The Winslow mail., 1923-06-01
FOREIGN

DIT d SlduuSllli.
The Ukrainian government has sent
a note to Lord CurzOn, the British for
eign secretary, with a copy to Ramsay
Macdonald, the opposition Labor lead
er, expressing the hope that there will
be no break in the relations between
Russia and Great Britain.
AS result of the House of Lords
decision in the case of Art O'Brien,
the British government is requesting
the Irish Free State government to
depOrted to Ireland, Home Secretary
Bridgman announced in the House of
Commons.
The Earl of Carnarvon, discoverer of
the tomb of Tutankhamen, left an es-
tate of f398,927, it developed when his
will was filed for probate in London.
He bequeaths his race horses and his
personal estate to his wife. This in
cludes his collection of Egyptian
treasures in London.
In the Shantung hills back Of Lin
cheng are, according to the latest avail
able information, fourteen men and
two ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with
an unknown number of Chinese, who
have been held by Chinese bandits
who raided the Shanghai-Peking ex-
press and kidnapped the passengers.
A villa was rented in the name of
Henry Ford of Detroit, at Muir, a
fashionable resort near Berne, Swift
zerland. The villa adjoins one of Herr
Muhlan, former director of Krupps,
who became a pacifist and wrote 1.-THE
Destruction of Europe" The lease,
which was registered at the town hall,
runs for the entire summer
Reports received in Paris, France,
tended to confirm that the woman
killed in the airship crash at Mon
sures was Miss Juanita Bates of
Ithaca, n. Y. The woman, who was
travelling alone, gave her age as 81.
The cause of the accident, which re-
suited in the death Of six persons, in
Guiding, besides Miss Bates, Laurence
Won Post Schwab of New York, has
not been determined.
That the leaders of the bandits who
are holding more than dozen
foreigners in the hills back Of Lin
cheng are highly educated, intelligent
men, determined that their demands
shall be met and showing little if any
faith in promises made by Chinese
authorities, are among the statements
NV Ann r.Oo
who returned to Tientsin, from a trip
to the robbers stronghold.
GENERAL
Fire and Police Commissioner John
Alderman and two firemen were in
jured when flames wiped out an en-
tire block in the business district Of
Fort Worth, Texas, the main buildings
of which were occupied by the Gabert
garage. The loss is estimated at
$150,000 to 100000.
Efforts are being made to funnel out
the blaze of the Hughes-McKie we'll at
Corsicana, Texas. A line of ten-inch
casing has been laid on the ground
running from the fire limits into the
mouth of the well casing. A straight
elbow or quarter bend is being placed
on the end. This will cap the. hole and
defect the oil and gas flow horizontal
ly through the ten-inch line, it is be-
lieved. This method is calculated by
oil men to shut off the oxygen supply
and at the same time separate the
flow.
A little bit gray and looking as
mature as a retired farmer, the form
err champion of the world Jess Will
lard, stopped Floyd Johnson, the 23-
year-old Iowa boy, after eleven
rounds of desperate fighting in the
feature bout of the greatest boxing
show for charity in the history of the
country. 1t was the show at the
Yankees new stadium in New York
City for the benefit of the free milk
fund Of the mayors committee Of
women, headed by Mrs. William Ran
dolph Hearst, and attended by 10000
people.
The sanitarium at Colorado City,
IGXaS, is llll0u Will NlClluS VI CuC
tornado which swept strip of terri
tory a mile wide and fifteen miles long
near that town a few days ago. Six
teen bodies have been recovered
About 200 persons were hurt and prop
erty and crop damage will total mil
lions of dollars, according to obserY-
ers.
Hot Springs, Ark, is endeavoring to
extricate itself from debris and ruin
left by flood, fire and wind which
wrecked the business district OF the
city with damage to property which
is expected to run into the millions.
Several persons are reported to have
been killed. 1t is not expected, how
ever, that the death list will exceed
three or four persons.
Once proudly floating the American
flag during a worldwide cruise of the
United States navy and with bril-
lioot World war service record. the