The Winslow mail., 1923-03-02
FOREIGN

states, valued at pOUUUO, were SelZSu
in Chihuahua City, Mexico, by Gus
toms guards prosecuting a campaign
against organized bands of car thieves.
Scores of German customs officials
who had refused to work under
French supervision have been ordered
expelled from the Rhineland by the
Rhineland commission, sitting at Cob
LEM.
The residence of Field Marshal the
Earl of Ypres, at Drumdoe, County
Roscommon, was raided recently. The
members of the gang removed the
costly furniture, completely stripping
the interior of the house, and carried
off their loot in carts.
The Berlin Communist newspaper,
Rote Fahne Cred Flag, declared that
Germany has begun to make prepara-
tions for war. According to the news
paper, Chancellor Wilhelm Cune, min
lister of defense, and General Won
Zeekt of the German military police,
participated in a meeting at which
Germany's. war capacity was dis
cussed''
A Dortmund dispatch received in
London says that French troops ac-
eompanied by detectives and gen
darne and escorted by twenty tanks,
surrounded the main police barracks IL
Essen and disarmed the thousand men
within. Police duty was resumed by
the men who had not been disarmed,
but later left their posts and Essen is
again without police.
]. Ramsay Macdonald, one of the
chief labor members of the House of
Commons, in a speech in Cardiff,
Wales, said it was erroneous to sup
pose the Labor party had any antag-
Onism toward France. But. he added,
If France was able to afford the ex-
pense of sending soldiers to the Ruhr,
she also was able to afford to pay off
her debt to Great Britain.
Tons of limestone will be dumped
over the 3,O0O-year-old tomb of Tut
ankhamen in the Valley of the Kings
when it is resealed until next autumn,
with the ancient Pharaohs mummy
by the chiefs of the exploration party
at Luxor, Egypt. Every precaution
will be taken to prevent the tomb from
being disturbed during the summer.
The mummy of Tutankhamen may
remain in its 3,OOO-year-old tomb in
the Valley of the Kings and not be
placed in a museum to satisfy the
eyes of curious world. Lord
CarnarvOn, head of the Egypt
ologist explorers, who discovered the
tomb, has been deeply moved by the
protests from many parts of the world
against disturbing the body of the
ancient Pharaoh and especially against
putting 1t upon public view.
GENERAL
Edward Furey, who escaped from
New York, where he was indicted with
julius (Nickey) Arnstein, for attempt
ed larceny of $5,0OO,000 in securities,
was arrested at Lynn, Mass. Furey
was captured at revolver point as he
attempted to escape.
The Wisconsin National Guard lost
its fight for existence in the lower
house of the Legislature when the AS
sembly by a vote of 65 to IA refused
to indefinitely postpone the Polakow-
ski bill, calling for complete abolition
of the states military force.
To prove that his system of bonuses
and employe of the Phil
adelphia Rapid Transit Co. is not
lone man management" and can oper
ate without his actual direction,
Thomas e. Mitten resigned as presi-
dent of the company. He will rera1n
the craftsmanship of the board, how
ever.
Secret service men are drawing in
the strings of a nationwide net that
they expect will enmesh 1000 men,
bers of an International counterfeit
ing conspiracy that they believe has
its tentacles gripped in every import
ant city of the country. The ring is
believed to have been maintained and
distributed between $1,000,O00 and
$1O,OOO,OO0 of the bogus bills and
spurious stamps.
Harry K Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, who is an inmate of the Penn
sylvania Hospital for Mental and
Nervous Diseases in West Philadel-
phia, was recently granted ten days
leave from the institution to visit his
mother in Pittsburgh.
Albert Bailin, alias Balanow, con-
fessed spy and agent provocateur of
various detective agencies, has been ar
rested in Chicago on a charge of Grim
inal libel preferred by Allen 0. Myers,
assistant general manager of the w. j.
Burns International Detective Agency
Three workers missing and be-
lieved to be dead and dozen slightly
injured was the toll of five explosions
which destroyed six buildings of the
Illinois Powder Company plant near
Grafton, ILL., Fire broke out after the
blasts and threatened more serious eX-
blossoms.