The Holly chieftain., 1922-04-27
FOREIGN

welcome on the stage at Paris. re-
Gently
Russia refuses to recognize the. debts
contracted by the czarist government
during the war and later by the Keren-
sky government.
Wireless messages received by the
American legation at Picking from
Canton said the expedition Of Sun Vat
Sen, head of the Canton government,
against Cen WI Pei Flu. commander
of central Chinese forces. has been
abandoned definitely.
Italy's population on Dec. l, 1921,
was 1885, 1874, which includes 1,564,-
COL persons in the redeemed prov
inces. The population within the old
boundaries therefore was 1920, ,403,
making an Increase of rs per cent
over the census of 1911.
The Irish Free State constitution has
been completed and Its publication
says dispatch to the London Times
from Dublin. The dispatch adds that
the constitution will be before the cleo
tors for several weeks before the cleo
tions.
Francisco Goronav, who formerly
waswith Gen Manuel Pelaez in the
Hausteca oil region. attacked Potrero
del Llano, state of verh Cruz, with 300
men. The town was sacked and the
rebels carried off valuable plunder, ac-
cOrdlng to the official report made at
Mexico City.
The Portuguese aviators who were
attempting a flight from Portugal to
Brazil Will be unable to proceed in
their hydro-airplane from st. Paul
rocks, few hundred miles short
Of their goal on the American conti-
nent, where they landed because of the
damage to their machine.
Advices from Saloniki, Greece, re-
port great loss of life at Monastir as n
result of an explosion of war material
stored 200 meters from the Monastir
railway station. Hundreds of children
were buried in the ruins of church
on which shells fell, and 1t was be-
lieved 1900 soldiers were buried in the
ruins of their barracks which were de-
molished.
The American embassy in Wilhelm
platz again houses fully accredited
ambassador, the concluding fOrmality
on effecting complete and formal re-
stOratiOn of diplomatic relations be-
tween the United States and Germany
having been disposed OF when Alanzon
B. Houghton placed in the hands of
President Ebert his letters of credence,
designating him Ambassador extra.
ordinary and plenipotentiary" of the
United States government to Germany.
GENERAL
Three women were elected town
councilmen in the municipal election
at Bradley, s. D., defeating five men
seeking the same offices.
Suit for 100000 has been filed in
Omaha, Neb., by Clarence Hall, book
keeper for the Union Pacific railway,
against E. John Brandeis, millionaire
merchant, charging Brandeis with
alternating the affections of his wife,
Cancellation of all contracts for the
showing of films in which Roscoe
t"Fatty'D Arbuckle appears, has been
announced by VIII H. Hays, head of
the Motion Picture Producers Associa-
tion. This action, he said, affected
nearly 10000 contracts.
President Harding recently assured
delegation of far western senators
that the McNary reclamation bill, In
volving the expenditure of $3.50, 900 600
in reclaiming arid lands and swamp
lands in southern and western states,
has his full support.
Former Democratic National Chair
man George White of Marietta, Ohio,
was among eight passengers injured
when Baltimore & Ohio passenger
train was wrecked twelve miles south
of GAINESVILLE Ohio. Engineer Elmer
Preston of Parkersburg. w. Va, was
killed. Whites injuries are said to
have been slight.
I Persuaded to wait until the man they
were after had been Identified by his
alleged victim, mob, variously estl-
mated at 300 to 500, which surrounded
the Haynesville, La, jail, bent on TAX
Ing Ralph Coleman, suspect in the as
sault and Robbery of Tony Pierce, left
100 Of Its members at the jail and
started on cleaning" of Haynesville.
Mary Garden has announced her re-
tirement as director general of abe
Chicago Opera Company, position
which she has held for the past year.
II am an artist, and / have decided
that my place is with the artists, not
over them" she declared in state
mena which was taken MS an indicu-
tion that she would remain with the
organization as singer.
| The best long distance runner in the
country eleven years ago proved him
self the best again when Clarence II.
De Mar of Melrose raced home win