The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-24
FOREIGN

Dormans-Marne.
Scores of German customs officials
who had refused to work under
French supervision have been ordered
expelled from the Rhineland by the
Rhineland commission, sitting at Cob
LEM
The residence of Field Marshal the
Earl of Ypres, at Drumdoe, County
Roscommon, was raided recently. The
members of the gang removed the
costly furniture, completely stripping
the Interior of the house, and carried
off their loot in carts.
In fight between Free State troops
and irregulars in the glen Of Aherlow,
| Tipperary, Commandant Dennis Lacey,
one of the most prominent of the lrreg-
ular leaders in Tipperary, was killed.
Captain MacDonagh, also of the lrreg-
ulars, was wounded seriously, and
twelve of the rebels were captured.
Four Free State soldiers were
wounded.
A Dortmund dispatch received in
London says that French troops ac-
companied by detectives and gen
| tSCOIltu ny lWthLy luhhoi
surrounded the main police barracks IL
Essen and disarmed the thousand men
within. Police duty was resumed by
the men who had not been disarmed,
but later left their posts and Essen is
again without police.
j. Ramsay Macdonald, one of the
chief labor members of the House of
| Commons, in Il speech in Cardiff,
Wales, said 1t was erroneous to sup
| pose the Labor party had any antag-
onlsm toward France. But. he added,
If France was able to afford the ex-
pense of sending soldiers to the Ruhr,
she also was able to afford to pay off
her debt to Great Britain.
Terror exists in some parts Of the
Ruhr with Germans attacking the
French, according to advices received
in London. Germans seized dynamite
and gunpowder from coal mine maga-
zines for the manufacture of bombs.
A dispatch from Dusseldorf said Ger
man nationalists were secretly concen-
trating in and near Gelsenkirchen, Es-
sen, Recklinghauhen and Bochum.
Tons of limestone will be dumped
over the 3,000-year-old tomb of Tut
ankhamen in the Valley of the Kings
when it Is resealed until next autumn,
with the ancient Pharaoh's mummy
undisturbed within, it was announced
by the chiefs of the exploration party
at Luxor, Egypt. Every precaution
will be taken to prevent the tomb from
being disturbed during the summer.
GENERAL
Mrs. Onezima De Bouchelle, wealthy
New Orleans beauty, has filed suit in
District Court of New Orleans for
S5Oo,O00 damages against Asa G. Can
dler, soft drink king, alleging breach
of promise and aggravated damages.
Edward Furey, who escaped from
New York, where he was indicted with
julius (Nickey) Arnstein, for attempt
ed larceny of $5,0O0,000 in securities,
was arrested at Lynn, Mass. Furey
was captured at revolver point as he
attempted to escape.
| The Wisconsin National Guard lost
it's fight for existence in the lower
house of the Legislature when the AS
sembly by a vote of 60 to Ia refused
to Indefinitely postpone the Polakow-
ski bill, calling for complete abolition
of the states military force.
Harry X Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, who Is an inmate Of the Penn
| sylvania Hospital for Mental and
| Nervous Diseases in West Philadel-
phia, was recently granted ten days
| leave from the institution to visit his
mother in Pittsburgh.
Twenty-Five maniacs and three at
tendants perished in fire that swept
| through a three-story building of the
Manhattan state hospital on Wards
Island, New York. Sixteen hundred
violently insane men imperiled in the
| building refused to be removed from
the building and battled with their res
| cuerS.
Former Governor J. b. A. Robert
son of Oklahoma was freed of charges
that he accepted a bribe while in Of
| flee to permit an Okmulgee bank to
| operate after it had become insolvent.
To prove that his system of bonuses
| and employe-management of the Phil
adelphia Rapid Transit Co. is not
zone man management" and can oper-
ate without his actual direction,
Thomas e. NIitten resigned as presi
dent of the company. He Will reraIn
the craftsmanship of the board, how
ever.
AS the elimination of family quar-
rel in remote village of the far north
Edward O'Brien is dead; his son, Cliff
ton, is dangerously wounded, and Can
adian police are searching for Fred
erIck OBrien, an 1S-year-old son and
brother, who is alleged to be RESPONSE
BILE for the shooting, according to re
ports received in Winnipeg, Canada.
What is declared by veteran pack