Gilpin observer., 1920-09-02
FOREIGN

council.
Major Johnstone, justice Of the
peace, was. assassinated at his home
in Londonderry by men who fired
through window. The assassins
escaped
Bolshevist officers taken prisoner by
the Poles say that the Polish army
will not meet serious resistance until
it reaches the line running through the
railroad points of Wilma, Ida, Baran-
ovichy and Luniniets.
Japan has decided to subsidize jap
aneses steamship lines plying to South
America and also to Asiatic 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
We're locked in a church and burned to
death the dispatches, say.
M. Ramadana, rebel chief in the dis
trict of Mesureata, Tripoli, has been de-
feated and killed by government forces,
says n telegram from Tripoli. 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 Brtain's external debt on
March 31st, last, amounted to f1,277,-
SSS,OOO, according to a White paper re-
Gently published. OF this amount f1,-
O48, ,774,000 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 Economiste, published In Paris,
declared in an article that France will
be obliged to import 4,4O9, 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, a negro, was shot and
killed near Virgilina, Va, by 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 Ceiba.
Honduras. ready to protect American
interests If necessary, revealed that Of
f,cials 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
1vOr Churchill have been left S1,OOO,-
600 each by their grandfather, William
X. Vanderbilt, it became known when
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 "Eiume day." on
September 18th, anniversary of the oc-
cupation of Fiume by D'Annunzio and
his forces, was issued at 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 DIR. 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 n few days.
Knowing her death was only mat
ter OF hours because of burns received
in an oil explosion, Mrs. John File, II,
of Evansville, Ind, insisted upon a
Caesarlan operation In the hone of say-