Williams news., 1922-07-14
FOREIGN

| embassy at Washington has been nod- ! fled.
 King Fuad I of Egypt intends to visit | the United States as well as Europe | in his tours this year, in order to ac- quaint himself with the new move ments of the world and so be better qualified to govern his people wisely. The reparations plan prepared by the French Minister of Public Works Le Trocquer provides for improve ments in the Rhone river costing 3,25O,- 100000 francs, the Truvere river 21O,- OOO,OOO francs and the Dordogne 2OO,- 100000.
 Three Methodist mission chapels, between Changshu and Kianfu, prov
 ince of Kiangsi, China, were footed and
 destroyed during the recent mutiny Of
 troops in that province, according to
 advices received from Nanchang, cap
 ital of Kiangsi.
 Germany manufactured a total of
 100000 field guns, rifles and pistols
 during the war, according to statistics
 just made public, besides hundreds of
 millions of tons of munitions. Enough
 barbed wire alone was produced to
 encircle Germany with a barricade sixty-five meters deep.
 The Americans are being secretly
 murdered by the Turks in Asia Minor
 and reports then circulated that they
 died of typhus and other diseases, ac-
 cording to J. Herbert Knapp, civil en- gineer of Los Angeles, who has arrived in London from Constantinople after three years in the Turkish interior.
 The entire Swedish, Finish and Norwegian paper output, the newspa- xx-iI ha sold f0 A -i<,s, Most of the big paper mills have signed an agreement to export through projected American syndicate headed by one of the officials of the Canadian Export Paper Company.
 The treaty if Rappalo signed be- tween Russia and Germany during the Genoa conference, has been ratified by the reichstag. There was no debate over the question of ratification, with the exception of remarks by a Com munist deputy, who demanded that the treaty be amplified to include the oth- CT soviet republic.
 Soviet Russia wants to win the worlds confidence, so that tangible help may come from the outside world. Soviet Russia, without awaiting assist ance from abroad, is itself laboring to improve Russia's financial condition, and has achieved results. These were the two main constructive thoughts which the Bolshevist delegates at The Hague have tried to fix in the public mind.
 GENERAL
 The calling out of troops in Illinois, the assembling of soldiers in half a dozen other states and the intervention of the Federal Courts in the nation wide strike of railway shopmen are latest events in the rail walk out.
 Eleven persons were killed and sev- enty-two injured when the midnight flyer" on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad left the rails, through the mis- take of a signalman, and plunged down a thirty-foot embankment near Win slow Junction, N. J., according to a complete casualty list issued by the state police.
 Omer R.--WOodS, a former probate judge in Idaho, stands convicted of the murder of his wife, Maryetta Woods, who was burned to death as she lay in bed in the Woods apartment home in Salt Lake City last Jan. g. It was the contention of the prosecution at the trial that Woods killed his wife to col lect $16,OO0 life insurance.
 Thibodaux, surprise horse of the | Special, when he ran a sen | sational second to Whiskaway and | peat the great Norwich, came back and | won the Latonia derby from Yoshimi | and Olympus in the easiest kind of | fashion. Withdrawal of Broomster | and Margaret Winsor had reduced the | field to three starters.
 Bennie Leonard, world champion | lightweight fighter, smashed Rocky | almost at will all over the ring | in the eighth round of their scheduled | titular contest at Michigan City, Ind, and the Buffalo, N. Y., chal- enger's seconds threw in the sponge | to save their man from something | more than a technical knockout.
 Watermelons for which Georgia growers are glad to get from to 171s cents each, are selling in the retail market in New York City at 70 cents o $1.50, said. statement issued by s. Jones, Director of the State Department Bureau of Farms and Markets. High freight rates, mostly ,qua1ly high carriage charges and the 'bft'' taken in turn by four middlemen make up the difference, he said.
 Panic reigned seventy-five feet un- fer ground when fire started on subway express in New York City. | Deadly gas filled the ten cars when guards attacked the blaze with fire and about 15O men, yOmeu and children were overcome |