Williams news., 1922-06-23
FOREIGN

| or 19, Who aSSaSS1nated Premier Taxa
 shi in railway station at Tokio last Nov 4.
 Londonderry is facing famine as the
 result of the cutting off of the usual | lines of food supplies for the city, | Supplies are being sent there from | Glasgow, but these are insufficient.
 Incendiaries were again active in Bel | fast and large factory was destroyed by fire.
 King George and Queen Mary have l accepted invitations to be guests at l dinner on June 24 of Ambassador and | Mrs. Harvey. Chief Justice and Mrs. l Taft, who will be in London at that | time, also will be present. Ambassa-
 dor and Mrs. Harvey arranged the din | ner for the king and queen several weeks ago. When they learned that
 MT. and Mrs. Taft would be in Eng | land at the time they included them | in the small company invited. The allied council of ambassadors including Myron T. Herrick of the
 United States, recently decided that the situation in Austria was so des-
 perate that they sent pleas to all the governments interested to suspend their claims against Austria for twen- ty years in order that the Termeulen scheme of credits may operate. All
 the great powers, including America, already have suspended their claims,
 but a few of the smaller ones have
 not.
 Gen. Chen Chung Ming, formerly
 civil governor of Kwantung province,
 whose troops seized Canton, an-
 nounced that the south China, or
 Canton government, has been termi-
 mated and that henceforth Canton
 would unite with the north in recog-
 nizing the old republican parliament.
 Dispatches from Canton describe the
 collapse of the southern government
 as complete, Suns military forces
 crushed and the former Canton pres ident himself a fugitive.
 Quereshi, the noncooperationist leader in British India, who sue ceeded Mohandas Gandhi when the latter was arrested and imprisoned on charges of seditfon, has been sen fenced to a years rigorous imprfson- ment and to pay fine of 500 rupees, with a further three months impris- onment in default of payment. Quereshi was arrested after publica- tfon of alleged seditfous articles in the newspaper, Young India. The publisher and printer of Young -1n- dia received a similar sentence. GENERAL
 Assertions that the United States does not need an army were met by Secretary Weeks of the War Depart | ment, in an address at the graduating | exercises of the United States Mili- tary Academy at West Point with a | statement that "the civilization of the | world rests on no surer foundation | than did the civilization of Boston" at | the time of the police strike nearly | three years ago.
 At New York City, Norwich, hailed | as the successor of Man O. War, met his master in Whiskaway, colt that he defeated last year. It happened in the Carlton stakes at AQueduct be- fore a monster crowd that was amazed to see Benjamin Blocks won der colt trailing eight lengths behind H. P. Whitney's entry at the finish eased up, came within four-fifths of a second of tying the American record for the mile.
 Lashed and whipped about by 12O- mile gale more than four and a half miles above earth, on the verge of sui location, caused by loss of his oxygen tank, and compelled to cling to ropes and straps attached to a parachute for fear that a whirling cross current might weaken and cause them to break are several of the 'mere'' details relat- ed by Capt. A. w. Stevens, aerial pho tographer, McCook field, Dayton, Ohio, who recently broke the worlds para chute jump record when he descended 24 ,2O6 feet.
 Persons who never pay their bills, generally referred to as "dead beats,' are rapidly disappearing, according to delegates of the Retail Credit Mems Association, in their tenth annual con 7entfon at Cleveland, Ohio.
 Herself slightly crippled from birth. Mrs. Elizabeth Laniger Howell, who for many years conducted a fashion able boarding house in Newark, N. T., left $2S9,oOO of her $30O,O0O es- ate to the Newark Home for Crippled Children, her will, probated disclosed. Her husband vas a cripple for many years and Ter mother also was crippled.
 While additional wage cuts swung ,ver the heads of 35O, 900 more railway , employees and awaited only formal re ease by the railroad labor board to Hash another o,oOO, 600 from the pay oils of the carriers, 1t was rumored n Chicago that any rail strike grow ng out of present threats may be di- ected and financed from Canada as [
 means of QyadinQ the recent deci- l