The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-30
FOREIGN

WdB uudumOuSiy cleCteu leducE VI tuo
National Liberals at the party meet
ing recently. in London.
A motion made by the provincial
government calling upon the dominion
government to prohibit the lmmigra-
ton Of Asiatics into Canada was unan-
imousIy adopted by the British Colum-
bia Legislature at Victoria. B. G.
American and British interests are
taking steps to remove property and
personnel from Constantinople in the
event that the Lausanne conference
fails to accomplish its purpose Of e.
tablishing peace In the Near East.
The marriage of Princess Dagmar.
youngest sister of King Christian, to
Lieut.. Joergen CastenskjoId, was cele-
brated at Copenhagen. The ceremony
was performed In the church at the
Castle Fredensb0rg. one Of the sum-
mer residences of the Danish king.
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-
capped with all the cash and valuables
ON board, were related by the passen-
gers who were landed from the vessel
at Hongkong.
Richard Washburn Child. chief
American spokesman at the near east
ern conference at Lausanne, amazed
the other delegations by reiterating the
insistence of the United States upon
the open door policy in Turkey. He
read the aide-memoire delivered on
Oct. 80 to Great Britain, France and
Italy, and said that the American gov
ernment and public supported this pol
icy.
With bitter cold approaching In
northern Korea, the condition Of the
1000 Russian refugees at Gensan is
pitiabIe. according to arrivals In Seoul.
Korea. Those ashore sleep on the
bare ground or under cIapboard
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.
Ismet Pasha and his associates Of
the Turkish delegation to the confer
ence at Lausanne appear less conf
dent than when they arrived and the
feeling is growing that they will re-
duce their program materially In the
hope of restoring peace and re-estab-
fishing trade relations with the out
side world. 1t Is becoming evident
that they are beginning to realize that
1t was Greece and not the great pow
ers of Europe that they defeated in
their recent successful campaign
about Smyrna.
GENERAL
Another sensational angle in the
marital relations Of Prof. John P. Tier
nan and Mrs. Augusta Tiernan, princl-
pals in the Poulin parerrity case, de-
veloped when the professor, whose de-
cree Of divorce from Mrs. Tiernan was
invalidated by the South Bend, Ind,
Superior Court following his marriage
to Mrs. Blanche Brimmer, returned to
South Bend and effected reconcilla-
ton with the first Mrs. Tiernan.
Approximately 400 employees left
their jobs In the Pennsylvania rail-
road shops at Dennison, Ohio. follow
Ing the posting Of an oriier that 85-
cent charge will be made for each
meal received In the c0mpany's res
taurant Since the beginning Of the
shopmen's strike July ! the company
has furnished free lodging and board
the employees. The men who quit
are said to have taken the places of
strikers.
Fifteen convicts, four Of them serv-
ing life terms, made their escape from
the Marquette. Mich, branch prison.
Later two of them were captured, the
searchers being impeded by a hea:..
snow storm. Crawling through steam
pipe tunnel, which runs under the pris-
on yard and one Of the cell blocks, the
fugitives made their way into the base
ment under the warden's residence by
digging under three concrete walls and
a steel door.
Another series of earth tremors has
shaken a very considerable area along
the Chilean coast, covering largely the
zone which suffered most from the
earthquake Of two weeks ago.
Three men are seriously wounded,
the First National Bank is wrecked.
telephone and telegraph wires are all
cut and $4,000 Is missing from the
bank safe ut callatin, No., as the re-
suit of activities Of six desperate rob-
bers. The bandits were discovered at
work by John Chamberlain, town mar
shal, while robbing the safe. Binding
him, the bandits set off two powerful
explosions of nitroglycerin, wrecking
the bank.
The Pennsylvania system, which re-
Gently announced Its determination to
file counter suits against motorists
seeking damages as consequence Of
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