Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-17
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Twenty two men and one woman,
suspected of conspiring against the
Free State, were seized at Glasgow in
a police raid,
A severe earth shock was felt from
Copiago to Rancagua, in Chile. No
damage has been reported SO far.
A Rome dispatch says Colonel Pic
clio having refused to accept the high
commissionership of aviation, Premier
Mussolini has appointed imself to the
post.
An average increase of. 80 per cent
was made in the price of German coal
Miners wages have been increased APP
proximately 68 per cent, says a Berlin
dispatch.
Russian authorities at Moscow deny
the story that some of the Russian
crown jewels were smuggled into the
United States and are now hidden in
a soldiers grave. They say all the
gems are safe here.
Revelations at Amsterdam that for
mer German and Austrian army and
naval officers have been employed on
technical work by the navy depart
ment have caused vehement objections
to their retention.
Internment orders, pending deporta-
ton to Germany, were ordered at Ha-
vana for six deserters from the crew
of the German liner Holsatia and for
two passengers, who tried to enter the
United States secretly.
The minister of war at Rome has
called to the colors the recruits OF
the second class Of 1922 residing in
all the countries Of Europe and along
the Mediterranean, excepting Russia
Martial law has been declared in
Canton, where adherents of Sun Vat
Sen, former president of the southern
Chinese republic, have been engaged
in battle to retake the city.
Planning increased production of oil
in the Baku fields, the Russian gov
eminent at Moscow has ordered ten
complete outfits of the Rotary-Rex. .
machine, especially designed for deep
and rapid drilling.
A bill to increase all taxes, direct
and indirect, 20 per cent was intro
duced in the chamber of deputies at
Paris by Finance Minister Lasteyrie.
The increases are expected to produce
100000 francs.
The Franco-Belgian occupation of
the Ruhr basin is accomplished. 1t
was carried out with a swiftness and
efficiency which left the citizens of
Essen gasping with surprise.
1t is reported at Dublin that Ea-
mon De Valera, leader of the repub-
lican movement has secretly reached
the United States and will confer with
republican sympathizers in New York,
Boston and Chicago.
A Picking dispatch says that by
burning 100 villages and killing from
600 to 1000 natives bandits in west
ern Honan have taken revenge for
attacks on them by troops after the
bandits had released captured for
eigners.
Germany recalled her ENJOYS to
France and Belgium, and has pre-
pared to wage moral war. The gov
eminent will refuse all PREPARATIONS
payments, claiming the treaty of Yer
sailles is broken.
Gen. Chang Chiung-Min who cap
tured Canton last summer and drove
President Sun Vat Sens southern
government from power, has been de-
feated by Suns troops and has fled
from Canton to Hongkong.
A Managua dispatch says that as a
result of reports that Nlcaraguan p0-
litical refugees in Honduras are or
ganizing a revolutionary force, the
Nicaraguan army has been markedly
Increased in the last few days.
Despite protests by the Buddhists,
Japan has decided to send diplo-
matte envoy to the Vatican. says a
Tokyo dispatch.
BY a vote of PIT to ?, the French
senate at Paris reelected Leon Bour-
geois as president.