The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-12
FOREIGN

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The Belgian Council on Ministers ex-
amined officially the German repara-
ton proposals and unanimously decid-
ed they were unacceptable.
| The Free State government contin-
ues to proceed as If Eamonn De
Valera, the Republican chief, had new
er made his proposal Of peace.
Clad in a glittering robe and mltre
of white, red and gold, the revolution
airy priest, Vedensky was installed by
the All-Russian church conclave as
Archbishop of Moscow.
Fifteen hundred rebels were defeat
ed and 200 killed by the Italians in
their latest operation in Tripoll, in
volving the occupation of an advanced
point, 1t is announced in the official
statement covering the latest develop
ments Issued in Rome
France was declared the winner of
the International students athletic
meet, held at the new Porte Doree
stadium, in which athletes represent
ing colleges and universities of thir-
teen other countries competed. The
French students rolled up a total of
107 points, as against so points for
Italy, and 20 for Czecho-Slovakia.
Chinese students and merchants re-
Gently celebrated Humiliation day." 1t
is estimated that 250,000 demonstrate
ors marched through the streets of
Tiensin, China in protest against
Japan's twenty-one demands on China.
All places of amusement, shops, hotels
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passed off without disturbances The
Japanese concession was guarded with
police reinforcements
The Chinese government has
ordered the governor of Shantung to
accede to the demand of the bandits
and obtain the immediate release of
all foreigners who were kidnapped.
The governor is ordered to pay the
ransom If necessary. This action fol-
lowed an ultimatum sent by the
foreign legations to the Chinese gov
ernment demanding the immediate re-
lease of all prisoners held by the
Shantung bandits
In curt note Great Britain in
formed the soviet government that
unless series of demands were full
filled it will assume that Russia does
not desire to maintain present rela-
tions. The note gives Russia ten days
to carry out Britain's demands un-
conditionally. Dispatches from Lon
don to the United States recently in
dicated Britain was particularly in
censed at the seizure of a trawler by
Russia and the execution and imprls-
onment of priests.
GENERAL
Sweeping denial of charges against
the House of David and its leader
King Benjamin Purnell, was made in
| the cults answer to quo warranto pro-
| ceedings instituted by the state of
Michigan, filed at Lansing. The state
started action to force the colony to
show cause why 1t should not be dis
solved.
Six Italian immigrants attempting
to enter the United States were shot
down and killed and the seventh men,
bero of the party wounded when sew
eral MeXicans hired to assist them in
their flight across the Rio Grande
fired upon them, according to reports
received at Laredo, Texas, from Co
lumbia, Nuevo Leon.
Danvllle, ILL.,, abandoned itself
wholeheartedly a few days ago to the
business of celebrating the eighty-sev-
enth birthday of its most distinguished
citizen-Uncle Joe Cannon. From all
over the Eighteenth Congressional
District, which Uncle Joe served for
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folk wended their way to Danville.
Charges that Leighton Mount, stu
dent mt Northwestern University, was
killed by haZers during a class fight
in 1921, were branded as a "frameup"
by William Il. Campbell, Northwest
ern athlete who participated in the
Northwestern-Iowa meet at Iowa City,
Iowa. Campbell declared he was with
Mount the night of the fight after the
battling subsded and all sophomores
had gone home.
Approximately $4,000 in currency,
part of the loot stolen during the
holdup of the Federal Reserve truck
in front of the Denver mint last year,
has been recovered to date in Mime
apolis by secret service agents.
Two hundred representative busl-
ness men of Memphis at dinner
pledged themselves to support the
Memphis Chamber of Commerce in
aiding Clarence Saunders, president of
the Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc, in sell
ing direct to the public, stock in the
company, factions of which several
weeks age created Il sensation in the
New York stock exchange and caught
in jam short sellers of thousands of