The Dolores star., 1923-03-16
FOREIGN

serving Canada's wealth In natural
forests.
Counter volution is brewing in
Greece and military measures are be-
Ing taken for fighting, according to a
Brindisi dispatch to the Daily Mall IN
London, quoting travellers. Cannon
and machine guns were said to have
been mounted at strategic points in
| Athens.
The vatican is about to send Mon
signor Luzio of the sacred congresa-
ton at an early date to ireland. ac-
cordlng to information reaching irish
| circles in Paris The object of the
visit, 1t is asserted, is to smooth over
the difficulties between the Irish
bishops and the Republicans.
Announcing officially the occupation
| OF parts Of Mannheim, Karlsruhe and
Darmstadt. the French government
stated that thus far only the Rhine
parts of the first two cities and rail-
road workshops In the last had been
seized The occupation is in reprisal
for recent acts of sabotage in the Runr
and Rhineland the French announced.
Germany's decision not 10 conduct
any reparations negotiations with
France and Balgium or make any pay.
ments of any kind during military oc-
cupation of the Ruhr is now in effect.
Answering communication for the
| interallied reparations commission,
| the government refused to deliver
fertilizer to the French and BelGians
as demanded.
That France fears serious trouble in
the Ruhr was Indicated when the cab
met decided to postpone demobillza-
ton OF the 1921 military class Dis
bandment of this class of reseryist
troops would automatically take place
in April. The cabinet, however, be
lieyes that rehabilitation should be
postponed until the Ruhr emergency
disappears and Will keep the men un-
der the coIUrs until May 81.
General DeGoutte, the French com
mander at Cologne, has notified the
Reichsbank that lie will not return any
portion of the 1900, 100000 murkes re-
Gently seized by the French NJ Cologne
II was ADDED by General Degoutte that
If the Reichsbunk desired to avoid fur
| ther similar losses the German govern
ment must meet the demands of the
French for money for the requirements
of the armies Of occupation.
GENERAL
Unable to make passing grade Of
seventy, all of the 430 candidates for
the position Of movie censor of Chicago
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service commission announced.
A tornado struck ST. Joseph, Mo-,
recently and tore east across the city,
doing much damage, unruOtng houses
! uprUuting trees, wreCliinG telephone
wires and inIuring nine persons.
! With Broadway crowd standing
agape and movie machines clicking out
their yards of cellulUid ribbon, Harry
f. Young, selfstyled spider" plunged
ten stories to his death while uttempt-
| ing to scale the side of the Hotel
Martinique in New York City.
The international 5OO-mile automo-
bile race, premier event OF its kind In
the world, will be held ut Indianapolis
| Memorial day, as usual, as the result
Of Governor McCray vetOlng as uncon-
stitutional, bill passed by both
| houses of the Indiana Legislature,
which would prohibit the race. A last
minute attempt to pass the bill over
the governors veto was made in the
| Senate, but this failed.
A wounded and shell shocked yeter-
an of the World War, under an halu-
cination that he was fighting off "mur-
dering Germans at the Nerdun front.
wounded two policemen and his bro
| ther, and held half hundred police
men at bay for seven hours at Cleye-
land, Ohio, despite the burruge of pis-
tol shots and tear bombs" The insane
veteran, John Weitzel, member of the
Fifth division, was finally captured.
Sixteen Russian refugees of Admira!
| Stark's command, who came to Manila
| from Nladivostok, and who We're ar
| rested Feb. 26, charged with mutiny
were sentenced to terms ranging from
one to five months. With the consent
| of the government they will be CON
| fined in Billbid, the Philippine insular
| penitentiary.
a little group of thirty-eight soldiers
lined the rails of the liner George
Washington as she plowed up the bay
the other day. For them whistles blew
and flags waved-for them crowds on
passing ferryboats cheered wildly.
They were the last contingent of the
American army of occupation from
CoblenZ-their arrival wrote an off
cial "fins" to the four-year Watch on
the Rhine"
| A slight earthquake was felt at FL
Paso recently. buildings were slightly
shaken and windows ratified, but no
damage has been reported. Western
Union offices report that the quake
was felt as far West as Lordsburg, N.
NJ, as far north as Alamogordo and as
far east as Sierra Blanca. Reports are
! that yraS tho most Drpppnnrpd "a On.