Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-07-13
|FoREIGN

eirO, have surrendered, the brlzlnan
embassy ut Washington has been noti-
fled.
King Fuad of Egypt intends to visit
tho United States as well as Europe
in his tours this year, in order to &C.
quaint himself with the new move
ments Of the world and 80 be better
qualified to govern his people wisely.
The reparations plan prepared by
the French Minister Of Public Works
lie Trocquer provides for improve
ments in the Rhone river costing $780,
100000 francs, the Truvere river 21O,-
100000 francs and the Dordogne 2OO,-
100000.
Three Methodist mission chapels,
between Changshu and Kianfu, prov
ince of Kiangsl, China, were looted and
destroyed during the recent mutiny of
troops in that province, according to
advices received from Nanchang, cap
ital of Kiangsl.
Germany manufactured total of
100000 field guns, rifles and pistols
during the war, according to statistics
just made public, besides hundreds of
millions of tons Of munitions. Enough
barbed wire alone was produced to
encircle Germany with u barricade
sixty-five meters deep.
The Americans are being secretly
murdered by the Turks in Asia Minor
and reports then circulated that they
died OF typhus and other diseases, ac-
cording to J. Herbert Knapp, civil en-
gineer Of Los Angeles. who has arrived
in London from Constantinople after
three years in the Turkish interior.
The entire Swedish, Finish and
Norwegian paper output, the newspa-
pers announce, will be sold to America.
Most of the big paper mills have signed
an agreement to export through a
projected American syndicate headed
by one of the officials of the Canadian
Export Paper Company. .-n
The treaty If RappalO signed be-
tween Russia and Germany during the
Genoa conference, has been ratified by
the reichstag. There was no debate
the exception Of remarks by Com
munist deputy, who demanded that the
treaty be amplified to include the 9TH
er soviet republic.
Soviet Russia wants to win the
worlds confidence. SO that tangible
help may come from the outside world.
Soviet Russia, without awaiting assist
ance from abroad, is itself laboring to
improve Russia's financial condition,
and has achieved results. These were
the two main constructive thoughts
which the Bolshevlst delegates ut The
Hague have tried to fix in the public
mind.
GENERAL
The calling out Of troops In Illinois,
the assembling Of soldiers in half a
dozen other states and the Intervention
of the Federal Courts In the nation
wide strike of railway shopmen are
latest events in the rail walk out.
Eleven persons were killed md sew
enty-two injured when the midnight
flyer" on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad left the rails, through the mis-
take of a signalman, and plunged down
u thirty-fOot embankment near Win
slow Junction, N. j.. according to n
complete casualty list issued by the
state police.
Omer r. Woods, former probate
Judge in Idaho, stands convicted Of the
murder of his wife, Maryetta Woods,
who was burned to death as she lay in
bed In the Woods apartment home in
Salt Lake City last Jan. o. 1t was the
contention Of the prosecution ut the
trial that Woods killed his wife to col
lect $4,000 life insurance.
Thibodaux, surprise horse of the
Kentucky Special, when he ran a SEN
sational second to Whiskaway and
beat the great Norwich, came back and
won the Latonia derby from Yoshimi
and Olympus in the easiest kind of
fashion. Withdrawal of Broomster
and Margaret Winsor had reduced the
field to three starters.
Bennie Leonard, world champion
lightweight fighter, smashed Rocky
Kansas almost at will all over the ring
in the eighth round Of their scheduled
ten-round titular contest at Michigan
City, Ind, and the Buffalo, N. Y, chal-
lenger's seconds threw in the sponge
to save their man from something
more than technical knockout.
Watermelons for which Georgia
growers are glad to get from 8 to 171k
cents each, are selling in the retail
market In New York City ut 20 cents
to $1.50, said statement issued by
Hershell s. Jones, Director of the State
Department Bureau of Farms and
Markets. High freight rates, mostly
equally high carriage charges and the
"bit" taken in turn by four middlemen
make up the difference. he said.
Panic reigned seventy-five feet un.
der ground when fire started on a
subway express In New York City.
Deadly gas filled the ten cars when
guards attacked the blaze with fire
extinguishers and about $50 men,
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