The Colorado statesman., 1922-09-16
FOREIGN

The Irish parliament has adopted q
resolution expressing confidence in the
government. The vote was 81 to 10
The minority vote was cast by La
borltes.
A wireless dispatch to London from
Smyrna reports the surrender of the
town to the Turks, according TO a Con-
stantinople dispatch TO the Exchange
Telegraph Company.
The Greek losses since the opening
of the campaign are estimated in offi-
cial advices received in Paris from An
CORA at $1,000. OF these 10000 repre-
sent prisoners and the remainder
killed and wounded.
Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Brit.
ish ambassador to France, has deliv-
cred note 10 the French government
in which the British government de-
clares it counts upon the support of
the allies to assure the defense of Con
stantinople and the Gallipoli peninsula.
The abdication of King Constantine
and the resignation of the Triantafil-
lakos cabinet are the two uncompro-
missing conditions on which Eliphther-
Greece, it was declared at the former
Greek premier's headquarters in Paris.
Eight miners and one policeman
we're killed and Il number of persons
injured in riot at Bsmarckhutte,
Polish Upper Silesa. The trouble be
gan when miners objected to being
paid in Polish marks, hitherto having
received their wages in German cur
rency.
Twenty-Five bodies have been recov-
cred from the coal pit in which forty
men were entombed by an explosion at
White Haven. England. Heavy falls of
rock and the presence of much gas are
hampering rescue squads and it is
feared the pit will have to be sealed,
as was the case when 136 workers
were lost in a neighboring mine in
| 1910.
The negotiations between the Ger
/ man government and the Belgian fl.
nancial delegates have fallen through,
owing to the impOssibility of the Bel
| Eian governments acceptance of an
extension of the treasury bills to be
issued by Germany to eighteen months
| instead of six months, in accordance
with the recent decision of the rep
arations commission.
| If Great Britain should have the mis-
fortune to be engaged in another big
war, it is safe to predict that no cases
of "shell shock" will appear among her
list of casualties. WAR neurosis' is
considered to be the best general term.
"Shell shock is declared to be wholly
misleading, because it occurred to pa
/ tients who had never been even with
I'm hearing of a shellburst.
There was a, considerable loss of life
when the German steamer Hammonia
! foundered off Nigo. Confirmation of
this was obtained when the British
steamer Kinfauns Castle docked at
| Southampton with 2S5 of the rescued
passengers on board. Captain Day,
commander of the Kinfauns Castle,
said the loss of life possibly would
reach eighty. Others on board esti-
! mated the dead at 150
GENERAL
Production of anthracite coal has
been resumed, and $4,000 hard coal
strikers have returned to their work
in Pennsylvania, after idleness OF
more than five months.
Fifty-eight men, all but a few of
whom are union miners of Williamson
county, illinois, stand indicted for
murder, us the aftermath of the mas
sacre of June ID, near Herrin.
Abnormally warm weather has
caused considerable damage to the
Nebraska corn crop, according to the
weekly crop summary issued by the
weather bureau ut Lincoln and con-
Cured in by travelling representatives
of local banking institutions, who have
been making survey of the situa-
ton.
After search over rne Panhandle
of Idaho since Aug. 4, Joe Earrirl,
wanted in connection with the shoot
| ing of Joe Marsden, timber cruiser,
was captured in the brush near Her
rick, Wash. The fugitive had been liy-
| ing on berries, fish and herbs ever
since the shooting, which occurred fol-
| lowing Il dispute, over money matters.
Nearly complete returns in Names
state election showed that the entire
Republican ticket had been returned
to office. Senator Frederick Hale and
| GOV. Percival Baxter were returned to
office by smaller pluralties than they
received when elected in 1920. The
! Democratic vote showed a gain of APP
proximately 5000, while the Republl-
can vote fell off more than 10000.
Developments in the United States
air mail service within year will in
clude a twenty-eight-hour mail service
between New York and San, Francisco
and the air mail to the interior OF