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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

DR. HENRIK, United States Senator, was born in Kandiyohi 8, 1881. He County, Minnesota, January the was brought up on a farm, attending public schools of the district and gradand the uating from the local high school He later at- St. Cloud Normal School. tended Northwestern University, from which he received a degree in dentistry in 1903. He served as mayor of the city and in 1917 of Glenwood for two terms was elected to the Minnesota legislature. the gov- In 1920 he was a candidate for ernship on an independent Farmerto Labor ticket and in 1922 was elected first the United States Senate, being the Farmer-Labor representative of the Party to sit in that body. SIBERIA. On June 24, 1922, a decision was reached by the Japanese gov- Maritime ernment to withdraw from the the Province of Siberia. In spite of failure of repeated conferences between to Japan and the Russian government reach any satisfactory agreement in reof Japangard to the future protection ese nationals and property interests in withdrawal the province in question, the brought began September 24th and was 26th with the final to completion October . The number evacuation of Vladivostok of Japanese civilians remaining in Siberia had been reduced at the end of 1922 to about 2,000. The speedy collapse of the regime in Vladivostok so-called "White" , and followed the Japanese withdrawal officials of the Russian Soviet govern- Republic ment and of the Far Eastern immediately took control. On November Republic volun- 17th the Far Eastern tarily ended it, separate existence by Its voting to unite with Soviet Russia. formal annexation to Russia followed. SMYRNA. Awarded provisionally to Greece by the Treaty of Sèvres, 1920. Reoccupied by the Turkish Nationalist 9, 1922, following the forces September collapse of the Greek army in Asia Minor. Smyrna was the scene of a destructive fire, September 13-14, 1922, Greeks and Turks accusing one another of setting it. 100,000 persons were made homeless and thousands of Greek and Armenian refugees perished in the loss of $50,000,000. The flames or by drowning or sickness in the desperate evacuation of the city which feated in the Senate by repeated went on for many days.