The Holly chieftain., 1924-02-07
FOREIGN

| IL am stiNlIt mas pctI iC-
Stored through Great Britain. follow
ing settlement of the strike of locOmO-
i've engineers and firemen.
| Former Emperor William was OBJ
| served few days ago ut Doom walk
ing In the grounds of his castle accom-
panied by his physician. The ex-kHisef
appeared to walk with some difficulty.
The chief of the gendarmes assured
inquirers that William was recovering
from a slight attack of Influenza.
Great Britain has decided to recog-
| nize the Russian soviet government
first and to settle outstanding ques-
tions such as debts, reparations and
trade rights, afterward, the foreign of
flee announced recently. Officials said
that formal recognition by the British
government might be expected any
time now.
The reorganization of the Free State
army, now in progress, is carrying with
1t material reductions In pay. Privates
have been cut from "a shillings and
pence week to II shilllngs and
pence, and further reduction Is con-
Il e~A'P'%ASSN. NAotC tudh Ase,VOO iuSh ar
ready have been demobilized. yet the
army still numbers 10000.
News Of an alarming state OF affairs
Mt Batang, western Szechwan province,
where, at latest reports, ten American
missionaries were stationed, has just
reached Peklng. Conditions described
existed as far back as November. The
Of ho
isolated position of Batang. which Is
only thirty miles from the Tibetan
| frontier.
English visitors In tho leading hotels
of st. MOritz. Switzerland. aroused at
the profligacy of German visitors, who
reserve the best suites and spend
money like water. have forced the
to affix signs in the lobbies reading:
"Germans-Pay your debts and nour-
ish your children first. Afterwards
you can enter here"
Alexiev Ivnnovitch Rykoff, vice pres
ident of the council of peoples COM
missars, was elected to succeed Nicolai
Lenin as president of the council OF
peoples commlssars (Russian pre-
mier.) The new head of the Moscow
government has conducted much of Le-
nin's work since the latter was inca
pacitated by illness He is in full sym
pathy with all Lenin's policies
Robert Sperber, u French detective,
and Prince Gagarin, a Russian refugee,
who were imprisoned in connection
with the attempt to kidnap Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll. wealthy American
draft dodger, were released from pris-
on. said dispatch received in Berlin
from Mosbach. They were released
upon the same pardon which liberated
Lieut.. Corliss H. Griffis of Canton, o.
Griffis is on his way back to the
United States
GENERAL
One man is knwn to have been killed
and eight injured, one dangerously, in
gas explosion at Kansas City, Mo-,
which shook the entire downtown dis
trict and wrecked the four-story build
ing of the Bailey-Reynolds Chandelier
Company. The loss was estimated be-
tween 100000 and S15O,OOO.
Bert II. Chapman of Boston snrren-
dered to the federal authorities in Bos-
ton on an Indictment returned by the
federal grand jury in Los Angeles last
October charging him and twenty-five
others with conspiracy in connection
with million-dollar mail truck rob-
berry in the California city In March,
1921. Chapman's arrest revealed that
$500, 600 worth of bonds stolen from
the malls ut that time have been re-
covered here.
Conservative trade unionIsm has
scored a marked triumph ove9'the de-
structive influences of communism"
International President John l.. Lewis
Of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, declared after adjournment of the
miners biennial convention at Indian
apolis He spoke of the conventions
work as whole, and Of the repudia-
ton for the second time of Alexander
Howat, deposed Kansas district presi-
dent
Speaking for committee Of former
students of Valparaiso University re-
ported to have been taken over by the
Ku Klux klan, F. A. Miller. editor of
the South Bend Tribune, Issued state
ment declaring the school to be "open
to the education Of all without thought
Of race, religion, social standing,
wealth, politics or influence"
Harry F. Sinclair. oil magnate and
lessee of the Teapot dome. denied in n
cablearam from Paris to the Senate
public lands committee in Washington
that he had ever given money to ex-
Secretary of the Interior Fall. Col.
j. w. Zevely,, Slnclair's counsel. prev
iously testified he had loaned Fall
$4,000 in Liberty bonds which he re-
ceived from Sinclair.
Mrs. Blanche Tiernan. figure In the
sensational paternity case at South
Bend. Ind, and second wife for time
of Professor John Tiernan, escaped