The Colorado statesman., 1923-06-23
FOREIGN

guns from Thrace.
The headless Chinese government is
drifting into factiOnal tIght over the
spoils of office. President Ii Yuan
Hung, who fled to his home in the
foreign quarter of Tientsin n few days
ago with the Chill Mllitarlsts at his
heels, still is in secluslon there.
Former Premier Stamboullsky of
Bulgaria has been killed while trying
to escape. The end of the peasant
leaders career was series of dra-
matte developments beginning with
the overthrow of his government and
the formation of a coalition govern
ment.
A sensational discovery for the
treatment of tuberculosis was an
nounced by Prof. Georges Dreyer of
oxford university. The method con-
sists of depriving microbes of the pro-
tective covering that enables them to
resist digestion. Once bereft of this
armor the microbes are easily COM
bated.
The French seized 40 locomotives
and 1000 freight cars on branch lines
between Dortmund and Essen, thus
virtually completing French control
of the Ruhr transportation lines. The
food situation at DOrtmund, Bochum
and other points is growing more Sc
rious daily as the result of the
French seizure.
King Albert summoned Premier
Theunis, whose ministry resigned re-
Gently, and asked him to form a new
ministry. NJ. Theunis reserved his
answer until he has had time to at
tempt the solution of the question of
the use of the Flemish language in
the University of Client and the four
teen months military service contro-
versy.
Soviet Russia, through its prime
minister, NJ. Tchitcherin, sent its graf
itude and greeting to the people of
the United States at the banquet given
Association by the government. Adj
, dressing the officials, Nj. Tchitcherin
paid touching tribute to the tact and
| devotion of Colonel Haskell and his
associates during Russia's hunger
days. Trotzky, in Il statement, lauded
the United States for its aid to Rus
| sla.
The radio craze will not spread to
Japan If officials of the Navy Depart
ment can prevent it. Fearing that the
Japanese people will get the radio
bug" and listen in on ultra secret mes
sages from the powerful naval sta
tions, these naval officials were re-
ported opposing the new 2,O0O,00O-yen
organization planned to correspond to
the Radio Corporation of the United
| States. 1t is backed by III. HattOri,
wealthy Toxic jeweler, and planned
broadcasting on big scale. All of
the details had been worked out even
to musicians who have been ap-
preached to appear on the radio pro-
grams.
GENERAL
Railway consolidation and control
by stock ownership and lease, as au-
thorized by the transportation act of
1920, are held valid in decree of the
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, de-
cided upon in the Southern Pacific
Central Pacific case.
After having attacked and serious
ly wounded her husband, Mrs. Cleve-
land Daugherty killed her two daugh-
ters, and 8 years old, with razor,
and drank poison at her home, near
Glendean, in Breckenridge county, Ky.,
according to reports.
Severely criticiZing the Pennsyl-
vania system as unfair, unjust and
inconsistent in its method of dealing
with the shop crafts union in an em-
ployee representation election, the
United States Railroad Labor Board
in Chicago, issued its long expected
public rebuke of the carrier for viola
ton of an order directing the carrier
to recognize the shop crafts union.
Wall Street, in the midst of many
sided cleanup campaign, directed
primarily at bucket shops, was hit by
another failure-that of Knauth,
Nachod and Kuhne, member of the
New York Stock Exchange and of the
New York Curb Market. Boosting a
record of seventy years in the street,
twenty-eight of them as members of
the stock exchange, the supposedly
powerful house, with strong German
connections, was forced into re-
ceivership with $11 100000 liabilities
With her decks veritable
shambles, the little sailing vessel Mary
Beatrice arrived at New York City
with the story of a terrible fight at
sea in which nine men were killed and
numerous others wounded. The
bodies of the slain were dumped over
board at the height of the battle. Two