The Holly chieftain., 1923-04-26
FOREIGN

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According to figures Just published,
Vienna was visited altogether by 81, ,0O0
foreigners last year. OF these about
11,oo0 were Americans and IL 600 Brit
ishers.
The loan to Austria of $4,000, ,OOO
was approved by the council of the
League of Nations. A preliminary
loan Of t3,500o00 sterling was author
lied by the council last January.
\ Five thousand lepers are wOlking the
streets of Buenos Aires, "disseminat-
ing microbes among all classes of the
Community" according to statement
by former director of public health.
Christians are fleeing from Alex
andretta owing to strained relations
'between France and Turkey, according
4 to reports received in Constantinople.
Five hundred Armenian families al
ready have departed from the city.
The capture near Dublin of Austin
Stack, chief colleague of cannon de
Valera, while important in Itself, is
overshadowed by the discovery on his
| person of document indicating that
the complete surrender of the irregu-
lars is at hand.
A union of the southwestern prov
inces of China "for self-defense''
against the threatening" attitude Of
the Peking government, Is announced
in a circular telegram addressed to
parliament and various political organ.
iLarioi1s. according to news agency re-
ports received in Peking.
The government has ordered rein
forcements of security police to Null
helm from Duisburg. According to the
| German version of the disturbance In
Mulheim, Communists and trade
unionists are responsible for the
| trouble and have occupied the center
of the town barricading all streets.
Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the
exchequer of England, making his bud
get statement before crowded cham
Der In the House of Commons, said
the past years surplus of f1O1, 100000
had gone to reduction Of the debt. The
| financial year just closed had become
steadily better as it proceeded, trade
at home and abroad had improved and
unemployment had diminished consid-
erably.
The correspondent of the Sunday
Express at Weirengen, Germany,
states that there are increasing indi-
cations that the former crown prince
of Germany is becoming insane. The
correspondent declares that two of
Berlin's most famous alienists recent
| ly visited Welrengen and found the
former crown prince suffering from
| progressive dementia. The correspond
ent adds: 1.-The former crown prince
has turned religious minded and forces
the servants to listen for hours to re-
vivals conducted by him on wheezy
organ"
GENERAL
I M. Davila, chief of immigration in
Juarez, has received an order from
Mexico City instructing him to bar all
Americans from entering Juarez after
s o'clock every night unless every form
| of gambling was stopped.
Sections 81 and % of the federal
| prohibition law are penal in their ma
ture and cannot be enforced by pro-
cording to an opinion handed down by
Judge Lafon Allen of the chancery di-
vision Of the jefferson Circuit Court at
Louisville.
Jesse NJ. Littleton, former Republic
| an national committeeman from Ten
nassoa and fnrmo,. oynr of .Chatto
nooga, died at his home in Chattanoo-
| ga after an extended illness. He was
| one of the most prominent Republican
| leaders in the South and had been the
partys candidate for governor on two
occasions.
Five automobile bandits staged an
elaborate holdup of an American Elk.
press company truck at Kansas City,
Mo-, and got for their trouble $1,000.
| The five men, armed with automatic
pistols and sawed-off shotguns, held
up the truck carrying the Oklahoma
business Of the Rock Island Railroad
and consigned to the Interstate Ma.
tionnl Bank Of Kansas City.
Herman Leaf of Los Angeles,
through his father, ]. Leaf, has filed a
suit against a. candy company asking
damages Of $500 on the allegation he
was disfiedred for life when he broke
a front tooth on nail in piece of
candy he asserted had been made by
the defendant company.
Nearly 10000 baseball fans, the
greatest outpouring Of rooters in the
history Of the national game, jammed
the spacious new Yankee stadium for
the opening game between the New
York Yankees and the Boston Red
Sox. The three tiers of the grand
stand, the only triple decker in any
baseball field Of the country, was
crowded to capacity when the game
started.