The Colorado statesman., 1920-11-27
FOREIGN


with those governments.
Following the refusal of the election
authorities to permit women to vote
in the municipal election, Buenos
Aires women conducted n separate bal
lot under the auspices of two suffrage
organizations. The women voted on
the same candidates ms did the men.
The condition of the refugees aboard
the ninety or more ships strung along
the BOsporus near Constantinople is
appalling and terrible catastrophe Is
feared unless prompt measures are
tnken to land the thousands who are.
wrlthlng in misery and pain.
An official report issued from Toxic
says that Japanese troops have burned
the Christian school near Changtea, it
having been said that 1t was found 10
he a nest of Korean outlaws. The Jill
Shimpo reports that the japanese have
arrested five Koreans at Nladlvostok
and sent them into Korea. They were
charged with purchasing arms. 1t is
alleged that they confessed.
Young men of Cherbourg, France.
who did not receive invitations to n
dance given by the commander of the
American destroyer BroOme, banded
together to attempt to induce the
young ladies of Cherbourg not to -at-
tend the affair. The girls, however,
objected, and, guarded by their fathers
and mothers, nearly 100 appeared at
the party.
Defeat of the VenizelOs government
in the recent election in Greece has re-
suited in the Turkish government
formulating demands which are equiv
alent to n request for n revision Of the
treaty of Sevres. The Stamboul cabi-
net, through the Italian high commits
sioner has requested the allies to sup
press the inter-allied police as being
incompatible with the Turks sover-
eighty. 1t also has asked for the
abolition of the allied control commits
sion and non-interference by the allies
in Turkish international affairs.
GENERAL
The hog markets of the country
have been practically demoralized by
the continued sharp decline in quota
tions. Heavy receipts caused by dump
ing of poorer grades of hogs on the
markets by growers and lack of pur-
chasing has caused the continued de-
cline.
The firm of Cruiser & Philippson,
bankers, of Amsterdam, has sent u
lawyer to Berlin to investigate the
charges made in the German capital
regarding alleged attempts to smuggle
the fortunes of members of the Hohen-
Zollern family from German jurisdic-
tion into Holland.
Constructing the will of the late
Marshal Field cost the estate of the
multimillionaire merchant prince $780,
600 for attorneys fees alone, when
Judge Charles NJ. Foell of the Supe-
rior Court at Chicago allowed that
amount TO attorneys for the parties in
the suit to contest the will.
August Pascal, alias Pasquale, "the
crank" in the Coughlin kidnapping case,
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
today by Judge SwartZ. Pascal had
pleaded guilty to second degree muir
der and kidnapping for eXtortion. He
stole Blakeley Coughlin, the thirteen
months-od baby of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Il. Coughlin, from their home
near Norristown, Pa, on June = last,
and smothered the infant under hiE
coat.
The Chicago police have made an
investigation into the death of ID.
Harris Cook of Plattsmouth, Neb.,
who dropped dead after fraternity
initiation. Officials of the coroner's
office said death probably was due to
heart disease, superinduced by alco-
holism. Cook was being initiated into
secret interfraternity organization,
which is barred in many colleges. Stu
dents denied that he had been treated
roughly in the initiation. They said
quantities of liquor were served.
Information charging Clara Smith of
Ringing, Okla, with assault and the
intent TO kill in connection with the
wounding at Ardmore, Okla, of Jake
Hamon, Republican National Commit
teeman of Oklahoma, has been filed
with Justice of the Peace Cannon by
Russell Brown, county attorney Of
Carter county.
Three-fifths of the original supply
of timber in the United States is gone
and every year we are taking out
of our forests four times the amount
of timber that we are growing. The
virgin forests of the United States,
which formerly covered S22,OOO,OOO
acres, have shrunk to one-siXth of
that area. All classes of forest land
i'm the United States-including cul-
led, burned and cut-over areas-now
aggregate 463,000,000 acres, or a little
more than one-half our original
forests The answer to the forestry
problem of the United States is not
to use less wood, but to grow more