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all along the way. Everything
that can be found is being taxi
en- out and protected by county
officials in the various counties
and much of it will be reclaim
ed.
The flood came on so quickly that
it was about all people could do to
save themselves and the livestock
was picked up i'm the wall of water
and carried away, aitho animal in
stinct seemed to warn the stock, es-
deavor to rush to higher lands for
safety. On the bottoms the flooded
farm lands are SO washed and cover
ed with mud and debris that little of
Some places the alfalfa fields are COW
cred a foot deep with mud and slush-
All along the river farm houses
We're either washed away or moved
from their foundations. In few in
stances houses We're carried with the
current, entirely demolished and the
wreckage gene. Many adobe houses,
mostly occupied by MeXicans, melted
away, nothing being left to show that
there ever was house there. Like
cyclones the flood caused many
frekish things to take place, and at
Nepesta a store building was floated
several hundred feet and lodged
against a school house, doing no dam
age tc the stock of goods. 1t is said
that even the bottles and boxes of
goods ON the shelves remained un-
harmed. One corn crib was moved
from one farm to another and the
corn remained in the crib just as it
was before the flood. There is noth-
ing strange about this exceps wnen
it is known that the crib had no floor,
yet none of the corn was lost.
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len Caught in City
Give Good Accounts

G0rdon Grove and A. Dean We're flood bound in pueb
ana We're unable get until about IL o'clock Monday
MN Mr. Grove arrived late Monday night and Mr.. lean IN
get thru until shortly afternoon Tuesday lhey were IN
business district of Pueblo during all that time and were eye
to the horrible sights caused by the flood and give
~ and accurate of the deplorabe conditions OF
nss In that city.
hee that the reports which have been received
since the first word of the flood reached here were
malt has been told"
From Mr. Grove Mr.. Dean cleaned many facts
the loss of life, the property damage and the depol
ondons which exist there. The devastation was far III
~ T oI the reports which had been received here.
loss Of lives estimated 500 to 5000 and conserve
. .TTPPorts put it at 1000 to 1900.
mere four distinct raises in the river from frday
itself. evening" each one " ~
mr. Grove had Pueblo from Denver Friday even
v and had intended home that night but ms a.e
h .r hess prevented return He in ON
Teet Just off Main when the flood started sweep
nuness section He hurried out of the ano
ws Santa Fe avenue to higher ground AZ tna u
IN strong started flowing into MAIN
w 0h street and around the down Main street N
hal tssnsd s. lsvs Main street above the First ma
a. lights M went and the city total darkness and the
ic rtS4t as pvt out Of conanissicn People we
)
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TH|SD|sTR|CT UNFRAMED

The big irrigated district of Crow
ley county was unharmed. The
rains during the past week have been
beneficial to crops and as the ground
iS getting into condition to work the
farmers are all busy in the fields.
The irrigation system had no great
damage done to il, and by the time
another run of irrigation water is
needed the canals will all be in good
condition.
Geo. IL. Beaver, engineer for the
Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Co.,
states that the headgate at Boone
stood the flood. Water poured
around both sides and caused tempor-
AIRY damage. Portions OF the canal
were damaged some but crews We're
put to work the first OF the week and
the breaks are being rapidly repair
ed. People of the Twin Lakes sys-
tenn may well feel thankful for the
comparatively small loss.
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f. F.. Withers Business
Man Is Shot Down

Ernest E. Withes c. G. Wthers president and bus
mess manager of The Chieftan Printing killed
by gunshot Eighth and Grand shortly before II
o'clock Monday night
The military authorities an immediate investga-
ton of the death.
Investigation by military and civil authorities has led to
trace of anyone who fired the shot
Mr. Wthers had earlier in the evening" brought his father
The Chiean office and going his home when death
occurred
According to statement from Adutant General Hamrock,
after extensive examination all guardsmen duty the
district Pueblo boys. Every called in and every
gun examined showing signs of firing powder
marks, the Adjutant General states.
Withers of the most popular of the city,
and one the leaders the business and social life
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Farms
Swept by Flood

The "Pueblo Flood which started sweeping down the Ar
kansas Friday of week continued for the
three days only took human lives its toll but it swept
livestock farm and growing the bottom
lands The financial loss the farmers the devastated
will into the millions of dollars The flood damage started
the foothills Pueblo and
all the way down into Kansas.
The bottoms literally covered with bodies of
machinery besides
property which washed from Pueblo and landed in drifts
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LAMAR C. N. G. MEN
HALTED ON WAY WEST

