The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-26
FOREIGN

" huHOlly uHu MlClluel phlNlH, IOuT VI
the men recently released from intern
ment in Ireland, appeared in Bow
Street Court, charged with seditious
conspiracy.
Between 100000 and 100000 per-
sons have died of typhus in Russia
since 1913, DR.. Ludwik Rajchman,
director of the health section of the
League of Nations, told the national
conference of social work In Wash
ington.
1t was unofficlally reported in
Manila that troops will be sent to
China from the Philippines in the
event decision is reached TO employ
Intervention in the Chinese bandit sit
uation. The Philippine garrison con-
sists of about $500 American troops
and $500 native troops.
No compromise to the deadlock on
the question of Turco-Greek repara-
tions has been found at the Near East
peace conference at Lausanne. NJ.
Venizelos, head of the Greek delega-
ton, has been in consultation with
various conference leaders, discussing
ways and means in an endeavor to
ameloriate the situation.
Leonid Krnssin, Russian soviet re-
preventative in London, Is unofficially
understood to have been instructed to
inform the British foreign office that
Russia cannot yield In principle from
its recent note replying to the British
ultimatum. The instructions, 1t is
said, were sent as the result of q
soviet government conference.
Rioting has been in progress IN the
Dortmund district. Several miners
have been killed and others wounded
in conflict with the police. Accord
ing to reports received at French
headquarters at Dusseldorf 10000
striking miners held a demonstration
In the square in Dortmund. The Dort-
mund police, in endeavor1ng to dis
perse the gathering, fired into the
crowd, killing several persons.
Pope Plus delivered an allocution at
a secret consistory in which he de-
plored the struggles In Ireland, the sit
uation In the Ruhr and events in Rus
sia. He said he would continue to do
everything possible to alleviate the
sufferings of the world. The religious
demonstrations that occurred in Italy
ton of the eucharistic congress had
rejoiced him, the pontiff said.
Stanley Baldwin is Great Britain's
new prime minister. He accepted the
premiership offered him by King
George. Stanley Baldwin, the new
British prime minister, played COM
paratively minor part In British poll
tics until the advent of the Bonar
Law regime following the resignation
of Premier Lloyd George and the
breakup of the coalition which guided
British destinies during the war.
GENERAL
Fears for the safety of the five
masted sailing vessel Elinor ii. and its
crew of foreign men were expressed
in marine circles in San Francisco.
Smugglers who bring liquor from
Canada across the Detroit river to
Ecorse, Mich, ten miles from Detroit,
have been carrying on smuggling oper-
ations for years, and even generations,
according to the Chicago Daily News.
Sale of cloth poppies made in Ger
many by American commercial houses
for use in commemorating soldier dead
was declared ian insult to the heroic
dead of the World War;" by Lemuel
Bolles, national adjutant of the legion,
in Indianapolis.
The American Wheat Growers, AS
sociated, one of the largest farm CO.
operative societies in the world, will
be set in operation when delegates
from twelve states meet in Minneapo-
lis. Officials of the association. which
will market wheat of the farmer men,
bers, estimate that 75,000,000 bushels
of the 1923 crop will be handled.
Continued exodus of negro workers
to the North has resulted in the
tightening of state law enforcement
covering contract labor in several
Southern states.
The 451 buildings in the village of
Brooklawn, near Glocester City, N. j.,
brought S1,700,0o0 at public sale. The
village cost the government little
more than S3,O0O,000 when construct
ed during the war.
VIII ]. Dunlap, of Linn county, Ore
gon, died of bullet wound received
in n running fight through the streets
of Albany, Oregon, with two men
sought as automobile thieves. a charge
of murder in the first degree was filed
Immediately after the sheriff's death
against George Parker.
Conditions almost beyond belief'
were found within the eastern Penn
sylvania penitentiary by the grand
Jury which has submitted its report
after an extended investigation of the
institution. A rapidly growing traffic
in narcotics, manufacture and sale OF
lInnor by the inmntes crimes of all