The Holbrook news., 1921-07-08
FOREIGN

l uldlS WILL lue 1ufhISH NullOhoiiots for the purpose of ending hostilities between them and Greeks in Asia Minor.
 The Greeks have recaptured Ismid, on the Sea of Marmora, from the Turks. Greek warships bombarded the retreating Ottoman forces. Thousands of refugees have arrived in Constants nOple.
 Violent disorders in which five per sons were killed and ten wounded broke out at Plume, following the downfall of the Giolitti cabinet. A dispatch from Plume says that chaos reigns and that the Plume legion has been dissolved.
 After a meeting between the coal mine owners and the miners in Lon don, virtual agreement on the wages question, the chief cause of the strike in the mines, which has been in pro- gress for some months, was reached. The agreement is subject to the gov ernment's granting a subsidy to the miners.
 The long heralded offensive of the Greek army in Anatolia against the l Turkish NatiOnalists is finally under way, according to advices received in London. The Greeks have captured the important town of Ismid, south west of Constantinople, said a dispatch from Athens. In Nicodemia the Greeks were attacked by superior forces, sus- taining POO casualties.
 Great Britain has asked Japan for a three months delay in renewing the alliance. The reason advanced in a note asking the postpOnement was that the conference of the British premiers is just beginning to consider the ques- ton. Britain, it said, desires the pre- miers shall reach a decision before a new treaty is signed. No mention was made of the American attitude toward the alliance.
 GENERAL
 Gov. E. F. Morgan of West Virginia has reaffirmed his declaration of mar tial law in Mingo county and com manded the assessor there to enroll all persons liable under the law for military duty He also ordered the sheriff to draft 130 men, or to accept 130 volunteers, who are to be mus tered into the service of the state for sixty days, to enforce all orders pro- mulgated by the governor.
 Charges that the packers kept their
 ercentage of profit down to 1.5 in
 J20 by charging losses on inventory
 yainst the years earnings, when they
 ould have been charged against sur
 us, were made before Judge Samuel
 lschuler of Chicago, arbiter of pack
 2 house wages. The wage cut of
 'nts an hour asked by the packers
 ould only serve to increase their
 ofits without benefiting producer or
 ,nsumer, employees declared.
 Roy Sherrill, a convicted train rob
 1T serving a twenty-five-year sen-
 nee, with Joe Davis, also a convicted
 ain robber has escaped from the
 deral penitentiary at Leavenworth,
 an. Roy Sherrill is, with the. excep-
 on of Eva Lewis, who is serving
 -ison term at Kansas City, the sole
 lrvivor of the Dales Jones-Frank
 ewis gang of train bandits who ere
 red reign of terror in Denver and
 dorado Springs from Sept. 13 to 15, BIS.
 Disappearance at sea of several
 merican ships within the last few lonths is linked by the New York pQ- ice with plans revealed in raids on adical headquarters year and half lgo for the seizure of these vessels at Iea and their diversion to Russian sO- 7iet ports. Police said they were in- ,ormed through certain confidential sources," that officials of the Union of Russian Workers of the United States and Canada, an organization since broken up, had urged its employed members to seek employment on American ships, overpower other mem- bers of the crew and direct the yes sells to Russia,
 With the vote of the railway shop men overwhelmingly opposed to accep- tance of wage reduction from 85 to v cents an hour, as ordered by the | United States Railway Labor Board, | railway circles are apprehensive that the nation may be confronted with a serious railroad crisis within a fort | night.
 Bodies of five adults and six chill lren were found in the charred ruins | 1f the home of Ernest Lawrence, far ner near Mayfield, Kentucky, which was destroyed by fire. According to he authorities, there were indications hat eleven may have been the vic inns of foul play, and a non-committal verdict was returned by the coroner's Jury.
 Several weeks of intimacy with this solar system have had such an effect ,n the Pons-W WinneckeN comet that it las changed it's itinerary and departed rom its orbit, the Harvard observa- ory at Cambridge has announced. The .hange in the comets plans have been .aused by planetary influences, and as result the predicted meteOric show ITS are not likely to fall, Solon I. Bai- ey, acting director of the observatory, aid.
 The hearty welcome given Crown Prince HirOhito of Japan in England md France was widely commented on " the Japanese press and has made
 profound impression on the people, ,,bo QUO %hof tho