The Winslow mail., 1923-10-19
FOREIGN

Provincial armies, which for cen
turies have thriven in China to the
detriment of internal peace are elimi-
mated by the new constitution of the
Chinese republic, just promulgated.
The constitution provides for the re-
placement of provisional armies with
a national army.
The German charge d'affaires at
Brussels held a conference with NJ.
Jaspar, the foreign minister, request
ing that France, Belgium and Ger
many enter into direct negotiations to
the Ruhr, said Brussels dispatch to
L'Intransigeant, received in Paris.
Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood, in an ad-
dress before the Iirst convention of the
Philippine Sugar Association in Man
lila, said he is trying to get better land
investment laws passed for the devel-
opment of the rubber and sugar indus
tries. Americans, he said, are not try
ing to take land away from the Fill
pinos.
AT current rates of exchange, taxa
ton in Great Britain is almost three
United States, according to official fig
ures compiled in London. The latest
figures drawn up show that in Britain
the taxation is $72.44 81 head, in the
United States $3.50, in France $24.39,
and in Italy $11.81.
IT ic fooroI tho citI1otiOn of thn
workmen and their families in the
Ruhr district will become desperate
before the month is over The Ger
man state authorities are pOWerless to
offer relief as the Berlin government
has decided that, beginning Oct. II, all
responsibility for unemployment in the
Ruhr will be transferred to the local
municipal authorities in the occupied
area
Plainly exhibiting signs of physical
exhaustion wrought by five days of
political parley and barter, and, Incl
dentally, betraying nervousness, born
of apprehension of what the immedi-
ate future holds in store for his reSur-
rected coalition government, Chancel-
lor Stresemann submitted to the
reichstag a literally improved state
ment of the internal and foreign situ-
alton.
GENERAL
Martial law, in effect throughout
Oklahoma since Sept. Is, has been
lifted by Gov. ]. G. Walton.
The siege of the Eddyville KY,
prison ended when National Guards
men who stormed the mess hall where
the three convicts had stood off
small army for four days found the
prisoners had been killed.
Newspaper advertising for railroads
was advocated by Samuel Riddle, vice
president of the Louisville Railroad
Company, in an address opening the
annual convention of the American
Electric Railway Association in At
lantic City, N. j.
The total value of the late President
Hardings estate, according to the re-
port of the appraisers filed in Probate
Court at Marion, Ohio, exclusive of the
Harding Publishing Company stock,
which has not yet been appraised, was
set at $4S6,565.64.
gift of approximately $SOO,OOO to
help the building of good roads in Mis-
souri, was made the Missouri highway
commission at Kansas City. William
Volker, Kansas City manufacturer and
philanthropist, agreed to supply the
state at actual cost 100000 barrels of
cement yearly over a five-year period
for road building purposes.
Swinging through the valleys of the
Hudson and the Mohawk, and across
Vermont, in a country rich in the his
tory of British and American arms,
LLOYD George, wartime premier OF
Great Britain, began speaking tour
of Canada and the United States un-
der circumstances which bore much of
the touch of an American political
campaign.
The 10000 Hudson Coal Company
miners voted to return to work and
permit the anthracite board of cOncili-
alton to settle their grievances. This
action was taken at a mass meeting
at Scranton, Pa, on advice of the
union officers.
disqualification, rehabilitation, ad-
justed compensation and Americaniza-
ton, declared by National Commander
Owsley to be four pillars of the struc-
ture of the American Legion, are to be
the prime consideration of delegates to
the fifth annual convention at San
Francisco, Oct. Is to 19. On future de-
velopment Of these will the thOus-
and delegates direct their atten-
ton with view to further accom-
plishments.
Eight children, ranging in ages from
3 to ii years, were killed when u
Pennsylvania train, known as the
Clevelander, struck school bus drawn
by horses at Atwater's Crossing IN
Rootstown, near Ravenna, Q. Five per-