Taiban Valley news., 1921-01-21
FOREIGN

Russian Red troops ON their frontiers.
Esthonia and Lithuania have appealed
to the allies for help.
The population of Brazil now is 3d.
563, 500, or more than one-fourth that
of the United States, it has been an
nounced by the Brazilian embassy in
Washington.
The Greek offensive in Asia Minor
resulted in important successes for
the Greek forces, according to the
Greek communique received by the
Greek legation in London.
The murder of Walter ]. Shannon of
st. Louis has focused attention on the
orgy of gambling in Havana, Cuba,
which has surpassed Monte Carlo as
the gaming center of the world.
Reports that soviet Russia is prepar-
ing for war against the Russian bor-
der states, including Rumania, were
declared false by Adolph Joffe, presi-
dent of the Russia peace delegation at
Riga.
Rembrandts landscape "After the
Thunderstorm" was stolen from a pri-
vate owner at Hamburg and supposed
ly was shipped to the United States.
The painting is said to be valued at
$2,000000.
More than 100000 Armenian ref
ugees between Kars and AlexandropOl
are dying because of lack of food and
fuel, and anarchy stalks among them,
said latest advices from Armenia re-
ceived by the Near East relief.
Mrs Terence MacSwiney disem-
barked in London from the steamship
Pan Handle State, which arrived from
New York. Only two or three friends
greeted her. She will remain in Eng
land few days and then proceed to
Ireland.
A presidential decree suspending the
concession that had been granted the
Western Union Telegraph and Cable
Company to land its Barbados cable
on the shores of Cuba has been signed
and is in the hands of the government
secretary.
Berlin again is threatened with
strikes of electrical street car and
subway workers and similar crafts
men because the municipal govern
ment has refused to reinstate and set
free thirty-three Communist leaders
who have been active among Berlin
workers.
1t has been announced in Athens
that the United States government had
consented to advance to the Greek
government $32,OO0,0OO already prom
ised Greece when NJ. Venizelos was
prime minister, but upon the condition
that the money be expended in Amer
lea for non-war material.
nounced his adhesion to the commun-
list section of the French Socialist par
ty. This action on his part was not
unexpected, as he began last October
to write articles favoring sovietism,
saying that the advancement of soviet
principles was one of the principal un-
dertakings of his life.
GENERAL
Films depicting criminal acts have
been barred from display at Newark,
N. j., w. ]. Brennan, director of mo-
ton pictures, has announced. Such
acts, he said, have bad effect on the
criminally inclined.
Four sacks of registered mail, one
reported to have contained $4,000 for
use in making up pay rolls at Frank
lin county coal mines, have disap-
peared at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, early Fri
day. An estimate of the value of the
contents of the other three sacks was
not available.
Attorneys have taken steps to trans
fer from Mrs. Madge Milligan-Sim-
mons, 40-year-old 'love BRIDE" the
half lf-million-dollar estate she sacrificed
in order to wed Julian d. Simmons, 81
year-old Springfield, Mo-, business
man. The bride lost the fortune left
her by her first husband, the late Otis
L. Milligan, whose will provided his es-
tate should go to Miss Hester Milllgan,
a daughter, If his widow remarked.
One hundred and fifty girls were
driven to the street by a mysterious
fire in Kansas City, Mo. The girls,
in an envelope factory, were
helped down fire escapes in binding |
The backbone Of the idleness in au-
factories in Detroit has been
broken. The middle of February or
the first of March will see every major
manufacturing plant and
of the smaller ones back at
work.
Elwood.B. Wade, young milk dealer,
who was convicted at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, of the brutal murder of George
B. Mott, was sentenced to "be hanged
)y the neck until dead" on May 20 in
he state prison at Wethersfield, by
Judge Hlnman.
In spectacular bout which was
stopped by the referee in the sixth
.ound at Madison Square garden, Ben