A company of state guards from
Lamar reached Ordway Tuesday al
ternoon on their way to Pueblo, call
ed there to do marital law duy IN ne
flood disric. The men remained
here over night and wednesday
morning received orders to return
hom as they would not be necded.
There were sixty-fivc in the company.
This company crossed the river at
Lamar and came here by auto WIN
orders to take train here % get IN
to Pueblo. Wednesday morning tney
started back by auo. Another COM
pany from Lamar went up On tne
south side Of tn river also called 20
Pueblo.
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NEW ERA GOT POWER

The New Era is operated by cleo
trio power, so not knowing how long
the city would be without current ar
rangements were made Monday
morning for other power and before
noon the plant was equipped to run.
The linotype machine is operated
by small motor built right in the
machine. This was removed and diff
ferent pulleys were put on and a
Maytag washing machine. secured at
the Downey Variety Store was secur-
ed and the gasoline motor was found
to pull it in elegant style, The wash
ell was allowed to stand neutral and
the engine run the linotype machine
from a belt attached to the smaller
of two pully wheels on the washing
machine.
Maytag Washing Machines are
there with the goods and the New
Era can surely recommend them to
the women for their washing, churn-
ing and other such work. The en-
gines on these washing machines are
the finest made and so simple in op-
GRAFTON that any woman can easily
handle them-and how they "clip it
Off" They would really put joy in
to washing day if it was possible for
there ever to be joy in such work
The presses We're equipped with a
portable gasoline engine secured
from David Poundstone, and it did
the work, however, now that the cur
rent is back on it will be used, but
should it go off again the New Era
will change over without delay and
proceed.
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Wholesale houses all over the
country have wired business firms
which have been buying from them,
that they were privileged to draw on
them for goods. This will permit
many firms, otherwise financially
ruined, to again start into business.
One firm received in the neighbor-
hood of 400 such kilograms and let
ters.
The first floor of the Calkins-
White Furniture Co. gave way and
the goods fell into the basement be-
low The loss is naturally very
heavy.
The federal government has put a
sanitary corps to work with the city
in keeping down an epidemic. Strin-
gent rules are being enforced and as
fast as a building is cleaned out this
sanitary corps turns gas disinfec-
tant in to clarity it.
There were several fires during
the flood but the loss in this way was
not as great as it might have been.
The King Investment Lumber Co.
yard burned. The Big4 Wrecking
Co. at Second and Santa Fe had fire
not as great as it might have been
among several other smaller ones.
Dead animals are being hauled out
and burned by the hundreds.
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The outskirts of the city patroled No allowed to
unless he residence the
The that relatives friends
sufficient for being allowed the
The food supply is short.
The reached to the third building Main
the First National Bank building, which
Sixth Mr. Dean estimated that the
miles hour thru the
There $4,000 people homeless in Pueblo the au-
taking of them house.
house, other public buildings while hunedes
taken the private homes that escaped flood
Chas. Lee is appointed chairman of the Relief mis-
food supply Orders issued that charges
will result in prosecution
Reports said that locomotive washed up front of
the Vale hotel This of course, untrue for thing
heavy could be foaed without frame work Car trucks
lodged all the business district but the frame of the
them the afterwards being demolished
ing the bare trucks to remain
The Railway Y. NJ c. A. building is badly wrecked but
entirely gone.
claimed that Pryors Furniture Co. the only busi
which by insurance that will against flood
White Davis did not have such insurance. according nfor
nation.
The Union depot building Is settling and slightly leaning
The tower estimated to be three feet off plum and Just
how much further might lean cannot be guessed The
three nights S.. 8 .S
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j. e. Downey, county commission
er, and Lewis Worker, sheriff, with
others, took to horses Wednesday
and rode the river bottoms. They
say it is next to impossible to get
down to where work of searching
for bodies can be made. There are
holes of water and currents in many
places some of which are quite deep.
The mud Is deep and it is really dam
gerous to get around.
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|any Lives Lost
| Millions Damage

