The Winslow mail., 1923-11-23
FOREIGN

Ifer TattO Maru, bound from Formosa
to Canton, when the vessel grounded
eight miles off WhampOd, south of
Canton, according to a wireless mes
sage Intercepted by the British gun
boat Tarantula, now at Canton, from
the TaitO Maru.
The Rhineland and the Ruhr and
the numerous internal and foreign is
sues interlocked with them, together
with the immediate economic and po-
itical future of Germany now consti-
tute the outstanding problems con-
fronting the government of Chancel-
lor Stresemann.
Offlclal announcement is made that
the Mexican government has proposed
to Washington the adoption Of a pos
tai convention making possible the in
augurat1on of G. o. D. mail service
between the two countries. Consider
able saving would be possible for Mex
lean consumers, it is pointed out, II
they could order small articles direct
from manufacturers in the states and
pay, upon delivery, postal, customs
and other charges
1t is estimated in Toxic by the Chu-
gal Shimbun, an authority on finance,
that the current year will show an ex-
cess OF imports over exports of 600,-
100000 yen, which is record The
paper does not look for a great de-
mand in America for raw silk, the sea
son now being late, while foreign COM
petition, the low price of silver and
The anti-Japanese movement tend
against an increase in the cotton goods
trade with China
Indignation and surprise were re-
ported in French official circles over
the report from Brussels that Berlin
had granted passports to the former
kaiser to return to Germany. If VIII
helm is allowed to return to German
soil France may seek a united ally de-
mand for surrender of the kaiser for
trial. Foreign office officials pointed
out that under article 227 of the Yer
sailles treaty Wilhelm may be placed
upon trial before an International tri-
bunal
The production of tobacco Is fast
superseding wheat growing in Bui-
garia. Once almost exclusively a
wheat-raising country, today Bulgaria
has ten acres in tobacco against one
In the cereal. Bulgarian farmers
were taken into European Turkey be-
fore the war to work in the tobacco
fields, and learned the business
thoroughly. Unsettled conditions have
killed the industry in Turkey, so the
Bulgarians are returning to their own
country, bringing the industry with
them.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, in
answer to a Labor motion of censure
In the House Of Commons, said with
reference to the Ruhr and reparations
situation, that he had spared no pains
to let 1t be known to Great Britain's
allies that the British people could not
continue Indefinitely to maintain the
spirit necessary for cooperation if the
present situation were allowed to con-
tinue. Mr.. Baldwin declared it might
be difficult to maintain Indefinitely
efforts to work together with allies
who made it so difficult.
GENERAL
Four West Virginia, Virginia and
federal officers were wounded in bat
tie with moonshiners in the Allegheny
mountains on the West Virginia-Vir-
orinta hnrdop 10 wool
Bankers, industrialists and railroad
leaders of New York were in hearty
accord with the proposal for a reduc-
ton in taxes on earned incomes by
Andrew w. Mellon, secretary of the
treasury. Figures in New Yorks fl
nancial district, while for the most
part preferring to withhold their
names in connection with opinions on
the subject, believed the proposed re-
duction would prove a greater boon to
national industry and prosperity than
any one single act that could be
passed by Congress.
A "reaffirmation Of faith" in the
"virgin birth of Christ and the Apos-
ties creed" has been made by the
house Of bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal church in the United States
in session at Dallas, Tex.
Harry N. Burnhans, executive sec
retary of the tourist and publicity
bureau Of the Civic and Commercial
Association Of Denver, Colo, was
elected president of the International
Association of Convention Bureaus, at
the close of it's convention in Atlanta,
Ga.
Agricultural depression in Iowa
since the war was pictured as caus-
ing an unprecedented number of mort
gagged farms and enormous bank fail
ures, by ]. F. Coupe of Des Moines,
of +bo iowa 49,,