, 1922-12-07
FOREIGN

Doht IN the farana river near Zarate,
northwest of Duenos Aires.
The House Of Commons without d.
vision passed the second reading If
the Irish constitution bill, after a de
bate in n single sitting without strik-
ing Incidents.
Six former cabinet officers and army
officials convicted of high treason in
connection with the Greek military DIS
aster in Asia Minor were executed at
Athens. The execution OF the con-
demned men vas by shooting.
The rate of exchange on shipments
OF freight between Canada and the
United States from Dec. l to Dec. IA,
inclusive, win be 1-32 of l per cent, it
has been announced officially. No sur.
charge will be collected ON interna.
tional traffic.
Lord Curzon, the British foreign sec
rotary, recently authorized an official
statement t. the press that England
supports the American open door
policy in Turkey and regards the San
Reno agreement for division of the
Mosul oil district as null and void.
AT least four persons were killed
and a dozen injured when the police
used machine gun against a band of
demonstrators who attempted to in
wade the city hall in Mexico City in
protest against the alleged negligence
of the aldermen in connection with the
water famine in the city.
Miss Mary BlacSwiney, who has been
hunger striking in Mount Joy prison.
has been relies sed. Her release came
on the twenty-third day of her strike.
She had refused to take food since her
arrest. when she was seized during a
raid on a house in Aylesbury road by
nationalist troops who were seeking
Eamonn de Valera.
William T. Cosgrave, president of
the Dali Eireann, said that the execu-
ton of Erskine Childers was inevita-
bic, n added: 81 fear there will be
many more. We do not want these
executions, and would give anything to
avoid them, but there is nj othe.
course of opinion. The only people
who can stop them are the irregulars
themselves"
GENERAL
A plan for direct action by France
as Il solution of the Preparations ques-
ton has been submitted to a full cab
met meeting n the Elysee palace, with
President Millerand presiding. The
plan provides for seizure of the state
coal mines and collection of the ex-
port taxes in the Ruhr district, togeth-
er with absolute control of that sec
ton of the Rhine.
Seven of the fifteen convicts who
escaped from the state prison ut Mar
quette, Mich, have been captured, acS
cording to prison officials directing
the search. Three of the convicts
were found hiding in an abandoned
brewery four miles from the prison,
and four were trapped in the hold of
u tug beached at Portage lake.
New York and New Jersey cities are
being flooded with liquor from the Ba-
hamas, Scotland and England, accord
ing to Frank J. Hale, an Investigator
for the prohibition department in New
York City. He declared that II stenn-
ship had cleared from Scotland r., cnt-
ly with $4,000 cases of whisky bound
for the whisky armada camping
ground" four miles off the American
coast.
Byron Ernest Thady, 20 years old,
switchboard man, was awarded the
Theodore n. Vail gold medal for note
worthy public service and $500 In cash
for unusual service during the flood at
Pueblo. Colo, June 3. 1921. Mrs. Jo-
sephine ID. Pryor, chief operator ut
Pueblo, was awarded IL silver medal
and $3.50 for unusual service during the
1921 flood. Thady maintained commu-
nication while the rising liver waters
poured into the telephone building.
When the lights failed. he ~improvised
lamps so that the operators could re-
main at work. He also saved records
essential to re-establishlng service.
Miss Anna Lentz, who lives ON a
farm neur Chiffon. Wis, confessed
that she had mailed the poisoned can
dy which caused the death of Mrs.
Frank Schneider. u mother of eight
children. She has been arralgned on
II charge of murder. The confession
was mnde and signed before Federal
Postal Inspector Niles Of Fond Du Lac.
More than 200 miners employed by
the Georges Creek Coal Mining Com
pany ut Homecoming. Mich, went on
strike in sympathy with fifteen labor
ers who quit work after Il Disagree
ment with employers following Il wage
dispute. The miners struck despite the
advice Of Francis J. Drum, president
OF District No. 16. United Mine Work
ers OF America.
Fifteen convicts, our OF them serv-
ing life terms, made their escape from
the Marquette, Mich, branch prison.