The Dolores star., 1923-07-13
FOREIGN

flooded. Many streets We're under wa
ter. All loading and unloading of ships
in the harkor 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-mile
limit proposal apparently has coun-
tered effeCtually the effort of the
State Department of the United States
to clear away at one stroke the snip
liquor controversy and the rum-smus-
Cling problem along the Atlantic coast.
Newspapers of Mexico City recently
carried n statement that the lnterna-
ttonal recognition commission has
reached an agreement FL Mundo,
government organ, claims TO have In
side information that an agreement
was reached over week ago and the
work of the commission likely will end
in few days.
Premier Baldwin announced in the
House of Commons that England Is
not prepared to cooperate with the
United States in calling an aerial dis
armament conference. Such move
at the present time would be prema-
ture, Baldwin said, and unlikely to sue
coed until the outstanding European
problems of the moment are Sutisfac-
tory settled.
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-
uonnaire on the Ruhr situation and
ANY other questions on the Kuhr stu
alton and Frances policy on repara-
tions which the British government
may see fit to ask"
a German "terrorlsts" organization
in the Ruhr is responsible for the Sc
ries of Ouurages which eliminated in
the explosion of a high power dynamite
bomb upon Il train bearing several hun
dred Belgian soldiers, according to in
formation received from AiX-la-Chu
pelle received in Brussels. 1t IS be
lieved that the death list from the eX-
plusiOn will reach twelve, as some Of
the soldiers wounded We're dying in
hospitals ut Duisburg and CretcId.
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.
Adjt. Gen. Carlos Z. Black of the H.
llnois 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.
Approximately $500 unlawful fog
ginSs have taken place in Oklahoma in
the last year, according to reports
reaching Governor J. c. Walton, it was
announced at Oklahoma City by Aid
rich Blake, secretary to the executive.
Blake's statement climaXed the first
week of Il campaign launched by Cow
ernOr Walton to rid Oklahoma of mob
violence.
Eighteen federal prohibition en-
forcement agents, most Of them sta
toned in Manhattan and Brooklyn,
We're dropped from the staff of Il. Q.
Merrick, divisional chief for New
York and northern New Jersey. The
dismissals We're said to have been
made necessary by the looping of $780,
600 from the government apprOpria-
ton for enforcement in the fiscal year.
Lives of passengers on the Southern
Paciflc's Sunset Limited were i'm
periled recently when the train
smashed into an automobile containing
Il large quantity of dynamite near
Glendale, Calf, killing the cars driver
and seriously injuring another occu-
pant. Though hurled in all directions,
the dynamite failed to explode.
One infant is dead and another is in
a serious condition in a Schenectady,
n. Y, hospital, in consequence, charity
| officials say, of an alI-night ride of lG5
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 Slewers, the party
arriving after trip of twelve hours.
Creation by Edward Box of Phlla-
| delphia, of an award of 100000 to be
called the American peace award and
| to be given to the American Individual
or organization presenting the best
practical plan by which the United
States may cooperate with other ma
| tions for the achievement and preser-
vation Of world peace, was announced
| in New York City by the policy com
| mittee, organized to administer the