The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-28
| FOREIGN

American destroyers now at Shanghai
to Hankow.
According to figures just published,
Vienna was visited altogether by $1,000
foreigners last year. OF these about
1000 were Americans and II, 600 Brit
ishers.
The loan to Austria of $120,0O 900
was approved by the council of the
League of Nations. A preliminary
loan of f3,500000 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
nndretta owing to strained relations
between France and Turkey, according
to reports received in Constantinople
Five hundred Armenian families al
ready have departed from the city.
Chinese immigrant numbering 5,369
entered the Philippines during the year
1922, according to figures given out by
the customs bureau. OF this total, A.
730 were males and $50 females. Por-
tuguese immigrants were next in mum
ber, totaling 81.
The Vienna city government realized
1,198, 100000 crowns by way of amuse-
ment taxes levied on dancing enter
tainments during the recent carnival
The average number of balls held on
each of the forty nights of the carni-
val season was eighty-nine, u record
figure for Vienna.
To rid Petrograd of its criminal ele-
ment, the police are utilizing daily
their new prerogative of speedy pun
ishment in certain cases without trial.
Recently, according to the official
press, seventeen bandits who were
caught in the act of robbery and re-
sisted arrest were shot in one batch.
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.
The Korean National Association re-
ceived word at Honolulu from New
York that the Oriental Development
Company's loan of $20,000,000 from the
National City Company has been can
celed through the efforts of the Kor-
can commission. Synghman Rhee OF
the Korean commission has opposed
the development plan, alleging its pur-
pose is to colonize Mongolia and Man
churia.
GENERAL
The Boston & Maine Railroad an
nounced an increase in wages making
the wages of employees receiving 81
cents an hour 40 cents. About 1000
employees are affected.
John j. Creedon, 27 years old, whose
automobile dashed into u crowd wait
ing for street car In Philadelphia
causing the death of Julia Kolanko,
IT years old, pleaded guilty to II gem
eral charge of homicide and was sem
fenced to serve from four to eight
years in the penitentiary.
Five automobile bandits staged an
elaborate holdup of an American Ex.
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
tional Bank of Kansas City.
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.
Charlie, huge elephant, ran wild"
while acting before a motion picture
camera in the Hollywood district, and
perhaps fatally injured Daredevil
Curley" Joe Stecher, his keeper Tor
eight years, in which time the animal
had shown apparent affection for the
man.
Sections 81 and % of the federal
prohibition law are penal in their ma
ture and cannot be enforced by pro-
ceedings in Kentucky state courts, ac-
cording to an opinion handed down by
Judge Lafon Allen of the chancery di-
vision of the Jefferson Circuit Court at
Louisville.
Robert Harris. 35 years old, vice
president of the Smith National Bank
ut St Edward, Neb., walked into the
banks vault and shot himself fatally
with a pistol. according to a special
dispatch. His accounts appear in Or
der and no motive is known. the dis
match pdds