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Berlin.
March
25th.—Twenty
rioters
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were killed
when
the
security
police
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fired
in
Eisleben
repulsed
an
attack
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upon-the
eity
hall
last
night
The
po-
.
lice casualtids
were
2 killed and
3 woun-
ded.”
Halle Germany,
March
27th.—An
at-
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tack
was
made
last
.night
upen
the
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building of ,the
Hallesche
Zeitung,
the
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pan-German
organ,
here
by communists
A hand-grenade
was
hurled
into
the
building
wounding
2
of
its
occupants.
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‘Mansfield
Germany,
March
27th—
Mansfield
was
occupied
last
night
by
a force
of
the
security
police.
At
the
same
time members of the security police,
about
1,000
of
whom
were
employed
in the movement
here
and
in
this
vici-
nity,
. occupied
Helbra,
Kloster
and
Hettstadt.
The
only
fighting
in
this
movement
occured
‘here
when
%a bat-
tery
belonging
to
the
federal
forces
made..
their
first
appearance
in
the
trouble in this
district
and
shelled
the
retreating
communists.
Ny
casualties
were rveported.
The Police
took 25
pris-
oners,
and
last. night were bringing in
ore noutiys
;
m‘c"rok‘io;:d1%?%;71:}4
—The
whole city of
Tokio was~<imperilled
last
night by
the
greatest’ fire with which it has been
visi-
ted in-a decade. The conflagration
des-
troyed 1,000 ‘houses in the Yotsa district
in the
northwestern part of thecity,in-
vdizgig-.s%_j s‘estimated
at
25,000,000
yen g«-*
ppro. imately £2,500,000).
Thous-
ands of *personsféwere
made
homeless,
and
138
persons
were
injured. -~ The
burnc?fméa?img?lc!ude_d
three' Hospi-
tals, &_bank,imf everal large=business
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houses.
~Scenes of terror were ‘witnessed
CHRISTIANSTED.
V.I U.S.
A.,
FRIDAY
Ist
APRIL
192
in many
sectionps
as
the-
course
of
the
flames
threatened
widespread
destruc-
tion
Ch-
_ԤtԤeetq
were
choked
with
masses
nf despairing
refugees
from
the
districts
already
stpicken,
accompanied
by
carts
ldaded
with «furniture.
The
confusion
being addedto
by the
flocking
oi sightseers
from other sectiqn%
Many
of the half-frozep
fugitives fleetng
from
the
flames,
.bore
children
Strappel
to
their backs.
Mounted
police
had
greht*
difficulty in restrfiining incipitent panics.
As a measureof relief, the Imperial Gar-
dens
were opened
to the
sufferers.
.'The
fire burned
so fiere:iy. and with
such
in-
tense
brightness
that the skies
were ill-
uminated
by
a fiefy halo, which
was
vis-
ible
for
hundreds
of
miles
asit
hung
over
the city,
The,
Diet,
which
was in
session
when
the biaze started,
adjourn-
ed when
its threat:ning
nature
x~as
re-
ported.
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Paris,
March 28ti:. —England
defeated
France
in
an
international
rugby
foot-
ball
game
here
today by-a score
of ten
to
six
A
record
crowd
of
fiftythousand
persons
witnessed
the contest,
:
Perth,
Australia,
March
28th.
—Lieut.
Mac
Intosh,
who last
year
flew
from
Eongland
to
Austraiia,
w:s
killed
in an
air accident
at
Pilbara,
300 miles
north-
west
of
Perth
today.
Lieut.
Mac
In-
tosh’s mechanic
also
was
killed anda
passenger
in his
tnachine
badly injured.
New
York,
March
28th—M. Viviani,
former Premier
of France,
arrived here
today on
the
steamship
La
Lorraine on
a special
mission
t¢ President
Harding.
New
York,
Mageh
28th.—The
mar-
ket for raw
sugar
was
steady
early
to-
day at 5¢
¢ for
Cutas,
crst
and fr ight
aqual
to 6.26 for centrifugals.
No fresh
business
was reported.
The only change
in refined
was
the
reentrance
into
the
market
of a refiner.<who had
withdrawn
last
week,
at
8.25
for.fire granulated,
with
all
other
refiners
quoting
on
the
same
level.
Futures were about
a point
lower under liquidation at midday.
Trad-
ing- was light.
Constantinople,
March 28th.—Announce-
ment
of
the
fall of
Afiun
Karahissar,
the important
junction point on the
Bag-
dad
railway,
where
the
Branch
from
Smyrna
joins the
main
line,was
made
here this afteraoon.”
This is one
of the
two objectives
at which the
Greek offen-
sive against
the Turkish
nationalists
has
been
aimed,
the other
being Eskishehr
the jug?.tion puint
of the line
to Angoro.
It was reported
from Greek" sources
last
night that the Turkish troops were
evae-
_uating Eskishehr,
“The town of Kuyptaya
No.
72.
has
bezn
evacuated
by
the
Turks, and
the Greeks
are
now
masters
of the
Bag-
dad
railway
and
are
continuing
to ad-
vance
toward
Angora.
The
Turkish
communication
announces
rhe withdraw-
al
of
the
Ottoman
forces
to
niw
posi-
tions.
The
plan ‘ap%arently
is
to keep
the
army
intact
and
reireat
into
the
depths
of Anotolia. drawing
the Greeks
after it.
The commander
of the l'urkish
Nationaligt army
in Erzerum,
with 25000
good
tro%?é,
is making
a forced
march
«from
Armenia
to
aid Mustapha
Kemel
Pasha.
New
York,
March
28th.—An
eignty
mile gale swooping
down
on
New
York
late this afternocn
tore off roufs,
vproot
ed
trees,
caused
accidents
which
have
resulted
in
at
least.
two
deaths
and
brought
a touch
cf
real
winter.
The
wind was
accompanied
by
a drop i1 the
temperature
from
73 at 2 p.
m. to 37 de-
grees
tonight with indications of a furth-
er drop
to 30 degrees
by morning.
The
Weather
Bureau
declared
the gale to be
onl’
local
in
character,
caused
by
the
heat
yester
ay
and
this
morni
g,
but
part
of-a
general
storm
in
the
east.
While rot
officially recognizedas
a hur-
ricane,
persons
in the street
of the north
of the
city declared
they
saw
a small
funnel shaped
cloud moving away
before
a squall.
Reports
frcm Plainfield, N. J.,
declare
a hurricane
cut
a half miie
path
through
the western
part of the town.
LIST
OF
UNCLAIMED
MAIL
FOR
THE WEEK ENDED MARCH 26, 1921.
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No. 7 Water
Gut,
Mr. Joseph
E. Francis,
Eleazer Franklin,
Mrs. Higgins Union Hall,
Mary Lewis,
Miss Elen
Marquoe,
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wiss
Jane
Mc Evilley, No. 23 King St.,
Miss Matilda Nicholas,
Mr. Joshua
Ramsey,
32
Queen
Cross
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Street,
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Mr. Ludvic Renardis,
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Miss Alberteana
Simmons,
Isaac Stephens, Ji'.
Anita Thompson,
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Mr. Abraham
Sweeney,
Albertina
Webb,
Mr. Uzziah Williams,
Miss loinee Wygor,
United
States
Post
Office,
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1921.
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