The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-30
FOREIGN

the Cniteu States Dy way OF Antwerp.
Forty-siX men were killed and 100
wounded on the German side during
every hour the world war was raging,
according to one estimate arrived at BY
Gen. Won Altrock. a statlstician. Ger
many's loss tOtaled in killed 1,8OS, ,545,
and in wounded 4,246,779.
Disturbances in the provinces In
connection with the general lockout
in Denmark have necessitated the call
ing out of troops to patrol the streets.
Thoe Geresh. leader of the Danish
Communists, was arrested at Ran
ders. in Jutland, charged with lese
majesty and agitating for revolu-
tion.
DIR. Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt LAS
been appointed German ambassador to
the United States. DIR. Wiedfeldt will
fill the post which has been vacant
since February, 1917. when Count
Johann Heinrich Won Bernstorff left
Washington. prior to the declaration
of war between the United States and
Germany.
Groups of insurgent Albanians, COM
posed OF government troops, succeeded
in crossing the river Drin into Jugo-
Slavian territory near Kranovnik,
says Belgrade dispatch quoting dis
patches received from Prizren, Jugo-
Slavia. Jugo-Slavian gendarmes, after
being reinforced, succeeded In driving
the Albanians back across the from
tier says the dispatch.
Lady Astor Tuesday introduced
bill in the House of Commons which
would amend the law which now pre-
sumes coercion by husbands In cases
of offenses committed by married
women. The law dates back from the
time of King Canute when women were
chattels of their husbands. Lady Astor
believes that 1t is an insult to women's
intelligence and independence to pre-
sumo that they are capable Of being CO
creed into crime nowadays.
William D. ("Big Bill'Y Haywood
heads u group of American l. w. w. to
whom Premier Lenin has granted
concession to operate the big Nadejd-
insky iron works in the Ural mountain
region, part of the coal mines in the
kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories.
Haywood disappeared from the United
States last year while under $65, 600
bail after he and about ninety other l.
w. w. had been convicted Of espionage
and conspiracy against the government
in the war. He has since taken some
part in the deliberations of the Third
Internationale at Moscow.
GENERAL
Nineteen-year-old Charles Schader,
who few months ago was liberated
by coroner's jury after shooting and
killing his father, has confessed, ac-
cording to Chicago police, the murder
of Policeman Harry ]. Buss on Jan. 27.
Schader said he and companion held
up the officer, and that he fired the
shot that killed Buss The youth was
freed after killing his father, after
testifying that he did so to protect his
mother.
Students at the University of Mich
igan at Ann Arbor are waging an in
tensive ''gum-shoe" campaign in an eff
fort to locate one of their number,
who in letter in the Michigan Daily.
the student publication, over the sig
nature, 1.-The Man Who Has Never
Been Kissed" severely criticises the
"promiscuous loving" in which he de-
clares the male students and co-eds In
dulge. Male students are vowing ven-
geance on the writer.
Nineteen western railroads entered
plea of inability to pay the present
scale of wages for shop crafts en-
ployes at hearing of the United
States Railroad Labor Board at Chi.
cago. The hearing was on the roads
petition for wage cut. Among the
roads were the Chicago. Milwaukee 4
st. Paul, Chicago & Northwestern.
500, Texas Pacific and Texas Mid.
land. ]. w. Higgins, executive secre-
tary Of the Western Railroad AssOcia-
tlon, submitted the statement of the
western roads.
Search of the gulf stream off the
# SOdSl lOE TIE DUuicS VI tue live
victims of the wrecked seaplane, Miss
Manu." which was wrecked on
flight between Miami and Bimini, with
Pilot Robert Moore as the sole sur
vivor, revealed no trace of either the
wreck of the seaplane or of the vic
tins.
Reports from Berlin, received in
Copenhagen, says 4 disptach from the
Danish capital, are to the effect that
the leaders Of the Russian soviet gov
ernment have been summoned to Mos
COW to consider the situation whicn
may arise in the event of the death of
Nikolai Lenine, the premier, which is
said to be regarded as possibility in
the near future.
The "Siamese twins" Rosa and
Josefa Black, who were born Joined
together, have been taken to Chicago