, 1921-02-24
FOREIGN

government To act to prevent the coun-
try being robbed of many of its best
workers.
American sailors who were fired on
at V~ladivostok We're attacked by u par
ty of Russians probably for the pur-
pose of holding them up, according to
advices received by Admiral Strauss,
commanding the Asiatic fleet.
For hundreds of miles throughout
south and southwest County Cork all
the principal roads have been rendered
unfit for use, trenches have been dug.
barbados erected and bridges de.
stroye.', according TO a report issued
at Dublin Castle.
Negotiations with the Egyptian gov
for the conclusion Of n treaty
according self-government to Egypt
are strongly advised in II long awaited
report by Lord Miner, former colonial
secretary, on the Egyptian question.
presented to Parliament.
Cancellation of the debts of allied
nations by the United States is urged
by the Tribuna in Rome in an editorial
on the economic and financial situation
In Europe. The newspaper says the
United States may find her very
strength n peril in future.
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 IF
army stocks sold to France, brought
forth a denial from Mai. J.. a. Warden,
liquidation officer of the United States
army, now in Paris.
Three checks written originally for
amounts, then certified and
raised to a total value Of SIT. 900. we're
cashed in banks in Montreal by Il man
for whom police were searching. Made
with invisible ink. the original figures,
an examination disclosed, faded after
c~ertifications We're made. enabling the
forger to write in his own figures.
Evidence that a Bolshevist r.volu-
ton has been planned for France, Hul-
land. Belgium and Germany has been
found by the Belgium police, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Brussels. The dispatch said
Belgian police, in searching the
homes of Communists, found doclI-
ments in which was contained an or
der from Moscow for plans to Iaurch
a huge revolutionary movement in n
few weeks in France, Belgium. Ger
and Holland"
GENERAL
A sentence under the old revolution
airy days act "of being a common
scold' was imposed upon Mrs. Bridget
Ripple in Pittsburg after a jury had
convicted her on the charge.
Police Judge l.. l.. Kent of Atlanta.
Ga, found himself guilty Of violating
traffic law on evidence submitted by
the policeman who docketed the case,
and imposed theu sual fine. He paid.
Sleeping sickness has caused forty
sever deaths in New York City since
Jan. l, Health Commissioner Copeland
announced. Eleven new cases and one
death were reported there, bringing
the total since New Year to 10.
When his air mail plane developed
engine trouble three miles south of
Mendoza, Mimi. Pilot C. c. Eversole
leaped to safety in a parachute from
height OF 1900 feet. Eversole, who
was flying from Minneapolis and ST.
Paul to Chicago, made the leap after
his plane had gone into a nose dive.
The murder mystery" which has
grown up around the death of Richard
s. Lawrence, former Denver man, sup
posed to have been killed by a train
March 81. 1918, was exploded in Madi-
Wis. with the announcement of
of an official examination
made of the body. Investigation by
DIR. G. II. Bunting. University OF Wis
pathologist. and Or. w. f.
Lorenz of the Mendoza Psychiatric in
proved. according to their
statements, that Lawrence came to his
death by being struck by a train.
A decrease of about 20 per cent in
the wage scale of he building trades
in Minnesota was announced there by
Morris ~Schumaker, president of the
Minnesota Building Employers Assoc
citation.
Preparations are under way by the
treasury to launch the proposed SlS,-
100000 disqualification expansion pro-
gram fol- the benefit of disabled wal
veterans Immediately the sums are
made available by Congress.
Simon Swig, former ragpickcr and
stormy petrol of Boston's financial
world, whose fremont Trust Company
has been closed by Bank Commission
err Allen. declared he is Through" with
banking. Swig said II necessary to
save the 10000 depositors their s14,-
1S3,3G6 he would start all over again
with n rag pack on his back.
Five bandits drove up To the post
office in Toledo, Ohio and held M the
clerks at the point OF %revolvers, seized
eleven sacks of registered mail aud
made their escape. The value OF the