The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1924-03-01
FOREIGN

probably work upon six new cruisers
Immediately.
Secretary of War Serrano declared
In n statement issued In Mexico City
that crushing defeat had been adj
ministered by Obregon troops on rebel
forces under Jose Moran at De la
Curue.
Chinese court at Herbln. Manchu-
ria, denied the appeal of Alexis Karn-
iloff, Russian desperado, and reaf-
flrmed the death sentence passed last
November. Kornloff was the first
white man ever sentenced to death in
Chinese court.
Two fallen military idols-General
Erich Ludendorff, known during the
great war as the "bralns or the Ger
man army" and Adolph Hitler leader
of the Bavarian Fascisti-have been
| placed on trial in Munich charged with
treason for their part In the beer eel
lar revolt" last November.
| The Canadian embargo on cattle
from the states of California, Oregon
and Nevada will remain in effect I'M
til assurance Is received from the
/
disease is wiped out in the three
states, 1t was made known in Ottawa
by the Department of Agriculture.
Carlos Largos, commander of troops
supporting the dictatorship of former
President Lopez Gutierrez, in Hondu-
ras, and General Vincente Tosta, COM
mandlng one of the revolutionary
armies have agreed upon forty-eight-
hour armistice, according TO advices
received in New Orleans by Manuel
Paz, acting consul general for Hon
duras.
Gen. Marquis de Cavalcanti has been
acquitted by the Supreme Tribunal of
War, before which he was brought for
trial in connection with the annlhila-
ton of Spanish convoy at Tisza in
October, 1921. Three of his subordin-
ate officers, In Morocco, were found
guilty. Generals Tuero and .Sirvent
were convicted and sentenced to one
year and one day in prison, and Cen
eral Lacanal was given six months and
one day.
The English dock strike, lasting ten
days, was settled quickly when the
delegates met in conference. Accept
ance of the terms was almost unani-
nous, only two minor ports having OBJ
jected. A feature of the strike, which
involved many thousands of men, was
complete absence of disorders, al
though the strike extended over all
parts of the kingdom and lockers gen.
orally are regarded as somewhat I'M
ruly class of workers.
GENERAL
The estate of Woodrow Wilson goes
to his widow, Mrs. Edith Boiling Will
son, under the terms of the ex-Presi-
dents last will filed for probate in
Washington.
William Baker, private in the marine
corps stationed at San Diego, Calf,
rode into the union station at Dallas,
Texas, few days ago nailed inside a
coffin. The young leatherneck arrived
safely laid out in pine box in the
baggage coach of Santa Fe passen-
ger train. Trainmen, who suspected the
corpse" they were hauling ripped the
lid off the box and turned the body"
over to authorities Baker said he ran
out of money at Prescott, Ariz., and
had a stranger at the station nail on
the lid and ship him c. o. d.
Three, men believed by the New
Orleans police to have been implicated
in the escape several weeks ago of
Emory Council from the Arkansas
state penitentiary at Little Rock a
few days before the date set for his
execution were arrested in New Or
: leans last week. Several days after
his escape, Connell was shot and
killed by prison guards who had fol-
lowed his trail. The men taken into
custody were Jack Nelson, of Omaha,
Neb, Melvin Stofer and Joseph Lee
both of New Orleans.
Almost continuous blasting of ice
gorges at points on the Platte river be-
tween Omaha and Columbus, Neb..
seventy-five miles west, has been nee
essary in the last week to prevent the
destruction of railroad bridges at two
points across the river, railroad Of
ficials stated in Omaha.
Former Secretary or the Interior AL
bert S. Fall, accompanied by Mrs. Fall,
have returned to their ranch home at
Three Rivers, N. NJ, after a stay Of
several days ut their residence in El
Pasc. Mr.. Fall, while Withholding n
statement of his plans. seemed much
improved in health and walked to the
train without assistance.
Work to straighten the channel of
the Rio Grande in order to definitely
fix the boundaries of the United States
and Mexico was started last week in Ell