THE GREATEST LOSS OF LIFE BY A FLOOD SINCE
bHNsToWN" AND THE HEAVIEST PROPERTY LOSS
rR RESULTING IN COLORADO BY A SINGLE DISASTER
Isl THAT OF LAST FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN A RAGING
BRENT OF WATER-A WALL OF WATER FIFTEEN
ET HIGH, SWEPT THRU THE BUSINESS DISTRICT OF
EBLo CARRYING AWAY HUMAN BEINGS, LIVESTOCK
(RcHANDISE AND BUILDINGS IN IT'S FURY THE PL Ac
AND SEEMINGLY HARMLESS, ARKANSAS RIVER HAD
EMS sWEELED FULL FROM BANK TO BANK BY TORREN-
N RAINS IN THE MOUNTAINS TO THE NORTHWEST
PUEBLO ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, WHEN A
Nj A WALL OF WATER DOWN WHICH FAIRLY CAR
Ed DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN ITS WAKE, THE
hI EXTENT OF WHICH WILL NEVER BE KNOWN
Loss lives estimated at from 300 to 1000 Some
were city during the flood and for days
say conservative estimate is 1000 1900. Others say
not 3OO while the Pueblo Chietain states that
probably well above 500. The number Pueblo
hne will never be known.
Loss human estimated from 600 500 and
os all of them individual estimates from ESQ 1000
Witnessed the flood and observed its proportions
the loss they is conservavey made at 1000 to
all be cleaned
live.
Property be accurately given, but information
Is it at SIS, ,OOO 900 with the likelihood that it will
her. When it is known that whole business blocks
pt away stocks Of goods carried into the raging
railway trains turned into the river train loads of cattle
wned box and railway tracks literally turned into de-
idea be had of the devastation Some reliable bus
of Pueblo have placed the property loss at $25O0O
which does not include indirect damages but actual
Ies only
Hundreds thousands of dead animals in the city eth
partly covered with mud and sn gathering oil
has the city in peril Disease is being fought
city authorities and only the of effort
break of disease Every however, is being taken
the work under the city officials who have thoroy organic
the physicians of the city and placed them specific details
ether with the Red Cross battling all this and further loss
ives be avoided.
The food supply but that feature of the depora
conditions which exist be readily taken care OF
some other things The call is being made for the staple
supplies and these being rushed there as fast as posi-
The water situation is serious there are few
es there where water could be secured for drinking the
few days of the flood An artesian we'll at the Congress
the principal place and hundreds of people were lined
all the time for small portion of water to drink and to use
cooking
thousands of people made temporarily homeless and
dreds homeless and entirely destitute OF home food and
thing These people are being the public build
which high ground and escaped the ravages OF
river.
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MARTIAL Law
ESTABLISHED
GENERAL ORDER NO. 1

Headquarters Department Col
orado, National Guard.
Under verbal authority Ad-
iutant State of Colorado, !
hereby assume command OF
troops at this station.
PAUL P. NEWTON,
Lit. Col. Inf, Colo. Natl. Guard.
Copies to
Adjutant Generals Office
Capt. Fitzgibbons.
Capt. Talbot.
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Flood Notes in Brief

Precautions being taken to guard against loot
and and the other white
city under strict military guard effort being
properly police the city and render aid the suffering
protect the lives and property.
It. Col Paul P Newton, N. Co. troops
Pueblo. Col Newton Olney Springs
sdjutant generals office in Denver.
When the raising had
to the effect that coudburst sending wall
of the police had
bridge and other low places None of them
A. j. Ordvvay Tuesday afternoon had
copies of two editions of the Pueblo Cheftain
Saturday other Saturday
sheet printed both sides contained
principally official orders from the
statement Of the flood This sheet both
regular edition and contained sheet printed
tenbytweve inches in The edition
clamation and General Order No by Col Newlon
in command of the citv placed martial
General Order No. Governors proc-
nation placing the city under martial law.
and of them have been washed entirely
tile stocks from the buildings
tank stations and other such things carried
Even stocks of goods the district
have been either ruined or washed entirely
E. E. Hoster message A. Gerard at 2zS
this afternoon that he mailing
relief fund for the sufferers the cantaloupe
MIR. Hoser had wired Mr. Gerard conditions
this was his reply.
hundred. Of flooded block, Il
Pueblo dead animals hundreds horses hors
washing and lodging the rubbish.
people and the stencil
Automobiles, fine ones, and knocked about
SO covered that they losses for the engines
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Flood Notes In Brief

Boil the water before drinking"
IS a slogan in Pueblo and signs are
to be seen most everywhere urging
this precaution.
Two restaurants were closed be-
cause the proprietOrs were charging
profiteering prices.
Eighteen truck loads of food ar
rived from the north in one truck
tram. One was truck load of fresh
meat which was condemned and sent
back to Colorado Springs because it
was not properly refrigerated.
The Pueblo Store Co. turned in. as
soon as the flood subsided, and COM
menced to remove the goods, hauling
them to a lake to wash the mud and
slime from all materials it was possi-
bl to salvage.
The Elks have relief corps and
have put trucks into service. A fund
OF $4,000 was sent by Denver Elks
to aid in relief work.
Government airplanes arrived soon
after the disaster from Fort Sill,
Okla, and have been doing patrol
work up and down the river.
DR.. Carey was possibly the first
known victim OF the flood. He went
down in the current on Main Street
at Fourth. His body was recovered,
and reports say it was found at
Boone, twenty miles below
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Reward

