, 1923-03-15
FOREIGN

wood pulp exports as a means of CON
serving Canada's wealth in natural
forests.
Counter-revolutlon is brewing in
Greece and military measures are be-
ing taken for fighting, according to ii
Brindisi dispatch to the Daily Mail in
London, quoting travellers. Cannon
and machine guns were said to have
been mounted at strategic points in
Athens.
Floods and a~valanches have lone
considerable damage throughout
France and threaten to do more. The
waters of the Seine have begun filter
ing into some cellars in the low living
parts of Paris, but because of the i'm
proved weather conditions it is thought
that the danger of the repetition of
the disaster of 1910 is past.
1t has been reported that the Brit
ish government mas formally protested
on legal grounds against the French
occupation of territories between the
Rhine bridgeheads. 1t is learned au-
t~horitatively, however, that no formal
protest has been made, but only verbal
lhlpuEh hlIlblldllt
channels, pointing out the difficulties
created for the British authorities in
the Rhineland.
Germany's decision not to conduct
any reparations negotiations with
France and Belgium or make any pay
ments of any kind during military oc-
cupation of the Ruhr Is now in effect.
Answering a communication for the
interallied PREPARATIONS 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 his 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 I'M
der the colors until May 81.
General Degoutte, the French COM
mander mt Cologne, has notified the
Reichsbank that he will not return any
portion of the 12,0O0,S 800 900 markes re-
Gently seized by the French at Cologne.
1t was added by General Degoutte that
if the R~eichsbank desired to avoid fur
Their 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 a 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.
Harry V. Dougherty, member of a
detective agency of New York City,
which specializes in furnishing labor
TO Industrial concerns, has given up his
hope of helping France exploit the coal
mines of the Ruhr through the medi-
um of American negroes.
Joie w. Ray of the Illinois Athletic
Club, Chicago, defeated Willie Ritola
of the Finnish-American Athletic Club
of New York City by fifty yards in a
5,O00-meter race at the annual track
and field games of the Western Union
Athletic Association at Chicago.
"Chesty Joie" finished in II minutes
and 81 seconds.
The international 5O0-mile automo-
bile race, premier event of its kind in
the world, will be held at Indianapolis
Memorial day, as usual, as the result
Of Governor McCray vetoing as uncon-
stitutional, a 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.
Sixteen Russian refugees of Admiral
Stark's command, who came to Manila
from Nladivostok, and who were ar
rested Feb. Pc, 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
~penitentiOry.
A wounded and shell-shocked veter-
an of the World War, under an hallu-
clnation that he vas fighting off "mur-
dering Germans at the Nerdun front,
wounded two policemen and his bro
ther, and held half IA hundred police
men at bay for seven hours at Cleve-
land, Ohio, despite the barruge of pls-
toll shots and tear bombs" The insane
veteran, John Weitzel, a member OF the
Fifth division, was finally captured.
a slight earthquake was felt mt III
Paso recendy. buildings were slightly
shaken and windows ratified, but no
damage has been reported. Western
Union offices report that the quake
was felt as far West as Lordsburg. N.
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