The Colorado statesman., 1923-10-13
FOREIGN


The separatists intend to attempt
the establishment of a Rhineland re-
public at an early date, says n May
ence dispatch to lie Journel at Paris.
The republic will be proclaimed stimuli
taneously in all the principal cities on
the left bank of the Rhine and in the
Ruhr, the correspondent says.
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
restore normal industrial conditions in
the Ruhr, said a Brussels dispatch to
LTntransigeant, received in Paris.
'It does not matter what men rule
Germany, and 1t doesn't matter what
sort of government she has, we intend
to rest on our position, which is a
clear demand for guarantees both for
our security and for the full payment
of reparations," Premier Poincare said
at Ligny, France, a few days ago.
Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood, in an ad-
dress before the first 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
times as heavy per capita as in the
20 io{a aI ff,r
ures compiled in London. The latest
figures drawn up show that in Britain
the taxation is $72.44 a head, in the
United States $25.70, in France $24.39,
and in Italy S11.S1.
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.
All changes necessary to make Con-
stantinOple once more real Turkish
city are to go forward as rapidly as
possible, and the authorities assert
that Turkish will soon be the dominant
language, even in the European quar-
ter. 1t is apparently intended to re-
place all foreign language street signs
with Turkish and to have all titles on
motion picture films printed in the ma
tive alphabet.
GENERAL
The siege of the Eddyville, KY,
prison ended when National Guards
men who stormed the mess hall where
the three convicts had stood off a
small army for four days found the
prisoners had been killed.
The 1900 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 mass meeting
at Scranton, Pa, on advice of the
union officers.
A gift of approximately $S00,000 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 five-year period
for road building purposes.
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 ut San
Francisco, Oct. 10 to 10. On future de-
velopment of these will the thous-
and delegates direct their atten-
ton with a view to further accom-
plishments.
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.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. fugitive
from justice in Germany, intends to re-
turn to this country and to serve his
sentence for draft evasion, his mother,
Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, declared on her
arrival in New York City from Ger
many, where she visited her son.
Lorenz Savage, Pittsburgh, Pa, ne
gro and reputed voodoo doctor, was
held by the police charged with first
degree murder in connection with the
Staying of Miss Elsie Barthel, %, a
nurse, near the deserted Hussey man
sion in the East End district.
Swinging through the valleys of the
Hudson and the Mohawk, and across
Vermont, in country rich in the his
tory of British and American arms,