Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-18

facture of sugar in Europe Between 60 and
70 beet sugar factories within the bounds
of the new country and the output, on a pre- |
war basis, should pass half million tons.
The railroads of the United States hauled
4876,949 troops on special and regular trains
for an average of $50 miles each in the first
six months of 1912 according to statistics
made public by Director General Hines. In
addition, probably two million officers and
men made railway trips while on THROUGH
and another million were transported from
camps to their homes after discharge, making
a total of 7,250,00O military passengers &C
commodated in addition to the usual civilian
travel The military traffic in six months re-
quired 100000 train miles and as much OF
the equipment had to be sent empty in one
direction, this figure should be doubled to ex-
press the aggregate transportation demanded
by the military forces.
President Wilson, it is understood, has
started work drafting the speech he will
make to the senate in presenting for rat1t1ca-
ton the agreement whereby America and
Britain are bound to aid France against I'M
provoked German aggression. With senate
debate over the peace treaty and the League
of Nations already hot, the president is MAX
ing ready to inject into the controversy an
issue which probably will increase the fever
| ishness of the argument.
| General E. H. H. Allenby, commander of
| the forces in Palestine that took Jerusalem in
1917, is one of the large number of British
officers TO whom have been awarded the
American distinguished service medal, accord
| ing to list published in the Official Gazette.
Three thousand Galician Jews have been
arrested in the streets of Budapest, accord
| ing to adyices received in Vienna, Bella Kun,
| head of the Hungarian soviet government,
replying to Polish protest against these
arrests, declared:
| ~, hf1x
do not want Hungarian Jews to suffer for the
| acts of the Galician Jewish spectators who
infest this country. Also, we refuse to return
money found on their persons"
| The right of congress to define intoxicating
| beverages was denied by Samuel Untermyer,
New York lawyer, in testifying before the
senate judiciary subcommittee, which Is con-
| sidering prohibition enforcement legislation
| Mr. Untermyer told the committee that
neither under the wartime prohibition act nor
| the constitutional amendment could congress
say that any particular percentage OF alco-
| hoIic content constitutes an intoxicating
| liquor Both the act and the amendment, he
| argued, left this as question OF fact which
could be determined only by jury.
| Five firemen lost their lives, one is missins
and A others were injured, several probably
| fatally, in fire which Quilted the big ware
| house of Jacob Potash Brothers, manufac-
| turers Of burlap bags, last week in Philadel-
| phia The victims we're buried beneath fam
| ing debris and trapped amid the burning
! ruins when the front and rear walls OF the
| building collapsed without any warning.
| Thomas Nelson Page has resigned as Amer
| lean ambassador to Italy and Brand Whit
| lock, former minister to Belgium, will succeed
him. Brand Whitlock at present holds the
post of minister to Belgium, to which he was
| appointed in 1913. Mr. Whitloeks appoint
ment as ambassador to Italy has been under
consideration for some weeks past.
| Marshal Foch has received laurel wreath
/ of gold from the inhabitants of the Depart
| ment of Seine-et-Oise. President Poincare,
| speaking at the ceremony, which was held in
| the Palace de Versailles, eulogized Marshal
Foch for his deeds during the war.
| In addition to the laurel wreath Of gold to
Marshal Foch the commander-in-chief of the
allied forces was the recipient OF beautiful
bas-relief, in which the marshal figures on
! horseback. .4.,.
Germany increased her stock of gold during
the war; but lost $122,00O,0 600 between jan
uary 1 and May of this year. according to
information obtained by the Federal Reserve
beard. The loss was due to reparations made
to Belgium and Rumania for gold stolen from
those countries and to shipments to neutral
countries for financing purchases of food
Beginning with 298,000,000 in gold at the
! outbreak of the war; the German Reichsbank
| increased it's supply to $3.50, 100000 at the
end of 1918.
| The Federal Reserve banks of the country
and the Bank of England increased their
holdings Of gold, but the Bank of France and
| the Bank of Italy showed decreases.
The first chamber of the Dutch parliament
has adopted motion to introduce woman
| suffrage in Holland. The vote was "a to 5.
DR.. Ernest Won Dryander, former chap
lain of the German court asserts in state
ment he las caused to be published that no
greater disgrace could be heaped 60,000,-
900 people than the demand that the former
Emperor William should be delivered up to
the allies DR.. Won Dryander received the
| Order Of the Black Eagle from the emperor
| last year.
| A plot involving wholesale thefts of food,
automobile tires and other troop supplies
| for shipment to Germany has been uncovered
by army officers at Coblenz, Germany when
several Germans who alleged to have
had hand in the plans were arrested. Three
carloads of American bacon and three Of tires
and tubes, which were billed through to un-
occupied Germany, were returned to Coblenz
| from the edge of the bridgehead, the mill
| itary police saying that the goods had been
stolen. Officers say the shipments under
rious pretexts have been going on for weeks,
| and possibly months and they estimate the
| loss to the army at several million marks.
| Silk robberies totaling $4,000 have been
| reported by New York manufacturers In the
| past two days 1t is not known how many
more were committed, as the police advised