The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-24
FOREIGN

said to have been destroyed. The num-
ber of additional victims is given as
12O.
Ambassador Hanihara may be per
mitted to resign" his Washington post
shortly, Foreign Minister Matsul told
newspaper men in Toxic. The minis
ter's statement was made to n gath
ering of representatives. of the Japan
ese press after today's cabinet meet
ing, at which he admitted the subject
had been discussed. The statement
was the result of inslstent inquiries.
President Millerand of France now
is the object of almost the entire at
tention of the radical and Socialist
press, which, in the absence of indica-
tions as to how the three parties of
the successful coalition are going to be
able to profit from their victory and
what their program is going to be- in
sistently demand that the chief magis-
trate of the republic give way to a new
man.
In reply to the demand of the Ma
tlonalists that the government resign,
1t was semi-officially announced in
Berlin that the government has re-
solved not to retire until the reichstag
assemblies. 1t is the governments
view that 1t must continue to repre-
sent the nation In the discussions on
the experts reports and must prepare
the necessary DEGREES to put the re-
port into effect.
On the initiative of War Minister
Trotzky, who is constantly warning the
Russians to prepare defensive meas
ures, a special campaign is being in
augurated throughout the country urg-
ing upon the people the necessity Of
spreading knowledge of chemical war
fare. A voluntary society will be or
ganized for the development of the
chemical industry as a means or de-
fense.
The meeting in Milan, Italy, of Pre-
mier Mussolini of Italy with Premier
| Theunis and Foreign Minister Hymans
of Belgium has been satisfactorily con-
cluded, the representatives of both ma
tions agreeing that the Dawes report
must be applied without delay and that
an interallied conference on the sub
ject was advisable as soon as prelim-
mary discussions were sufficiently ad-
vanced.
Five men named in a Free State
proclamation as having been respon-
sible for the attack at Queenstown on
a party of British soldiers March 81,
have sent to Dublin newspapers a
statement denying the charge and de-
claring the government issued the
proclamation to justify it in shooting
them If they were captured. They
declare they have been ION the run"
for two years as officers of the Cork
Republican brigade.
GENERAL
The L. c. Smith typewriter factory
at Syracuse, n. Y, was badly wrecked
by an explosion of unknown cause re-
Gently.
The federal grand jury in Newark,
n. j., which has been investigating
transportation Of the Dempsey Carpen-
tier fight films, returned indictments
against Tex Rickard and six other
men.
All action by Evelyn Nesbit and her
son to contest the right of Harry X.
Thaw, recently adjudged sane by n
jury at Philadelphia, to his freedom,
was dropped when William y. Gray,
their attorney, withdrew his motion for
new trial.
Transmission of photographs from
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nary telephone wire was successfully
accomplished recently by engineers of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, it was announced in
Cleveland, o., The test was the result
of weeks of experimenting.
Eddie Collins, star second baseman
of the Chicago Americans, has been
put in charge of the club as acting
manager. He succeeds Johnny Evers,
who was operated upon at his home in
Troy, N. Y, for appendicitis. Evers
succeeded Frank Chance as the season
opened, making Collins the third pilot
of the White SoX this year.
A large section of the Union stock
yards in Chicago was threatened by
fire which broke out in the Union
Stockyards and Transit Company's hay
barn, destroyed thousands of tons of
! hay and was rapidly spreading as six
special alarms called in all nearby fire
apparatus A strong breeze famed the
flames and made further spreading Of
the fire probable. No loss of life was
reported.
The price of gasoline in Omaha was
cut 3h cents to II cents gallon by
the Standard Oil Company and the
Nicholas Oil Corporation, with state
. ments the, reduction was made ito