The Colorado statesman., 1923-03-10
FOREIGN

Counter-revolutlon is brewing in
Greece and military measures are be-
ing taken for fighting, according to
Brindisl dispatch to the Daily Mail in
London, quoting travellers. Cannon
and machine guns were said to have
been mounted at strategic points in
Athens.
The vatican is about to send Mon
signor Luzio of the sacred congrega-
tion at an early date to Ireland. ac-
cordlng to information reaching Irish
circles in Paris. The object of the
visit, 1t is asserted, is to smooth over
the difficulties between the Irish
bishops and the Republicans.
Announcing officially the occupation
of parts of Mannheim, Karlsruhe and
Darmstadt, the French government
stated that thus far only the Rhine
parts of the first two cities and rail
road workshops in the last had been
seized. The occupation is in reprisal
for recent acts of sabotage in the Ruhr
and Rhineland the French announced.
Germany's decision not to conduct
any reparations negotiations with
France and Belgium or make any pay
ments of any kind during military oc-
cupatlon of the Ruhr is now in effect.
Answering a communication for the
lnterallied reparatiOns commission,
the government refused to deliver
fertilizer to the French and Belgians
as demanded.
That France fears serious trouble in
the Ruhr was Indicated when the cab
met decided to postpone demobiliza-
ton of the 1921 military class. Dis
bandment of this class of reservist
troops would automatically take place
in April The cabinet, however, be-
lieves that rehabilitation should be
postponed until the Ruhr emergency
disappears and will keep the men un-
der the colors until May 81.
General Degoutte, the French com
mander at Cologne, has notified the
Reichsbank that he will not return any
portion of the 1000, 100000 markes re-
Gently seized by the French at Cologne.
1t was added by General Degoutte that
If the Reichsbank desired to avoid fur
ther similar losses the German govern
ment must meet the demands of the
French for money for the requirements
of the armies of occupation.
GENERAL
Unable to make Il passing grade of
seventy, all of the 430 candidates for
the position of movie censor of Chicago
failed in the examination, the civil
service commission announced.
A tornado struck st. Joseph, Mo-,
recently and tore east across the city,
doing much damage, unroofing houses,
uprooting trees, wrecking telephone
wires and injuring nine persons.
With Broadway crowd standing
agape and movie machines clicking out
their yards of celluloid ribbon, Harry
f. Young, selfstyled spider" plunged
ten stories to his death while attempt
ing to scale the side of the Hotel
Martinique in New York City.
The international 500-mile automo-
bile race, premier event of its kind In
the world, will be held at indianapolis
Memorial day, as usual, as the result
stitutional, bill, passed by both
houses of the Indiana Legislature,
which would prohibit the race. A last
minute attempt to pass the bill over
the governors veto was made in the
Senate, but this failed.
A wounded and shell-shocked veter-
an of the World War, under an hallu-
cination that he was fighting off "mur-
dering Germans" at the Verdun front,
wounded two policemen and his bro
ther, and held half 8 hundred police
men at bay, for seven hours at Cleve-
land, Ohio, despite the barrage of pis-
tol shots and tear bombs" The insane
veteran, John WeitZel, n member of the
Fifth division, was finally captured.
Sixteen Russian refugees of Admiral
Stark's command, who came to Manila
from VladivostOk, and who were ar
| rested Feb. 26, charged with mutiny,
were sentenced to terms ranging from
one to five months. With the consent
of the government they will be con.
fined in Bilibid, the Philippine insular
penitentiary.
"A little group OF tnlFtS-elSnt SOlulers
lined the rails of the liner George
Washington as she plowed up the bay
| the other day. For them whistles blew
and flags waved-for them crowds on
| passing ferryboats cheered wildly
They were the last contingent of the
American army of occupation from
Coblenz-their arrival wrote an Off
cial "finis" to the four-year Watch OF
the Rhine"
A slight earthquake was felt at FL
Paso recently. Buildings We're slightly
shaken and windows ratified, but nc
| damage has been reported. Western
Union offices report that the quake
was felt as far West as Lordsburg, n
NJ, as far north as Alamogordo and as
| fnr nnSt nS Storm Rlanca RennrtS are