The St. Johns herald., 1921-05-05
FOREIGN


 ganizatiOn.
 The German foreign office sent a note to LOring Dresel. American com missioner, expressing regret for the attack of a German crowd on James E. Robinson and his wife of Chicago.
 Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk has re- signed as president of t'zecho-SlOvakia, according to a Prague dispatch. III health is given as the reason. Dr. Ed ward Benes, foreign minister, will be- come premier and acting president.
 General tightening of the cOnscrip- tion laws by Japan, including exten- sion for the first time of the applica- 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.
 Furious attacks against Greek forces holding positions along the Meander river, in western Anatolia, have been launched by the Turkish Nationalists, but have been repulsed everywhere, says an unofficial statement issued in Athens. The Greeks have been sue ceSsful farther north in holding their positions against Turkish assault.
 Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain, in introducing the new budget in the House of Commons in London announced that more than $16O,0O0,000 would be expended during the forthcoming fiscal year in meeting interest on the British debt to the United States. Heretofore no interest payments have been made.
 An indemnity of S4OOOO,OOO,OOO was the penalty" which the Kaiser pro- posed to impose upon the United States if Germany had won the war in 1917. It was included in his peace terms" written by himself in the spring of that year and just dis covered in the archives of the German foreign office, according to a Berlin correspondent.
 Great Britain is seeking American coal, but dock men at British ports are putting obstacles in the way of unload ing imported coal, the United States Department of Commerce at 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 it's defiant attitude toward the White award of the boundary dispute. with Costa Rica and shows every sign of compliance with it. It 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 has decided to ac- cept the White award as final.
 GENERAL
 Positive Identification of Tilo Ligi, arrested in Scranton, Ra., on suspi- cion of cOmplicity in the Wall street explosion last September, was made by Thomas J. Smith of Brooklyn, em- ployed in the legal department of an insurance company having offices in the New York financial district.
 United States secret service opera tives of Chicago revealed what they declared was a plot to flood the cen tral West with smuggled diamonds from Canada, after arresting I. Gittler, a 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.
 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 a venire of women will be drawn if there are no legal obstacles.
 A 5-year-old girl was killed and five persons were injured when a race horse dashed through the track fence into a crowd of spectators at Picher, Okla. The police are Investigating a report that the horse had been given stimulant to increase it's speed.
 A verdict in the case of Jazz vs. Classics, Entertainment vs. Culture, and L. Brow vs. H. Brow, tried during the theatrical season in New York was handed down as follows: The Hippo drome closed its season with profit of $15OOOO. The Metropolitan opera closed its season with a deficit of $25,- GOO.