Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-03
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

The parliament OIL new fOuuuIduu udo
passed bill authorizing the Imperial Air
craft Company of London to begin surveys
for airdrOmes to be used in a projected
mail service between st. Johns and Mon
treal. The bill stipulates that the company
shall start work within four months time
M. Brequet, constructor of the airplane
used by Lieutenant Roget, the French flyer
who was credited with having beaten Com
mander Reads nonstop distance record IN
the NC-4, has corrected the statement, de-
cIarng that Roget only covered 1,116 miles,
the distance from Paris to Rabat, Morocco,
being only 1900 kilometres instead of 1900
kilometres as stated by the French
press The NC-4 covered 1900 nautical
miles on its trip from New Foundland to
the Azores.
DR.. Syngman Rhe, head of the Korean
mission to the United States has received
cablegram from the president of the Ko-
rean provisional congress at Shanghai. in
forming him of his election as prime min
lister by the congress.
The international Mercantile NJ ari n
company, the great shipping combine organ
lied by the late J. P. Morgan, will be
dissolved if the stockholders at their meet
ing next month approve the proposal to sell
to British syndicate the Briash-owned
ships and assets of the corporation. 1t is
dSSClS
of the International Mercantile M a ri n e
among the stockholders. That stockholders,
who will hold a special meeting June 16,
will approve the sale is considered fore
gone conclusion. The liquidation of the
company will involve payment of about
$39,000,000 in outstanding per cent
bonds of the company due in 1941, but sub
ject to call at 10.
Villa forces have proclaimed General
Felipe Angeles provisional president Of
Mexico and Villa himself secretary of war.
The move coming at the climax of military
operations considered by the Carranza gov
eminent so serious that it has asked the
United States for permission to move troops
through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, is
regarded as rejecting a situation more
serious in Mexico than any since the
triumph of the Carranza forces over Villa
three years ago. Viewed in connection with
activities of the Felicista forces IN southern
Mexico the situation is regarded as full of
possibilities.
Information has been received in French
from Smyrna toward Mansa and Adm,
(about 80 miles to the southeast), the
Turks retiring before them. The statement
is made by the Greeks that their purpose in
advancing is to restore order and "to take a
census"
Members of the German delegation even
have the effrontery to wear their iron
crosses at Versailles.
Winston Spencer Churchill, England's
secretary of war, indicated recently in an
address before the Louise of commons the
possibility of Withdrawing foreign troops
from Russia by the end of the summer
because of the increasingly favorable situa-
ton there.
The Berlin paper, "The vossiche lei
tung," admits that Germany lost 1913 sub
marines during the war, the number in
Guiding seven that were interned in foreign
ports and fourteen destroyed by their own
crews. The statistics given show also that
5000 German sailors lost their, lives on sub
marine duty while several thousand others
went mad and confined in lunatc
aSylumS.
Strikes in Winnipeg, Canada, and in other
Western Canadian cities are part of a gen
eral move "to establish Soviet rule in Can
ada according to Senator Gideon Robertson,
Canadas labor minister.
Great quantities of German made products
are stored in warehouses at Chiasso on the
frontier between Italy and SWitzerlf.- d in Or
der that Germany may Immediately flood the
market with her wares and renew Immediate
ly her commercial relations with Italy, &C
COrdlng to ULYSSES ByWater OF the u. 5.
Chamber of Commerce.
To avoid a repetition of rioting near the
Yale campus, Mayor Fitzgerald, of New Hav-
en-, ordered three units of the Home Guard
on duty the campus last week. The fire
hose was turned on a crowd OF about 1000
persons who collected. Secretary Stokes, of
Yale, said that the rioting which continued
all Of Wednesday night, was due Ito an ir
responsible group of young men and boys
stimulated by few Bolshevik orators and
stirred by all sorts of false and exaggerated
rumOrs"
John D. Rockefeller will be 80 years old
in July. He continues in the best of health
and has just returned from an enjoyable
winter in Florida at his recently acquired
estate at Ormond Beach. He is now at Lake
wood, but will go in few days to his home
at Pocantico Hills.
The Swedish parliament has granted full
suffrage to women by huge majorities," &C
cording to the cable received by American
suffrage leaders from Swedish leaders.
The National Council of Fiume has notified
| the peace conference that st cannot permit
| the fate Of Fiume to be deliberated at Paris
without the consent of the inhabitants of
Fiume," and invited anyone wishing to try
| to change facts by force "tO come and try"
| according to the Italian bureau Of Informal
ton in Paris The bureau made public
dispatch sent by the council to the peace con-
| ferees which says in part: "Fiume awaits
with calm resolution violence from any
! source The people are convinced that his
| tory written with the best Italian blood can
not be effaced by Paris
|