, 1923-03-22
FOREIGN

ohih III otttiiDuDh, On the tOiSl VI
Holland, with the loss OF twelve lives.
The French and B~elgians by declar-
ing that they ere ready when Ger
many begins payment, to evacuate the
Ruhr and the territory recently occu-
pied on the right bank of the Rhine,
believe they have dealt Il big blow to
German propaganda.
Three Germans were shot and
killed by French sentries while trying
tn break into "A machinery warehouse
at Recklinghausen. 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 "a ten
dency towards peace and that both
sides would welcome a 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, md the bal
ance, including about thirty women,
from another. All were conveyed I'M
der heavy armed guard to Jail.
Three Free State soldiers and one
irregular were killed in fighting in
Ireland. Two Free Skaters were killed
during a clash with rebels in Dublin
and one Free Slater n one rebel
were killed in a fight at Charlestown.
The fighting at Charlestown followed
a 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 N foundered during a fierce
gale between Salamis and Pirseus. The
transport had on board $50 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 n communica-
ton declaring abrogated the Chino
Japanese treaty of 1915, which emboa-
led the "tw%enty-ene 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-
handing the district, that if any
further French troops are a~ssassinated
or ~ambushed. the burgomaster of
Buer, who is held as u hostage, to-
gether with four other town officials,
will be shot at once as u 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 a large number Of the pro-
visions of the Lausanne treaty are
called into question, and that accept
nee 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 u receivers sale, have
been reimon 'sed in full by Mr.. Ford.
All persons riding in government
owned aircraft are now required to
YEA IL 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, SCATTERING 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
ut Leaf River neal Chicago, in a blind
ing snowfall. The dead man was j..
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
locking for more worlds to conquer.
The mystery of the missing silver
ware at the state hospital for epilep-
ties at Parsons, Kan, was solved
when ~twenty-seven teaspoons were
found in the stomach Of james A.. NAL
creme, II patient, physicians declared.
An operation on Mulgrene's stomach
also disclosed "A handful of wooden
sticks and n safety pin.
The story of how Miss Evelyn Ly-
ons fooled the medical profession Of
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