The Holly chieftain., 1921-12-22
FOREIGN


office Jan. /. Col. Karl schenrer WA
elected vice president.
According to the Taeglische hund
schau, the reparations commission MAJ
sent TO the German government a hote
tantamOunt to an order for coihpiets
prohibition of the export OF 1ern'ah
coal to neutral countries.
A decree exempting from duties all
cattle and horses entering Mexico VIII
be promulgated shortly, according to
official information, In order TO ASSIST
ranchers 10 replenish their herds De
pleted by years of revolution.
Leonard Pi0n, 10 years old, Of Wind
sor Mills, Quebec, has confessed to the
police that he murdered his mother
Mrs. Joseph Pion, by shooting her on
Dec. 2. He had been under arrest al
n material witness.
The interallied reparations commits
sion has authorized 81 ,O00. 100000 IN
ternatiOnal loan guaranteed by German
customs, to assist German indemnity
payments, 1t has been announced. The
loan will pay per cent and run fifty
years.
Within ten years India will speak as
cOequal partner with Canada and
Australia In the British empire, the
Right Hon. V. S. Strinwasa Sastri. In'
dia's representative in the British
arms delegation, predicted In an adj
dress. He also predicted that posst
y,I. t.. MT tyn,rIN
quicken even his estimate of ten
years"
The lash, deemed by dominion au
thorities one of the greatest deterrent
to crime, was ordered applied to Pat
rick O'Hara and Albert Slade Of Ham
Ilton. Ontario, convicted Of $2,8N
bank robbery Aug. 12. Sentenced II
the penitentiary for seven years, thI
convicts were ordered lashed seveI
times on beginning their terms ant
seven times upon completion.
Capt. Hans Berg, who COMMANDED
the German sea raider Appam, which
put into Newport News, Va, aftei
sinking a number of merchant ships
has committed suicide in Hamburg il
n fit of despondency, said dispatcl
from that city. Berg returned to Ger
many two years ago to find his home
land, Schleswig, had been awarded Il
Denmark He returned to Hamburg
where he secured humble job, but hi
was unable to make both ends meet
GENERAL
Since the passing of July last Of the
measure legalizing in Great Britain a
marriage between a man and his
more than 5000 people have been mar
ried under 1t.
President Harry Pratt Judson put
the ban on smoking In women's dorml'
tories ut the University of Chicago.
Accustomed to making their own
rules, the dormitory women were sud.
denly confronted with notice from
house mothers that the cigarette waa
banned.
A tablet was unveiled in the custom
house at Cleveland, Ohio, in memory
of Joseph William Briggs, author OF
the present system Of free city mail
delivery and collection. Mr.. Briggs
conceived the idea while working as
a clerk in the local postoffice, and was
the first American letter carrier.
Whisky valued at more than $4,000
was removed from the 7. b. Ripy dis.
tillery, near Tyrone, KY, by twenty
armed men, who held up the superin.
tendent and three guards. Ten barrels
and 1O4 cases of bottled in bond whis.
ky were removed by the bandits, who
used three touring cars and two trucks
to haul the liquor away.
The Benevolent and Protective Or.
der Of Elks have been asked by the
American Game Protective Association
to forbid Its members wearing elks'
teeth as emblems. This request was
made in resolution adopted after
photographs had been shown picturing
elks shot for their teeth alone Speak.
ers included Governor Cary of Wyo-
ming.
Orders received at the New York
navy yard, which would provide for
reduction in the enlisted personnel OF
the United States navy by approx. |
mately 10000 men, set forth that any
enlistment might be Cancelled by resig
nation. few hours after the orders
had been posted, yard officials were
deluged with designations coming from
all classes of the enlisted service.
The crew of fifteen of the American
bark Harvard, wrecked while on the
way to Honolulu from Tahiti, was res
cued by the British steamship Baron
lnchcape after drifting forty-eight
hourse in lifeboats. The men were
taken to Balboa by the Baron Inch
cape and are now on their way to San
francisco on the steamship Hawkeye
State
Henry Campbell, negro, 1O1 years
old, was granted a divorce from his
wife, Alverta W. Campbell. In Circuit
Court, Baltimore county, Md. In sign
ing the decree, Judge Duncan declared: {