The Colorado statesman., 1921-03-12
FOREIGN

publican factions. Business was re-
ported suspended.
A bill prohibiting the Importation OF
rice and fixing a maximum selling
price of 3 cents per pound wholesale,
has been signed by Gov. Gen. Francis
Burton Harrison at Manila, +. !.
Four members of snowplow crew
on the Canadian National railway
were smothered to death by an ava
lnnche in the Canadian Rockies. The
accident became known when the bod
les arrived for inquest at Edmonton,
Alb. The accident occurred forty-six
miles west of Jasper, near Mount Re
splendent.
The Introduction OF German labor to
help rebuild the war-devastated dis
tricts of northern France, one of the
suggestions made by the Berlin govern.
ment during the reparations discus
sions, will be violently opposed by
French workers. The annual congress
of French building workers voted
overwhelmingly against the admission
of German laborers, though no objec-
ton was made to the use OF German
material.
Preparations are in progress for the
erection of chain of military block
houses to indicate the new boundaries
of the Ulster area in Ireland under
the new home rule act, says Belfast
dispatch. Government surveys have
commenced in North Monaghan coun-
ty near the Fermanagh border, the
dispatch adds. Sites are being selected
for new stations for thirty thousand
troops in the six-county area. The sta
tiens will be two miles apart.
French, British and Belgian troops
occupy three German cities, Dussel-
dorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort. Less
than 25,00O troops used TO effect occu-
patton. No opposition offered by Ger
mans. Populace orderly. German of
ficials of occupied cities left in power.
Customs frontier established 1Sh
miles east of Rhine. German ambas-
sadors summoned home from London,
Paris and Brussels. American troops
remain at old positions in Coblenz.
Harding announces they will not be
withdrawn at present.
GENERAL
Frantic with pain from an attack of
appendicitis, Earl Wilson, an S-year-
old boy, shot and killed himself at
Bonner Springs, Kan.
The New York Central locomotive
repair shops at Elkhart, Ind, employ
ing about 700 men, and those at Col
| 1T al. =.
week ago, will resume operations at
once.
Falling off 1,000-foot bluff, Jack
Stewart, foreman at the New Kenka
Hill silver mine in the Mayo district,
Alaska, landed on snow-covered shelf
200 feet below and escaped with three
broken ribs.
Fire destroyed the interior of the
Cathedral of SITS. Peter and Paul, caus-
ing damage estimated at 100000. 1t
is one of the oldest and best known
Episcopalian edifices in Chicago, dat
ing back to Civil wartimes.
Plots which involved the planned as
sassination of Cleveland citizens con-
nected with the Loyal American
League, the destruction by dynamite of
downtown buildings and an intensive
campaign of anarchistic propa-
ganda throughout the city, are
believed now to have been nipped by
the arrest in Cleveland of eight men,
said to be members of an anarchistic
group.
Union printers went on strike at
Binghamton, n. Y, to enforce de-
mands for increased wages and re-
duced hours. AS a result of the strike,
evening newspapers and the Morning
Sun have suspended publication and
the plants of the Vail-Ballou Company,
book manufa cturers, and the Johnson
City Publishing Company, job printers,
are crippled. The men rejected an of
fer to submit the matter to arbitration.
Lieutenant ]. T. Lawson, "a, of Hart
ford, Conn, and Private Joseph Read,
81, of Norwood, n. j., We're dashed TO
death at Camp Knox when an army
aeropane which failed to right itself
during "a tail spin, fell nearly 5000
feet.
The Senate of the Washington Leg
islature passed the anti.alien land bill
by vote of SO to .. The bill prohibits
aliens ineligible to citizenship from
owning or leasing land in the state.
1t was passed by the House and now
goes to the governor.
Macon, Ga, city council has refused
to permit Donal O'Callaghan, lord may
or of Cork, to speak in the city audi
torium. The city council also passed
an anti-flirting ordinance, making it
unlawful for a man to converse with or
make signs at school or college girls.
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