The St. Johns herald., 1922-11-30
FOREIGN

Ali Renal Bey, editor of the Con- stantinOple anti-Nationalist newspa- l per Sabah, has been arrested and con- demned to death by the Turkish au- thOrities at Constantinople, the allies have been informed
 An attack with machine guns and rifles from nearby house tops was made by Irish Republican forces against the Wellington military bar racks near Dublin. Three National army soldiers were killed and twenty others wounded in the ngntlng, which lasted two hours.
 The recent influx of American jazz bandsmen to supply music for the con- stantly increasing numbers of British CTS who have succumbed to the fox | trOt has had the effect of spreading considerable alarm among English mu. sicians, many of whom claim to have thereby lost their jobs.
 Four thousand Armenian Christians have been killed in the vilayet of Smyrna, and 5000 more are missing, it %as reported by the committee of bishops which has been Investigating the plight of Armenians who took refuge in Smyrna after the Greek de-
 eat. The Armenian losses in money total $18,0OOOOO.
 Terrific havoc was wrought by fire which broke out in the Italian fleet in the harbor at Naples, said a Central in London. The light warcraft Marsala, Russo and Aquila were sunk. Two gunbOats were entirely destroyed. Four torpedo boats were also burned. The fire spread from the ships to the shore, destroying waterfront buildings,
 narves and barges.
 Since the resumption by Ramon de Valera of his title of president of the Irish republic and the reconstruction of the republican council of state, backed by the republican army, the war in Ireland has entered a new phase. Captured correspondence has revealed proposed war measures which have been submitted 10 be Va lera for approval, and it is assumed that whatever is now done is with his sanction.
 The Spanish government, 1t was an- nounced recently, denounced on Nov. 5, the commercial agreement made with the United States, Aug, 1, 1906 Under this agreement, Spain accorded the United States most favored nation treatment, with the exception of spe- cial advantages conceded to Portugal, while the United States agreed to spe- cial rates of duty upon certain Span ish products, notably crude tartar, brandies and wines.
 -s1aN ERAL
 Three persons were injured, one probably fatally, and dozen women and children were saved in thrilling rescues in a fire believed to have been incendiary, which caused $15,000 dam age to a West side aparement build ing in Chicago.
 The soldier bonus, providing $50 a month for ex-service men, passed, ac- cording to figures given out from the State Election Bureau at Oklahoma City. The vote was 1889 majority for the measure. The farmer vote was in favor of the measure.
 Funeral services for Col. Duncan B. Cooper. 79, convicted slayer of former United States Senator Edward Ward l Carmack on the streets of Nashville, | Tenn, in the fall of 1908, were held at his old home in AshwoOd, near | Nashville, a few days ago.
 The three-masted schooner Samuel | Hart of New York was sunk in col lision with the sea-going tug Wyoming | at the entrance of CascO bay, near Portland, Maine. Captain Johnson of .le sailing vessel and three members | of his crew were brought to this port by the Wyoming A haze is said to have been responsible for the collision. The Wyoming was not seriously dam aged.
 The prohibition enforcement meas ure on the California ballot, providing for making the Eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act the law of Cali fornia, was defeated
 Fire that threatened for several hours to destroy the frame buildings at SeIfridge field, the army aviation post near Mt. Clemens, Mich, was brought under control after burning the structure housing the quartermas- ter's department. The stores de- stroyed and the buildings were valued at nearly $5OO,OOO Fifty or more air planes were removed from the hangars and parked on the flying field for safety.
 The Mississippi Supreme Court at