The Holbrook news., 1921-03-04
FOREIGN

lgratiOn is emphasized by some news Ipapers at Madrid. Fl Debate urges the government to act to prevent the cOun- try being robbed of many of it's best workers.
 Great Britain must in the next finan-
 cial year make provision to pay the
 interest on the American debt, Austen
 Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex- chequer, announced to "a trade depu- tation in London.
 A national day of mourning for Ger many's war dead has been fixed for March 6. All work will cease, and re- general. A fixed day of mourning for each year is to be named later.
 Seventy per cent. of the sugar mill owners of Cuba have sfgnified their ad- hesion to the plans of the sugar finan- cial commission charged with market ing the islands sugar crop, according to the Department Of Agriculture.
 Negotiations with the Egyptian gov ernment for the conclusion of a treaty according self-government to Egypt are strongly advised in a long awaited report by Lord Milner, former colonial secretary. on the Egyptian question, presented to Parliament.
 Plans for a conference between Brit ish, American and Canadian profes- sors of history at London the week of July Il are being made by authorities of the University of London. The con ference will be held in connection with the opening of the school of historical research, now under construction.
 Popocatepetl, Mexico's smoking mounatin." is in danger of, violent eruption, according to the report of a commission from the National Geologi- cal Institute. after an investigation. Columns of gases, sometimes over HOO feet high, are arising from the crater, which no longer is covered with snow.
 Charges made in the Chamber of Deputies in Paris by Deputy Brousse to the effect that there had been wholesale arrests of officers and men of the American army for the theft of army stocks sold to France, brought forth denial from Maj. J. A. Warden, liquidation officer of the United States army, now in Paris.
 The ministry of wars budget for the year was reported out by the cOmmis- sion of the Chamber of Deputies of France which has been considering it, after a considerable slice had been cut from the figure submitted. The bud get as reported stands at 5,144,O00,000 francs, the commission having trimmed ], 1,402, 100000 francs from the request ed 6,546,OOOOOO francs.
 Work will be started at once on a S7, 100000 highway to be constructed through the interior of the Republic of Panama. When the bids were opened it was found that the lowest tender had been made by Hebard and Company, New York City. A Pana- man firm was second. The Panama government decided to split the work, giving half to each firm. VI GENERAL
 Aided by hundred or more women, 1000 men and boys trapped a timber wolf in the second wolf drive in a week near Champaign, III.
 A sentence under the old revolution ary days act "of being a common scold" was imposed upon Mrs. Bridget | Rupple in Pittsburg after a jury had | convicted her on the charge.
 Requests totaling $2,55OOO0 to nine | local charitable institutions are pro- vided for in the will of Miss Helen F. Massey, daughter of the late William Massey, a Philadelphia brewer.
 Twenty-Five immigrants, part of 630 | from Ellis Island, were taken to a hospital for re-examinatiOn by the | New York health authorities, disclosed | they were infected with typhus-carry- ing vermin.
 Intending to pass seven years in the leper colony at Java, seven Salvation Army missionaries left New York for San Francisco to sail March for the Dutch East Indies. The party includes six women and one man.
 A regretful note accompanied S25,- 900 Liberty bond returned through the mail to the Clement D. Gates Com pany, stock brokers at Jacksonville, Fla, from which it had been stoleI.. Its too big to handle safely" the rob- Der said, but he kept two smaller stol- en bonds.
 When his air mail plane developed engine trouble three miles south of Mendota, Minn., Pilot c. c. Eversole leaped to safety in a parachute from a height of 5000 feet. Eversole, who was flying from Minneapolis and St. Paul to Chicago, made the leap after his plane had gone into nose dive.
 Mime. R. Gurin, known in Paris as the poppy lady," has arrived in Amer lea with 1O,OOOOOO red silk poppies, made by widows and daughters of the fallen heroes of France, which will be distributed to patriotic organizations n the United States, Canada and Gu pa, to be worn on Decoration day. Madame Gurin came to the United States under the auspices of the Amer can and French Children's League. Proceeds from the sale of the artifi- ciaI flowers will be used in caring for ,atherless children of France.
 A bridge over Warrior river in Jef- 'erson county, near DeltOna, serving of O |