The Raymer enterprise., 1923-03-22
FOREIGN

The British steamship Merville was
sunk off Steenbank, ON the coast Of
Holland, with the loss Of twelve lives.
Eighteen lrregulars, including some
men Of importsn,e, were arrested re-
Gently at Ballyconnel and Tipperary.
Ii Is said they had arms and docu.
ments In their possession.
Three Germans were shot and
killed BY French sentries while trying
to break into q machinery warehouse
at Reckllnghausen. According TO the
French announcement, the shooting
took place after the Germans had dis.
regarded the usual challenge.
United States Senator Hiram VI.
johnson arrived at Cherbourg recently
on board the steamer George Washing
ton, from New York. Mr.. johnson said
he had come to Europe after four
years OF parliamentary work to rest
rest and not to Investigate, as Al has
been said he would
Three Free State soldiers and one
irregular were killed In fighting In
Ireland. Two Free Staters were killed
during a clash with rebels In Dublin
and one Free Slater and one rebel
were killed In fight at Charlestown.
The fighting ut Charlestown followed
a raid upon the town by irreguIars.
China's recent note to Japan, re-
Questing that a discussion be held
with view Of returning Dalny and
Port Arthur to China, was interpreted
In Toxic ~ no less than communities
ton declaring abrOgated the Chino
japanese treaty Of 1915, which embod-
led the "twenty.one demands The
terms Of the Chinese note came rs u
surprise to Japan.
The German population OF the
Recklinghausen district has been
warned by General Laignelot, com
mandlng the district, that II any
further French troops are assasslnated
or ambushed the burgomaster Of
Buer. who Ii held as Z hostage, to-
gether with four other town officials,
will be shot at once - Z measure Of
retaliation.
The foreign office At Paris received
detailed synopsis Of the Turkish gov
ernment's reIly to the Lausanne peace
proposals. From the synopsis 1t ap'
pears that a large number Of the pro-
visions Of the Lausanne treaty are
called into question, and that accept
snce Of the Turkish contentious would
involve drastic changes In the original
draft Of the treaty.
The Germans In Duisburg and else
where In the Belgian occupied area
have gone on thirst strike. This Is
due to the adoption BY the Belgiuns Of
the rule no tax, no wine" as method
Of inducing payment OF the recently
Imposed tax on wines. liquors and to-
bacco. The Germans are refusing to
pay the tax and the Belglans are seiz.
ing, locking up and guarding the wine
cellars
GENERAL
All creditors Of the Lincoln Motor
Car Company, purchased lust year by
Henry FVfd ut receivers sale, have
been relmou 'sed In full BY Mr.. Ford.
d. ". Davis, former governor OF Ida
no, was sworn in us special assistant
secretary Of the interior. He Is to act
us personal aide to Secretary Work.
Luis Angel Firpo. South American
pugilist, who knocked out Bill Bren-
nan in the twelfth round ut Madison
Square Garden, New York City, Is
looking for more worlds to conquer.
Jay G. Richenbach, &c and Kenneth
L. Brown. IS, reserve officers Of the
United States army air service. were
burned to death at Fort Bliss when the
De liayiland plane in which they were
making practice flight crashed to the
ground in full view of hundreds OF
spectators.
Eight hundred vorkmen at the FL
Paso smelling works received Il ~ per
cent increase in wages. A unit for the
electrostatic precipitation OF solids
from smoke, which will save 30 per
cent Of metals from escaping smoke
and eliminate much of the SCOT and
fumes, is to be installed ut once at u
cost Of $4,000, 1t has been announced.
An engineer was killed and u car
load of livestock was burned TO death
when two freight trains Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee 4 st. Paul railroad crashed
ut Leaf River near Chicago. In u blind
ing snowfall The dead man was J..
Hogan Of Savannah. Ill. His train
struck the rear end Of the other.
The largest single zinc ore purchase
ever made In the Joplin, Mo-, district
was recorded recently when the Amer
lean Metal Company bought 10000
tons from the Commerce Mining and
Royalty Company. On the basis Of the
market price, SiS-5O ton, the amount
paid for ore was $iS5,0O0 Joplin oper-
ators believe that not only local rec
ord was established, but that 1t is II
worlds record.
The story Of how Miss Evelyn Ly-
ons fooled the medical profession Of
Escanamba, Mich, newspaper men and
sympathetic neighbors for twenty one
days through her ingenious fever-rals-
| ing tactics by a hot water bottle was