Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-08-18
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The Berlin Vorwaerts announced
that the payment Of 1,0oO,0OO,O0O gold
marks to the allies would be made
August 80, according to schedule.
Miss Florence Turner, movie ac-
tress, who arrived in London from
America eight weeks ago, was found
bound and gagged on Hampstead
heath.
Two hundred and fifty persons were
drowned by the bursting of the Iscaro
dam near Chinsa, according to infor-
nation received at Milan.
The London Daily Express learns
that the Sim Fem reply as received
by Premier George in Paris Thursday,
was regarded by him as rejection
Of his peace terms.
Unreserved acceptance Of the terms
Of the peace resolution, passed by the
United States congress early in July,
has been asked Of the Hungarian ma
tional assembly at Budapest by M.
Banffy.
Having failed In its attempt to
bring allied harmony over the parti-
ton of Upper Silesia, the supreme
council at Paris passed the problem
over to the League of Nations.
A holy war has been proclaimed by
the king of Hedjaz, as measure as
sisting the Turkish nationalists in
their fight against the Greeks in Asia
minor, says an Angora dispatch.
The Italian socialist party has de-
cided to work comparatively with the
existing regime in Italy, according to
dispatch from Rome.
Premier Of Japan at Tokyo praised
motives of the President in calling the
disarmament conference and the for
eign minister notified the United
States it has no objection to the date.
The allied finance commission, 1t
has been learned from the most re-
liable authority at Paris, decided in
secret session against admitting the
American claim for $276,OO0,00O. the
cost of maintaining troops on the
Rhine.
A special Bolshevist automobile, car
rying six Americans who had been re-
ut Reval, Esthonia, where the Ameri-
can Red Cross will supply them with
comfortable clothing.
Gen. Isideo Valdes, head Of the rev.
dictionary movement against the gov
eminent at Guatemala City, has been
captured after fight between gov
eminent troops and his followers.
Premier BRAND Of France and
David Lloyd George, prime minister
Of Great Britain, have decided at a
private meeting at Paris upon a COM
promise partition of Upper Silesia. it
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Gen. Jose Alessia Robes, brother Of
the Mexican minister to Spain and
of the editor of the newspaper Ell
Democratic, was shot and killed as he
drove his automobile through main
street of Mexico City.
Domestic
Two men with four pistols walked
In on a card game in an apartment
house at Minneapolis, Mimi, picked
up $1,000 table stakes and walked out.
They passed up diamonds and
watches.
Bandits blew the safe of the Brule
State bank at Brule, Wis, and es-
capped In an automobile with $1,45O
in silver. Seventy thousand dollars In
securities We're left behind by the bur-
glars.
Icebergs 300 feet high and 700 feet
long We're seen off the Grand banks
of Newfoundland by passengers on a
steamship which arrived at New York
from Glasgow.
Two men We're killed and five in
tured, three seriously, when the party
was hurled under several tons Of rock
by fall of rock in No. 6 shaft of
the Quincy mine at Houghton, Mich.
One Memphis (Tenn.) policeman
was killed and three wounded by
posse of sheriff's deputies, which fired
on them in mistake for robbers who
earlieri in the day shot and killed two
policeman and wounded another.
Two men were killed and several
injured when Missouri Pacific fast
train No. 3, from st. Louis to Texas,
was wrecked at Donaldson, small
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