The St. Johns herald., 1922-12-28
FOREIGN

and other government officials in Dub
 lin were attacked by armed men and
 set on fire, recently.
 A reported plot of Chinese bandits,
 who are said to have beeI joined by
 POO Japanese roughs, to loot Tsing
 Tao, China, and k,dnap all foreigners
 created consternatiOn in the foreign colony.
 Rory O'ConnOr and Liam Mellowes
 and two Uther Irish rebels were exc
 cuted in Mount Joy prison in Dublin. The other two men executed were
 John McKilvey and Richard Barrett, both prominent Republicans.
 The London conference of allied premiers, called to arrange the basis for an allied financial and repara- tiOns conference in Brussels, has broken down. The premiers had talk en adjournment until Jan. 2.
 President COsgrave announced to the Irish Parliament that Deputy Sean
 Hales had been shot and killed, and Deputy Patrick O'Maille, who was dep- uty speaker, had been wounded while they were on their way to the ParIia- ment session.
 The Seanad Eireann, or upper house of the Irish Free State Parlia- ment, was organized with the election of Dr. George Sigerson, professor of biology in the University of Dublin, as temporary chairman and the admins tratiOn of the oath of allegiance to the senators.
 The Nobel peace prize has been presented to Dr. Fridtjof Nansen of Christiana, Norway. The award was made for Dr. Nansens work in re- lieving the starving populations of Russia and Asia Minor on behalf of the League of Nations and for his en- deavOrs to promote a brotherhood of nations.
 Rafet Pasha is trying to find hus- bands for 150 members of the former sultan's harem. The women range in age from 17 to 35 years. All of them are penniless. Rafet also is anxious to solve the fate of the former mOn- arch's numerous progeny, as well as that of twenty princes and princesses of the royal blood Tt ought not to be difficult to find husbands or helpmates for these wOmen," said palace func- tiOnary. "They all were selected for their beauty, youth and figure. Most of them were gifts to the sultan from governors of the provinces. They have matchless cOmplexions, dark eyes and long chestnut cOlored hair." GENERAL
 Damage estimated at $2O,OOO was caused by fire which broke out at the Culver Military Academy at Culver, Ind.
 A campaign to enlist 500O0 minis ters and through them 40,00O,000 church members to take an active part in the 1924 presidential election was announced by the Rev. J. Clover Mons ma, editor of the Ministers monthly in Chicago.
 George Leroy Specs, confessed slayer of John Shurtz, MiddletOwn, Iowa, farmer, at midnight, Sept. F last, was sentenced to life imprisOn- ment in the penitentiary at Fort Madi- son, Iowa, and within one hour after sentence he was in the prison, nine teen miles away.
 "Do your Christmas mailing early' and other slogans designed to impress upon holiday users the importance of cooperation with the postal author ities were flashed from motion picture screens in all parts of the country, it was announced in New York by Post master Morgan.
 One man was killed, two policemen were wounded, one probably fatally, and a companion of the dead man is in a hospital, the result of a shooting affray at Crestline, Ohio. The off, cers suspected the men of being boot Ieggers. When they approached them the men opened fire, the officers said. The patrolmen returned the fire, one of the men dropping dead from wounds.
 High school fraternities scored vic tory in the Missouri Supreme Court at Jefferson City, when the court held that students have the right to become members of secret societies and en- joined school boards from enforcing the rule against such organizations.
 Proof that Bolshevik Russia is high- Iv dissatisfied with Turkey because IS- met Pasha has abandoned the RuE- sians on the question of the Dardan- elles was found at Lausanne when M. Tchitcherin, the soviet foreign minis ter. issued an urgent invitation to the Turkish journalists, and in the course