, 1922-11-30
FOREIGN

Ing recently, in London.
A motion made by the provincial
government calling upon the dominion
government to prohibit the immigra-
ton of Asiatics into Canada was unan-
imously adopted by the British Column
bia Legislature at Victoria, b. C.
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 es-
tablishing peace in the Near East.
The marriage If Princess Dagmar,
youngest sister of King Christian, to
Lieut.. Joergen Castenskjold, was cele-
brated at Copenhagen. The ceremony
was performed in the church at the
Castle Fredensborg, one of the sum-
mer residences of the Danish king.
Premier POincare of France, Lord
Curzon, British foreign secretary, and
Baron Avezzano, Italian ambassador
to France, reached a complete accord
at a conference In Paris IN the gen.
eral outlines of the attitude to be TAX
en- by the allies toward the Turks at
Lausanne peace conference.
"There is no bolshevism In Mexico
and Consequently there is no reason for
a Fascist movement in the republic"
President Obregon told the newspaper
correspondents In Mexico City recent
ly when questioned relative to reports
that such a movement had been inau-
gurated in Jalapa and Vera Cruz.
Stories of a female pirate leader
and her desperate band Of Chinese
buccaneers, who seized the British
steamer Sultan. overcame the crew
after a sa%nguinary 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.
With bitter cold approaching In
northern Korea, the condition of the
1000 Russian refugees at Gensan is
pitiable, according to arrivals in Seoul.
Korea. Those ashore sleep on the
bare ground or under clapboard
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 n 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 hat they defeated in
their ecent successful campaign
about Smyrna.
GENERAL
Fifty thousand dollars for a single
strawberry plant was paid by Frank
f.. Beatty, president of the II. E. KEEL
logg Company, fruit growers at Three
Rivers, Mich. The price is believed to
be the highest ever paid for u single
strawberry plant.
Frank Bacon, one of the most widely
known actors on the American stage
as the result of his extraordinary sue
cess In the part of Bill Jones in
"Lightnin'," which he helped to write,
died ut his hotel in Chicago. After
four and one-half years in the role,
Bacon was compelled by illness to re-
tire from the cast of the play a week
before his death.
Approximately 400 employees left
their Jobs in the Pennsylvania rail-
road shops at DennisOn. Ohio, follow
Ing the posting of an order that a 80
cent charge will be made for each
meal received in the company's res
taurant. Since the beginning of the
shipments strike July 1 the company
has furnished free lodging and board
% the employees. The men who quit
are said to have taken the places of
strikers.
Whedelm Cuno is Germany's fiji
teenth chancellor and the first non
partisan nonparllamentary holder OF
that post In the new republic. He
has succeeded in forming his new cab
met.
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 mt Callatin, Mo, as the re-
suit of activities of six desperate rob
bers. The bandits were discovered at
work by John Chamberlain, town mar
shall, 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 us a consequence OF
collisions won Its initial case in Coun'
ty Court at Pittsburg. On December