The Holly chieftain., 1923-09-20
FOREIGN

OAG&0N
A strong back to the harem'
movement has been launched In Tur
key.
Mexico has declined an invitation
from the Latin-American delegates to
the League of Nations to become q
member of the League.
The soviet embassy at Berlin de-
scribes the reports Of a revolt at Mos
COW and the assassination of Leon
Trotzxy, the war minister. as fabrica-
tion
Seventy Brazilian state troopers
were killed or wounded when their en-
campment ut Cruz Alta, in the state
of Rio Grande do Sui, was attacked by
revolutionaries who made furious
surprise ATTACK.
Gen. Miguel Primo Rivera, Marquis
de Estella, head of the revolutionary
movement which overthrew the Alluce-
mas ministry, took the oath of office,
| as president Of the council of ministers
before King Alfonso of Spain.
Home Minister Goto of Japan has
announced he will have tifeaters and
motion picture houses built in the de-
wasted region to provide free enter
tainment for the people this winter MS
means OF diverting their minds from
the earthquake and of relieving the
mopotony Of their lives.
Tacitly admitting that the Ruhr
fight had been lost and that there
could be no prospect Ut the internal
reconstruction of Germany until the
foreign conflict had been adjusted,
Chancellor Stresemann remarked to
gathering of editors In Berlin: Can
dor Is preferable to illusion, and Ger
many desires to speak out plainly"
The little peasants village Of Stroen-
beck. Germany, Of $500 souls boasts
| that 1t contains not man, woman or
child Of school age who does not
play the ancient game of chess. Even
the small children have kings. queens.
knights and pawns as playthings.
Chess is taught In the schools and the
children, going to and from their
homes, carry their chess boards like
children In the United States carry
their grammars or arithmetics or
| states.
Sadl Lecointe, the noted French avi-
ator, is believed to have broken the
worlds record for altitude. held joint
| ly by him and Lieut.. ]. MucIseady.
| Thief irst reading Of his paragraph ut
the polytechnical laboratory, after
flight showed that he reached height
Of 1874 meters, or 35, go. .48 feet. The
Paragraph will be examined again be-
l fnro fhn 10 uo off inl
On Aug. Is, Lecointe reached height
Of 10,51S meters, which tied the record
Of Lieutenant MacReudy.
A military coup detat, directed
| against the government, as represent
ed by the cabinet Of Premier Alhuce-
mas and political leaders, but loyal 10
King Alfonso and the dynasty, was
sprung at Barcelona, Spain, by the cap
tain General in that city, Miguel pri-
mo-Rivera. The revolt feared for
many months and twice announced, on
iy to be postponed, is reported to have
| spread rapidly In the provinces of
Spain, where various gurrisons are said
to have Joined the movement.
| BY the death of Wells burlington.
| the mining engineer mentioned In Ma
gasaki dispatches as among those
killed in the japanese earthquake.
America loses modern pioneer, whose
dream was to surmount the barriers of
Siberia's little known trails, and open
to the worlds engineers and traders
stretch of country in northeast Asia
three times the size of Alaska md, in
his opinion, fabulously wealthier. Mr..
burlington was one of the few Ameri-
cans who crossed the Pacific seeking
new worlds after the conquest of
Americas last frontier In Alaska a
quarter Of century ugo. He left Lon
don in 1921 for final effort to open
up Siberia and was waiting in Japan
for political conditions In Siberia to
become settled when the earthquake
| came.
GENERAL
Jack Dempsey admitted In New York
City after his victory over Luis Angel
Firpo that he never had received such
socking In his life.
Governor Walton climaxed his spec
tacular fight against the ku Klux
Klan by declaring martial law for the