The Winslow mail., 1923-03-23
FOREIGN

Ing llidl Lu0y are ready Wien NeI-
many begins payment, to evacuate the
Ruhr and the territory recently Occu-
pied on the right bank of the Rhine,
believe they have dealt a big blow to
German propaganda.
Three Germans were shot and
killed by French sentries while trying
to break into a machinery warehouse
at Reckinghausen. According to the
French announcement, the shooting
took place after the Germans had dis
regarded the usual challenge.
Although offering no very definite
evidence to support their statements,
some of the British correspondents in
the Ruhr assert that there is ten
dency towards peace and that both
sides would welcome settlement end
ing the strain of the past few weeks.
Nearly 300 prisoners taken in the
weekend raids in England and Scot
land are understood to have been
landed at Dublin from British war
ships 200 men from one, and the bal
ance, including about thirty women,
der heavy armed guard to Jail.
Three Free State soldiers and one
irregular were killed in fighting in
Ireland. Two Free Staters were killed
during clash with rebels in Dublin
and one Free Slater and one rebel
were killed in fight at Charlestown.
The fighting at Charlestown followed
raid upon the town by irregulars.
1t is estimated that $50 Greek naval
officers and men were drowned when
the Greek transport Alexander cap
sized and foundered during a fierce
gale between Salamis and Pirseus. The
transport had on board 250 officers
and men, on furlOugh from the cruis-
ers George, Savroff, Kilkis and Lem
nos.
China's recent note to Japan, re
questing that a discussion be held
with a view of returning Dalny and
Port Arthur to China, was interpreted
in Toxic as no less than a cOmmunica-
ton declaring abrogated the Chino
Japanese treaty of 1915, which embod-
led the "twenty-One demands" The
terms of the Chinese note came as a
surprise to Japan.
The German population of the
Recklinghausen district has been
warned by General Laignelot, COM
manding the district, that if any
further French troops are assassinated
or ambushed, the burgomaster of
Buer, who is held as a hostage, to-
gether with four other town officials,
will be shot at once as a measure of
retaliation.
The foreign office at Paris received
a detailed synopsis of the Turkish gov
ernment's reply to the Lausanne peace
proposals. From the synopsis it ap-
pears that large number of the pro-
visions of the Lausanne treaty are
called into question, and that accept
ance Of the Turkish contentious would
involve drastic changes in the original
draft Of the treaty.
GENERAL
All creditors of the Lincoln Motor
Car Company, purchased last year by
Henry Ford at receivers sale, have
been reimOrl 'sed in full by Mr.. Ford.
All persons riding in government
owned aircraft are now required to
wear parachute on every flight, ac
cording to officers at Chanute field,
Rantoul, Ill.
Omaha, Neb., has been slowly dig
ging itself out of the snow that the
worst storm in the city's history left
behind More than nineteen inches of
snow fell, shattering all records of the
weather bureau.
An engineer was killed and a car
load of livestock was burned to death
when two freight trains of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad crashed
at Leaf River near Chicago, in blind
ing snowfall. The dead man was ].
Hogan of Savannah, Ill. His train
struck the rear end of the other.
Death, injury and damage were the
harvest of furious March storms which
recently swept many sections of the
region between the Rockies and the
Appalachian mountains.
Luis Angel Firpo, South American
pugilist, who knocked out Bill Bren-
nan in the twelfth round at Madison
Square Garden, New York City, is
looking for more worlds to conquer.
The mystery of the missing silver
ware at the state hospital for epilep-
tics at Parsons, Kan, was solved
when twenty-seven teaspoons were
found in the stomach of James A. Nal
grene patient, physicians declared.
An operation on Malgrene's stomach
also disclosed Il handful of wooden
sticks and safety pin.
The story of how Miss Evelyn Ly-
ons fooled the medical profession of
Escanamba, Mich, newspaper men and
sympathetic neighbOrs for tWenty-one
days through her ingenious fever-rais-
ing tactics by hot water bottle was