The Colorado statesman., 1922-05-20
FOREIGN

The primary school teachers of
Annoy, China, are on strike for an so
per cent increase in pay and the mis-
sion schools are seriously affected. A
similar strike at Foo Chow last week
was successful.
Gen. John J. Pershing, commander
of American troops during the war,
was made a doctor of laws in McGill
University, Montreal. The degree
was conferred by Sir Arthur Currie,
principal of McGill, In a downtown
theater
A dispatch from Nuevo Laredo as
serts that Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of
the late President Porfirlo Diaz, with
five men, left Galveston recently by
boat. 1t is said the party took along
arms and ammunition, which they ex-
pected to land at some obscure point
on the Vera Cruz coast. of Mexico.
The council of the League of Ma.
tions refused to take up the Russian
problem and referred to the Genoa
conference the Norwegian govern.
ment's request for an immediate in,
quiry by the league into the general
situation in Russia and the effect of
the famine on economic reconstruc.
tion in Europe.
The French budget for 1923, sub.
mitted to parliament by the govern
ment, provides for expenditures
amounting to 231S0,000.OOO francs
with receipts amounting to only 49,.
2S5,000,000 francs, of which 1850.
100000 would be derived from the
sale of war stocks, taxes on war prof
its and other temporary resources.
Austen Chamberlain, government
spokesman, denied in the House OF
Commons that France is preparing to
extend her military occupation of Ger
many. Indirect threats had been
made by France to take over addi
tional German territory unless the
Germans accepted the new demands
of the interallied reparations commits
sion by May 81.
Silver by the ton, gold by the hun
dredweight, pearls by the bushel and
diamonds by the peck, dumped into
wooden boxes, jute sacks, pasteboard
cartons or merely wrapped in parcels
all this treasure hoard awaits open
ing and sorting at the stOrehouse for
valuables confiscated by the soviet gov
ernment from the churches and syna-
gogues of Russia for the benefit of
famine sufferers.
GENERAL
Maj. Edward D'Ardery, engineers
corps, United States army, has been
nominated by President Harding to be
a member of the California debris
commission.
Miles G. Buckingham, Memphis
Tenn, clubman, has been arrested,
charged with Staying his wife, Mrs.
Lorraine Harrison Buckingham. He was
released on $4,000 bond.
The degree of doctor of laws will
be conferred upon President Harding
when he goes to Princeton University
on June to dedicate the Princeton
memorial monument, it has been an
nounced.
Carrying a cargo of more than 5000
rare specimens of African jungle deni
zens, the Dromore Castle has arrived
est creatures aboard was a thorn
tailed lizard, a survival of prehis
toric periods. When angry this crea
ture becomes a mass of bony spikes,
and he was highly indignant when the
ship arrived.
One of the most far-reaching deci.
sions ever reached by the United
States railroad labor board came in
ruling that places a ban on the con-
tract system which many roads are al.
legged to have been evading the boards
orders as TO wages, working conditions
and other matters. The decision, il
is said, may serve to avert the threat.
ened strike of 100000 railway shop
men and switchmen.
Former Governor James NJ. Cox, who
was the Democratic candidate for
President in 1920, has declined the in
yitation of political club to enter the
race for governor of Ohio this year.
The Amalgamated Clothing Work.
ers of America will establish cooper
ative banks in other centers, similar
to the one about to be opened in Chi
cago, it was decided at the final ses.
sion of the biennial convention.
Earl E. Gordon, % years old, stu.
dent of Miami, Okla, must stand
trial ON charges of murder for the
shooting to death of Beckham Cobb,
%, Birmingham, Ala. This was the
decision after Gordon had been given
n preliminary hearing
State Finance Commissioner Hughes
has announced revocation of licenses
of a number of corporations 10 do
business under the blue sky" laws of
Missouri. Some of the revocations are
due to unsatisfactory reports filed by
the corporations, and others to failure
to file as required by the statutes, it