Williams news., 1922-07-28
FOREIGN

fions
 Secretary Edwin Denby of the Amer fcan navy narrowly escaped death at Picking in an airplane accident. When flying at a height of 4,00O feet over the great wall, the engine of the plane broke down. The machine was demol- ished in landing, but MT. Denby was uninjured.
 Former enemy aliens will be ad-
 mitted to the British crown colony of
 Hongkong with the expiration of the
 anti-alien ordinance next month, the
 chairman of the Chamber of Com
 merce of Hongl>ong learned from the
 government sources. The ordinance
 will not be renewed, he was informed.
 Famine and D. Russia are ,4n-
 der control, President Harding was in
 formed by Secretary Hoover in a pre-
 liminary report on the use of United
 States Grain Corporation funds for re-
 lief work. The situation, MT. Hoover
 added, promises to be much better aft
 CT 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, whither 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 a re- cefvershfp for Germany" Another called it slavery
 , Fighting around Shiuchow, 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 pr. ernment Chen overthrow, have re- 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 " 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 he National forces, the attack on this inc now has been opened in earnest and a combined assault is expected | shortly. The Free Staters also have | Tullamore, where they were | received with enthusiasm and popu- | ar rejjajfcing. They now dominate | Kings county.
 
 Federal survey of strike situation ,ives 61O,OOO miners on strike and S5, ,OOO still at work.
 Three companies of Georgia Ma fonal Guardsmen, comprising about 75 men with a machine gun unit, are m patrol duty in Waycross, Ga, to prevent further disorders in connection with the strike of some 1,SOO union workers at the Atlantic Coal Line hops in Waycross.
 William Allen White, editor of the ,mporia Gazette, defied the Kansas ,ourt of Industrial Relations by plac- 1g a contraband placard, expressing for the striking Shopmen in he window of the Gazette office. MT. White posted the placard after he had cen informed that the attorney gen ral had ruled it against the industrial nd anti-syndicalism law.
 William Allen White, editor of the mporia (Kansas) Gazette, who, for averal days, has been displaying a lacard in the window of the Gazette ffice now keeps his sign concealed rom the public. The yellow poster an ouncing i've are for the striking rail- pad men 50 per cent" was removed blowing the issuing of a warrant larging MT. White with violating the lduStrial Court law. The editor i'm ediately made bond for his appear nee when the case is called in the Oc- ,ber term of the District Court.
 Although gasoline refineries in the nited States are breaking all records IT production, the reserve supply of ,as'' for the nations automobiles is eadily growing smaller, the American ork recently. In May, 12,229,975 bar Is of motor fuel were refined, top ng by over a million barrels the high t previous record made in Septem- 1T, 1920. Yet, according to the insti- te's figures, if all production should ase simultaneously, there would be fly eighty-two gallons apiece for the