The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-21
FOREIGN

and nothing remains in the way of sig
nature of peace.
Manitoba province voted against
sale of beer and light wines in public
places by a majority of $4,000. The
referendum was on permitting the light
alcoholic beverages to be sold in hotels
with meals
Bochum is almost isolated from the
rest of the Ruhr as the result of bomb
throwing. Street car traffic has been
suspended and all the restaurants,
picture shows and other places of pub
lie assembly have been closed.
Southampton police served sum-
monses on twenty-five members of the
crew of the American steamship
Levlathan, directing them to appear in
a British court to answer charges of
deserting from British ships in New
York.
France, by her own efforts, has
healed her war wounds. She thinks
Germany should do the same. That
is the mood that prompts France defi-
nitely to oppose England's suggestion
of an international loan for Germany,
it was revealed at the foreign office
in London.
81 am confident, l am not worried"
That was Premier Poincaire's message
to the French Senate as the break
with England on reparations loomed to
threaten the peace of Europe. France
has need of England" said Poincare,
"but England needs France just as
much"
Earl Haig, commander-in-chief of
the British army at the close of the
great war, in a speech before the EN-
pire Service League in London, ap-
pealed for more powerful military de-
fenses of the British nation. IAN un-
armed nation can keep neither the re-
spect nor the friendship of its neigh
bors," said Earl Haig.
Canton today is in the hands of
5000 Yunnanese troops, who split with
Gen. Hau Tsung Chi, chief military
henchman of Sun Vat Sen. Following
friction between the constitutionalist
leader and his Yunnanese levies, the
latter walked out of the battle line on
and seized all points of strategic value
in Shanghai.
Bandits shot down low riding air
plane laden with a $4,000 payroll
near Lima, Peru. They were foiled
when the daring pilot brought the dis
abled plane to earth, after sensa-
tional effort, and escaped on foot be-
fore the modern pirates could reach
him. The payroll ship was driven by
Lloyd Moore, a former mechanic on
one of the NC flying boats which
crossed the Atlantic. He was rushing
the money from Lima to Canete for
payment of laborers working on the
government irrigation project near
Cerroagul.
GENERAL
Joseph Lendet, salesman for NJ. H.
Mann and Company, incorporated,
wholesale jewelers. of 10 Broadway,
New York. reported to Detroit police
that he had been robbed of 100000
worth of diamonds as he was leaving
his room in the Hotel Statler. Two
men, with revolvers, accosted him as
he was leaving his room, he said.
Robert T. Bobby" Jones, Jr., a sun
Drowned boy from Dixie, became the
open golf champion of the Shacka-
maxon Country Club, Westfield, n. j.,
at Inwood, n. Y, by two strokes in
the play-off of a tie that existed at
the end of the regular seventy-two-
hole championship round, Jones took
76 and Cruikshank rs. Jones, an
amateur of Atlanta, Ca, came into the
title he long had sought on the eight
eenth and very last hole, ending one
of the most dramatic contests in the
quarter of a century of golf contests.
Trade, taxation, transportation and
finance are the chief problems con-
fronting farmers of the South, DR.. w.
II. Walker of Willows, Calf, vice
president of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, declared in Nashville,
Tenn, in addressing the Tennessee
Federation of Farm Bureaus, in an
nual convention.
Following it's policy of holding ring
champions to the letter of the New
York boxing laws, the state athletic
commission dethroned Joe Lynch of
New York, as bantamweight titlehold-
er, for failure to accept within six
months the challenge Of Joe Bur-
man of Chicago. simultaneously, Bur
man was elevated to recognition as
116-pound champion in this state.
Dressed in boys clothing and con-
Tossing, according to the police, that
she had assisted in several holdupS,
Blanche VOORHEES,, 10 years old, was
arrested in Chicago in an automobile.
With her was Joseph Warner, 21.
Police said they found a loaded pistol
in the car. The girl said she had mas