The Holbrook news., 1921-03-18
FOREIGN


 attaining the proportions of the 1917 coup which overthrow czardOm, ac- cording to messages delivered to for mer Premier Kerensky.
 A bill prohibiting the importation of rice and fixing a maximum selling price of cents per pound wholesale, has been signed by Gov Gen. Francis Burton Harrison at Manila, P. I.
 Madrid. was mortified when it be- came known that Eduardo DatO, pre- mier and minister of marine, had been assassinated while returning to his home from a late session of the Span ish Senate.
 l According to the Reval correspond ent of the Rotterdam MaasbOde, Rus sian radicals recently deported from the United States are playing a prOmi- nent part in the new revolution in Rus sia. DepOrted Russians had great ex- pectatiOns of Russia, but were bitterly disappointed when they found that the communistic regime represented moth ing but sentence to an indefinite term of hard labor without adequate food"
 The introduction of German labor to help rebuild the war-devastated dis tricts of northern France, one of the suggestions made by the Berlin govern ment during the reparations discus sions. will be violently opposed by French workers. The annual congress of French building workers voted overwhelmingly against the admission of German laborers, though no objec- ton was made to the use of German material.
 Preparations are in progress for the erection of a chain of military block houses to indicate the new boundaries of the Ulster area in Ireland under the new home rule act, says Belfast dispatch. Government surveys have commenced in North Monaghan coun- ty near the -Fermanagh border, the dispatch adds. Sites are being selected for new stations for thirty thousand troops in the six-cOunty area. The sta tions will be two miles apart.
 French, British and Belgian troops occupy three German cities, Dussel- dorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort. Less than 25,0O0 troops used to effect Occu- patton. No opposition offered by Ger mans. Populace orderly. German of ficials of occupied cities left in power. Customs frontier established 1S1z miles east of Rhine. German ambas- sadors summoned home from London, Paris and Brussels American troops remain at old positions in Coblenz. xr-fn ho withdrawn at present.
 GENERAL
 Frantic with pain from an attack of appendicitis, Earl Wilson, an Swear old boy, shot and killed himself at Bonner Springs, Kan.
 Falling off a 1,OOO-foot bluff, Jack Stewart, foreman at the New Kenka Hill silver mine in the Mayo district, Alaska, landed on a snow-covered shelf POO feet below and escaped with three broken ribs.
 Street Commissioner Leo of New York completed summary of the cost of the recent snow storm in that city. It cost $1 $1,SOO,OOO to rid the streets of | Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn of the fall of 12O5 1ncheS.s
 Lieutenant J. T. Lawson, 24, of Hart ford, Conn, and Private Joseph Read, | 21, of Norwood, N. J., were dashed to | death at Camp Knox when an army | aeroplane which failed to right itself | during a tail spin, fell nearly 5000 l feet.
 The directors of the Pennsylvania | Railroad Company adopted a resolu- ton directing the executive officers ito give, as promptly as possible, prop CT notice that it is the intention of the company to reduce the salaries and | wages of officers and employees to ac- cord with economic conditions"
 New York city taxpayers this year face the highest tax rate in history, de- spite an enormous increase in the as- sessed valuation of real estate. Based on the 1921 budget of $345, ,530, ,039, the rates indicate increases over 1920 ranging from % to 31 cents per $1O0. Total valuation of real estate Is com puted at $9,972, 1885, 104 and personal property S213, ,222, ,175.
 A concurrent resolution, introduced in the lower house of the Michigan Legislature at Lansing, by Representa- tive Walter Henze of Iron Mountain, would call upon Congress to divide Michigan into two states, the lower peninsula to retain the present name and government, and a new common wealth to be known as Superior" to be created of the upper peninsula.
 Union printers went on strike at N Y, to enforce de- mands for increased wages and re- duced hours. As a result of the strike, evening newspapers and the Morning Sun have suspended publication and the plants of the Vail-Ballou Company, book manufacturers, and the Johnson City Publishing Company, job printers, are crippled. The men rejected an of fer to submit the matter to arbitration.
 c. D. B. King, president of the re- public of Liberia, in West Africa, ar- rived at New York en route to Wash ington to discuss a loan of $5,O00,OO0 to his republic. The loan has been hanging fire" nearly a year, it was stated, and it is needed to further in- dustrial development in Liberia.
 Six new cases of typhus were dis ,ke ho1 nk