The St. Johns herald., 1922-10-05
FOREIGN

ASuO1uS Ino 1urklSn SCrd1LS, put Q0pre- eating the warlike tone of the British semi-official statement of Saturday. Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Brit ish ambassador to France, has deliv- cred a note to the French government in which the British government de clares it counts upon the support of the allies to assure the defense of Con- stantinOple and the GallipOH peninsula.
 Eight miners and one policeman were killed and a number of persons injured in a riot at Bismarckhutte, Polish Upper Silesia. The trouble be- gan when miners objected to being paid in Polish marks, hitherto having received their wages in German cur rency.
 EamOnn de Valera will refuse to ac- cept amnesty from the Free State gov ernment and will continue his battle against the Anglo-Irish treaty and the Irish constitution, 1t was indicated in an interview given by the irregular chieftain in reply to Gen. Richard Mulcahy'S speech in the Dail Eireann.
 John H. Clark, American cashier of the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Pc trOleum Corporation in Tampico, was wounded seriously and his Mexican chauffeur killed when six bandits held up their automobile less than half mile from Tampico and robbed them of pay roll funds amounting to 42000 pesos.
 The Hungarian foreign committee of parliament at Budapest heard the gov ernment's explanations concerning the allegations that it was concerned in the recent plot against the Rumanian royal family Premier Bethlen de- clared the incident was merely a maneuver against Hungary's good rep utatiOn."
 With the utter collapse of the Greek army in Asia Minor before the Turks, the long smOldering Near Eastern problem again confronts Europe and in some quarters is considered as con- stituting a threat against the peace and well being of Europe, owing to the differing interests and conflicting views of the principal allied govern ments.
 With British troops intrenched at strategic points on the Dardanelles, French and Italian battalions rushing to join them, and from far New Zea- land word that an Anzac contingent will be dispatched to the scenes of fhoir borioo Soori fiooe iv, tho 1o+o ,ror to assist in dealing with the Turkish Nationalists there has been a swift carrying into effect of the allied pro nouncements regarding a firm deter imitation to preserve the freedom of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. GENERAL
 Walter Allen, one of those held re- sponsible for the Logan county mine war last summer, was convicted t Charleston, W. Va, for treason against the state of West Virginia, with the recommendation that he be sentenced to serve ten years in the state peni- tentiary. The jury was out only for ty-six minutes.
 An international cooperative body for promoting police efficiency thru out all countries, and to be known as the world police conference, came into being at the national police conference in New York. The present member ship of the organization is comprised only of the heads of police depart ments of cities of this country. A com mittee of one was appointed to devise secret, confidential code, to be used by the world organization
 Police of Canton, Ohio, are hoping that Joseph Nola, husband of one of the women murdered in the triple slay- ing in Canton, can give them infOrma- tion that will lead them to the capture of the crusher who beat two women and a man to death with an iron bar. MT. and Mrs. Frank Burns were beaten to death in their home and their slayer waited until Mrs. Mary Nola and Lu- ther Armstrong entered the house, killed Mrs. Nola and wounded Arm strong, who escaped and called police.
 One of the greatest present menaces to the prosperity of the United States is the unwillingness of large groups of people ito accept any result of gov ernment regulation which are not di- rectly adverse to the development of the railways" declared Samuel O. Dunn, editor of Railway Age, in an ad- dress before the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce.
 A loan of $2OO,OOO was obtained by the United Mine Workers of America from the Hartman National bank of New York City. The money was used to finance food supplies and shelter