1923-11-12 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY NOVEMBER

Gordon Brown, shown here at his desk in Washington, is in charge of the Purchasing and Transportation Department of the American Red Cross and is huying all the supplies now being sent to stricken Japan. He has spent more, than $100,000,000 for the Red Cross since he has held his present post.

General Semenoff.

A dispatch from Peking says General Gregorie Semenoff, former Commander-in-Chief of the All-Russian armies and later anti- Bolshevik leader in Siberia, was killed, together with a group of his followers, in the earthquake in Yokohama. Semenoff came into pro- minence in 1918, when he headed the armed movement to break the control of the Reds along the Trans-Siberian Railway. He was the most prominent of the "White," or anti-Bolshevik leaders, until his | army was cut to pieces. He visited the United States in 1922.

Roy Hynes, Chief of the Pro- hibition Bureau of the United States, is shown leaving the White House in Washington, where he held a protracted 'conference with President Coolidge. It is believed they were discussing the forth- meeting between the coming President and the Governors of the several States, at which prohibition enforcement will be discussed.

.F. Edson White, Jr. of Chicago, youthful son of the President of | Armour & Co., while hunting on his father's estate, near Chicago, was set upon by one of his father's prize. bulls and was accidentally shot to death by the discharge of his gun, which he clubbed to beat off the enraged animal.

Piloted by Lieutenant L. H Sanderson, U. S. Marine Corps, the Navy Wright aeroplane, which will be part of the feet represent ing the Navy in the Pulitzer Inter national Air Races made an uppre cedented record of 238 miles an hour in a test fight at Mineola, Long Island. The previous record of 233.01 miles an hour was made by Sadi Lacointe in Paris on February 15.

These interesting photographs are convincing evidence of just aɔw France is paying the reparations Germany owes. The photograph shows how the big mining city of Lons appeared after the Granns last bombarded it, in 1918, and as it appears, to-day, entirely r·buïit by the French.

The gold and silver col-and- bullion which was sunk which the liner" Laurentic" was torpedand bý the Germans in 1917 has all heen taken from the hottom of the sea by divers operating on the British The Admiralty ship "Racer."

treisure recovered amounted to $39,000,000. A diver is shown desanding to the wreck, while on the disk of the "Racer" a man may be sera ex amining the mud sent up from the botten for trices of gold and silver.

Mrs. Stan Harding, an English' journalist, who was falsely impris- oned in' Russia as a spy in 1920, just received. $15,000 is damages, the aniount she claimed,

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from the Soviet Government.

Representative: Martin' Madden,

Chicago courts will have.to de- cide if Miss Hazel Powell is Mrs. Loretta Bodin's companion or A. W. Bodin's affinity. Mrs. Bodin alleges she took Miss

Chairman of the House Appro-Among the notables arriving in Powell into her home as her com- New York from abroad' was A. Chief Ogata, of the Tokiko Fire

priations Committee, is critically Emil Davies, the first Labour Party panion, at her husband's request, Department, is believed to have ill in Washington, following a leader to be elected an Alderman and that later she learned Miss

of London. He is an expert in perished in the conflagration that heart attack, and his recovery is finance and comes to lecture in Powell was really her husband's swept the Japanese capital following the carthquake.

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