The St. Johns herald., 1921-05-12
FOREIGN

operated in Mexico, has closed it's doors in compliance with orders from Governor Enriquez of Chihuahua. The place has been in operation since the first of the present year and during that time paid S5O6,OO0 gold in license fees to the state government.
 Physicians of Dublin, regardless of politics, have ignored the order of the government military authorities to re port at once the arrival in hospitals of wounds Thus far no proceedings have been taken against them. The order was intended to aid the military in identifying their attackers, many of whom escape though wounded.
 Reports from Paris from an authori- tative source say the Council of the League of Nations has decided to award the Aland islands to Finland. Sweden insisted on ownership of the islands, but the decision states that "Finland's right is incontestable." The soviets refuse to recognize the alloca- tion of the islands to anyone except Russia, as they control the entrance i to Petrograd.
 Rene Viviani, special French envoy, en route home, in a wireless message of congratulations to the American Le- zion, its national commander, Col. F. w. Galbraith, Jr, and General Persh- ing, invited the legion men to visit France and declared he never would forget the courageous soldiers of America. Among the great people who love them, they will find anew the i'm age of the great country which they honor" the message concluded.
 pr Koudish, Russian Soviet repre- sentative at COnstantinople, who was given a British passport wise to go to London to confer with Leonid Krassin, Soviet minister of trade and commerce, was assaulted and beaten by a Russian colonel while dining with his wife in restaurant. The colonel exclaimed: How dare you drink champagne among the victims of Soviet Russia :" British police who were called in told KOudish: You are free to strike back" He demanded British official protection.
 Riccardo Zanella, leader of the Fiji ume peoples party and head of the communistic faction in the Italian cleo tiOns, by a coup d'etat, occupied the city hall at Plume Count Caccia- DominiOne, the Italian minister, left Plume aboard torpedo boat destroyer owing to the rioting. The frontier has been closed by a brigade of infantry. When the Autonomists claimed they hay won the election by more than thousand votes, Zanella and his forces stOrmed the city hall and ejected the old administration.
 GENERAL
 Filling stations in the Middle West have dropped gasoline from 9 to p cents gallon, it was announced by the Standard oil Company of Indiana. Gasoline at tank wagons is now 20 in- stead of 23 cents.
 Plans for recruiting harvest hands in Kansas this season were discussed at a conference of heads of employment agencies in the various cities and the labor department of the industrial court. It was estimated 10000 to 5O,- I000 men would be required to gather the 1921 crop.
 Reports from districts swept by a Ilviolent windstorm shows that the 1 counties of Hamilton, Webster and Adams were visited and the property damage is considerable. Fifty farms within a radius of twenty-five miles of Hastings, Neb., were swept. On a number of farms the barns and out buildings were completely destroyed and the houses damaged. On several farms horses and sheep were either killed or injured. In the vicinity of Guide Rock the wind took the form of a tornado, unroOfing several houses and in one or two instances completely destroying them.
 Cutt off from the fortune of George NJ. Oyster, the widow, Mrs. Cecil Ready Oyster of Syracuse, N. T., will wage a bitter legal battle for h large part of the estate, it was predicted here when word came from Atlantic City that Oyster shortly before his death had executed a cOdicil to his will by which the society girl he married January 15 was disinherited.
 With the definite selection of "Boyle's thirty acres" adjoining Mont gomery park in Jersey City, as the site of the. arena for the Dempsey -Carpen- tier heavyweight championship bout