The Hays free press., 1921-07-14
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United States army from 100000 to
100000 men. He signed it under
protest and sent a message to con-
gress informing it that the admins
tration had been embarrassed.
10000
Having considered all the argu-
ments offtred by Panama against the
acceptance of the White boundary
award, Secretary of State Hughes has
rejected them in their entirety and
Panama will be informed that the
terms of the award must be carried
out.
Railway employees numbering l.
100000 went to work at reduced
wages on July 1, while their leaders
went into conference.
10000
Reorganization of the federel pro-
hibition enforcement forces along
lines previously announced became
effective July 1. The new state di-
rectors and the flying column of
agents for interstate work, directly
under the commissioner, have taken
the field.
Railroad workers are now being
paid for all overtime work in excess
of eight hours daily at the pro-rata
rate, instead of receiving time and
One-half as the result of the temper
ary decision of the railway labor
board.
10000
Germany has fulfilled her obliga-
ton to replace railway material taken
by her armed forces from allied coun-
tries during the war.
10000
Organized labor had decided to ask
President Harding, his cabinet and
congress to bring about recognition
of the Irish Republic, and will protest
to Great Britain against the brutal
and uncivilized warfare being con-
Quoted in Ireland"
10000
Cecil H. Harmsworth, British under
secretary of foreign affairs, has in
formed the house of commons that
the government had received letter
from the council of the League of
Nations suggesting that in Difference
to the views of the United States the
powers should make every effort to
arrive at solution of the mandates
question with the United States.
10000
Charles j. Bonaparte, attorney gen
eral during the Roosevelt administra-
tion, died at Bella Vista, his country
home near Baltimore, Md, on June
%. Mr. Bonaparte had been in poor
health for about a year, suffering
from heart affection. He was seven
ty years old.
10000
General Semenoff, the anti-Bolshe-
Vik leader who for some time had
been on the steamer Shodo Maru at
Vladivostok, from which he was not
permitted to land, disappeared from
the ship recently.
10000
BY the terms of the settlement with
the British miners a new wage basis
will prevail for the next eighteen
months, whereby the miners receive
twenty per cent above the pre-war
scale of wages with an additional
share of profits.
10000
The total interest bearing debt of
the United States on April 80 last
was S23, 9,514,1O2.91 it has been
announced by the treasury depart
ment.
Strike of municipal firemen and
policemen in Quebec ended when an
ultimatum directing the strikers to
report for duty was delivered by the
city council after its members had
spent four hours in conference with
the mayor.
The Kurds have risen in revolt
against the Turkish Nationalists in
the region of Konieh. A division of
troops has been sent against them by
the Turkish leader.
10000
Civil proceedings charging viola
tions of the antitrust law have been
instituted in the federal court at New
York by the government against the
Cement Manufacturers Protective
association and its officers and mem
bers.
10000
Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia
and Premier Pasich had a miraculous
eseane from death at BELGRADE recent-