The St. Johns herald., 1921-07-07
FOREIGN

| JdmSS fTduClS DSTudTQ, IOurIn EdTl of Bandon, was kidnapped from his res idence in Bantry, County Cork, by a band of armed men. Castle Bernard, his home, was set afire. Earl Ban don's whereabouts is unknown.
 Sixty-eight men were killed and seventy-three others injured through the explosion, due to fire damp, which destroyed the greater part of the Mont Cenis mine, near Herne, Westphalia. Three hundred men were in the mine when the disaster occurred.
 Only one-third of the Filipino child ren of school age are enrolled in pub lie schools, according to the report of Luther B. Bewley, director of the Bu- reau of Education. Although popular education has made great strides since American occupation, 1t still has a long way to go before reaching all children" the report says.
 The Near East issue between Greece and Nationalist Turkey must be set tied on the field of battle and not in the peace chamber, according to Smyrna telegram received Tn London. quoting Dr. Stratos, an official of the Greek government. Dr. Stratos has just arrived at Smyrna, at the head of a Greek parliamentary committee which Is going to the front
 Great Britain and France, sitting as a jury, have failed again to determine Germany's fate. The conferences be- tween Lord Curzon and Premier Bri- and in Paris came to an end with the Upper Silesian situation and the Rhine customs barrier unchanged. Lord Cur zon argues strongly for dissOlying the customs barrier, declaring Germany has shown her good faith by making the first separations payment. Good faith," retorted Briand contemptuous- ly, hasn't paid us franc yet"
 Sulgrave manor, ancestral home of the Washingtons, was rededicated at Sulgrave, NOrthamptonshire, with elaborate ceremonies after it's restora. ton, at a cost of f5O,OOO, to the state in which it existed three centuries ago. The marquis of Cambridge, broth CT of Queen Mary, gave the principal address. He asserted the fundamental solidarity of the peoples of the em, pire and the republic and declaring the days event a good augury for the future, The exercises were arranged by the Sulgrave institution, organized to foster friendship between Great Britain and the United States.
 GENERAL
 Nelson Kelly, aviator, of Chicago, re- tains possession of his airplane, but he was forced to summon the police to do it. He made a forced landing on the land of an Evanston farmer, who laid claim to the plaue as gift from the heavens"
 One of Uncle Sam's submarine chasers which helped fight enemy craft during the war, Is to be used in re- moving brook trout from Lake Su- periOr and transporting them to va rious points along the Lake Michigan coast for breeding purposes.
 Use of dynamite halted a fire at Camp Merritt near Hackensack, N. J., which destroyed POO empty barracks and threatened residences nearby. The fire was the third at Camp Merritt within the last few months. Original ly used as debarkat5On base for over seas troops, the camp was abandoned several months ago and the barracks sold to a Chicago contracting firm. Police believe all three of the fires were of iRcendiary origin.
 The Pullman Company lost it's open shop fight before the United States Railroad Labor Board in Chicago when the board upheld the contention of union labor that the company had not obeyed "the letter and spirit" of the transportation act when 1t con- ferred with its employees in mass meet ings. The board threw out the cem- pany's petition for cut in the wages of it's shop employees and instructed it to go back and meet the "duly elected representatives" of the employees.
 Seven firemen were killed and iii teen were injured in a collision be- tween fire apparatus and a Jersey Central railroad train at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The accident occurred at the Market street crossing. The fire apparatus had reached the center of the track when the train struck. The fifteen injured were taken to a hospital.
 John Fallis, Frankfort, Ky, grocer,