The Holly chieftain., 1922-05-04
FOREIGN

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Italian police.
There have been 81 murders in Bel
fast since February, 81 attempted, $50
cases of housebreaking, 100 robberies,
Lord Chief Justice Moore announced
in opening the new court sessions at
Belfast.
The arrest Of more than 300 mem.
bers of the Nicaraguan Liberal party
because of revolutionary activities has
been ordered by President Chamorro,
aecording to private advices received
in Mexico City.
The Paris newspaper Action Fran
cais has demanded that Berlin be oc-
cupied by France. The Temps and FL
CARO- professed to see war and the grim
sound of cavalry and arms in the Rus
sian treaty with Germany.
Soviet Russia contributed another
sensation to the economic conference
by sending note to the Polish dele
CATION demonstrating against Poland's
action in joining with the allied pow
ers in protest against a separate treaty
between Russia and Germany.
Fearing violent disorders in the zone
of occupation along the Rhine and a
general lack of restraint among troops
In the borderland, the German govern
ment Is drafting mote of earnest
appeal to the United States, pleading
for the retention of at least one regi-
ment of American troops.
Charley Ledoux, the French bantam
weight pugilist, recently won the ban
tamweight championship of England
by defeating Thomas Harrison on
points in fifteen-round bout at Liv-
erpool. The Englishman was floored
twice in both the first and second
rounds, and also was knocked down
several times in later rounds.
General Ludendorff has written to
Maj. Julio Guerrero, Peruvian military
attache at Berlin, thanking him for the
"chiyalrous and unprejudiced" ac-
counts Of events recorded In Guerre-
ro's new history of the war. 1--WE were
not beaten on the field" said General
Ludendorff In his letter, "but by the
failure Of politicians to adapt them
selves to the requirements of war. Pol
itics and war are one. German SOL
diers always acted humanely."
The discovery and isolation Of the
typhus germ by DIR. N. Kritch, wom-
an, under the guidance of Prof Bara-
kin, director of the Moscow biological
institute, is confirmed by DIR. Walter
F. Davenport of Chicago, acting head
of the medical department of the
American relief administration in
Russia. DIR. Kritch is director of the
Laboratories of Sokolnichiesky hospi-
tai, at Moscow, where she has been
Engaged for two years in searching for
the germ.
GENERAL
"Agitated air" is the cause of the
floods reported from many sections of
the country. The radio craze is to
blame, says Delbert Neal of Osceola,
Mo-, who has directed an appeal to all
broadcasting stations to "cut out
tickling the air.
Bucharest, Rumania.- OF
100 persons were killed in mine ex.
plosion in the Lupeni district OF
Pennsylvania. The bodies of fifty vic
Tins were carbonized completely, while
those of the others were blown to
pieces.
Charles w. Morse, New York finan-
cier, his three sons and twenty others,
some prominent in shipping, legal and
brokerage circles, were accused in a
federal Indictment at New York with
having used the mails to defraud in
vestOrs in the stocks of various steam
ship companies.
Adopting the methods Of Jesse
James and Cole Younger, two high
waymen rode into Leadhill, Ark,
robbed the bank of $500 in Liberty
bonds and $1,000 in cash and rode off.
The gunmen who had tied their horses
near the bank, forced the cashier and
assistant cashier to accompany them to
their mounts.
Mrs. Rose Granger of White Plains,
N. Y, mother Of Perry A. Granger,
the Australian composer and pianist,
was killed by a fall from an eighteen
story window in the Aeolian Hall
building in New York City.
A general order directed specifically
against the Ku Klux Khan and declar-
ing that there is no room in the Okla
homa National Guard for any officer
or man who owes allegiance to any
power, secret organization or society
that might become arrayed against the
United States or the state Of Oklaho-
ma and its laws has been issued in
Oklahoma City by Gov. ] B. A. Rob-
ertsOn.
New Orleans, La.-While water flow
ing through the three crevasses in the
lower Mississippi levee continued to
spread, the fight to prevent other
breaks in the levees was carried on
ceaselessly. Low stretches of the en-