Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — World Suffrage Meet at Geneva. [ARTICLE]

World Suffrage Meet at Geneva.

London, March s.—The international woman suffrage conference will be held in Geneva from June 6 to June 12. A Paris dispatch says the strike on the French railroads lips ended. An understanding was reached between the directors of the railroads and the men, and the national federation immediately ordered the resumption of work. * » • A dispatch from India reports an attack of Mangai and Zadran tribesmen in Kuram, Afghanistan, 78 miles southeast of Kabal, was repulsed by Truls and Kuram militia. The aggressors lost 120 killed. • • » Fifty persons were hurt when demobilized soldiers who formed a parade to protest against the discharge of former service men from government jobs, clashed with the police at London. • • • More than 1,000 children now are being caced for by government aid, according to reports submitted to the “Save the Children” congress, which has just closers at Geneva. • * * As a result of a collision between a crowd and the police at Milan Sunday, in which the officers fired on the mob and two civilians were mortally wounded, a general strike was declared and work was suspended in the city. • • * Negotiations for floating a loan of $50,000,000 for the Polish government In the* United States have been concluded, it was announced at the Polish legation at Washington. • • * Two persons were killed and ten others wounded in a street fight between nationalists and patriot groups at Bilbao, Spain. * * * The supreme council at London of th? allies decided that Turkey shall have no navy. Only a few revenue cutters will be left to her.