The St. Johns herald., 1922-11-23
FOREIGN

reDeI leader, was executed by a firing
 squad at Tepehuantes, Durango, Mex
 ico, after brief court-martial. He met
 death calmly.
 Alfred Capus, editor of the Figaro
 member of the French Academy and
 one of Frances best known writers on
 political and literary subjects, died in
 Paris recently.
 Lord Hardinge has resigned his post
 as British ambassador at Paris. Ac-
 cording to the newspapers his success
 sor is likely to be Sir George Grahame,
 now the British ambassador to Brus-
 sells.
 The referendum held to decide whether Rhodesia should be incOrpOr- ated in the South Africa Union result ed in majority of 2,7S5 against The vote against incorporation was STA and in favor of it 5,9S9.
 On the invitation of Hungarian fem inists, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the American suffrage leader, has arrived in Budapest to- study the effects of woman suffrage in Hungary. She also has been requested to attempt to effect a union among the warning women's groups.
 A fierce fight took place recently at Clifden, Ireland, forty-five miles north west of Galway, between National sol diers and force. of irregulars. Eighty of the Nationals were captured after a ten-hOur battle. One of their bar racks was burned to the ground and another was blown up by a mine.
 The Kings return to his hunting lodge at San Rossore, where he left his family when called to Rome by the recent Fascist, is considered evidence that conditions in Rome are entirely normal. The new government is ab- sOrbed in starting affairs of state on what is announced to be a healthier and more patriotic line.
 An urgent call for help was received by the Federal government at Mexico City few days ago from the governor of Quintana Roo, eastern province of Yucatan, who telegraphed that the en- tire coast has been dashed for the last week by severe storms, which have de- strOyed property and crops and caused some loss of life.
 The Mexican Petroleum Company closed it's refinery and terminal works in TampicO, throwing large number of men out of work The company is not desirous of investing more, money in Mexico under the present conditions. An official. of the company complains of the heavy oil taxes, lack of security and the threatened attack on land ti- ties.
 The American occupation authori- ties in COblenz have offered a reward of 100000 marks for the apprehension of the assailant of former Major J. A. Sourwine, who was taken from train arriving in Frankfort, suffering from wounds inflicted by a robber. The re- ward offered is in addition to the | 5O,000 marks offered by the German authorities.
 GENERAL
 Tyler Longstreet Redfield, business man and publisher of Newspaperdom, died at his home in Greenwich, Conn, after weeks illness.
 Officials of neither the Hudson Coal Company nor the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company took action in the Oliphant coal situation, in which fuel cOnfiscated three cars of stove coal on railroad siding. The coal has been delivered to the churches and schools of Scranton, Pa, the latter having been closed for two weeks be- cause of lack of fuel.
 The equivalent in the number of words of twenty-six novels was writ ten by five court stenOgraphers during the nine days of the governments in- junction proceedings. against striking railway employees in Chicago. ''The verbatim report of the record contains 2, 100000 worlds" said Claude w. You ker, chief stenOgrapher, "and is the biggest record of any proceedings in the Federal Court since the famous I. W. W. trial in 1918"
 Fifteen persons-men, women and Cleveland, Ohio, re- gently on a special train for New York. where they will be deported.
 The National Council of Boy Scouts the designation of Mortimer L. Schiff, banker of New York, as in- ternational commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America.
 Neil A. Miller, Union Pacific railroad was killed near Waterloo, Neb., when the top of freight car in a train, passing on a parallel track was blown into the cab of his engine.
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