The Holly chieftain., 1923-05-24
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tions. Work in the larger cities was
at standstill.
Premier Andrew Bonar Law of
England has resigned his post lpon
advice of physicians after sea voy-
age failed to restore his health.
The Ukrainian government has sent
note to Lord Curzon. the British for
eign secretary, with copy to Ramsay
Macdonald, the opposition Labor lead
er, expressing the hope that there will
he no break In the relations between
Russia and Great Britain.
Between 100000 and 1000, 900 per-
sons have died of typhus In Russia
since 1918, DIR. Ludwik Rajchman,
director Of the health section of the
League of Nations, told the national
conference of social work in Wash
ington.
AS result of the House of Lords
decision In the case of Art O'Brien,
the British government is requesting
the Irish Free State government to
return to England all the prisoners
deported to ireland, Home Secretary
Bridgman announced in the House of
Commons.
The Earl of Carnarvon, diseoverer of
the tomb of Tutankhamen, left an es-
tate of f39S, ,027, it developed when his
will was filed for probate in London.
He bequeaths his race horses and his
personal estate to his wife. This In
cludes his collection Of Egyptian
treasures in London.
A villa was rented in the name of
Henry Ford Of Detroit, at MurI,
fashionable resort near Berne, Swift
zerland. The villa adjoins one of Herr
Muhlan, former director of Krupps,
who became pacifist and wrote "The
Destruction of Europe" The lease,
which was registered at the town hall,
runs for the entire summer.
The woman being held in Teguci-
galpa, Honduras, as Clara Phillips, the
California "hammer murderess," has
been definitely identified by Deputy
Sheriff Walter ]. Hunter of Los An
Angeles where she escaped from Jail
last December, by the steamer COlum-
bia, leaving Amapala May 80.
That the leaders of the bandits who
are holding more than dozen
foreigners in the hills back of Lin
cheng are highly educated, intelligent
men, determined that their demands
shall be met and showing little If any
faith in promises made by Chinese
authorities, are among the statements
made by Roy Anderson, American,
who returned to Tientsin, from trip
to the robbers stronghold.
Fifteen foreigners, six of them
Americans, some of them i'll, all Of
them weary, bruised and footsore,
poorly fed and worse clad, are look
ing death in the face in the Paotzuku
hills of Shantung province, captives
of the bandits who raided the Shang-
ai-Peking express near Suchow, May
g. If the foreign and Chinese govern
ments are unable to satisfy the
brigands that their terms for the re-
lease of the prisoners will be met, and
the ROBBERS chieftain makes good his
threat, two of the Americans and two
Britishers will be shot.
GENERAL
Hot Springs, Ark, Is endeavoring to
extricate itself from debris and ruin
left by flood, fire and wind which
wrecked the business district Of the
city with damage to property which
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Several persons are reported to have
been killed. 1t is not expected, how
ever, that the death list will exceed
three or four persons.
Once proudly floating the American
flag during worldwide cruise Of the
United States navy and with q bril-
liant World war service record, the
former navy dispatch boat Yankton
was revealed as the rum runner Yank-
ton under British registry. AS result
Of her capture federal warrants were
Issued in New York City for eight men,
alleged heads Of a nationwide rum
ring.
Nearly 400 women students at the
University of Minnesota at Minneapo-
lis, who attended luncheon at the
Minnesota Union building on the
campus during the cap and gown cere-
monies were Ill as a result of mys-
terious food poisoning.
Still dazed by the tragedy in which
seventy-five persons lost their lives
in the fire at Cleveland school house
eight miles from Camden, s. O., the
Cleveland school and Camden com
munlties are preparing, with acute
realization of the extent of the
tragedy, to care for In every way those
left dependent by the fire.
Zev, star 3-year-old of Harry Sin
clair's Rancocas stable, thundered
down the home stretch at the Louis
vile, Kentucky, race track, to fame
immortal and the greatest honor with
in the gift of the American turf in
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