The Holly chieftain., 1923-03-08
FOREIGN

they were changing shifts, and passed
by without injury one other sailor who
was In the same compartment.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is
quoted us having said ut meeting Of
the Hanover Agricultural League:
1--WE will never forget that we are all
Germans and must do our duty, that
II necessary we will fight even until
the last flag Is torn to pieces and the
last sword blade shattered. 1t Is bet
ter to perish In honor than to live In
disgrace"
Announcing officially the occupation
of parts of Mannheim, Karlsruhe and
Darmstadt, the French government
stated that thus far only the Rhine
parts of the first two cities and rail-
road workshops in the last had been
seized. The occupation is In reprisal
for recent acts of sabotage in the Runr
and Rhineland, the French announced.
The entire cities will be occupied IL
sabotage continues.
General Degoutte, the French COM
mander at Cologne, has notified the
Reiclsbank that lie will not return any
portion of the 1900, 100000 markes re-
Gently seized by the French at Cologne.
1t was added by General Degoutte that
If the Reichsbank desired to avoid fur
ther similar losses the German govern,
ment must meet the demands of the
French for money for the requirements
of the armies Of occupation.
Reduction Of Argentlnas wheat
crop by 21,240,O0O bushels is made in
the second estimate of the season as
received from the International Insti-
tute Of Agriculture by the Department
of Agriculture at Washington. The
crop Is now placed at 194,O7S, 600
bushels. which is about 14,5OO,00O
bushels larger than last seasons crop.
The second estimate Of Argentina's
flax crop reduces 1t from 60,270,O0O
bushels to 46,297 900 bushels.
The allied powers are making re-
peated concessions to the Turks In an
effort to induce the national assembly
ut Angora to ratify the Lausanne
peace treaty. The French and italian
high commissioners, following the ac-
ton of the British, have informed Ad-
nam Bey at Constantinople that their
governments We're withdrawing war
ships from Smyrna harbor. Great
Britain, France and Italy are now
maintaining only one small warship
apiece in Smyrna harbor.
GENERAL
Payson Smith of Boston, state COM
missioner of education of Massachu-
setts, was elected head Of the depart
ment of superlntendents of the Nation
al Education Association at the cleo
tion held in Cleveland.
Jules w. Mickey Arnstein and
four of the five men who were ar
rested with him Friday on warrant
charging suspicion Of having received
stolen goods, were discharged by Mag
istrate Levine when Assistant District
Attorney Wilson admitted he had no
evidence against them.
A world conference ON education ut
which more than 40O,O00,O0O school
children will be represented has been
called by the National Education AS
ISOLATION, to be held in San Francisco
and Oakland, June % to July 2, 1t was
announced ut a meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the department Of
superintendent of the association at
Cleveland, Ohio.
Postal inspectors and railroad police
declared that the robbery of mail
pouches on Chicago train with
through mall from San Francisco by a
lone bandit was the third that took
place on the same train within two
months. The bandit escaped. Both
postal inspectors and railroad police
of New York city declared 1t their be-
lief that the robber had boarded the
train at some upstate point and had
made his way into one of the steel
mall cars before reaching Grand Gen.
tral station. The bandits sole haul
was said to have been one registered
package.
After hiding three days in the eel
lar of his brothers house in Chicago.
Rocco Fazzolarl shot and killed his sis
ter-ln-law, Mrs. Dorna FaZzolari, and
physicians said he would die. Fazzo-
laris outbreak resulted from his bro
ther's plans to have him confined as
insane.
A little group of thirty.eight soldiers
lined the rails of the liner George
Washington as she plOwed up the bay
| the other day. For them whistles blew
and flags waved-for them crowds on
passing ferrybOats cheered wildly.
They We're the last contingent of the
American army Of occupation from
| Coblenz-their arrival wrote an offl-
| cial "flnis" to the four-year "Watch on
the Rhine"
| A wounded and shell-shocked veter-
an of the World War, under an hallu-
| cinatlon that he was fighting off "mur-
| dering Germans" at the Verdun front,
wounded two policemen and his bro
ther, and held half II hundred police