The St. Johns herald., 1921-06-02
FOREIGN

clash with federal troops near Mler, state of Tamaulipas, according to war office reports, and is now recuperating on the American side near Las Vegas.
 Organization of an airplane force to fight forest fires in the province of British Columbia is to be begun soon, | following the announcement of the British Columbian government that it had appropriated $2O,O00 for the pur- pose.
 King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain escaped injury when their auto mobile overturned while they were gO- ing to the HippOdrOme to attend the The accident was due to the bursting of a tire.
 Canadian police searched the Vel land canal for 1,400 pounds of dyna mite, stolen from the government stores near Allanburg. Several years ago an attempt to wreck the canal by explosives was made at ThorOld, few miles from Allanburg
 The peasants of Russia have thus far failed to respond to the appeal of the BOlshevist government to SOW grain to enrich this years harvest, ac- cOrding to reports. The soviet au- thorities are beginning to take a gloomy view of the prospects for next winter.
 Gems. Lucio Blanco, Eduardo Her nandez, Ireneo Villareal and Pablo Gonzales, former Carranza chieftains, who have been reported to be starting revolution against the Mexican gov ernment from the United States side, have made an appeal to President Ob- regOn for leniency if they surrender, according to official advices.
 The Argentine government, under an agreement reached with representa- tives of the labor organizations, will not permit nOnuniOn labor in the port area. Work in the major section of the port which has been at a standstill for some time as a result of the boycott declared by the port workers is ex- pected to begin shortly.
 The British Columbia liquor moder- atiOn act, providing for the govern ment control and sale of liquor within the province, will become effective sometime after July 1, instead of on June l, as had been originally planned. Inability of the provincial liquor board to prepare for the opening of the gov ernment stores June 1 was given as the reason for the delay.
 Francisco Villa, former Mexican bandit leader, expects to harvest crop of 50,O00 bushels of wheat this year, according to a report from Con- sul J. B. Stewart at Chihuahua, Mex leo. Villa was said to have equipped extensively with modern American farming implements, including tractors and motor trucks, the large tract he is cultivating with the assistance of the Mexican government.
 GENERAL
 Six men, comprising the crew of the barge Miztec, are believed to have been lost in the blizzard which tore the Miztec and the barge Peshtigo loose from the steamer Zillah off Whitefish Point, in Lake Superior.
 Every public school teacher in Hat tiesburg, Miss, including Superintend- ent F. B. WOOdley, has resigned as a result of an announcement by the board of school trustees that next year salaries would be reduced 10 per cent
 It was because of cyclonic storms on the sun and the resultant disturbance in the earth'S magnetic fields that telegraph and telephone services throughout the country were disrupt ed recently, according to Dr. K. Burns of the Allegheny observatory at Pitts burg.
 A commission of six mining experts will sail from Seattle, Wash, early in June for China to make a geological and engineering examination of iron ore and coal deposits in a section of Manchuria for the South Manchuria Railway company, it has been an- nOunced in Duluth, Minn.
 Branches of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are being organized in Mis- sOuri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mime sOta and North and South Dakota.
 The superdreadnaught Tennessee, electrically driven and equipped with a main battery of twelve fOurteen-inch guns mounted on triple turrets, passed mOstS of the tests set down for her in her standardization trial off the port of ROckland, Me.
 An unidentified negro was lynched at McGenee, Ark, for alleged partici- patton in an attempted attack on J. P.