The St. Johns herald., 1921-07-14
FOREIGN

The Greeks have recaptured Ismid, on the Sea of Marmora, from the Turks. Greek warships bOmbarded the retreating Ottoman forces. Thousands of refugees have arrived in Constanti nOple.
 Violent disorders in which five per sons were killed and ten wounded, broke out at Plume, following the downfall of the Giolitti cabinet. 4 dispatch from Plume says that chaos reigns and that the Plume legioE has been dissolved.
 After a meeting between the eoal mine owners and the miners in LOn- don, a virtual agreement on the wages question, the chief cause of the strike in the mines, which has been in pro- gross for some months, was reached. The agreement is subject to the gov ernment's granting subsidy to the miners.
 The long heralded offensive of the Greek army in AnatOlia against the Turkish .Nationalists is finally under way, according to advices received in London. The Greeks have captured the important town of Ismid, south west of Constantinople, said dispatch from Athens. In Nicodemia the Greeks were attacked by superior forces, sus- taining POO casualties.
 Great Britain has asked Japan for a three months delay in renewing the alliance. The reason advanced in note asking the pOstponement was that the conference of the British premiers is just beginning to consider the ques- tion. Britain, it said, desires the pre- miers shall reach a decision before a new treaty is signed. No mention was made of the American attitude toward the alliance.
 GENERAL
 Gov. E. F. Morgan of West Virginia has reaffirmed his declaration of mar tial law in Mingo county and com manded the assessor there to enroll all persons liable under the law for military duty. He also ordered the sheriff to draft 13O men, or to accept 13O volunteers, who are to be mus tered into the service of the state for sixty days, to enforce all orders pro- mulgated by the governor.
 Charges that the packers kept their percentage of profit down to Is in 1920 by charging losses on inventory against the years earnings, when they should have been charged against sur plus, were made before Judge Samuel Alschuler of Chicago, arbiter of pack ing house wages. The wage cut of 5 cents an hour asked by the packers would only serve to increase their profits without benefiting producer or consumer, employees declared.
 Roy Sherrill, a convicted train rob Der serving a twenty-five-year sen- tence, with Joe Davis, also convicted train robber, has escaped from the federal penitentiary at LeavenWorth, Kan. Roy Sherrill is, with the excep- tion of Eva Lewis, who is serving prison term at Kansas City, the sole survivor of the Dales Jones-Frank Lewis gang of train bandits who ere ated a reign of terror in Denver and Colorado Springs from Sept. 13 to 15, 1918.
 Disappearance at sea of several American ships within the last few months is linked by the New York po- lice with plans revealed in raids on radical headquarters year and half ago for the seizure of these vessels at sea and their diversion to Russian so- viet ports. Police said they were in- formed through certain confidential that officials of the Union of Russian Workers of the United States and Canada, an organization since broken up, had urged its employed members to seek employment on American ships, overpower other mem- bers of the crew and direct the yes sells to Russia.
 With the vote of the railway shop men overwhelmingly opposed to accep-- tance of wage reduction from 85 to 77 cents an hour, as ordered by the United States Railway Labor Board, railway circles are apprehensive that the nation may be confronted with a serious railroad crisis within a fort night.
 Rodies of five admits and six chil- dren were found in the charred ruins of the home of Ernest Lawrence, far mer near Mayfield, Kentucky, which was destroyed by fire. According to the authorities, there were indications that eleven may have been the vic tims of foul play, and a non-committal verdict was returned by the coroner's