NOTICE: $10O reward will be paid
for the recovery of the body of j.
Tow, Japanese, who was drowned
Saturday, June 4, 1921, in the Ar
kansas river in the vicinity of the
Stubs ranch.
MRS. j. TOW.
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A train of 40 cars of cattle was in
the yards and the stock all perished.
There were about 1000 head of cat
tie in this train. The loss is not
chargeable to the railway company
SO the owners will lose completely.
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Water in the Vale hotel came
within about two feet of the ceiling
of the first floor.
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The Commerce Club rooms in the
basement floor of the First National
bank building were filled with water
and the equipment ruined.
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The Missouri Pacific passenger
train which went over in the flood
was swept over against the Nuckols
Packing Co. building. This train is
said to have had about 100 passen-
gers aboard.
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The ID. &c r. G. passenger train re-
mained intact and what passengers
were saved got out mainly thru hole
cut in the roof of a coach and the peo-
pie climbed on top. From there they
got out on viaduct by crawling up
plank
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The water came half way up on the
transom of the Main street doors of
Crews-Reggs store. People who are
familiar with Pueblo know where
this store is located and this will give
them an idea of the heighth of the
Hood.
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1t Col Paul p Newton, c. N. c., is in command of til
in Pueblo Col Newton is of Olney Springs but ON u
edjutant generals office in Denver.
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Dead animals are being hauled out
and burned by the hundreds.
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When the raising hadb bee
given to the effect that coudburs sending down
of the police had drive the off the Union
bridge and other low places None them
that would fairly wash buildings away.
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TWO restaurants were closed be-
cause the proprietOrs were charging
profiteering prices.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17
La "GOM. DE S. p" NO
HA DADO tai AU-
il TORIzACION

Con motive de ciertas quejas que
hemos recibido, respecto al hecho dc
que &lgunas guaguas que hacen ell ser
vicio en- estos dias entire ell hip6dro-
mo San juan, .estan cobrando 25
centavos ell vilje POI cada persona,
visitamos la ofcina dc Ia "Comision
de Servicio Pnblico" para enterarnos
81 el expresldo ORGANISING habia au-
torizacion los duenos de guguss co
brar esa cantidad, toda vez que uno
Gle ellos asi 10 ha mlnifestado en- pre-
sencia de 12 Is passjeros, quienes
prctestabln del insolito hecho.
En- la "Comi sion" nos informaron
que era absulotamente falso que ellos
hubieran dado tai permiso, que, pre-
cisamente, seria considerable en- Ia Sc
sion de hoy de la "Comisi6n, un pile
go que envio el inspector de servicio
p1blico, en- el cual denuncia los he
chos VI expresados.
La policia tambien ha empezado i
actuar en- ese sentido, y ayer nos in
formo un guardia que va tenia a uno
en- clrtera para denunciarlo.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17
TAL DlA COMO HOY !
II DE MAYO DE 1886
MAGIC ALFONSO XIII

