, 1922-03-23
FOREIGN

lect It's war debts from France.
Between 100000 and SOC, 600 British
engineers and machinists are idle as
a result of the employers lockout.
About 5000 workshops were said to be
closed.
The first Swiss hospital train for
Russian children started for Volga
district a few days ago. 1t consisted
of thirty-five cars of food int medical
supplies, with which it is hoped to sup
port 10000 children for three months.
canon de Valera has issued "a man
ifesto launching a new Irish %organiza-
ton h objects of which are to oh
tain international recognition of the
Irish Republic and reputation of the
proposed agreement with Great Brit
ain.
Gen. Ataman Gregorieff Semenoff,
Siberian anti-Bolshevist leader, hopes
to unite the people of Siberia under n
new Siberian republic, he declared up
on his arrival at Victoria, b. c., from
the Far East on the liner Empress of
Russia.
Accompanying the Fifth American
infantry regiment for Antwerp on the
first stage of the voyage to the Unit
ed States were t~hirty-one German
brides of soldiers, and eight babies
born under the protection of the Stars
and Stripes on the Rhine.
When the grandfather of native
twins, born at Lagawi in the noun
tain province, was arrested recently
for killing one of the babies in accord
ance with tribal custom, he was 'sur-
prised and indignant at being arrested
for what he considered his personal
and private affairs" says an official
Philippine co~nstabulary report.
Commenting on the American gov
ernment's decision not to participate
In the Genoa conference, the Tempo,
Rome, says the American note might
seem to be "a premeditated act of ma
tional egotism, by which, under the
pretext of checking the ambitions of
others, the United States tries to
make its own political and financial
interests predominant"
War is threatened against .'oland
by Russia in a sharp note received in
Warsaw from Moscow. 1t was dis
patched by George Tchiterin, the COM
missar for foreign affairs IL. the soviet
government and protested against
raids over the Russian frontier by Pol
ish irregulars. A repetition of the
raids would be considered cause for
declaration of war by the soviet gov
eminent. the note said.
William d. ("Big Bill'') Haywood
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whom Premier Lenin has granted a
concession TO operate the big Nadejd-
insky iron works in the Ural mountain
region, part OF the coal mines in the
Kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories.
Haywood disappeared from the United
States last "a while under S65, 600
bail after he and about ninety other 1.
w. W. had been convicted of espionage
and conspiracy against the government
in he war. He has since taken some
part in the deliberations of the Third
Internationale at Moscow.
GENERAL
Mrs. John Hawley was elected may
or of Sandstone. Mimi, over Chris Rid
isuhle, former mayor.
1t was announced at general offices
of the Missouri Pacific railroad at st.
Louis recently that LOO men laid off
in November have been ordered to re-
port for work.
Gen. Virgil Young Cook. 20 years
old, former grand commander of the
United Confederate Veterans, died ut
his home at Batesvllle, Ark, recently.
He is survived by his widow and three
daughters.
Women are to hold the pursestrings
of more than a dozen Michigan viii
lagos that held elections recently. Re
turns completed show that women can
didates for treasurer were successful
In five villages in Van Buren, county,
five In Lenawee county INT one in
Kalamazoo county.
Carlton NJ. Carver, coal operator,
polled 9,453 votes for mayor against
1882 by Mayor II. II. Barton in the
recent primary election at Des Moines,
Iowa. Ernest Quick, labor candidate.
was eliminated. He polled 5,102 votes.
Announcement that 1t would cease
the operation of all street cars in Au-
Susth, Va, was hnuue ny it AuSuslu-
Aiken Railway & Electric Corporation,
following n period of intense jltney
competition with the street railway
service, which is understood to have
seriously affected
The arrest for intoxication OF Fred.
erlck II. Wedge, student at the Hnr-
ward graduate school Of education, was
a matter of formal record In the Dis
trict Court Mt Waterfowl. Mass, re-
Gently. The police blotter containing
the latest entry in the spectacular Gu
reer of "Kid" Wedge. Wisconsin lum-
berjnck, prize fighter, University of
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