Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1920 — NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Foreign.* Berlin, Sept. 11.—The Tagblatt says today it is informed from Strasburg that sixty-one German newspapers have been suppressed by the French authorities in the occupied zone. Berlin, Sept. 11.—Instructions have bee* given authorities in charge of the Kiel canal not to allow ships carrying munitions to pass through the canal from the North sea, to the Baltic, according to a telegram from Kiel. It .is stated these orders were issued by 'the German government. The Vossische Zeitung ways that the German government has rejected the French embassy’s request that the Danish steamer Dorrit witii munitions for Poland, be allowedto proceed through the canal. The vessel, it is declared has turned back. Paris, Sept. 11—One hundred and four Russion officers, who are going to the Crimea to join the army of General Wrangel, the antiBolshevik leader, arrived here today from Finland. They planned to leave at once for Marseilles. Domestic. . San Francisco, Cal., Sept. The first United States mail to be brought to the Pacific coast by air, reached here at 2:25 P. m. todayThe mail, which left New York last Wednesday morning, was brought from Nevada today. Chicago, Sept 11.—The Senate committee investigating campaign, expenditures today wound up a two weeks’ inquiry into charges by Governor Cox that the Republican party is seeking a $15,000,000 fund. The sessions here also developed testimony bearing upon charges that the Democratic party solicited campaign contributions from Federal officeholders and accepted unlimited amounts from other contributors. New York, Sept. 11.—Completion of a $50,000 “blanket bail’ fund needed to effect the_release of thir-ty-three Industrial Workers of the World imprisoned ait Fort Leavenworth, Kas., was announced here tonight by the American Civil Liberties Union, after a conference with William D. Haywood of the L W. W. W. general defense committee. The prisoners, a statement said, are the last of 101 convicted in Chicago in 1918 on Federal conspiracy charges, whose cases have been appealed. »