Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07


Charles j. Bonaparte, member Of
the Roosevelt cabinet, died ut his
country home near Baltimore, Md.
Foreign
United States Senator Joseph /.
France, who plans to confer with Rus
sian soviet officials relative to trade
conditions, left Riga for Moscow in
a dingy. old, second class car.
Full accord is said to have been
reached between the Vatican and the
Quirinal at Rome and relations will
be renewed next autumn after so years
of severance.
Rumors that payments on the in
terest of the Mexican national debt
probably will not be made early this
month have been called to the atten-
tion of officials at Mexico City, but
they have remained silent.
Forces Of the royal Irish constabu-
larry are Immediately to be quadru-
pied, says the London Daily Sketch.
This would mean increasing the num-
Der Of men in this service from 1900
to $4,000.
An American gunboat Is watching
the situation ut WI Chow, where sol-
diers Of the Kwan-Tung party, sup
porting DR.. Sun Yat-Sen. have defeat
ed opposing forces and captured all
Of their positions.
A Paris dispatch says the Greek Of
fensive against the Turks has been
begun with the launching Of drive
for the important railway center of
Alum Karahissar by a Greek force
Of 100000 men.
Commandant Leo Murphy of the
Mid-Cork brigade of the Irish repub-
lican army, was shot dead In mill.
tary roundup at Waterfall, near Cork.
Forty-f1ve Sim Feiners were cap
tured.
More than 100000 has peen col
lected for the relief of suffering in
Ireland. according to announcement
by the committee at Cincinnati. It
is stated that SS19.257 has been dis
patched to Ireland.
.
The Jail at Sligo, Ireland, was
broken into at night and three prison
ers removed from it. The removal
was effected despite the fact that the
full military guard was inside the
prison.
A syndicalist leader named BRANDED
la was shot and killed at Barcelona
while trying to escape from an escort
of civil guards. Another well-known
syndicalist was found dead In street
there.
Germany has fulfilled her obligation
to replace railway material taken by
her armed forces from allied countries
during the war, according to advices
received at Washington in official
circles.
A provisional agreement was reached
at London by the striking coal miners
and the mine owners by which the
coal strike, which has been In progress
some three months, was terminated.
The Greeks have recaptured the
town of Ismid on the sea Of Marmora
from the Turks, Greek warships bonn
barded day and night the evacuatihg
Ottoman forces, says a Constantinople
dispatch.
A Tientsln dispatch says that Japan
is piling up vast stock of airplanes
and hundreds Of pilots in order to be
prepared to- conserve its navy fleets
in future wars and to fight the enemy
from the air.
Arthur Griffith. founder Of the Sim
Fein organization, and Prof. John
MacNeil, president of the Gaelic
league, were released from Mountjoy
prison at Dublin.
A Turco-Bolshevi plot Of vast pro-
portions has been discovered by the
allied authorities at Constantinople.
Numerous arrests have been made.
Seventy-seven members of the Phil
ippine constabulary were convicted
at Manila, P. l., Of murder for the kill
ing of three American members of the
Manila police force and eight other
persons in rioting between the con-
stabulary md police last December.
The American freight steamer
Mopang. from Constantinople for New
49,