Hoy cunpIe s5 amos ell Rey de Es.
pafia.
Ell buen Rey merece cumplir, en-
paz v felicidad, muchos afios mas. Hay
reyes Odiados y reyes queridos. Alfonso
XIII de Bofbon es v sera un Rey que
rido de su pueblo, por su espiritu de-
.mocratico, por su noble coraz6n. que
mas de una vez ha demostrado palpf-
tar al unisono con ell coraz6n de su
patria.
Alfonso tiene ante Ell mundo un me-
recimiento que exhibir. y que tardara
en- olvidarse muchos siglos Cumplien-
do con los humanitarios dictados de
su conciencia, su intercesi6n podercsa
valio a muchos miles de hombres la
vida. No creemos necesario recordar las
veces que hubo de mediar ante ell En-
baJador de Alemania, en- genefosa sil
plica de clemencia. Su a1truismo evito
Que muchas lagrimas corrieran por meji
las de madres y por mejillas de es-
posas. 81 al Rey de Belgica Sc lie la
ma Ell Rey caballero, no lie vendria NAL
al de Espafa el bello sobrenombre de
Piadoso. Sus rasgos de altruismo, q. cI
hilo del cable Sc encarg6 siempre de
dar a conocer al mundo. acreditan ese
justo rendmbre..
Hay un rasgo en- La biografia de este
soberano piadoso y noble, que habra
de esculpirlo con anreas letras en- la
estatua que la posteridad lie levante.
Nos referimos a saquel1a OCCASION en-
que, pasando SUI pueblo por tormentos
de honda crisis, hubo de ahunciar que
abandonaria Ell trono, antes que ser
causa de discordias v de fratricidas lu
chas. -ssoy espafol antes que ma
da'1, dijo el Rey. Bfillante prueba de
amor Ia Madre patria, que esta ia
mas podra ~dejar de tenerla en- cuenta.
Los espaholes de Puerto Rico. v tam
bien los portorriquenos, que simpatizan
con este ,rey juvenil y gallardo, que sa,-
be estar bien puesto sobre su trono en-
una epoca de grandes peligros para las
monarquias, en- el cumplea1os de AL
fonso XIII deberan sentir, como nos
otros, noble y espontaneo jubilo.
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Muchas personas crcen ctsnphr su de-
Der daiido un centavo de iimcsna a un
pobre, porque desde niiios han v:sto qle
ese es PR regla general el tipo comtn
de las limosnas; pero aquel que tiene
dinero de sobra para poder aumentsr su
dadiva, debe ser mas generoso con el in
feliz que pasa por la 'desgracia de vivir
a expsnsas de los denias. En- la medida
en- que ha aumentado el costo de la vida
Fdebe tambien aumentarse ell tipo dc
limosna.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17

81 Iega, tn casa uno de esos pohres
.vendedores ambul ntes ytienes nee sidad
de comprarle algo, no sigas La aheja
costumbre de regatear para conseguir
cue te rebaje Ell precio del ar iculo. ate
-diendo solo al. prop.o benefcio, sin tencr
presente que estas perjulicando los in
tereses de aquel, que no cuenta con otros
medios de vida que la miserable ganan
cia que obtiene &c sus ventas. mientras
que ii tai vez no tie hagan falta los dos
tres centavos que tengas que pagar por
clio.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17

Cuando vayas a pagar ell salar;o dc
la cocinera, la sirvierta la lavar lera.
que generalmente es re5ucido, pisns
que til sueldo tus rentas en- un d'a
son mayores que 10 que ganan esas IL
felices. en- un mes, y no hay rsz6n que
jvstifque tai desproporcion. 81 eres el
Epleado rte han aunientado alguna vcz
Iel sueldo, recueraa la algeria que clio
te ha causado, Y trata de expe<imer.ar
Ia satisfaction que Sc siente al hacer
que otros. disfruten. esa dicha. Uno dos
pesos mas al mes para ii, quizas no te
originen perjuicio alguno, mienir qae
elias las lenaria de placer.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17
lECCI0NES PRACTICAS

81 vieres a uno de esos vendedorcs de
aves que las lievan cOgidas pOr las patas
y con la cabeza para abajo, aiviertelc
ei tormento que esta infigiendo csos
pobres animales; hazle pensar EN- 10 cue
el sufriria 81 10 pusieran siQuiera cinco
minutos enTesa posicion s. haees est,
Iconseguiras dos cosas: darle una-lor
cioa de bondad a aquel veadedOr, que
Iseguramente ignera Ia crueldad con que
esta obrando, evitar el mar Trio de las
infelices aves
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17
AGGRESSION GRAVE

En- Aibonito, Cristobal Moscoso hi
20 un disparo de revolver contra AL
fonso Alabarces, a quien no IOgr6 he
rir.
FL case fue investigate por las "a
toridadcs, h1biendose arrestado IA
agresor, que ha sido acusado Dc sco
metimiento aggression grave.
Fl Juez scnald sr00 IT, lilnvn .
Moscoso.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17
DoaA MARTA M. VIDA. DE CASTRO

Nuestro amigo don Luis de Castro
alto empleado de la corte Federal, re-
cibi6 aver un cablegrama informan
dole que su senora madre, dona Marta
dc Castro. lIegara mafana en- eI vapor
San Lorenzo, que vicne de Nue.
va York.
Anticipamcs nuestro saludo a IL dis
tinguida dana.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-05-17
M. JoNNART REHUYE SER
EMBAsADOR

PARIS, mayo 16.-Los periodicos
anuncian que Mr.. Jonnart rehuso fir
memepte el cargo de embajador en- el
Vaticano, que Sc le ofreciera, Y funda
su negative en- Ia necesidad de con-
gregarse a defender los intereses de
sus compatriotas cn las; rcgioncs que
fueron devastadas por Ia guerra.