, 1922-11-23
FOREIGN

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Measures for the Immediate release
of the foreign missionaries kidnapped
by Chinese bandits were demanded of
the Picking government by the Amer
lean, British, Italian. French and Swe-
dish ministers, who acted under in
structions of their governments.
Wilhelm Cuno, director general of
the Hamburg-American Steamship
Company, has accepted the offer of
President Ebert to organize a new Ger
man cabinet. 1t is believed Cuno's Sc
lection of associates will be made from
industrial ranks and that he will in
vite into the cabinet men high In the
business world.
Investigation of the Philippine Ma
tional bank of Manila by II committee
of six members of the Legislature is
proposed in II resolution introduced
jointly in the Philippine Senate and
House. The resolution instructs such
a committee particularly to ascertain
the truth of the reports of fabulous,
exorbitant salaries paid bank officials
and employees"
A bank for farmers, sponsored by
the federal government, is one of the
projects now being considered by the
Chamber of Deputies of Mexico City,
following the presentation of a bill to
that effect by the Co-operitista party.
the dominant party in the lower
House. The bank Is designed to aid
small farmers and will be modelled
after similar institutions in the Unit
ed States.
Terrific havoc was wrought by fire
which broke out in the Italian fleet in
the harbor at Naples, said a Central
News dispatch from Rome, received in
London. The light warcraft Marsha,
Russo and Aquila were sunk. Two
gunboats were entirely destroyed. -Four
torpedo boats were also burned. The
fire spread from the shipl to the
shore, destroying waterfront buildings,
.harves and barges.
Since the resumption by canon de
Valera of his title of president of the
Irish republic and the reconstruction
of the republican council OF state,
backed by the republican army, the
war in Ireland has entered "a new
phase. Captured correspondence has
revealed proposed war measures
which have been submitted TO he Va
lera for approval, and it Is assumed
that whatever is now done is with his
sanction.
The Spanish government, 1t was an
nounced recently, denounced on
5, the commercial agreement made
,rfth sbA ITnftal Ctata~ A,. 1nnR
Under this agreement, Spain accorded
the United States most favored nation
treatment, with the exception of spe-
cial advantages conceded to Portugal.
while the United States agreed to spe-
cial rates of duty upon certain Span
ish products, notably crude tartar.
brandies and wines.
GENERAL
Three persons we're injured, one
probably fatally, and a dozen women
and children were saved in thrilling
rescues in IA fire believed to have been
lncendiary, which caused $4,000 dam
age to a West side aparement build
ing in Chicago.
Lieut.. John Blaney, army flyer from
AlllCuel Ilclu, Lung lSldlu, was hlicu
Instantly at Hartford, Conn, at Brain
arc Municipal field while taking part
In an airplane relay in the Hartford
aviation meet. His plane STRUCK Il tree
and crashed when about TO land.
The soldier bonus, providing $50 a
month for ex-service men, passed, ac-
cordlng to figures given out from the
State Election Bureau at Oklahoma
City. The vote was 1850 majority
for the measure. The farmer vote was
In favor of the measure.
In n desperate but unsuccessful ut
tempt TO escape from the federal peni-
tentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, Joe
Martinez, serving II sentence of MUIR
der, fatally stabbed A. ii. Leonard,
captain of the guards. and knitted our
other guards, two dangerously. Mar
tinez was shot by of the guards
and later taken to a hospital after he
vas found hiding in Il coal bunker.
The Illinois Supreme Court has or
dered William Bross Lloyd, million
aire Chicago communist, to Joliet pris-
on for five years for violation of the
state nnti-syndicnlism law. Judge
Thompson denied Lloyd's plea for u
~thirty-day stay t. permit him To ar