The Colorado statesman., 1922-06-10
FOREIGN

TlaXcala, Mexico, according TO the
newspaper La Raza.
Nine rebels, including Epifaince
Mendez, chief of the anti-government
forces in the state of Michoacan, Mex
leo, have been killed in fight with
federal troops, according to advices to
the war office in Mexico City from
Ixtlan.
At least 10000 Hungarians taken
prisoner by Russia early in the World
war have Joined the red army, accord
ing to returning Hungarian officers
who have just been released by the
Bolsheviki. OF these about sixty are
officers.
Bandits have wrecked an American
relief administration train in Russia
and several officials are reported to
| have been killed, according to Cen
tral News dispatch from Copenhagen
quoting information received in Copen-
hagen from Moscow.
The government has completed ar
| rangements to pay during the coming
fall interest amounting to f25,000,OOO
on the British debt to the United
States. 1t has not been decided whe-
ther a special mission will be sent to
| Washington to discuss the debt with
the American government.
| The brewing of beer is one of the
chief buttresses in Britain's financial
solvency, according to H. Il. Field,
president of the institute of brewing.
Prohibition, he added, in the course of
Il recent address on this subject, would
undoubtedly spell the financial and
economic ruin of the country.
Great Britain is planning to pay the
United States $250,000,000 annually
for interest upon the money borrowed
from the United States during the war,
1t was learned in London from semi
official source. Beginning in October
the interest will be paid in two INSTALL
ments, $125,OO0,OOO in October and
S125,000,000 in the last part of March
of the first of April.
One hundred and seventeen children
in one Russian famine district, fatally
i'll of glanders, were ordered shot by
the local authorities to end their suf-
ferings, according to a Helsingfors
dispatch to the Daily News, London,
quoting the Russian newspaper KraS-
maya Gazette. The dispatch explained
that the Bolshevist officers ordered the
executions on the grounds of common
humanity. The children became in
fected from eating diseased refuse.
The French Olympic committee,
with twenty-five federatiOns represent
ed, held meeting in Paris and ar
rived at a decision to proceed with the
organization of the Olympic games for
1924. The following communication
was issued after the meeting: "The
French Olympic committee has decid-
ed unanimously to continue with all
the means at its disposal the organ
ization of the games for 1924. 1t au-
thorizes its president to make dec
laration to this effect to the interna-
tional Olympic committee and to the
public authorities"
GENERAL
a general advance of from 21a to so
cents yard in the price of fabrics
was announced by the American Wool
|
Five seamen were injured recently
in an explosion aboard the submarine
H-3 while the craft was on patrol duty
off the Coronado islands. forty miles
from San Diego.
Henry Simpson, nominee for Presi-
dent of the United States on the Ma
tional Peoples Christian party ticket
| fA, pnn It,nr,
and Greenback party nominations. for
President in 1880, died of senility at
Broken Arrow, Okla.
What is believed to be the second
death penalty imposed on white wOm-
an in Georgia was returned at Atlanta
recently when jury found Mrs Cora
Lou vinson guilty of murder in the
first degree for the Staying of her hus-
band, DIR. w. ID. Vinson.
Mayor William Hale Thompson of
Chicago has demanded the resignation
of the entire school board of ten mem
bers and the school board attorney,
Henry Bither, recently indicted by the
grand jury ON charges of embezzle-
ment, larceny and conspiracy.
The "big five" Chicago packers
Swift, Morris, Wilson, Armour and
Cudahy-and many of the small pack.
ers have agreed to pay 10 cents hun
dred above the market price on all
hogs shipped to the Chicago live stock
market providing they are free from
tuberculosis and come from farm
where both cattle and hogs are not in
fected with this disease.
Cyanide was placed on the free list
recently after long battle on the tar
iff schedules in the Senate. The com