Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-18
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= The third International, now meet
Ing at Moscow, discussed means to
combat the wave of fascistism.
Visc0untess AstOr was reelected to
the house of commons for the Sutton
division of Plymouth in the British
elections.
There were 10000 fewer children
born in France this year than last,
according to figures published In LIE
Journal at Paris.
The Fascist ministry at Rome
signed new trade treaty between
France and Italy, to further harmo-
NOUS commercial relations
War Secretary Serrano asserted at
Mexico City that the republic is prac-
tically at peace, and that most of the
rebel leaders have captulated.
Ten million marks i'm currency have
disappeared from consignment the
sReichsbank at Berlin was sending to
the provinces, the police revealed,
I Former ministers and generals
charged with high treason as a result
or the Greek military disaster in Asia
Minor were put ON trial at Athens.
Mary MacSwiney, on the ninth day
of her hunger strike in Mountjoy
prison at Dublin, is reported to be
growing weaker in body but stronger
in spirit.
William Tyler Page, clerk of the
house at Washington, has compiled
the new congressional list, showing
:129 new representatives and Is new
senators.
With the cry, Here goes nothing!"
Samuel Garfinkle, twenty-five years
old, jumped from the eleventh story
of the Y. M. c. A. hotel at Chicago
and was killed.
Lieut.. Edwin G. Shrader was in
istantly killed and Lieut.. Francis A..
March was seriously injured when
their airplane crashed at Logan field,
near Baltimore, Nd
A General Pallis, chief of staff of the
Greek army in the Angora campaign,
was arrested after testifying at the
trials of former cabinet members and
generals charged with treason.
Z The Supreme court at Washington
held the Tennessee real estate COM
mission to be constitutional. The de-
cision makes similar commissions
valid in thirteen other states.
President Harding will appear be-
fore congress at Washington in per-
son and read his annual message, &C
cording to tentative plans discussed
by the President and Senator Curtis.
"Our slogan is to sit tight until
the red world revolution breaks out"
Leon Trotzky, commissar for war, told
the international communist leaders
at Moscow, adding that private capt.
talism in Russia is increasing.
White House records for. this adj
ministration were broken by Presi-
dent Harding, who shook hands with
], 45O persons. Most of them were
delegates to the meeting at Washing
ton of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Ambassador r. w. Child at Rome
and Minister J. G. Grew at Berne will
be the American observers at the
Near Eastern conference at Lausanne.
the State department at Washington
announced.
The interallied territorial commits
sion in it's revised map of Hungary,
completed at Budapest, has given
back several villages of the Jugo-Slav
border and $4,000 acres from Czecho-
islovakia and Rumania
Eleven noncommissioned officers
in the Philippine constabulary will be
hanged unless Governor General
Wood at Manila pardons them, since
the Supreme court of the United
States refused to review their cases.
Germany paid the second install
ment of treasury notes to meet Bel
gums PREPARATIONS claims, depositing
with the PREPARATIONS commission at
Paris 55,OOO.OOO gold marks worth of
rotes, payable in Brussels May 10,
1923.
Premier Nikolai Lenin at Moscow
told the congress of the third inter
rationale that Russia needs loan of
20,0OOO00 gold rubles The govern
ment will not attempt to float the
loan externally.
The steamship BroOkdale las ar
rived at Seattle with about $4,000
sealskins saken last summer in the
Pribiloff islands, Alaska. The skins
are worth from $40 to SIS each in
their present raw state. and about $50
each tanned.