The Holly chieftain., 1923-07-05
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ter. All loading and unloading of ships
q In the harbor 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 Russian 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 fiat re-
lection In London of the twelve-mlle
limit proposal apparently has coun-
tered effectually the effort Of the
State Department of the United States
to clenr away at one stroke the ship
liquor controversy and the runl-smug
Cling problem along the Atlantic coast
Newspapers of Mexico City recently
carried Il statement that the interna-
tional recognition commission has
reached an agreement Ell AIundo, a
government organ, claims to have In
side information that an agreement
was reached over week ago and the
work of tile commission likely will end
In u few days.
The silence maintained by General
WI Pei-Fu In the face OF the presi-
dental deadlock in China appears to be
n lending source OF worriment to the
politicians responsible for the present
impasse. Since the flight of ex-Presi-
dent Ii Yuan-Hung, all efforts to gain
from WI a declaration of his attitude
has been unavailing.
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 situ-
alton and frances policy on reparn-
tions which the British government
may see fit to ask"
A German "terrorists'' organization
In the Ruhr is responsible for the Sc
rfes OF outrages which eliminated in
the explosion Of high power dynamite
bomb upon train bearing several hun
dred Belgian soldiers, according to in
formation received from Aix-la- Cha
pelle received in Brussels. It is be-
lieyed that tile death list from the ex-
pl0si0n will reach twelve, as some Of
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.
2 Further military steps in Gov. J. G.
Walton's drive to rid Oklahoma of
slawless mobs'' will depend upon whe-
ther whippings, assaults and other
forms Of violence cease, it was said at
the executive offices in Oklahoma
City.
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 ut
Springfield.
Construction work on a score or
more of Chicago buildings valued at
millions Of dollars was tied up by an
outlaw strike Of laborers called by the
T w w Tho a ohororo xuoro caIIod off
the jobs in some instances amid hand
to-hand fighting between strikers and
police who answered riot calls. The
strikers demand 81 an hour.
! Approximately $500 unlawful fog
gings have taken place in Oklahoma in
the last year, according to reports
reaching Governor j. G. Walton, it was
announced at Oklahoma City by AID
rich Blake, secretary to the executive.
Blake's statement climaxed the first
week of campaign launched by Gov
ernor Walton to rid Oklahoma of mob
violenca
A petition signed by citizens of
Savannah, Ca, indorsing Henry Ford
for President, having been forwarded
to Detroit, the general secretary has
replied in letter acknowledging re-
ceiept of the petition: In view Of
the interest displayed, Mr.. Ford can
have no objection to their further ac-
tivities in this direction"
One infant is dead and another Is in
serious condition in a 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 a trip Of twelve hours.
Creation by Edward Box Of PhIla-
delphia, of an award of 100000 to be
called the American peace award and
to be given to the American Individual