The Colorado statesman., 1923-07-07
FOREIGN

dependence In an executive decree pup
lished at Lima, Peru. An elaborate
celebration was held.
Manila, gripped by typhoon, was
flooded. Many streets were under wa
ter. All londing and unloading of ships
In the hartor was suspended. The ty-
phoon was strongest over the central
portion of the Island of Luzon.
Three military barracks in Berlin
have been converted into dormitories
for needy Hussian students. The Ger
man Red Cross, the Russian section of
the League of Nations, the Young
Mems Christian Association, and the
European Students Relief each con-
tributed TO the undertaking.
Foreign Secretary Curzon's flat re-
lection In London of the twelve-mile
limit proposal apparently has coun-
tered effectuaily the effort of the
State Department of the United States
to clear away at one stroke the ship
liquor controversy and the rum-smug-
Cling problem along the Atlantic coast.
Newspapers of Mexico City recently
carried a statement that the interna-
tional recognition commission has
reached an agreement. Ell Mundo, a
government organ, claims to have in
side information that an agreement
was reached over week ago and the
work of the commission likely will end
in a few days.
Premier Baldwin announced in the
House of Commons that England is
not prepared to cooperate with the
United States In calling an aerial dis
armament conference. Such a move
at the present time would be prema-
ture, Baldwin said, and unlikely to sue
ceed until the outstanding European
problems of the moment are satisfac-
tory settled.
Count de Saint Aulaire, French am
bassador in London, has received COM
plete Instructions from the French for
eign office to enable him to reply to
the British governments recent ques-
tionnaire on the Ruhr situation and
ANY other questions on the Ruhr stu
alton and Frances policy on repara-
tions which the British government
may see fit to ask"
A German "terrorists" organization
in the Ruhr is responsible for the Sc
ries of outrages which eliminated in
the explosion of high power dynamite
bomb upon Il train bearing several hun
dred Belgian soldiers, according to in
formation received from Aix-la-C Cha
pelle received in Brussels. 1t is be-
lieved that the death list from the ex-
nj Will ttt-nl nj
the soldiers wounded were dying in
hospitals at Duisburg and Crefeld.
GENERAL
Handicapped by the hordes of immi-
grants aboard the eleven ocean liners
which reached quarantine, officials of
the Treasury Department worked over
time checking up the liquor supplies
aboard the ships.
Adjt. Gen. Carlos e. Black of the Il
linois National Guard is declared
"derelict in duty and primarily to
blame" for not sending troops to Will
hanson county at the time of the Her
rim riots, in the report of the legisla-
tive investigating committee which
made its report to the Legislature at
Springfield.
Approximately $500 unlawful flog-
gings have taken place in Oklahoma in
the last year, according to reports
reaching Governor ]. G. Walton, 1t was
announced at Oklahoma City by Aid
rich Blake, secretary to the executive.
Blake's statement climaxed the first
week of a campaign launched by Gov
w ri rlah nf
violence.
Eighteen federal prohibition en-
forcement agents, most of them sta
toned in Manhattan and Brooklyn,
were dropped from the staff of Il. Q.
Merrick, divisional chief for New
York and northern New Jersey. The
dismissals were said to have been
made necessary by the looping of $780,
600 from the governments appropria-
ton for enforcement in the fiscal year.
Lives of passengers on the Southern
Pacific's Sunset Limited were i'm
smashed into an automobile containing
a large quantity of dynamite near
Glendale, Calf, killing the cars driver
and seriously injuring another occu-
pant. Though hurled in all directions,
the dynamite failed to explode.
One infant is dead and another is in
a serious condition in u Schenectady,
N. Y, hospital, in consequence, charity
officials say, of an all-night ride of 165
miles with seventeen other children in
a hired automobile from Brooklyn. The
children, seven of them five months old
or under, were brought to Schenec-
tady by Mrs. Anna Siewers, the party
arriving after u trip of twelve hours.
Creation by Edward Box of Phila-
delphia, of an award of 100000 to be
calIad the American peace award and