The Holbrook news., 1921-01-21
FOREIGN

of the United States, it has been an nOunced by the Brazilian embassy in Washington.
 The Greek offensive in Asia Minor resulted in important successes for the Greek forces, according to the Greek eommunique received by the Greek legation in London.
 The murder of Walter J. Shannon of St. Louis has focused attention on the orgy of gambling in Havana, Cuba, which has surpassed Monte Carlo as the gaming center of the world.
 Reports that soviet Russia is prepar ing for war against the Russian bOr- der states, including Rumania, were declared false by Adolph Joffe, presi- dent of the Russia peace delegation at Riga.
 Mrs. Terence MacSwiney disem- parked in London from the steamship Pan Handle State, which arrived from New York. Only two or three friends greeted her. She will remain in Eng land a few days and then proceed to Ireland.
 A presidential decree suspending the concession that had been granted the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company to land it's Barbadoes cable on the shores of Cuba has been signed and is in the hands of the government secretary:
 Reports reaching Argentina from Bo- livia, meager because of the rigid cen sorship which has been put into eff feet, indicate that the republic is verg- ing on a state of, anarchy owing to failure of the revolutionary party to establish stable government.
 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 is1
 It has been announced in Athens that the United States government had consented to advance to the Greek government $32,OOO,O00 already prom ised Greece when NJ. Venizelos was prime minister, but upon the condition that the money be expended in Amer ica for non-war material.
 AnatOle France, the author, has an nOunced his adhesion to the commun- ist section of the French Socialist par ty. 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 un- dertakings of his life.
 GENERAL
 Films depicting criminal acts have been barred from display at Newark, N. J., W. J. Brennan, director of mo- ton pictures, has announced. Such acts, he said, have bad effect on the criminally inclined.
 The three American naval balloon ists stranded near Hudson bay when their big bag descended after a flight from Rockaway, N. r., reached Mat tice, Ont, safely after mushing down from Moose Factory.
 Four seapIanes, manned by officers of the United States navy and flying from San Diego, Calif., to Panama, have arrived at La Union, San Saliva dor. An American warship, which ar rived there from La Libertad, supplied the planes with provisions and gaso- line.
 A book, 700 years old, valued at $1OO,O00, has been placed in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania for translation by Dr. William R. NewbOld. It is said to have been written by the English monk, Roger Bacon, sometime between 1216 and 1262, and is an exposition of the laws governing life. The volume, which is written upon vellum, is the property of Dr. Willifred NJ. de Voy- nioh, an exile of Poland
 Wages of all employees of the Detroit United Railway Company, other than platform men, have been reduced ap- proximately 20 per cent. Motormen and conductors are to decide this week whether to accept similar reduction.
 Elwood B. Wade, young milk dealer, who was convicted at Bridgeport, Conn.,, of the brutal murder of George B. Mott, was sentenced to 'be hanged by the neck until dead" on May 20 in the state prison at Wethersfield, by Judge Hinman.
 One hundred and fifty girls were driven to the street by. a mysterious fire in Kansas City, Mo. The girls, working in an envelope factory, were helped down fire escapes in binding Eighty thousand pounds of sugar were destroyed by the blaze.
 Attorneys have taken steps to trans fer from Mrs. Madge MiIligan-Sim- mons, 4O-year-old Hove bride," the estate she sacrificed in order to wed Julian D. Simmons, 27- year-old Springfield. Mo, business man. The bride lost the fortune left her by her first husband, the late Otis L. Milligan, whose will provided his es- tate should go to Miss Hester Milligan, a daughter, if his widow remarried.
 The Brotherhood of Railway Train men has closed a deal for the purchase of a site for an eight-story office building, one-half of which will be used as the general offices of the brother hood, President w. G. Lee announced at Cleveland The cost approximates s7OO,OO0.
 More than 13O,OOO quarts of wine,