The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
FOREIGN

of Hungary is ended.
 The Greeks have been defeated by
 the Turks in the battle at Eski-Shehr
 says a communication issued by the
 headwaters of Mustapha Kemal Pasha
 Turkish Nationalist leader.
 Fire which swept the Asakusa dis
 trict of Tokio destroyed 1900 buildings
 and rendered a total of 5000 homeless
 a survey of the fire zone showed. The
 fire was the biggest in Japan since
 1913.
 Measures are being taken by the
 Russian soviet government to allow
 foreign owners of manufactures ir
 Russia to exploit their properties un
 der a regime similar to that estab
 lished for the mines, it was announced
 in a wireless message from Moscow
 sent out by the soviet governments service.
 The volcano of Popocatepetl is in action again. A message received at
 Vera Cruz says thousands of inhabi- tants of the surrounding area have left. Columns of gas and sulphurous smoke are shooting slSyward to a height of more than 5000 meters. Streets in three nearby towns are GOV cred with hot lava.
 France has lost approximately 5.I of her population since the 1911 cen sus, according to the early returns of the 1921 census. In a fourth of the population area, including Paris and eighteen departments, three depart ments showed a total gain of 10000, while fifteen departments lost 617, ,000 Paris was found to be almost station ary.
 Prince Andreas of Greece, brother of King Constantine, has died from wounds received in. fighting near Bfusa. Says a Constantinople dis patch, quoting a Turkish announce ment. The Turks also assert that Gen eral Vlachapoulos, who was in com mand of the Greek attack against the Turkish Nationalists on the Brusa front, has been killed in action.
 The "decaying civilization of soviet Russia" was depicted as the worst tyranny in the world by Dr. Morris Fucker, known as a leader and organ izer of the Communist party in the United States, and whose home is in Brooklyn, N. T., on his arrival in Reval, Esthonia, from Moscow after nearly five months in Russia. "Conditions are becoming wOrse," he de clared.
 Despite the new trade agreement be- tween Great Britain and soviet Russia, the large portion of the extremely small amount of goods entering Rus sia through Esthonia continues to be of American origin. One freighter in Reval has just unloaded 100000 pairs of American shoes and a quantity of leather for shipment into Russia, while another American steamer similarly laden has just arrived there. GENERAL
 Gen. J. J. Pershing, in addressing mass meeting in New York, to arouse public sentiment for betterment of hos pital conditions for wounded soldiers, CAlSllnS Ol AOA lhC care of wounded veterans have failed in their purpose.
 Investigation of the sudden death of Mrs. Neva M. Frazer at Kalamazoo, Micb.. disclosed that she had taken poi son while attending party, had re- turned to the gaieties and danced among her friends until death oc- cured. No reason was known for her action. Coal operators of Springfield, H., explained that a reduction of 50 cents a ton in coal is made at this time to all ow plants and individual consumers to replenish their stock for next winter and to aid in the movement of cars | now standing idle on railroad tracks. | all operators reduced their prices.
 Eleven miles of railroad trackage | las been washed out as a result of | on the Chicago, Rock Is and & Pacific lines Between Clinton | md Foss, Okla, according to reports | It the office of the railway at Fort | " OIlu. NO lOSS Ol lllc HdS DScu Ic- ported.
 Tom Turrisi, Il, and his brother, AL red, g, have withdrawn from the .rime wave. The two baby bandits were caught while robbing a butcher ihop in Chicago. Alfred was shot in he foot by George Guscich, butcher, vho saw him climbing out of the win low with several yards of frankfurt ITS trailing behind
 Erwin Bergdoll, wealthy Philadel- ,hia draft dodger, must serve the re- nainder of his four years in Leaven- worth prison for evading the draft, ac- Ording to a decision handed down by federal Judge John C. Pollock at Kan as City. Judge Pollock denied a writ f habeas corpus applied for by attor- eys for Bergdoll. The Philadelphian he had not been technically dvised that he was drafted Judge 'ollock waived aside all objections to he manner of notification BergdOll is Ow in jail at Leavenworth.
 Emphatic denial was made at the ffices of the United States Steel Cor oration in New York of published sto- ies that wage reductions of 20 per ent and cuts in prices of iron and