The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-04-17
Washington.

Inc ARRIVAL or the American cruisers
Galveston and Chester at Murmansk,
Russia, is expected to relieve the sit
uation among American troops in the
Archangel region, company of which
ten days ago refused to go to the
front until arguments were presented
by their officers.
No further information as to the mu-
tiny in Archangel has been received
by the war department. 1t requires
some days for cable to reach Archan-
gel and so far as has been learned
the department has no additional ad
vices.
General Zapata, the rebel leader in
southern Mexico, has been killed by
government troops. A part of the
fifth Mexican regiment serving under
General Gonzales of the Carranza
army returned to Cuautla with the re
mains of the dead rebel chief.
Four hundred thousand railroad en-,
gineers, firemen, trainmen and. con,
ductors in both passenger and freight
service have been advanced in wages
aggregating $65,OOO,OOO.
Recommendation of executive elem,
ency for f1fty-two persons under the
espionage act have been sent to Pres
ident Wilson by Attorney General Pal
mer, but the names and Communication
in each case will not be announced
until the president has acted
The report of the committee on in.
ternational labor legislation in Paris
,So11 n vco%f od f0 IN
ternational regulation of employment
condition, has been adopted, but just
what it is has not been made public.
Advices to the state department
from Tampico, Mexico, said a passen.
ger train was derailed byAbandits 140
kilometers from Tampico, and that
among the passengers injured was
one American, ]. P. Mennet. The de.
partment wired Tampico for further
particulars.
Returns in the referendum tatken
in the province of Quebec, Canada,
to determine whether wine and beer
licenses shall be issued or the prov
ince go dry, indicated a victory for the
"wet'' forces by great majority.
The war department has issued an
official statement CONCERNING advices
from Archangel, Russia, that what
amounted to mutiny occurred among
of March.
Reports that the Blanquet-Felix Diaz
revolution in Mexico was substantial
ly financed were terminated as doubt
full by the state department officials
in replying to direct questions regard
ing the situation and reports.
In answer to the suggestion that
American oil interests were behind the
new revolution in Mexico a high Off
cial Of the state department declared
this to be untrue and expressed the
opinion that the revolution would be
Complaint by the railroad admins
tration to the department of justice
against the alleged improper methods
employed by federal officers in the
state of Virginia in enforcing the pro-
hibition has been referred by Attor
ney General Palmer to Assistant At
torney General Frierson for investiga-
ton. 1t is alleged that the officers
violated a coffin containing a dead
body in their search for cOntraband
shipments of liquor across the state
line.
Forecast by the department of agri,
culture that the nations winter wheat
crop would total eight hundred and
thirty-seven million bushels, the larg.
est crop ever. grown, aroused imme-
date speculation as to the cost to
the government Of such an enormous
yield. Under the bill passed by con-
gress in the closing days of the last
session the government is obligated
to pay the difference between the price
guaranteed. $22O bushel, and the
world market price for every bushe1
not only on winter, but of sprin wheat
produced.