The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-04
FOREIGN

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ference of antl-prohlbitionsts at Brus-
sells.
Lord Hardlnge has resigned his post
as British ambassador at Paris. Ac-
cordlng to the newspapers his success
| sor is likely to be Sir George Grahame,
| now the British ambassador to Brus-
sells.
The London Daily Mail states that
| II is anticipated that Earl Balfour will
resign from membership in the assem-
| bly, of the League of Nations owing to
| the fact that he has not been included
in the new cabinet.
The cooperation of the United
| States with the labor bureau of the
| League of Nations was declared high
| ly desirable at Geneva at the interna-
tional labor conference in resolution
presented by the delegates of the Jap
| anese government.
II am not trying to take away any
ones beer; want to give the voters
freedom 10 control the drink trade"
Thus speaks Lady Astor in an election
address issued in which she denies
that she desires to impose prohibition
on the people by some act or bill.
An attempt was made recently to
blow up Oriel House, Dublin, the head
| quarters of the governments criminal
investigation department, Dublin dis
patch states. Several people were
slightly injured and many windows in
the Merton Square district were
broken.
A fierce fight took place recently at
Clifden, Ireland, fortyfive miles north
west of Galway, between National sol
diers and force of irregulars. Eighty
of the Nationals were captured after
"a ten-hOur battle. one of their bar
racks was burned to the ground and
another was blown up by mine.
An urgent call for help was received
| by the Federal government at Mexico
City few days ago from the governor
of Quintana Roo, eastern province Of
Yucatan, who telegraphed, that the en-
| tire coast has been dashed for the last
week bysevere storms, which have de-
stroyed property and crops and caused
some loss of life.
Just one short of 10000 persons en-
| tered Canada during the fiscal year
ended March 81, 1922. according to a
report of the immigration department.
This compared with las, All immigrants
in the year previous. OF the total
5000 were from the United Kingdom,
as compared with 74.2S2 the year pre-
vious, and 29,345 from the United
States, as against 4S,059 in 1921.
Halide Edib Hamm, the famous
Turkish poetess and wife of the vice
president of the Angora government,
plans to leave next month for propa-
ganda tour of England and America.
She is now engaged in gathering sta
tistics and photographs of the devas-
tated districts over which the Greek
army retreated before the Turks,
which she is planning TO use during
her tour.
GENERAL
Tyler Longstreet Redfield, business
man and publisher of Newspaperdom,
| died at his home in Greenwich, Conn,
after weeks illness.
The National Council of Boy Scouts
announced the designation of Mortimer
l.. Schiff, banker of New York, as in
ternatlonal commissioner of the Boy
Scouts of America.
The lives of former Governor Alfred
L. Smith and Governor Nathan n.
Miller, of New York, have been insured
for $4,000 each by Il firm of Wall
,,.b
handling a large number of wagers on
the New York state gubernatorial con
test, it has been announced. The poll
cies were taken out TO protect the firm
against loss in handling the bets in the
event of the death of either candidate,
which would inyalidate these election
wagers.
Three persons were killed and five
others seriously injured when South
| ern Pacific passenger train No. l09
crashed into the rear of II special train
carrying the c. A. Wortham Shows at
Adeline, La.
Leland Tucker, 81 years old, is in
| the county Jail at Missoula, Mont, as
d result of II shooting affair on
| ranch The young man gave himself up
| to n justice of the peace at Alberton,
saying that he had killed his father.
The anllle-length skirt was officially
and permanently removed from the
| wardrobes of 100000 New York women
by the action of delegates to the con-
vention of the New York City Fedora
ton of Womens Clubs in voting unan-
imously to wear dresses no longer than
seven inches from the ground.
Henry WerhlOw, acting manager of
| the Peking, China, branch of the Asia
Banking Corporation, was arrested up
| on his return to New York from China