, 1921-01-20
FOREIGN

Inc F04AAa40l OF bEaLAA EuA - o.
$500, OF more than one-fourth that
Of the United States. il has been an
nounoed by the Brazilian embassy in
Washington.
The Greek offensive In Asia Minor
resulted In important for
the Greek forces. according 10 the
Greek oomHfunique received by the
Greek legation il London.
The murder OF Walter ]. shannon OF
ST Louis has focused attention on the
orgy 81 gambling in Havana. Cuba.
which has surpassed Monte Carlo as
the gaming center Of the world
Reports thai soviet Russia Is prepar-
ing for war against the Russian Dor
der states. including Rumania. were
declared false by Adolph Joffe. presi-
dent Of the Russia peace delegation at
Riga
Rembrandt-s landscape After the
thunderstorm" was stolen from a pri-
Tate owner At Hamburg ms supposed
ly was shipped to the United States
The painting is said to be valued al
100000.
More than 10000 Armenian ref
ugees between Kars and Alexandropoi
are dying because Of lack Of food and
fuel. and anarchy stalks among them
said latest adviees from Armenia re
eeived 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 viii 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 Gable
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.
II has been announced in Athens
that the United States government had
consented TO advance to the Greek
government S32yOOG.OO0 already prom
ised Greece when NJ Y~enizelos was
prime minister, but upon the condition
that the money be expended in Amer
fca for nou-war material
Anatole France. the author. has an
nounced his adhesion to the
list section Of the French Socialist par
". 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 u
dertakings of his life
GENERAL
Films depicting criminal acts have
been barred from display at Newark
y. j.. w. ]. Brennan. director Of mo-
ton pictures. has announced. Such
acts. he said, have a 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 rams
fer from Mrs. Niadge MnlIgan-SIm-
mons. 4~o-year-old love bride" the
half-miIlIon-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 win provided his eS
tate should go to Miss Hester MInigan,
a daughter. if his widow remarked
One hundred and fifty girls were
driven TO the street by a mysterious
fire in Kansas City. No. The girls
working In an envelope factory. were
helped down fire escapes in a binding
snowstorm-
The backbone OF the idleness In zu-
tomobile factories in Detroit has been
broken. The middle OF February or
the first Of March viii see every major
automobile manufacturing plant and a
majority 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
Il. Mott. was sentenced 10 b hanged
by the neck until dead on May 20 In
the state prison at wethersheld. By
Judge Human
In a spectacular bout which Vas
stopped by the referee In the sixth
round at Madison Square garden. Bea-
ny Leonard, worlds lightweight cham
pion, scored n technical knockout i've
Richie Mitchell Of Milwaukee. who. de-