The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-03
FOREIGN

King George with his crutch at the st.
Pancras railway substation., The ex-
soldier was arrested.
The telegraph and telephone sta
tion employees have gone on strike in
Dusseldorf. They took this action in
protest against the presence of
French soldiers.
Patrick Cunningham, William Con-
roy and Colin Kelley, all of Tullsmore,
were executed at Birr, Kings county.
Ireland, for possessing arms and am
munitlon and for thefts from resi-
dences.
ave will break the Germans will
and we intend to impose our own Will
upon them!" General Degoutte, com
mander of the Franco Belgian army of
occupation in the Rhineland, was quot
ed as saying in dispatch received in
London from Dusseldorf.
Captain COyne of the Irish National
army was shot dead and three soldiers
were wounded when a party of troops
were ambushed by irregulars between
Abbeyfeale and Brosna, on the Liner
lex Kerry border. The attacking par
" lb Sulu " nave ltll lHt NdpldlI
body at the roadside, stripped of all
clothing.
The Free State government still is
confronted with grave task, as shown
by the intensified compaign of destruc-
ton and incendiarism that is being
carried on by the irregular forces.
These acts are considered proof of the
determination of the Republicans to
resort to every possible means to pre-
vent the government from functionlng
and to break the cOuntry's morale.
Late advices from Essen indicate
rigorous procedure on the part of the
French and Belgians throughout the
occupied zone, where wholesale arrests
of German officials are taking place,
which are promptly followed by strikes
| in all branches of the governmental
service. The telegraph, telephone and
postal employees at Essen walked out
! in body as a protest against the ar
rest of six officials who declined to ac-
| cede to French orders.
The London Times devotes n full
| column leading editorial to the re-
marks of the chancellor of the eX-
chequer, regretting the inability of the
Baldwin mission to effect an agree
ment on the British reparations ques-
ton. 1t says the question now is
whether the American terms should be
accepted, whether Great Britain
\ should submit Il counter proposal, Or
whether the whole matter should
stand over.
GENERAL
The second train holdup In two days
occurred when nine armed men held
up Chicago, Burlington * Quincy
freight train ut Limestone, six miles
from Peoria, and escaped with ten
barrels of alcohol, valued at $4,000.
shipped from the American DlstillIns
Company at Pekin.
Three Boy Scouts were killed and
several Injured in a dynamite explo-
sion in the Everglades, according to u
telephone message at Miami, Fla. The
troop had gone on camping trip, 1t
accidentally touched off quantity of
explosives left by stump blasters.
| Fred Lundin, former Illinois con-
gressman and known as the silent
power behind the political machine of
| Mayor William Hale Thompson, and
| twenty-three others were named in a
| blanket Indictment returned in court
| by the special grand jury at Chicago
which is investigating school board af-
fairs.
Lieut.. Com. Eugene II. Douglass,
paymaster of the flagship Huron of
| the United States Asiatic fleet, COM
mitted suicide at Manila, z. L., aboard
the flagship while respondent over dis
appearance of the ships stores, for
which he was not responsible, accord
| ing to a statement issued by Capt. G.
| ID. Stearns of the Huron.
Andre Maneyrol, French pilot broke
France, with flight of eight hours
and five minutes.
Long smoldering accusations of mis-
appropriation and malfeasance, of
blackmail and extortion burst Into
flame when William II. Anderson, SUI
perintendent' of the New York state
branch of the Anti-Saloon League and
nationally known dry" crusader,
was summoned to the district after
ney's office for examination.
Mrs. Alvin p. Anhert, so years old,
lost a $4,000 damage suit against the
United States Cremation Company of
New York City for the alleged mixing
of the ashes of her first two husbands.
The court directed n verdict holding
Mrs. Anhert had failed to substantlate
her claim that the cremation company
carelessly handled the ashes.
A retrial of the divorce suit brought
by w. Il. d. Stokes, wealthy realty OPP
orator, against Helen Elwood Stokes,