The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-30
FOREIGN

The Speedy sank within seven min
utes
Oberammergau, Germany. is said to
/, be considering an offer of S1OOO,OCO
from American movie interests for the
notion picture rights of the Passion
| Play. The villagers have taken up
! the matter on account Of the heavy
| costs entailed In staging the produc-
tion this year.
The reply of the Turkish National
list government TO the allied peace
note has been completed and com
/ prises acceptance Of the conditions
/ laid down at the Paris conference, &C.
| cording to a statement made In Con-
stantinople by Essad Bey. aide de
camp to Mustapha Kemal Pasha.
The allied conference on the near
/ east has agreed to send joint note
/ to the Angora government assuring the
return of Constantinople to the Turks
and demanding the freedom Of the
straits. 1t is believed also to offer
| the restoration OF Adrianople and
| Thrace to Turkey under certain con-
/ dluons.
Grave warning of disaster to come
| unless Great Britain and France act in
| concert in the Near East is uttered by
! Yiscount Grey Of Falloden, former sec
retary for foreign affairs. In a letter
/ to the London Times he denounces the
| British governments attitude regard
| ing the permanent freedom of the Dar-
| dunelles as a terrible mistake, "the re-
] Iug 70 r1rffb D. a -aI
| of the French flag from Chanak."
A Reuter- dispatch to London from
| Athens says that Admiral Bristol has
informed the Greek government that
the United States will undertake to
protect with destroyers the removal
of the remaining 10000 refugees at
Smyrna if Greece provides the means
of transport. The Americans further
undertake to provide shelter and sus-
tenance for the refugees, and they fix
q limit of one week for their emburkQ-
ton. The Greek government has
gratefully accepted the offer.
Japanese military authorities in To-
kio are credited with the statement
that General Dieterichs, the anti
soviet leader in Vladivostok, and Gen.
Chang TsO-Lln, the war lord of Man
churia, have been negotiating secretly
an agreement under which the arms
left by the japanese in eyacuating ST.
IBERIA will be divided between the ST.
berian general and the Chinese gen.
eral, who plan to join in opposing the
soviet forces and those of the Far
Eastern republic at Chita.
GENERAL
Lieutenant Patton and Lieutenant
Hansen, both of the United States
Marine Corps, Quantico, Va, were in
stantly killed at Logan field, near Bal
timore, when their machine dropped
about 800 feet.
While several hundred school chill
dren were waiting to enter the theater
and see a picture called The Trap" as
guests of the management of the
Strand theater in Pittsburg, a section
of the concreate floor about twelve
feet square in the lobby of the theater
collapsed, precipitating several score of
children into the basement, causing the
death of one and injuries to thirty
others.
George II. Slsler of the st. Louis
Browns, generally rated as the great
est first busemal in the major leagues,
was awarded the American League
trophy offered by the club owners as
a reward to the player who proved of
greatest service to his team during the
1922 championship season. Sisters
name will be the first inscribed on the
100000 baseball monument to be
erected by lie American League in
East Potomac park, Washington, ID.
O., and presented to the government as
a memorial to the national sport and
hall of fame for perpetuating the
memory of its greatest players.
The marriage of former Kaiser VIII
liam will occur not with the freely
given consent of the entire HohenzOl-
lern family, as reported from Berlin,
but despite their bitter opposition and,
above all, against the strongly ex-
pressed wish of the crown prince, ac-
cording to information secured from a
source very close to the former kaiser.
An offer of 100000 francs, about
$4,000, to meet Harry Wills, negro
heavyweight, and 100000 francs, about
$4,000, to meet Harry Greb, Ameri-
can light heavyweight champion, has
been cabled to Battling Sikh, Senegal
lese conqueror of Georges Carpenter,
by Thomas ORourke, matchmaker of
the Republic Athletic Club, in New
York City.
Holding the railway shopmen's strike
conspiracy in restraint of trade, in
interference with Interstate commerce
and carriage of the mails because
"where minds meet together on such
a purpose, n conspiracy exists without