The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-03
FOREIGN


The steamer Robert Dollar, now in
the Yangtze river service, was wrecked
on the Yangtze April %, near Chung
chow, according to delayed dispatches
received in Peklng by the American
legation. All the passengers, crew and
officers were saved.
The replies Of four big allied powers
to the reparatlon commissions COM
munication regarding the Dawes re-
port all accept the experts findings
wholly. France alone raises the ques-
ton of procedure, while Italy declares
the report to be IAN indivisible whole"
which should be taken in its entirety
without condition or qualification.
]. ii. Thomas, the colonial secretary,
announced in the House of Commons
that as no settlement by agreement
was possible, the boundary between
northern Ireland and the remainder of
Ireland must be determined in accord
ance with Article XII of the Anglo
Irish treaty. This article provides for
the establishment of a boundary COM
mission.
japanese reaction to the United
States immigration legislation is in
quiescent state while officials and pub
lie alike are waiting to learn whether
President Coolidge will sign or veto
the measure. Public bodies are con-
tinuing to meet daily and pass resolu-
dons of protest which are being for
warded to Washington in volume
which is burdening cable facilities.
DIR. Victor G. Heiser, Far East rep
resentative of the Rockefeller founda-
spection trip. has Issued a warning to
health authorities to fake every pre-
caution against spread of yellow fever
to this part of the world. He said yell
low fever now Is prevalent in Brazil
and that there was great danger of
transpacific steamers carrying the dis
ease to Far East ports.
A general mobilization, including the
calling to the colors of all men up to
AZ years of age, Is reported to be under
way in Rumania. According to infor-
nation given the German government,
this is merely trial mobilization"
but It Is believed 1t is also intended to
serve two other purposes-to serve as
a demonstration of Rumania's readi-
ness for war and warning to Russia
and Jugo-Slavia, with both of whom
Rumania is living in strained relations.
Premier Poincare and Premier
of Belgium, in conference in
Paris, decided that military occupa-
ton of The Ruhr by Franco-Belgian
forces must be continued. Poincare
insisted that no modification of the
occupation can be consented to until
the reparations committee has worked
out comr'ete and definite program
for application of the Dawes recon-
mendation, and the Belgian premier
agreed. Great Britain and Italy are
known to favor early cessation of the
has protested bitterly.
GENERAL
The first severe electrical storm Of
the year caused heavy damage in the
Northwest last week. Many houses,
barns and other buildings were struck
by lightning and most of them de-
stroyed Telephone and telegraph COM
munlcation suffered heavily from light
ming and wind. Hundreds of trees
were blown down.
White men and negroes attending
the Tenth district Republican conven-
ton at Memphis Tenn, came to blows
at the outset of the session, and before
order was restored one negro had been
taken away in an ambulance and sew
eral on each side bore marks of battle.
The clash resulted when white dele
gates are said to have ordered negroes
attending the convention to take seats
in the rear of the hall.
More than 100 miners were en-
tombed by an explosion in the Ben
wood Mil mine of the Wheeling Steel
Corporation ut Benwood, near Whee-
ling, w. Va. All entries to the mine
were blocked by falls of rock and
dirt. Little hope was entertained for
the trapped miners, for the mine was
on fire and choked with deadly fumes.
Bandits robbed r. d. Gradinaroff,
assistant cashier of the Granite City,
ILL.,, National Bank of $4,000 in cur
rency which he had just received at
the postofflce from the st. Louis Fed
eral Reserve Bank. Several shots were
fired by Gradinaroff and the bandits,
but no one was wounded. The rob-
berry took place in front of the bank,
across the street from the postoffice.
Luis Angel Firpo announced in
Buenos Aires that he had definitely
rejected the offer of Tex Rickard for
the Argentine boxer to return to
America and that he would not fight
under Richards management under
any conditions. He declared that he
never could forget that Rickard in