The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
FOREIGN

Greek cOmmunlque received Dy the
Greek legation in London.
Development of oil lands in Argen-
tine to the point where that country
will be in position to produce 40 per
cent of the oil used there is planned
by the ministry Of that country.
Reports that soviet Russia is prepar
ing for war against the Russian bor-
der states, including Rumania, We're
declared false by Adolph Joffe, presi-
dent of the Russia peace delegation at
Riga.
Mrs. Terence MacSwiney disem-
barked 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 few days and then proceed to
Ireland.
Miners in the Ruhr district of Ger
many have decided to deprive Bavaria
of coal as step toward forcing Ba-
disbandment of which has been de-
manded by the allies, says a Berlin
dispatch.
A presidential decree suspending the
concession that had been granted the
Western Union Telegraph and Cable
| Company to land its Barbados 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.
Anatole France, the author, has an
nounced his adhesion to the commun-
st 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.
The Tribuna declares that the
amount of money stolen from the
treasury of the regency of Quarnero in
Fiume recently was 100000 lire.
This sum represented more than half
of the money handed over to the Fiume
authorities by the commander of the
steamer COgne for the release of that
vessel, which was seized by Fiume of.
| ficers last fall.
GENERAL
More motorists were killed in Della
ware last year in proportion to the
humber of automobiles registered than
in any other state.
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.
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
More than 10000 quarts of wine,
whisky and beer were poured into sew
ers at Waukegon, Ill, by a posse of
federal prohibition agents. The liquor
represented the "catch" obtained by
federal officers in recent raids on H.
licit liquor stores in Lake county
Four seaplanes, manned by officers
of the United States navy and flying
from San Diego, Calf, 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.
The three American naval balloon
lists stranded near Hudson bay when
their big bag descended after flight
from Rockaway, N. Y, reached Mat
tice, Ont, safely after mushing down
from Moose Factory
A book, 700 years old, valued at
100000, has been placed in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania for translation
by DR.. William II. Newbold. 1t is said
to have been written by the English
monk, Roger Bacon, sometime between
1915 and 1862, 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
The board of directors of the
Knights of Columbus, at meeting in
New York, recommended that the un-
distributed balance of approximately
$5,000,000 of the united war fund be
turned over to Herbert Hoover's
European relief council for the feed
ing of starving children in Europe
The board voted that the knights title
to their portion of this balance, about
S500000, be transferred to the relief
council, provided the other organiza-