The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-15
FOREIGN

even TO settle the indemnity prODlem,
Premier Lloyd George told the House
of Commons.
A proposal providing for the pay
ment of all the remaining cash INSTALL
ments due this year provided Germany
is granted n moratorium of at least
two years was brought to Paris by
| German representatives
King Fuad / of Egypt intends to visit
| the United States as well as Europe
in his tours this year, in order to ac-
| quaint himself with the new move
ments of the world and so 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 210,-
| 100000 francs and the Dordogne 200.-
100000.
| 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 ]. Herbert Knapp, civil en-
| gineer Of Los Angeles, who has arrived
in London from Constantinople after
three years in the Turkish interior.
DIR. Sun Yat-Sen, deposed president
of South China, sailed into Canton
harbor aboard the gunboat Wingfung,
escorted by two cruisers and one de-
stroyer, after bombarding the Macao
| forts, two miles below the city. Sun
declared he would not again lombard
the city proper.
Thirty persons were killed or
injured by the explosion of
depot of ammunition supplies at
Groden, near CuXhaven, Germany.
The initial explosion caused 9th
ers. Railroad traffic has been sus-
pended because the embankment in the
neighborhood was badly damaged.
A gigantic colonization plan, which
would make the Mennonite movement
of 10000 people almost insignificant
in comparison, is being formulated in
| Mexico. If carried to completion the
plan will give homes to millions of
suffering Russian and Polish Jews. 1t
is proposed to colonize the prosecuted
Jews of Europe on vast tracts of land
in Mexico.
GENERAL
The California State Federation of
Labor has invoked the injunction
against the new minimum wage law
reducing the wage of minors and wom-
en- workers from $16 to $15 week.
Champion Jack Dempsey and Harry
hot, I,,y
signed a contract in New York City to
box for the worlds heavyweight cham
pionship at time and place to be
named later.
Three persons killed, at least two
others so badly injured that their re-
covery is doubtful and property dam
age that may reach S3,000,000 was the
toll of storms and Il tornado that
swept parts of South Dakota and Ne
braska recently.
James II. Wilkerson, a Chicago at
torney, has been nominated by Presi-
dent Harding to be United States dis
trict judge for the northern district of
Illinois. He succeeds Judge X. NJ. Lam
dis, who resigned to become high COM
missioner of baseball.
Governor Hardwick of Atlanta, Ca,
has declared that unless the Ku Klux
Klan discards its masks and removes
all secrecy about its membership that
he will ask the Legislature to take
strong steps to make the wearing of
masks a crime" in Georgia.
More than 1,25O,O0O workers are Idle
in the United States because of strikes,
officials of the department of labor
have estimated. Four strikes of major
Importance are in progress. They are
coal mines, 100000 bituminous and
100000 anthracite; railroad shopmen,
100000; textile workers, New England,
$4,000; garment workers, New York
City, from 10000 to 10000.
NJ. p. Kinkaid, member of the House
of Representatives from the Sixth Ne
braska district, died in Washington.
The death of the Nebraska congress
man occurred at Garfield hospital and
resulted from n complication of dis
eases from which he had been Ill since
early in May. Funeral services were
held at O'Neill, Neb, his home.
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,
women and children were overcome
by the fumes before they were taken
through the darkened tube to outlets
and were lifted to the street, two
levels above the express tracks.
Slight danger of a serious epidemic
| of black rust exists in the spring wheat