The St. Johns herald., 1922-12-07
FOREIGN

partisan nonparliamentary holder of that post in the new republic. He has succeeded in forming his new cab inet.
 Premier Poincare of France, Lord CurzOn, British foreign secretary, and Baron Avezzano, Italian ambassador to France, reached a complete accord at a conference in Paris on the gen. eral outlines of the attitude to be talk en by the allies toward the Turks at Lausanne peace conference.
 'There is no bolshevism in Mexico and consequently there is no reason for Fascist movement in the republic" President Obregon told the newspaper correspondents in Mexico City recent ly when questioned relative to reports that such movement had been inau- gurated in Jalapa and Vera Cruz.
 Stories of a female pirate leader and her desperate band of Chinese buccaneers, who seized the British steamer Sui-An, Overcame the crew after sanguinary battle and then es- SdPCu hAAA InC OdOA c0O on board, were related by the passen- gers who were landed from the vessel at Hongkong.
 Investigation of the Philippine Ma tional bank of Manila by a committee of six members of the Legislature Is proposed in a resolution introduced jointly in the Philippine Senate and House. The resolution instructs such committee particularly to ascertain the truth of the reports of fabulous, exorbitant salaries paid bank officials and employees"
 The government of the Far Eastern Republic of Siberia has been abolished. The assembly voted to unite with the soviet government of Moscow. A res OlutiOn was also adopted by the as- Sembly handing over to the Moscow government control of the entire Far Eastern territory which will form part of Soviet Russia. This makes Siberia an integral part of the government of European Russia.
 With bitter cold approaching in northern Korea, the condition of the 1000 Russian refugees at Gensan is pitiable, according to arrivals in Seoul, Korea. Those ashore sleep on the bare ground or under clapboard sheds, while the crowding aboard the ships in the harbor is reminiscent of the floating hell of the old galley slave days and the Australian convict hulks.
 A bank for farmers, sponsored by the federal government, is one of the projects now being considered by the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico City, following the presentation of a bill to that effect by the Co-operitista party, the dominant party in the lower House. The bank is designed to aid small farmers and will be modelled after similar institutions in the Unit ed States.
 GENERAL
 The Illinois Supreme Court has or dered William Bross Lloyd, million aire Chicago communist, to Joliet pris- on for five years for violation of the state anti-syndicalism law. Judge Thompson denied Lloyd's plea for thirty-day stay to permit him to ar- range for the handling of his $1,80o,- 900 estate.
 Government officials have reserved decision with regard to the proposed consolidation of Armour and Company and Morris and Company, two of the 'big five" Chicago meat packing con- cerns, which was placed before them by J. Ogden Armour. It was indicated there would be no final opinion for some days.
 Frank Bacon, one of the most widely known actors on the American stage as the result of his extraordinary sue cess in the part of Bill Jones in "Lightnin'," which he helped to write, died at his hotel in Chicago. After four and one-half years in the role, Bacon was compelled by illness to re- tire from the cast of the play a week before his death.
 Measures for the immediate release of the foreign missionaries Kidnapped by Chinese bandits were demanded of the Picking government by the Amer ican, British, Italian, French and Swe- dish ministers, who acted under in- structions of their governments.
 Discovery was announced at Omaha by Dr. Robert F. Glider, an archaeolO- gist of this city, of two mounds near Blair, Neb., which he estimated con tained the skeletons of at least 1000 humans, probably Indians, so ancient that there are no modern records of them. Human bones were found pro- truding from the mounds, which were