Cheyenne record., 1921-04-28
FOREIGN

step being due to the expense attach.
ing to the holding Of place in that or.
ganIzation.
The German foreign office sent .
note to Loring Dresel. American COM
missioner, expressing regret for the
attack of a German crowd on James
E. Tobinson and his wife of Chicago.
Soviet Russia's debt to Switzerland.
according to statistics Of the Swiss
federal government, amounts to 1885,
100000 rubles, 129.OOO,OOO Swiss
francs, 100000 French francs, f4,-
$4,000 and 100000 marks.
Prof. Thomas q. Masaryk has re-
signed rs president of CzechO-S Slovakia,
according to Prague dispatch. Ill
health is given as the reason. DIR. Ed
ward Benes, foreign minister, will be-
come premier and acting president.
General tightening of the cOhscrip-
tion laws by Japan, including exten-
sion for the first time of the npplica-
tion of universal military training to
Japanese residents In the Philippines,
East Indies and the South Sea islands,
has been reported to official circles In
Washington.
An indemnity Of $4O.OOO. 600, 600 was
the penalty" which the Kaiser pro-
posed TO impose upon the United
States II Germany had won the war
in 1917. 1t was included In his
"peace terms written by himself In
the spring of that yenr and just dis
covered in the archives Of the German
foreign office, according to Berlin
correspondent.
| Great Britain is seeking American
coal, but dock men at British ports are
putting obstacles In the way of unlOnd-
ing imported coal, the United States
Department of Commerce ut Washing
ton has been advised. The dock men
were reported to be sustaining the
striking miners also by refusing to Coal
ships, TO prevent vessels proceeding to
continental ports for supplies.
The government of Panama has
dropped Its defiant attitude toward the
White award of the boundary dispute
with Costa Rica and shows every sign
Of compliance with 1t. 1t recalled the
troops that had been concentrated in
the neighborhoOd Of COtO Cosrica. The
boundary force at the capital was Or
dered to disband. These actions were
taken as positive indication that the
Panama government hns decided to ac-
cept the White award as final.
The imminent collapse of the Con-
stantine government In Greece is fore
seen In receipt Of news on the deplor-
able condition Of the Greek army In
Asia Minor and the destitute condition
Of the treasury Mt Athens. Seven
Greek divisions used In the last often
sive were smashed and their morale
weakened. The 5000 troops, sent as
reinforcements, are being used to for
tify Smyrna, thus indicating that the
forces around Ushak and Brussa are
preparing to retire.
GENERAL
Two fox terriers caused the explo-
sion on Fort street, Detroit, Mich,
which killed three persons and de-
strOyed four houses. According to the
police, the dogs kicked over a can of
nitro-glycerIne while engaged in n rat
hunt In the shed Of Mrs. Gustave Her.
mann.
Twenty-six thousand persons are at
the point of starvation in the coal
fields Of Northern Alabama, Governor
Thomas e. Kilby was told In an ap-
peal by the Salvation Army, South
eastern division, with headquarters In
Birmingham. The organization said 1t
was helping to the limit Of its re-
sources, but that additional aid must
come from other sources.
United States secret service opera
tives of Chicago revealed what they
declared was plot to flood the CEN
tral West with smuggled diamonds
from Canada, after arresting I. Gittler,
q furrier, and his wife. The govern
ment agents said they had Information
which led them to believe the couple
were the Chicago representatives Of an
organized band of smugglers.
Positive Identification Of Tilo Ligi,
arrested In Scranton, Pa, on suspi-
cion of completely In the Wall street
explosion last September, was made
by Thomas J. Smith of Brooklyn, en-
ployed in the legal department Of an
insurance company having offices in
the New York financial district.
To offset the wiles Of Mrs. Cora Isa-
bella Orthwein 1t was proposed by
Lloyd Heth, assistant states attorney,
in Chicago, that she be tried by jury
of women on the charge Of staying
Herbert P. Zeigler, tire sales man.
ager. The plan was agreed to by Mrs.
Orthwein's attorneys and venire Of
women will be drawn If there are no
legal obstacles.
"Captain" Harry w. Devore is serv-
ing five-year term in the Oklahoma
state penitentiary all because, Harry
says, he has a double" brother who
likes the ladies. Devore was convicted
of bigamy when three wives Identified
him in open court in Sapulpa, Okla.
"They got me wrong" alibied the Gap