The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-06
FOREIGN


meters (about ten miles) before 1t
grounded.
The allied occupation OF Constanti-
nople formally ended a few days ago.
For weeks transports have been evac-
uating troops and material, while one
by one the warships have slipped
away.
Baron IJuin, the new premier of JAP
an, is quoted by the Toxic Hochi as
saying the cabinet favors reopening
negotiations with soviet Russia as soon
as possible with view to resuming
relations with that country.
Young Hitlerites (Bavarian Fascls-
t) invaded a synagogue in Munich,
maltreating aged Jews who were at
worship. Passersby in the streets
were beaten when they refused to
take off their hats to the Fascist.
The bands roved through the streets
singing antisemltic songs and jeering
the Jews.
An impressive farewell was given to
David Lloyd George as he left London
for a six weeks tour of Canada and
the United States. A large crowd of
admirers and former cabinet associates
assembled at the Waterloo station, and
cheered him with spontaneity and en-
thusiasm reminiscent of the days of
his premiership.
American Red Cross officials en-
gagged in relief work in Toxic esti-
mated 225,OoO persons were killed, ap-
proxlmately 100000 injured and
about 100000 made wholly or par
TALLY destitute in Toxic. Yokohama
and vicinity by the earthquake. High
praise was given to japanese officials
for their cooperation.
Four hundred Nationalists and
twelve rlngleaders who seized the for
tress at Kuestrin have all been arrest
ed by reichswehr, it was officially an
nounced in Berlin. After being dis
armed they were locked up in the fort
ress which they had seized. The Of
ficial statement placed the National
lists casualties as one dead and sew
eral wounded.
A few nights ago in London 1t took
George Carpenter, the French fight
er, just about twenty seconds to put
the quietus on the championship as
pirations of Joe Beckett, who holds
the heavyweight title in Great
Britain. Carpenter used both lefts
and rights in brief series of ex-
changes, and Beckett remained on the
floor for the final count.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin,
speaking at Northampton, England, de-
clared that his conference with Pre-
mier Poincare in Paris last week had
had the effect of restoring the former
good relations between France and
Great Britain. The atmosphere of re-
straint and almost Of distrust, that
prevailed between the two countries
when the present British government
came into office has been changed, he
said, into one of mutual confidence.
GENERAL
Oklahoma voters repudiated Gov. ].
G. Walton by authorizing the Legis-
lature to conduct special session to
investigate actions of the states eI-
ecutive.
S. X. Lesky of Ellsworth, Kan, has
filed suit in United States District
Court at Muskegee, Okla, against the
Ku Klux Klan, asking $15O,0O0 dam
ages for injuries he said he incurred
when he was tarred and feathered in
Tulsa county in July of last year.
One of the Outstanding features of
the annual convention of the American
Mining Congress in Milwaukee was the
presentation by William G. Russell,
mining engineer of Denver, on behalf
of United States Senator Lawrence G.
Phipps of Colorado, of paper on
''The Potentialities of the Oil Shale
Industry" Senator Phipps stated
Colorado alone contains 100000 acres
of oil shale, capable of producing 67,-
5O0,OOO,OOO barrels of oil. San Fran
cisco was selected as the place of
meeting of the twenty-seventh annual
convention at the board of directors
meeting of the congress.
In addition to the Missouri hearing,
to be held at ST. Louis, Oct. 8, upon
the proposed stock Issue and sale of
the Denver & Rio Grande Western
Railway Company of Colorado, a hear
ing also will be held in Kansas City,
Oct. 6, according to an announcement
made at jefferson City by Attorney
General Jesse w. Barrett of Missouri.
Tying ether-soaked handkerchiefs
over the faces of their victims and mis-
treating them for over an hour, three
masked bandits forced James G. Gun
ming and his two daughters at Deca-
.ur, ILL.,, to reveal the place of con-
cealment of Jewels valued at $500.
The robbers escaped from the Cunning
home with the valuables. leaving Mr..
Cunning and the two girls in seri-
Gus condition.
Wage increase requests for restora-
ton of schedules in effect before the
approximately 12h per cent reduc-
tInn handed down hy the United