The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-08
FOREIGN

naped by MeXicans, escaped without
the ransom his captors demanded hav-
ing been paid, according to informa-
ton from Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Germany manufactured a total of
100000 field guns, rifles and pistols
during the war according to statistics
Just made public, besides hundreds of
| millions of tons of munitions Enough
barbed wire alone was produced to
encircle Germany with a barricade
sixty-flve meters deep.
The entire Swedish, Finish and
Norwegian paper output, the newspa-
pers announce, will be sold to America.
| Most of the big paper mills have signed
| an agreement to export through
projected American syndicate headed
by one of the officials of the Canadian
| Export Paper Company.
The treaty if Rappalo signed be-
| tween Russia and Germany during the
| Genoa conference, has been ratified by
| the reichstag. There was no debate
| over the question of ratification, with
| the exception of remarks by Com
| munist deputy, who demanded that the
| treaty be amplified to include the 9th
er soviet republic.
Soviet Russia wants to win the
worlds confidence, so that tangible
| help may come from the outside world.
| Soviet Russia, without awaiting assist
ance from abroad, is itself laboring to
| improve Russla's financial condition,
| and has achieved results. These were
| the two main constructive thoughts
which the Bolshevist delegates at The
Hague have tried to fix in the public
mind.
Despite his repeated assurances that
he is no longer a bandit, but a gentle
man farmer of the state of Durango.
the movements of Francisco villa are
| being closely watched in official cir
| cles in Mexico City. To some observ-
ers it is difficult to believe that this
| former guerrilla has accustomed him
| self to the routine of ranch life and is
now finding in his growing crops and
| lowing herds the contentment that
man of his tremendous nervous energy
| derived in the past from daring deeds
| of warfare.
GENERAL
The fire which swept the Locust
Point river front of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Baltimore recently,
| caused damage estimated by the com
pany at S4,SO4 800 and seriously threat
ened the public health service hospital
at Fort McHenry.
Creditors of the stock brokerage
firm of Kardos & Burke, New York,
which failed for S3,O0O,0O0, were in
formed at a meeting that the two part
ners, John Burke, former treasurer Of
the United States and governor of
| North Dakota, and Louis Montgomery
Kardos, Jr., were penniless.
| Eleven persons were killed and sew
enty-two injured when the midnight
flyer" on the Philadelphia & Reading
| railroad left the rails, through the mis-
take of signalman, and plunged down
thirty-foot embankment near Win
| slow Junction, n. j., according to a
| complete casualty list issued by the
| state police.
| Thibodaux, surprise horse of the
| Kentucky Special, when he ran a SEN
sational second to Whiskaway and
beat the great Norwich, came back and
won the Latonia derby from Yoshimi
and Olympus in the easiest kind of
fashion. Withdrawal of Broomster
| and Margaret Winsor had reduced the
field to three starters.
The National Industrial Traffic
League at Chicago issued a statement
| regarding the effect the recent Coro-
nado case might have upon the nation
wide rail strike. The statement, in part,
follows: "If the strike should be con-
Quoted with violence and the destruc-
ton of life and property ensues, the
organizations which have promoted the
strike their officers and agents. may
be held liable in civil damages for
| losses entailed.
Bennie Leonard, world champion
lightweight fighter, smashed Rocky
Kansas almost at will all over the ring
in the eighth round of their scheduled
ten-round titular contest at Michigan
| City, Ind, and the Buffalo, n. Y, chal-
| lengers seconds threw in the sponge
to save their man from something
more than technical knockout.
Watermelons for which Georgia
growers are glad to get from to 171a
cents each, are selling in the retail
market in New York City at 70 cents
to $1.50, said a statement issued by
Hershell S. Jones, Director of the State
Department Bureau of Farms and
Markets. High freight rates, mostly
equally high carriage charges and the
"bit" taken in turn by four middlemen
make up the difference, he said.
Adjt. Gen. G. E. Black today visited
the scene of the recent minn 1ynr Mt