Foreign News Notes, Sep. 15, 1924

Generalissimo Degoutte, of the Franco-Belgian forces in the Ruhr, was being driven to his home at Charny, near Lyon, when the car ran up a steep bank, turned turtle, killed the chauffeur. The General escaped. On the same day M. Marcel Prevost, famed French author, was being driven near Montauban when a heavy truck ran into the automobile, smashed it badly, hurt no one. Thus did Providence spare two famed

Paris was thrilled by the sale at forced auction for 100 sous ($1.00) of the embalmed head of Henry IV of France. Newspapers and correspondents staged a bitter fight. Some said it could not possibly be the King's head; others thought to the contrary.

Russian Colonel Bezobrazov said unpleasant things about the Prince of Monaco. Baron Gunsberg, former director of the Opera at Monte Carlo, heard them, challenged the Russian to combat with swords. To the sand dunes of Calais they went and fought the matter out. A sword thrust in the arm forced the Colonel to acknowledge his error.

"Why was the church bell of St. Laurent sold to Mrs. Spencer Eddy, of the U. S.? Who authorized the sale? How much was paid for it? Where did the money go? We want our bell back." These were the questions that les citoyens of St. Laurent de Calvados, a village near Deauville, were asking. These were the same questions that M. le Prefect could not answer. He said that he knew nothing of it, would investigate.