The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-06
FOREIGN


The Speedy sank within seven min
uteS.
Oberammergau, Germany, is said to
be considering an offer of S1,OOO,OOO
from American movie interests for the
motion picture rights of the Passion
Play. The villagers have taken up
the matter on account of the heavy
costs entailed in staging the produc-
tion this year.
The reply of the Turkish National
ist government to the allied peace
note has been completed and COM
prises acceptance of the conditions
laid down at the Paris conference, ac-
cording to a statement made in Con-
stantinople by Essad Bey, aide de
camp to Mustapha Kemal Pasha.
The allied conference on the near
east has agreed to send joint note
to the Angora government assuring the
return of Constantinople, to the Turks
and demanding the freedom Of the
straits. 1t is believed also to offer
the restoration of Adrianople and
Thrace to Turkey under certain con-
ditiOns.
Grave warning of disaster to come
unless Great Britain and France act in
concert in the Near East is uttered by
Viscount Grey of FalIOden, former Sec
retary for foreign affairs. In letter
to the London Times he denounces the
British governments attitude regard
ing the permanent freedom of the Dar-
danelles as a terrible mistake, "the re-
ply to which has been the withdrawal
of the French flag from Chanak."
A Reuter- dispatch to London from
Athens says that Admiral Bristol has
informed the Greek government that
the United States will undertake to
protect with destroyers the removal
of the remaining 10000 refugees at
Smyrna if Greece provides the means
of transport. The Americans further
undertake to provide shelter and sus-
tenance for the refugees, and they fix
a limit of one week for their embarka-
ton. The Greek government has
gratefully accepted the offer.
Japanese military authorities in To-
kio are credited with the statement
that General Dieterichs, the anti
soviet leader in Vladivostok, and Gen.
Chang Tso-Lin, the war lord of Man.
churia, have been negotiating secretly
an agreement under which the arms
left by the Japanese in evacuating ST.
IBERIA will be divided between the ST.
berian general and the Chinese gen.
eral, who plan to join in opposing the
soviet forces and those of the Far
Eastern republic at Chita.
GENERAL
Lieutenant Patton and Lieutenant
Hansen, both of the United States
Marine Corps, Quantico, Va, were in
stantly killed at Logan field, near Bal
timore, when their machine dropped
about 500 feet.
While several hundred school chill
dren were waiting to enter the theater
and see picture called ''The Trap" as
guests of the management of the
Strand theater in Pittsburg, section
of the cOncreate floor about twelve
feet square in the lobby of the theater
collapsed, precipitating several score of
children into the basement, causing the
death of one and injuries to thirty
others.
George II. Sisler of the st. Louis
Browns, generally rated as the great
est first basemar in the major leagues,
was awarded the American League
trophy offered by the club owners as
a reward to the player who proved of
greatest service to his team during the
1922 championship season. Sisters
100000 baseball monument TO be
erected by tie American League in
East Potomac park, Washington, d.
c., and presented to the government as
a memorial to the national sport and
a hall of fame for perpetlating the
memory of it's greatest players.
The marriage of former Kaiser Will
liam will occur not with the freely
given consent of the entire HohenzOl.
lern family, as reported from Berlin,
but despite their bitter opposition and,
above all, against the strongly ex-
pressed wish of the crown prince, ac-
cording to information secured from a
source very close to the former kaiser.
An offer of 100000 francs, about
$4,000, to meet Harry Wills, negro
heavyweight, and 100000 francs, about
$4,000, to meet Harry Greb, Ameri-
can light heavyweight champion, has
been cabled to Battling Sikh, Senega-
lese conqueror of Georges Carpenter,
by Thomas O'Rourke, matchmaker of
the Republic Athletic Club, in New
York City.
Holding the railway shopmen's strike
a conspiracy in restraint of trade, in
interference with interstate commerce
and carriage of the mails because
"where minds meet together on such