The Colorado statesman., 1920-10-02
FOREIGN

made n member of the French Legion
Of Honor at Paris. The countess was
recognized because of her work during
the war.
A violent earthquake is reported to
have occurred in Glarre, Sicily, at the
base OF Mount Etna, according to n
Rome dispatch. The quake lasted ten
seconds. One village was destroyed
and many persons were injured.
1t is reported that a plot fomented
by Aslatic Bolshevlki to assassinate
the sultan has been discovered. The
palace is being guarded and Arabic
new year parade was changed to a
private function.
The yearly production by paper mills
thruout Japan is roughly given as 1885,
700 tons, of which $4,000 tons are used
for newspaper printing, $4,000 tons by
the government monopoly bureau for
cigarettes, 100000 tons for the printing
of school textbooks, and 10000 tons for
the printing of magazines.
An official report issued at Dublin
castle shows that the attack on a mo-
tor lorry containing six policemen
near LII I1llltH WIS luOlt StAipho AiAetA
announced Six constables were killed,
while soldiers assert they saw four OF
their assailants drop.
The Poles have reached Zbrucz river
along the entire line, according to
Tuesdays official communication, and
Ukrainian troops have crossed the
river. In the Pruzana region prison
ers taken number 2,250. The communi-
cation adds that cavalry has occupied
Oysterog, Bubrin and Derazono.
France will pay every dollar Of the
$3.50, 100000 loan due in New York
October 18th, M. Francois-Marshal,
minister of finance, officially an
nounced to the cabinet council at Par
is. This sum is Frances share of the
$500 100000 Anglo-French loan floated
in the United States during the war.
Damage estimated at fifty million
francs has been caused in upper Mauri-
enne, department of SnvOie, by floods
which followed in the wake of Il vio-
lent storm on both sides of the Franco
Italian frontier, according TO dis
patches received at Paris. In the vi
cinity of Modanne several houses were
carried away.
1t was stated on reliable authority
that the jewels belonging to the Ro-
manoffs, Hapsburgs and Hohenzol-
lerns, deposited for safety with Swiss
banks and private firms, are worth
ISL, 100000, while the jewels sold or
pawned i'm Switzerland since 1911 by
these families amounted to double this
sum.
Twenty-Five persons were killed in
rioting at Gensan, Korea, when Korean
students attacked and destroyed or
damaged branches of the Korean In
dustrlal bank and the Oriental Devel-
opment company and seven Japanese
houses. The following night there was
further shooting with additional cas-
ualities.
Slow moving landslides covering con-
siderable territory are doing consider
able damage in the Sanding Alps of
Upper Austria. The entire mountain
surface apparently is settling into the
Leisling valley. Many huts have been
destroyed and hamlets, forests and
fields are moving bodily, accompanied
by tremendous noises.
In order to make hoarders of gold
coin bring them in to the treasury, the
French finance minister has announced
that when gold coinage is resumed
those which were in circulation before
the war will not be recognized. The
announcement, the legality of which is
contested, has given the French gold
louis a new value in the eyes of col
lectors.
GENERAL
Il A Robinson of California. q