The Holly chieftain., 1922-08-31
| FOREIGN


of men born In 1901.
The newspapers of Naples report the
discovery by the police of band of
criminals whose principal activities
were devoted to counterfeiting Ameri-
| can bank notes
| The Turkish Nationalists launched
| a mass attack against Afiun Karahis-
sar in an attempt to pierce the Greek
front. 1t is officially stated that they
were repulsed by the Greeks.
More than f3O.0oO,OOO has been sub
scribed In the new Indian government
loan. constituting a record for state
borrowing in India for single year,
says Reuters dispatch from Cal
cutta.
A small party of Free State troops
| was ambushed recently ut Glasson,
village near Athlone, by thirty Repub-
| licans. Free State Lieutenant McCor-
| mack was shot dead and the driver of
his car badly wounded. A civilian
wounded during the fighting sue
| cumbed later.
A detachment of fascist, after at
tending the unveiling of war memo
rial at Olevano, near Rome, fell into
a Communist ambush at San Vito.
One Communist and fascist are
dead. Eight on both sides were
wounded. Troops and police were
rushed to the spot.
Indications that Mexicos status is
being considered in League of Nation
circles were received with much in
terest In newspaper circles In Mexico
City, but there was no inclination to
believe that the Mexican government
would make formal overtures for ad-
mission to the League.
Shanghai. = Sun Yat-Sen, former
president of China and later of South
China, who has been leading confer
ences In Shanghai on plans to re-
unity the country, outlined plan to
rehabilitate China's finances by hav-
Ing America take over China's debts
to European countries on refunding
basis, as part payment Of European
debts to the United States.
The POlish-American Chamber of
Commerce announces that In order to
increase trade relations between the
United States and Poland. an invita-
ton to visit Poland has been extended
to various American trade concerns
and financial institutions. In answer
to this invitation, twenty-five Ameri-
| can organizations have promised to
send their delegates to Poland.
Indian squaws, with eloquent shoul-
ders, and braves whose feet have
learned the tricks of the Broadway
dance palaces. must go back to the old
fashioned, demurely simple waltz, says
an edict Of the council Of Walpole isl
| and, Ontario. Chief Redknife-inci-
dentally manager of the island band,
has protested against the invasion of
the saxophone on the island. "They
want to dance all night" says the
chief, "and no one wants to work next
day. Once they were satisfied with an
ordinary band Now they want cab
arets."
GENERAL
Mrs. Bell Armstrong Whitney, fash
ion expert and former newspaper
woman of Boston, is dead in Paris, ac-
cording to cablegram received re-
Gently.
The twelfth annual tournament of
the Union Printers International
Baseball League opened In Cleveland,
Ohio, the Cincinnati and Toronto
teams being eliminated in the first
round Of play. st. Paul defeated Gin
cinnati, to 4, and Cleveland won
from Toronto, 9 to 8.
The skull of Miss Mona Skinner,
Bloomington, ILL.,, school teacher,
who, 1t was at first believed,
died in the explosion of gas
oline stove at the home of a
relative in Greeley, Colo, had been
fractured, local authorities said after
exhumation Of the young woman's body
at Leroy, Ill. Albert Lowe, her bro
ther-in-law, is held at Greeley on a
murder charge.
Tangible assets of Allan A. Ryan,
Wall Street broker and manipulation of
the famous "Stutz corner" who re-
Gently went into bankruptcy with la
bilities Of $1s,OOO.0OO. were sold for
| $500.
The rapid spread Of typhus in Po-
land constitutes menace to the while
world, said Health Commissioner Roy
al s. Copeland on his return to New
York from Europe, where he has been
studying health conditions.
Agreements which will Immediately
open mines in central Pennsylvania
with an annual output Of 100000
tons of coal, were signed at Altoona
by operators and representatives Of
District No. 2, United Mine Workers.
The old wage scales with the check
off were accepted.
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