, 1922-03-30
FOREIGN

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The American troops on the Rhine,
who have been Withdrawn. will be re-
placed in the Coblenz %bridgehead by
the French, who now occupy the sec
tors on both sides Of Coblenz.
Disturbances in the provinces in
connection with the general lockout
in Denmark have necessitated the call
ing out of troops to patrol the streets.
Thoe Geresh, leader of the Danish
Communists, was arrested at Ran
ders, in Jutland, charged with lese
majesty n agitating for a revolu-
ton.
DIR. Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt has
been appointed German ambassador to
the United States. DIR. Wiedfeldt will
fill the post which has beer vacant
since February, 1917, when Count
Johann Heinrich Won Bernstorff left
Washington, prior to the declaration
of war between the United States and
Germany.
The wettest N dryest spots-at-
mospherically speaking-in the terri
tory of Hawaii during 1921 were only
htH hhto aIdiis oh tnt lSliilu u Nluul,
according to he annual report of the
United States Weather Bureau. The
heaviest rainfall was at Pun Kukui,
Maui, with 102 inches during the year,
while Olowalu, ten miles away, had
the least, 7.54 inches.
Lady Astor Tuesday introduced a
bin in the House of Commons which
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sumes coercion by husbands in cases
of offenses committed by married
women. The law dates back from the
time of King Canute when women were
chattels of heir husbands. Lady Astor
believes that it is an insult to women's
intelligence and independence 10 pre-
sumo that they are capable of being CO.
creed into crime nowadays.
A Stefani agency dispatch to Rome
from Durazzo states that an extraor-
binary tribunal convened at Shiak,
northeast of Durazzo, had sentenced
to death by hanging Captain Bajra-
mgiani, captain of the gendarmerie,
for completely in the recent rising in
Albania, and that the sentence was
carried out Immediately. The tribunal
ruled that the city of Durazzo must
pay 100000 francs damages and Shiak
10000 francs in connection with the
revolt.
William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood
heads a group of American l. w. w. to
whom Premier Lenin has granted a
concession to operate the big Nadejd-
insky iron works in the Ural mountain
region, part of the coal mines in the
Kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories.
Haywood disappeared from the United
States last year while under $4,000
bail after he and about ninety other l.
W.. w. had been convicted of espionage
and conspiracy ngainst the government
In the a He has since taken some
part in the deliberations of the Third
~Internationale at Moscow.
GENERAL
The world record for hosting coal
out of a single mine in one day was
broken at n mine at Zeigler, Ill, when
over 1000 tons, filling 1872 railroad
cars, were raised.
A quart bottle of strong ammonia
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open the safe of the Standard Oil fill
ing station at Benton, Ill. The door
OF the safe succumbed before n strong
charge of soup" So did the bottle.
And the fumes forced the burglar to
decamp without stopping to inyesti-
gate the contents of the safe.
Students at the University of Mich
lgan at Ann Arbor are waging an in
tenslve 'gum-shoe' campaign in an eff
fort TO locate n of their number,
who in a letter in the Michigan Daily.
the student publication, over the sig
nature, ''The Man Who Has Never
Been Kissed severely critlcises the
''promiscuous loving" in which he de-
clares the male students and co-eds in
dulge. Male students are vowing ven
geance on the writer.
A formal call for a strike Of both
anthracite and bituminous coal miners
on April l has been sent out from the
headquarters of the United Mine
Workers OF America at indianapolis.
Nineteen-year-old Charles Schader,
who a few months ago was liberated
by a c%oroner's jury after shooting and
killing his father, has confessed, ac-
cording to Chicago police, the murder
of Policeman Harry J. Buss on Jan. 81.
Schader said he and a companion held
up the officer, n that he fired the
shot that killed Buss. The youth was
freed after killing his father, after
testifying that he did so TO protect his
mother.
Nineteen western railroads entered
a plea Of inability TO pay the present
scale Of wages for shop crafts en-
ployes at n hearing Of the United
States Railroad Labor Board at Chi
cago. The hearing was on the roads
petition for n wag cut. Among the