, 1922-06-22
FOREIGN

of 10, who sassinated Premier Taxa
shi in a railway station at Toxic last
Nov. 4.
Londonderry is facing famine as the
result of the cutting off of the usual
lines of food supplies for the city.
Supplies are being sent there from
Glasgow, but these are insufficient.
Incendiaries were again active in Bel
fast and a large factory was destroyed
by fire.
Royal Canadian mounted police re-
Gently raided a farmhouse on st. The
rese Island, near Montreal, and seized
nearly 100000 worth of forged United
States Federal Reserve Bank notes.
Phillip Briere, alias D%edrocker. and
Alfred Jean were arrested. A large
modern printing press was discovered
in the house. The bogus bills were
clever limitations of American curren-
cy, officials said.
King George and Queen Mary have
accepted invitations to be guests ut
dinner on June "a of Ambassador and
Mrs Harvey. Chief Justice and Mrs.
Taft. who will be in London Mt that
time, also will be present. Ambassa-
dor and Mrs. Harvey arranged the din
ner for the king n queen several
weeks ago. When they learned that
Mr.. and Mrs. Taft would be in Eng.
land at the time they included them
in h small company invited.
The allied council of ambassadors,
including Myron It. Herrick of the
United States, recently decided that
the situation in Austria was so des-
perate that they ent pleas to all the
governments interested 20 suspend
heir claims against Austria for TWEEN
ty years in order thai the Termeulen
scheme of credits may operate. All
the great powers, including America,
already have suspended their claims,
but a few of the smaller ones have
not.
Wealthy Chinese with their families
and va%luables are fleeing from Nan
chang. capital of Kiangsi province, as
the army of DIR. Sur Yat-Sen, the
South China leader, advances north
ward. Looting at the hands of the
pVVlo 10 taiCu aillttltslli
missionaries at Nanchang are also pre-
pared to leave If it becomes necessary
for the forces of WI Pel-Fu, the mill
tary power of the Picking government,
to evaeuate Nan-chang.
GENERAL
The death toll of the brief, but ter
rifle, hurricane that swooped down on
New York City passed the sixty mark
with indications hat the total number
of dead might go much higher.
Assertions hal the United States
does not need an army were met by
Secretary Weeks of the War Depart
ment, in an address at the graduating
exercises of the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point with n
statement that "the civilization Of the
world rests on no surer foundation
than did the civilization of Roston' at
the time of the police strike nearly
three years ~
Properties of the Willis corporation
at Elizabeth, N. j., were bid in at auc-
don by the Durant Motor Corporation
for $5,525,0O0. The second highest bid
was made by the Maxwell Motor Car
Company and was $5,500,00G. Sale OF
the Willis plant, which covers thirty
seven acres and had an estimated value
of approximately S11,OO0,OOO, must
await confirmation of Judge Bodine in
the Federal District Court at Newark.
While additional wage cuts swung
over the heads of 100000 more railway
employees and awaited only formal re-
lease by the railroad labor board to
slash another $4,000, 900 from the pay
rolls of the carriers, 1t was rumored
in Chicago that any rail strike grow
ing u of present threats may be di-
rected and financed from Canada as
II means of evading the recent decl-
sion of the United States Supreme
Court holding unions liable for dam
age caused by their members.
Fire originating from an explosion
in the engine room of the Mineral
Lake Lumber Company plant ut Min
eral, forty miles southeast of Tacoma.
destroyed the mill and lumber stored
in the yards, at an estimated loss Of
100000.
A petition signed by more than 1000
Tulsa, Okla, negroes asking that a
special election be called to permit
them to vote on Withdrawing their sec
ton of Tulsa and Incorporating IL as
a new town. was presented recently
to Governor Robertson. The petition
was not in proper form and was re-
turned for corrections before being
considered.
dashed and whipped about by a 100
mile gale more than four and a hnlf
miles above earth, on the verge OF suf-
location, caused by loss of his oxygen
tank, and compelled to cling to ropes
and straps attached to IA parncEute for