t became known when
n summary of Mr.. vanderbilts will
was made public. Both are sons Of the
Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Con-
suelo Vanderbilt
A call for all italians and friends of
Italy" to celebrate "Fiume day." on
September 18th, anniversary of the oc-
cupation of Fiume by D'Annunzio and
his forces, was issued az New York by
Whitney Warren, newly appointed rep
resentative of the D'Annunzio govern
ment In the United States.
Plans for making Honduras dry"
are being made by Gen. Lopez Quit
terez, president of the republic, ac-
cording to an announcement received
by DR.. Eusebio Toledo, Honduran con-
sui general at New Orleans.
A misstep caused Mrs. Philomena
Mustaci to fall to her death at Chi
cago In the huge bread mixer in her
husbands bakery. The police worked
two hours extracting the body, near
ly every bone in which was broken.
The four United States airplanes
flying from Mineola, N. Y, to Nome
arrived there safely. The actual fly
ing time from New York was fifty
five hours, Capt. St Clair Street, head
of the expedition, announced. The
hop-off on the return trip to New York
will be made in few days.
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