The Colorado statesman., 1924-01-12
FOREIGN

~ hSpIeSeulullNe rTeuT, WHICH CdllS
for congressional inquiry into his
administration, Gov. Gen. Leonard
Wood, declared in statement to press
representatives in Manila that he
would welcome such an investigation,
and, he added, 81 hope they'll hew to
the line and let the chips fall where
they may"
Belated news OF the capture by IT,
betan hordes in mid November of the
remote Chinese town of Batang, in the
western part of the province of Szech-
wan, near the Tlbetan frontier, has
reached Peklng. According to tele-
gram from Chungking, Szechwan, the
the message says, assured the Amer
lean missionaries, the only mission
aries there, that they would not be
molested
With last minute changes in several
posts, the cabinet of the new premier
of Japan, Vlscount Kiyoura, finally
was completed. Opposition to the ap-
pointment of Baron Fujlmura, re-
tired businessman, as foreign minister
led the premier to proffer that port
folio to Baron Keishiro Matsui, former
ambassador to Paris, who announced
that he had accepted it. Baron Full
mura, however, remains in the cab
met, being shifted to the ministry of
communications.
Scores of bear, deer, mountain lions
and other denizens of the wild were
washed down Rio Yaqui and Rio Mayo
in the recent floods which swept
mountain recesses of Sonora following
heavy rains in the south, according to
dispatches received in Nogales. Tor
rental rains caught the. fleet-footed
animals before they could escape and
they were engulfed in the torrent and
swept down to sea in the raging wa
ters. Many cattle also were drowned,
1t is reported.
In great demonstration in Albert
hall in London the British Labor par
ty celebrated its victories in the recent
general elections and pledged its
united efforts to constructive work to-
ward rehabilitation of Great Britain,
Europe and the world at large, if
called upon, as seems certainty
within ten days, to assume the task
of governing the British empire. 1--WE
have been in the battle and we have
brought back the trophies" said ].
Ramsay Macdonald, the party leader
and principal speaker On the plat
nf I
Dor members of the House of Com
mons.
GENERAL
The American Museum of Natural
History in New York City, which has
Il world corner on the dinosaur egg
market, has decided to sell to the
highest bidder, for not less than $1,000,
one of the twenty-five fossiliZed eggs
of the protoceratops Andrews, un-
earthed in Mongolia last July by Prof.
Roy Chapman Andrews, curator-in-
chief of the division of exploration and
research.
Shipment of arms from the United
States to the De In Huerta revolution
couraged by the administration as
against the policy of the American
government. The attitude of this gov
ernment on the question was sent to
the Department of Justice agents in
New Orleans after n conference be-
tween officials of the attorney gen
erals office and of the State Depart
ment.
Suit for $1,O00,000 damages against
the Fort Worth Press by DIR. Fred
erick A. Cook, former Arctic explorer
was dismissed in District Court at
Fort Worth, Tex. The suit filed last
February followed publication of IL
story in which the Press was alleged
to have referred to Cook as ''fakir,
flim-flammer and fraud artist. Cook
was recently convicted in Federal
Court on oil stock selling fraud
charges.
The Toyo Kisen Kaisha,, one of the
largest Japanese steamship companies,
announced today that after Feb. it's
passenger vessels no longer would call
at Philippine ports. The increasing
competition of American ships was
said to be the principal reason. The
vessels have been operating on routes
connecting Manila with other far east
ern ports.
Farm organizations did over a two
thousand million dollars business in
1923, the Department of Agriculture
announced few days ago. The esti-
mates are based upon reports from g.
639 organizations which did total
business of $1,20O,OOO,00O. Additional
reports are yet to be received, and if
the average is maintained the total
will exceed two billion.
Senate disclosures in the Teapot