, 1921-01-06
FOREIGN

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Louis NTourier, the new director of
public assistance, in discussing meas
ures to be taken by the Seine depart
mental council to reduce infant NOR
tally.
The French Socialist party by a
large majority, voted in favor of abso-
lutte affiliation with the Moscow inter
rationale. Efforts are now proceeding
to keep the Socialist party intact out
the probability seems to be that the
organizations should be split in two.
King Constantine has declared to
delegations from the provinces that he
must go to the Smyrna front. He is re-
ceiving kilograms of felicitation from
all parts of the country. Constantine
slowly and carefully is formulating the
speech with which he will open parlia-
ment on Jan. 8.
Official protest against the exhibit
ton of n moving picture film portray
ing the execution of Edith Cavell, who
was put to death by the Germans in
Brussels, Oct. Is, 1915, was made at
Havana, Cuba, by DR.. Franz Karl Zit-
tolm ann, German minister to CUBA. AS
a result of his protest to the State De
partment the film was withdrawn.
The Tientsin government mint has
concluded n loan for $1,0O0,000 with
the Sino-French bank, giving that In
stitution he right to purchase all bull
lion and also to take charge of the out
put of silver dollars and copper coins,
according to reliable reports from that
city. The funds supplied through the
bank are japanese.
Cancellation of President ~Iroygen's
usual holiday trip gave strength to ru-
mors of an impending general strike at
Buenos Aires. Workers generally were
said to be planning n walkout to sup
port ferry hands and naphtha work
ers. The presidents trip was post
poned because of the extraordinary
situation nov prevailing" according to
newspapers.
Striking miners in the Rhondda coal
field district of Scotland have voted to
resume work pending negotiations be-
tween their employers and the South
Wales executive committee. A general
strike of the miners I'm the district was
reported Dec. %, following refusal of
n company to relnstate eleven men
who had been dismissed on the ground
that their work was not remunerative
to the firm.
GENERAL
-Four men are seeking to recover in
court at Milwaukee S2,725 lost in an
African domino game in which it is al
legged loaded" dice were used.
An entire family Of seven was wiped
out by a fire at Fairfield, Conn. The
victims were Felix Yackimovitch, "a
his three sons, and three daughters.
Retail prices of practically all cloth
ing reached their lowest levels since
1914 in Chicago when merchants ad-
vertlsed gigantic clearance sales,
throwing millions of dollars worth of
goods on the market this week.
Three children and n woman were
burned to death and two other chill
dren and their father narrowly escaped
the same fate near Mount Morris, N.
Y, when the home of william Barrett
was destroyed.
A red-hot rivet, dropped by workers
in the hold of the oil tanker Charles
Evarest, at dry dock, Redhook, Brook
Ign, caused an explosion which killed
one man, seriously injured two ant
slightly hurt n dozen others, at the
same time virtually destroying the
vessel.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com.
pany OF Akron, Ohio, announced a def.
icit for the fiscal year ending Oct. 81
of $751; 47 ,653, not including anticipat.
ed losses on -contractural obligations
for rubber and fabrics which are ex-
pected to be approximately S19.000,000
Notwithstanding that sales exceeded
100000 900, the largest in the history
of the company.
More than a score of women and
children were partially overcome and
n panic among the 200 guests was a
rowly averted during n fire in the Bur
net house in Cincinnati. The fire orig
mated in n storeroom in the basement
Firemen rescued all occupants and the
fire was confined to the basement.
John Doyle, an A. Il. F. veteran, wa,
killed In the subway when he leapeC
In front of m express train at the Sew
enty-second street station in New
York. Doyle served In France with q
machine gun battalion and vas suffer
ing from shell shock when ne returned
Up TO two weeks ago he worked In q
ship yard, but because OF the state Of
his nerves. due to shell shock, went &c
n base hospital.
Plans have been completed for a new
six-story $4,OO0,0OO postoffIce building
ut Chicago to handle parcel post exclu
sively. Work will start about March l
The new building, which Is to be 10
Gated in the heart OF the railroad ter
mlnal district. will have underground
, loading platforms 500 feet long, capa