The Snowflake herald., 1922-11-10
FOREIGN

with the UnlIeO states as tue ccHlcr
of the wet campaign, was planned at
the closing session of the secret con-
ference of i-prohibitionists at Brus-
sells.
Lord Hardinge has resigned his post
as British ambassador at Paris. Ac-
cording to the newspapers his success
sor is likely to be Sir George Grahame,
now the British ambassador to Brus-
sells.
The London Daily Mail states that
1t is anticipated that Earl Balfour will
resign from membership In the assem-
bly, of the League of Nations, owing to
the fact that he has not been included
in the new cabinet.
The cooperation of the United
States with the labor bureau of the
League of Nations was declared high
ly desirable at Geneva at the interna-
tional labor conference in resolution
presented by the delegates of the Jap
aneSe government.
II am not trying to take away any
ones beer; want to give the voters
freedom to control the drink trade"
Thus speaks Lady Astor in an election
address issued in which she denies
that she desires to impose prohibition
on the people by some act or bill.
An attempt was made recently. to
blow up Oriel House, Dublin, the head
quarters of the governments criminal
investigation department, a Dublin dis
patch states. Several people were
slightly injured and many windows in
the Merton Square district were
broken.
A fierce fight took place recently at
Clifden, Ireland, fOrty-five miles north
west of Galway, between National sol
diers and a force of irregulars. Eighty
of the Nationals were captured after
ten-hour battle. One of their bar
racks was burned to the ground and
another was blown up by mine.
An urgent call for help was received
by the Federal government at Mexico
City a few days ago from the governor
of Quintana Roo, eastern province of
Yucatan, who telegraphed that the en-
tire coast has been lashed for the last
week by severe storms, which have de-
strOyed property and crops and caused
some loss of life.
Just one short of 10000 persons en-
tered Canada during the fiscal year
ended March 81, l922. according TO a
of fh0 irp.l TON lPfr oy1f
This compared with 148,477 immigrants
in the year previous. OF the total
$4,000 were from the United Kingdom,
as compared with 74.282 the year pre-
vious, and 29,345 from the United
States, as against 48,O59 in 1921.
Halide Edib Hamm, the famous
Turkish poetess and wife of the vice
president of the AngOra government,
plans to leave next month for d propa-
ganda tour of England and America
She Is now engaged in gathering sta
tistics and photographs OF the devas-
tated districts over which the Greek
army retreated before the Turks,
| which she is planning to use during
her tour.
GENERAL
Tyler Longstreet Redfield, business
man and publisher of Newspaperdom,
died at his home in Greenwich, Conn,
after a weeks illness
The National Council of Boy Scouts
| announced the designation of Mortimer
l.. Schiff, banker of New York, as In
| ternational commissioner of the Boy
Scouts of America.
The lives of former Governor Alfred
| E. Smith and Governor Nathan N.
Miller, of New York, have been insured
for $4,000 each by firm of Wall
| Street betting commissioners who are
| handling a large number of wagers on
| the New York state gubernatOrial con-
| test, it has been announced. The poll
| cies were taken out TO protect the firm
against loss in handling the bets in the
| event of the death of either candidate,
| which would invalidate these election
wagers.
Three persons were killed and five
| others seriously injured when South
ern Pacific passenger train No. 100
crashed into the rear of a special train
| carrying the c. A. Wortham Shows at
| Adeline, La.
Leland Tucker, q years old, is in
| the county Jail at MissOula, Mont, as
| a result of shooting affair on a
ranch. The young man gave himself up
| to a justice of the peace at Alberton,
saying that he had killed his father.
The ankle-length skirt was officially
| and permanently removed from the
wardrobes of 100000 New York women
| by the action of delegates to the con-
vention of the New York City Fedora
! ton of Women's Clubs in voting unan-
| imously to wear dresses no longer than
| seven inches from the ground.