The Holly chieftain., 1923-08-23
FOREIGN

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about fifty junks and sampans cap
sized during a typhoon at MacAoon,
China.
Two masked bandits entered a
private club on Granville street, Van
couyer. B. c.. lined up score Of card
players and after taking forty-five
minutes to collect $4,000 from their
victims, fled.
The eleventh-hour hOmeward rush
of giobe-trotting Yankees continues
apace, and this weekend will see some
1900 Americans with llghtened pock-
etbooks cleared on eight big liners for
the United States.
Abdel Krim, leader Of the Riff
tribesmen, on the warpatb in Morocco,
Issued a call for 100000 men. Riffs
living in French Morocco are returning
to fight the Spaniards. Tribesmen who
refuse to fight have their property con-
| fiscated.
Klel was bone dry for one day re-
Gently. Not even soft drinks were
sold. The beer halls, wine rooms.
cafes, restaurants and iced drink
/ places of all kinds and even coffee
rooms, were closed in protest against
the reich tax on alcoholics.
| The English race horse, Tracery, sire
of Papyrus, winner of this years der
by ut Buenos Aires, has been sold back
to England. He came out two years
ago for breeding purposes at pur
chase price of S265,000. His return
price, however, was slightly under this
sum.
Fire gutted the Cosmopolitan cafe,
the largest restaurant In Nogales, So
nora, II few days ago. The Nogales,
Ariz., fire department crossed the in
| ternational line and assisted In efforts
to control the blaze Damage is esti-
mated at $60,O00. The Cosmopolitan
cafe was n popular gathering place for
visitors from the United States.
Nome.-White forces in control of
| of the Russian soviet administration
at Eastcape, Siberia, are expected to
surrender their authority when the
volunteer steamer StavrapOl arrives at
Kolyma with 100 soldiers of the Red
army aboard. Conditions Mt Kolyma
are unknown among traders In Nome,
but 1t Is recalled that the Eastcape adj
ministratlon changed hands Aug. 10
and TINT conditions there still are un-
settled.
Capt. Roald Amundsen, Norwegian
explorer, who was forced by an acci-
dent to his airplane to abandon his
proposed air flight from Alaska to
Spitzbergen over the North Pole, has
Indicated that he will make another at
tempt, using Spitzbergen as base,
according to officers of the coast guard
cutter Bear, which arrived recently in
st. Paul, Alnska, from a voyage to
Point Barrow and Wainwright, where
the explorer made his base.
Political circles were Jared by a
bomb shell when Manuel Quezon, who
recently resigned as president of the
Philippine Senate because Of his diff
ferenees with the American executive
administration, announced he had
cabled secretary of war that Mayor
Rodriguez Of Manila, lately appointed
to that post by Governor-G General
Leonard Wood, was an ,ex-convict
from Bilibid prison. The Herald is
sued an extra edition, demanding
editorially that the encouragement
request Mayor Rodriguez resignation.
GENERAL
The first step in the laying of the
eighteenth cable across the Atlantic
was begun n few days ago.
At the closing session of the Inter-
national Photoengravers' union conyen-
tion at Milwaukee, Los Angeles was
chosen over New York as the meeting
place for the 1924 convention,
| Force of deputy sheriffs was rushed
to Carnegie, suburb Of Pittsburg,
when crowd of about 800 persons
blocked street and stopped parade
of Ku Klux Klansmen. The parade
was led by an automobile but the
klansmen on foot were reported to ex-
tend back for more than mile.
Joe Huff, known along tile Pacific
coast as the tailor-avlator, and Edwin
Dihall, negro, 81 years old, were
killed when the airplane In which they
were riding crashed to earth at Ven
Ice, Calf.
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Thirty-six thorobred horses, the re-
mainder Of the stables Of Anita NJ.
Baldwin, on the Santa Anlta rancho.
near Pasadena, and valued at more
, than 100000. have been given to the
United States government by her. Col.
A. N. Mcclure, in charge Of the pur
chasing and breeding headquarters Of
the United States remOunt service in
Sacramento, received the donation at
u conference held ut Tahoe.
The Theater Owners Chamber Of
Commerce In New York, announced 1t
had purchased $1,OO0,O00 policy to
insure the $40 motion picture houses
the chamber represents In greater
New York. against loss through prop
: erty damage during n strike which the
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