The Holly chieftain., 1922-06-22
FOREIGN

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Of 10. who assasslnated Premier Taxa
shi in a railway station at Toxic last
Nov. 4.
Londonderry is facing favine as the
result Of the cutting off of the usual
lines Of food supplies for the city.
Supplies are being sent there from
Glasgow, but these are insufficient
Incendiaries were again active in Bel
fast and a large fnctory was destroyed
by fire.
King George and Queen Mary have
accepted Invitations to be guests a,
dinner on June "a of Ambassador ano
Mrs. Harvey. Chief Justice and Mrs
Taft. who will be in London at that
time, also will be present. Ambassa-
dor and Mrs. Harvey arranged the din
ner for the king and queen several
weeks ago. When they learned thai
Mr. and Mrs Taft would be In Eng.
land at the time they included them
in the small company invited.
The allied council of ambassadors
including Myron T. Herrick of the
| United States, recently decided that
the situation In Austria was so des-
perate that they sent pleas to all the
governments Interested to suspend
their claims against Austria for TWEEN.
ty years in order that the Termeulen
scheme of credits may operate. All
the great powers, including America,
already have suspended their claims,
but few of the smaller ones have
not.
Gen. Chen Chung Ming, formerly
civil governor of Kwantung province,
whose troops seized Canton, an
nounced that the south China, or
Canton government, has been termi-
mated and that henceforth Canton
nizing the old republican parliament.
Dispatches from Canton describe the
collapse of the southern government
as complete, Suns military forces
crushed and the former Canton pres
ident himself fugitive.
Quereshi, the noncooperationist
leader in British India, who sue
ceeded Mohandas Gandhi when the
latter was arrested and imprisoned
op charges of sedition. has been sem
teneed to a years rigorous imprison-
ment and to pay fine of 500 rupees,
with further three months impris-
onment in default of payment.
Quereshi was arrested after publica-
tion of alleged seditious articles in
the newspaper. Young India. The
publisher and printer of Young In
dia received n similar sentence.
GENERAL
Assertions that the United States
does not need an army were met by
Secretary Weeks of the War Depart
ment, in an address Mt the graduating
exercises of the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point with
statement that "the civilization of the
world rests on no surer foundation
than did the civilization of Boston" at
the time Of the police strike nearly
three years ago.
At New York City, Norwich, hailed
as the successor of Man O. War. met
his master in Nhiskaway, a colt that
he defeated last year. 1t happened
in the Carlton stakes at Aqueduct be-
fore a monster crowd that was
amazed to see BENJAMIN Blocks won
der colt trailing eight lengths behind
H. P. Whitney's entry at the finish.
Whiskaway eased up, came within
four-fifths of a second of tying the
American record for the mile.
Lashed and whipped about by 100
mile gale more than four and half
miles above earth, on the terge Of suf-
location, caused by loss Of bis oxygen
tank, and compelled to cling to ropes
and straps attached to a parachute for
fear that whirling cross current
might weaken and cause them 70 break
are several Of the mere" details relat-
ed by Capt. A. w. Stevens, aerial pho
tographer, McCook field, Dayton, Ohio,
who recently broke the worlds para
chute jump record when he descended
24,2O8 feet.
Persons who never pay their bills,
generally referred to rs dead beats"
are rapidly disappearing, according to
delegates Of the Retail Credit Mems
Association, In their tenth annual con-
vention at Cleveland, Ohio.
Herself slightly crippled from birth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Laniger Howell, who
for many years conducted fashion
able boarding house in Newark. N.
j., left s2Ss,000 Of her 100000 es.
tate to the Newark Home for
Crippled Children. her will. probated
recently. disclosed. Her. husband
was cripple for many years and
her mother also was crippled.
While additional wage cuts swung
over the heads Of $50, 600 more railway
employees and awaited only formal re-
lease by the railroad labor board to
slash another $4,000. 900 from the pay
rolls Of the carriers IL was rumOred