The Winslow mail., 1923-09-14
FOREIGN

the fire which followed the earthquake
and tidal wave
The Prince of Wales has left London
for the great open spaces of his Cana
dian ranch, travelling as Lord Renfrew,
just a plain peer, as his highness is
going to rough it a bit
A Central News dispatch received in
London from Rome says that reports
are current there that Italian forces
have occupied the islands of Merlera,
Fano and Mathraki, northwest of
Corfu
Count Gombei Yamamoto has been
appointed premier of Japan to sue
ceed the late Baron Kato, who died re-
Gently. The appointment followed
summons to court by Prince Regent
Hirohito, who acted upon the advice
of the Genro, or elder statesmen.
A dispatch from Berlin says it has
been learned on good authority that
former Grown Prince Frederick VIII
liam has asked to be allowed to re-
turn to Germany and that the Prus-
sian cabinet is prepared to permit him
to reside in Castle Oehis, near Breslau.
Italy's representative, Signor Salan-
dra, told the council of the League of
Nations assembled in Geneva, that
Italy would regard Intervention of the
league in the Greco-Italian crisis as I'M
justified. The league, he asserted, had
no competency in the affair, which be-
lOnged properly to the interallied coun-
Gil of ambassadors.
Believed the youngest boy ever
charged with murder in Canada, Peter
SaWicki, aged u, is in provincial Jail
at Dauphin, awaiting hearing on a
charge of killing Mrs. Anna Kunka at
Pine River in dispute over cattle.
He said his mother told him to shoot
Mrs. Kunka after she had been bested
by the woman in a fight.
Minister of Agriculture Lebreton an
nounced his intention of invoking Ar
gentine's recently-enacted antitrust
law to determine if meat trust exists
in Buenos Aires. An investigation to
be conducted by the federal attorney
| is expected to inquire into the activ
| tiles of British and American packing
concerns doing business in Argentine.
Great Britain will not abandon her
| right to reparations or her claims to
the debts which other nations owe her,
the earl of Birkenhead, lord high
chancellor in the Lloyd George cabinet,
declared in an address. '"The position
| uyO11J5 hn monet ono fbot 1uo n
victorious nation, should be the only
country in the world paying indem-
nity," he said.
Continued fall of grain prices in the
world markets threatens to make Rus
sian grain exports Improbable and is
| having a tremendous effect on the
| Russian peasantry in the lowering of
prices in the home market. AS a cOun-
| ter measure, the council of commits
sars has ordered the remittance of
number of taxes on all grain destined
for export. This, the government be-
lieves, will to a certain extent allevi-
| ate the situation.
GENERAL
Womens rights in the pulpit were
demanded by the International Asso-
ciation of Women Preachers in Chi
cago.
| The Ford Motor Company's total
cash balance of $210, 1903, ,923, assuming
the good will item unchanged at $780,
157 1886, as announced from cOmpila-
tions made from the balance sheet as
of June 80 last, is the largest cash
holding ever reported by any industrial
concern in the world, it was declared
in financial circles in New York city.
Two hundred leading business men
of Nashville, Tenn, all members of the
Nashville Exchange Club, observed
Labor day in overalls, welding picks,
shovels and other implements in COM
pletely installing a playground for
children at the Davidson County Tu-
berculosis hospital. Five thousand dol
lars was spent for outdoor equipment
by the club, intended to help the child
rem in their fight against disease.
GAYLORD NJ Saltzgaber of Vanwert,
Ohio, was unanimously elected COM
mander-in-chief of the National Grand
Army of the Republic at the recent con-
vention in Milwaukee.
Calling for improved conditions for
Americas destitute childhood, and urg-
ing that the nation close the doors to
undesirable" immigrants, were the
two high lights in the address of Sec
retary of Labor James ]. Davis before
the Alabama Legislature.
Frederick W. Upham, treasurer OF
the national Republican committee, re-
turning to New York on the Leviathan
from a trip abroad, said there was no
question but that Chicago would be
the scene of the 1924 Republican con-
vention. A majority of the members
themselves in favor Of Chicago. he
said.
Asking that the election of Hiram