The Colorado statesman., 1924-02-02
FOREIGN

cruelty TO Animals announced In Lon
don recently that 1t will spend $4,000
In the erection OF "cenotaph" ut
Hyde Park corner In memory of the
Birds, Beasts and Fishes" who gave
their lives for the empire during the
war. The fish referred to are gold
fish killed in the gas tests.
Sun Yat-Sel, south China leader,
cabled greetings and an appeal for
new British policy toward China, to
Ramsay Macdonald, England's new
premier. Recently Sun cabled Mac
donald, as leader of the British Labor
party, asking the support of British
labor In Suns long campaign against
the Peking government.
English visitors in the 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
management of the two leading hotels
to affix signs In the lobbles reading:
"Germans-Pay your debts and nour-
ish your children first Afterwards
you can enter here"
The town of Esperanza, considered
the most important strategic position
on the railway between the capital and
Vera Cruz, and described as the key to
Orizaba. was captured by the federal
forces under General Martinez, accord
Ing to an official statement made in
Mexico City by Under Secretary Of
War ManZo. The statement was based
on advices received from Minister Of
War Serrano at Pueblo.
Soviet Russia will be ruled in the
immediate future by triumvirate
composed of Leo Kamenev, third vice
president of the council of Peoples
commissaries NJ. Rykov, second vice
president, and M. T. Tsurupa, commits
sar for inspection of workers and peas
ants councils, according to Moscow
dispatch to the London Evening News,
quoting George Tchitcherin, Peoples
commissar for foreign affairs.
Theophile Braga, 80, former Presi-
dent of Portugal, was found dead in
his residence in Lisbon few days ago.
DR.. Braga was one of the leaders in
suited in the revolution of 1910 and the
dethronement of King Manuel, and
was the first man to head the Portu-
guese Republican government. He
served as prosivional president from
October 5, 1910, to Aug. 4 of the next
year and was also the second duly
elected president, succeeding DR..
Mamoel de Arriaga, in May, 1915.
GENERAL
Harry f. Sinclair, oil magnate and
lessee of the Teapot dome, denied in a
cablegram 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, Sinclair's counsel, prev
iously testified he had loaned Fall
$4,000 in Liberty bonds which he re-
ceived from Sinclair.
Fifteen persons met death in ter
rifle gas and dynamite explosion that
demolished double house owned by
the Manville mills at Cumberland,
r. I. An entire family-mother,
father and eleven children-was wiped
out by the blast. A boarder died with
Them Michael Conway, in whose home
ruins. 1t was learned from neighbors
that Adelard Hamel, who was killed
with his family, had 200 pounds Of
dynamite in his home.
Agricultural production in the fed
eral reserve district comprising the
states of the Pacific slope increased
in volume substantially during 1928, 1t
was stated in San Francisco, in the re-
port of Federal Reserve Agent John
Perrin to the Federal Reserve Board.
The report says the year was marked
by "steady employment of practically
all kinds of workers, lower rate of
labor turnover and improved industrial
relations. Employment in most of the
major industries of the district In
creased as compared with 1922"
The French peace plan contest for
to attract as much attention in France
as the Box contest did in America,
judging from the responses received
by the contest committee headed by
Leon Bourgeois.
Bert r. Chapman of Boston surren-
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 n million-dollar mail truck rob-
berry in the California city in March,
1921. Chapman's arrest revealed that
100000 worth of bonds stolen from
the mails at that time have been re-
covered here.
Mrs. Blanche Tiernan, figure in the
sensational paternity case at South
Bend, Ind, and second wife for time
of Professor John Tiernan, escaped
on bad check charge at
Marble Rock, Iowa, by the simple ex-
pedlent of paying cash. Sheriff Ruhl,
NiIataIa Ind fraIla