The Colorado statesman., 1921-01-01
FOREIGN

COTOHnCe Win inc Cph ukIeciuthe WIN
the allies. II was announced in Berlin.
The French Socialist party by a
large majority, voted In favor OF abso-
lutte affllintion with the Moscow inter
rationale. Efforts are now proceeding
to keep the Socialist party intact but
the probability seems to be that the
organizations should be split in two.
King Constantine has declared to
delegations from the provinces that he
must go to the Smyrna front. He is re-
celving kilograms of fellcitation from
all parts of the country. Constantine
slowly and carefully Is formulating the
speech with which he will open parlla-
ment on Jan. s.
A dispatch TO the Handelsblad from
Dusseldorf says the interallied Rhine
commission, alarmed because of the
spread of mllltarism i'm German
schools, has issued an order prohibit
ing the use of schools for military pur-
poses, on penalty of conflscation of the
schools and arrest OF those held re-
sponslble.
Official protest against the exhibit
ton of a moving picture film portray
ing the execution of Edith Cavell, who
was put to death by the Germans in
Brussels, Oct. 10, 1915, was made at
Havana, Cuba, by DR.. Franz Karl Zit-
tolm ann, German minister to Cuba. AS
a result of his protest to the State De-
partment the film was withdrawn.
The Tientsin government mint has
concluded n loan for $1,000O00 with
the Sino-French bank, giving that in
stitution the right to purchase all bull
lion and also to take charge of the out
put of silver dollars and copper coins,
according to reliable reports from that
city The funds supplied through the
bank are japanese.
Cancellation of President Iroygen's
usual holiday trip gave strength to ru-
mors of an impending general strike at
Buenos Aires. Workers generally were
said to be planning n walkout TO sup
port ferry hands and naphtha work
ers. The presidents trip was post
poned because of the extraordinary
situation now prevailing" according to
newspapers.
Striking miners in the Rhondda coal
field district of Scotland have voted to
resume work pending negotiations be-
tween their employers and the South
Wales executive committee. A general
strike of the miners in the district was
reported Dec. %, following refusal of
one company to reinstate eleven men
who had been dismissed on the ground
that their work was not remunerative
to the firm.
GENERAL
Four men are seeking to recover in
court at Milwaukee $2,725 lost in an
African domino game in which 1t is al
legged LOADED" dice were used.
Damage estimated at 100000 was
done by fire that swept the down
town business district of Terre Haute,
Ind. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Three children and woman were
burned to death and two other chill
dren and their father narrowly escaped
the same fate near Mount Morris, n.
Y, when the home of William Barrett
was destroyed.
John Doyle, an A. L. f. veteran, was
killed in the subway when he leaped
in front of an express train at the Sew
enty-second street station in New
York. Doyle served in France with
machine gun battalion and was suffer
ing from shell shock when he returned.
Up to two weeks ago he worked in n
ship yard, but because of the state of
his nerves, due to shell shock, went to
a base hospital.
Plans have been completed for new
six-story S4,00O,000 postoffice building
at Chicago to handle parcel post exclu-
sively. Work will start about March 1.
The new building, which is to be To-
Gated I'm the heart of the railroad ter
minal district, will have underground
loading platforms 800 feet long, cnpa-
BILE of accommodating forty-two rail
way mail cars at time. With three
shifts day, 126 cars can be handled.
Retail prices of practically all cloth
ing reached their lowest levels since
1914 in Chicago when merchants ad-
vertised gigantic clearance sales,
throwing millions of dollars worth of
goods on the market this week.
Police of New Orleans have launched
an anti-hobo campaign, fearing that
crime wave activities by the authori-
ties in the North might start pilgrim
age of undesirable winter tourists. The
Jail is crowded with wayfarers accept
ing this enforced hospitality.
The messroom and several state
rooms in the officers quarters on the
presidential yacht Mayflower were
burned out while the yacht was tied
up at the navy yard at Washington.
The loss is estimated at 100000. A
board of inquiry was convened to de-
termine the origin of the fire.
The GOODYEAR Tire and Rubber CONT