The Holly chieftain., 1922-07-27
FOREIGN

~ tiie ITtulltT
tald II delegation Of the League of Ma
tons.
Secretary Edwin DENLY of the Amer
icnn navy narrowly escaped death at
Pcklng In an airplane accident. When
flying ut height Of 1000 feet over
the great wall. the engine Of the plane
broke down. The machine was deInol-
lshed n landing, but Mr.. DENLY was
uninJured
Former enemy aliens will be ad-
mitted to the British crown colony Of
Hongkong with the expiration Of the
anti-ulien ordinance next month, the
chairman of the Chamber Of Com
merce of Hongkong learned from the
government sources. The ordinance
will not be renewed, he wls informed
| Famine and pa. 4 Russia are IN
der control, President Harding was In
orrned by Secretary Hoover in pre-
liminary report on the use Of United
States Grain Corporation funds for re-
lief work. The situation, Mr.. Hoover
added, promises to be much better aft
er the harvest although It is too early
to determine whether American relief
work will be extended.
| Hermann Fischer and Edwin Kern,
who for many days have been pur-
sued by the German police as the as
sassins of Foreign Minister Rathenau.
committed suicide, according to dis
patch to Berlin from Halle The two
men shot themselves, the dispatch
said, as they were about to be cap
tured in the turret of Saaleck castle,
near Bad Koesen, whittier they had
been traced by the police.
There were wild scenes on the
bourse as values of the German mark
| fluctuated in consequence of newspa-
per announcements that the allies
| were going to take over control of Ger
man finances. There was considerable
dealing in foreign securities. The mark
went to 535 for one American dollar.
One newspaper spoke of allied finan-
cial control as "tantamount to re-
| ceivership for Germany" Another
called 1t slavery"
Fighting around Shluchow, seven
miles north of Canton, has resulted
| favorably for General Shen Chung
Ming's forces, according to reports to
Chen. These say the troops of DIR.
Sun Vat Sch. whose south China gov
ernmept Chen overthrew, have re-
treated miles. These forces were part
of the body Sun threw into Kiengsi
province, whose return to Kwangtung,
Sun anticipated, would enable him to
regain his lost capitol, Canton.
Limerick is completely in possession
of the Free State forces. it is official
| ly announced in Dublin, but no details
of the final engagement with the ir.
regular troops are given. With Lime
rick and Waterford in the hands of
| the National forces, the attack on this
| line now has been opened in earnest
and combined assault is expected
shortly The Free Staters also have
occupied Tullamore, where they were
received with enthusiasm and popu-
lar rejjajicing. They now dominate
Kings county.
SENERAL
| Federal survey of strike situation
gives 100000 miners on strike and
1S5.000 still at work.
Three companies of Georgia Ma
tional Guardsmen, comprising about
| 175 men with machine gun unit, are
on patrol duty in Waycross, Ga, to
prevent further disorders in connection
| with the strike of some 1890 union
workers at the Atlantic Coal Line
shops in Waycross.
William Allen White, editor of the
Emporia Gazette, defied the Kansas
Court of Industrial Relations by plac-
ing a contraband placard, expressing
| sympathy for the striking shopmen in
the window of the Gazette office. Mr..
White posted the placard after he had
been informed that the attorney gen
eral had ruled 1t against the industrial
and syndicalism law.
William Allen White, editor of the
Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, who. for
several days, has been displaying a
pacard in the window of the Gazette
office, now keeps his sign concealed
from the public. The yellow poster an
nOuncing 1--WE are for the striking rail-
road men 80 per cent" was removed
following the issuing of n warrant
charging Mr.. White with violating the
Industrial Court law The editor i'm
mediately made bond for his appear
ance when the case is called in the Oc-
tober term of the District Court.
Although gasoline refineries in the
United States are breaking all records
for production, the reserve supply of
"gas" for the nations automobiles is
steadily growing smaller, the American
Petroleum Institute disclosed in New
York recently. In May, 12,229,975 bar
rels of motor fuel We're refined, top
ping by over Il million barrels the high
est previous record made in Septem-
ber, 1920. Yet, according to the insti-
tute's figures, If all production should