The Colorado statesman., 1921-04-30
FOREIGN

doors in compliance with orders from
Governor Enrlquez of chihuahua. The
place has been In operation since the
first OF the present year and during
that time paid S500,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
persons suffering from gunshot
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
to Petrograd.
Rene Viviani, special French envoy,
en- route home, In a wireless message
of congratulations to the American Le-
giOn, its national commander, Col. +.
w. Galbraith, Jr., and General Perish
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.
DR. Koudish, Russian Soviet repre-
sentative at COnstantinOple, who was
given n British passport wise to go to
London to confer with Leonid Krassin,
Soviet minister of trade and commerce,
was assaulted and beaten by Russian
colonel while dining with his wife in
restaurant. The colonel exclaimed:
"How dare you drink champagne
among the victims of Soviet Russia !"
Koudish: "You are free to strike
back" He demanded British official
protection.
Riccardo Zanella, leader of the FL
ume peoples party and head of the
communistic faction in the Italian cleo
tions, by coup d'etat, occupied the
city hall at Fiume. Count Caccia-
Dominione, the italian minister, left
Fiume aboard a torpedo boat destroyer
owing to the rioting. The frontier has
been closed by brigade of infantry.
When the Autonomlsts claimed they
hay won the election by more than n
thousand votes, Zanella and his forces
stormed the city hall and elected the
old administration.
GENERAL
Filling stations in the Middle West
have dropped gasoline from % to %
cents u 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. 1t was estimated 10000 to 90
600 men would be required to gather
the 1921 crop.
Reports from districts swept by a
violent windstorm shows that the
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
killed or injured. In the vicinity of
Guide Rock the wind took the form of
u 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. Y, will wage a
bitter legal battle for 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 IS
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
July 2, training plans of the contest
ants were laid accordingly. 1t is gen.
orally understood that the champion
will select Atlantic City, while the
Frenchman will train on Long Island.
Miss Lucia Russell Briggs, daughter
of Lebaron Russell Briggs, president of
Radcliffe College, and dean of the
foculty of arts and sciences at Har-