The Winslow mail., 1923-12-07
FOREIGN

cut down the influx so that within the
last ten months only 212 have entered,
as compared with 1,212 during the pre-
vious ten months
In the biggest robbery in the history
or China, six armed Chinese bandits
held up a messenger of the Tungyih
Bank, en- route to the Stock Exchange
Bank in the heart of the international
settlement of Shanghai and escaped
with 100000 in negotiable bonds.
Gen. Angel Flores, former governor
OF Sinaloa state, announces that he
will seek the presidency of Mexico
without issuing platform. although
there may be the best intentions to
comply with platform promises, many
times circumstances prevent fulfill:
ment, the announcement says.
Many persons were drowned in the
Cagayan valley, in Cagayan province,
In northern Luzon, when a typhoon
swept sections of the Philippine is
lands last week, according to advices
received by constabulary authorities
at Manila, following restoration Of
communication to the district
The time limit fixed by the Belgian
government in which Germany must
pay 1880 0)0 francs as indemnity for
the assassination of Lieutenant Graft
in the neighborhood of Dusseldorf,
expired and nothing was heard from
Berlin beyond an offer to submit the
question to The Hague tribunal for ar
bitration. This proposal already has
been declined by Belgium.
AT the vatican there is complete sill
ence concerning the names of the new
cardinals Pope Plus may appoint at
the secret consistory to be held in
Rome Dec. 20. Even the nationality Of
those who may receive the red hat has
not been made known. If any new
American cardinals are to be appoint
ed, Archbishop Hayes of New York
and Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago
are mentioned as the prelates most
likely to be accorded the honor.
Germany is Immediately confronted
with a plain case of bankruptcy, and
will no longer be able to meet her pub
lie pay rolls, in the opinion of Dr.
George Gothein, reichstag Democratic
leader, who vigorously upbraided the
Socialists and German Nationalists for
having needlessly precipitated a parlia-
mentary crisis. Dr. William Marx, the
Clerical leader, will head the new cab
met as chancellor, while the other
portfolios will be held by men who
were in the last government.
GENERAL
The worlds largest freight ship, the
Minnesota, idle since her transport
service in the war, has been sold to the
German merchant marine. A tug is
now crossing the Atlantic to return
with the frefghter to Germany.
A new transatlantic speed record
was set by the American liner Levia-
than, which arrived a few days ago
from Southampton and Cherbourg. The
Leviathan made the 307S miles from
Cherbourg in five days, seven hours
and twenty minutes, beating the
Mauretania's record by thirteen min
utes.
An alert Yale eleven, taking advan-
tage of Harvard's mistakes on a mud
dy field, defeated the Crimson in Har-
ward stadium at Cambridge, 13 to 0,
capturing for the Blue it's first Big
Three championship since 1916, and in
cidentally scoring Yale's first touch
down on Harvard's home gridiron in
sixteen years.
After celebrating five hours, a jury
at Dauphin, Man., returned a verdict
of not guilty against Peter Sawicki, u
years old, and another verdict of guilty
of manSlaughter with a strong recon-
mendation for mercy, against his moth
er, Mrs. Paul Sawicki. They were tried
jointly for the Staying of Mrs. Anna
Sunka on Sept. 10.
Two miners are dead and eight
others badly burned are in a West
Frankfort, Ill, hospital, but all others
who were endangered by an explosion
in the northwestern part of the Chi
cago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal
Company's mine, No. 1, near West
Frankfort, one of the largest, if not
the largest mine in the world were
rescued.
The rum schooner Tomako, captured
by coast guards after an exciting
chase six miles off Seabright, N. J.,
while flying the British flag, was
seized with the knowledge that her
registry papers were faulty and that
she positively had been Unidentified
with the landing of liquor on American
shores, government agents. announced
in New York.
Following period of twelve years
of inactivity, owners of large cattle
ranges in the northern part of Chihua-
hua are returning to their properties
and indications point to a revival of
the cattle industry in Mexico 1t is
pointed out that range conditions are