Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-12
CURRENT EVENTS OF NIERESI

Between September 20 and September Is
the 1888 Whitehead German seamen at the
war prison barracks near Fort MCPHERSON
Ca, will be sent back to the land from which
they came. transport will sail from Ho-
boken, N. j., with the German prisoners
aboard. Word received at the prison
Wednesday morning from Washington ad-
vsing the camp authorities that the Germans
will be sent back to Europe within two weeks
time, and notifying the camp compander tc
prepare for the discharge of his guests.
Dr. Karl Renner head of the Austrian dele
cation to the peace conference. signed the .
realty of peace between the allied and asso.y
ciated powers and the Austrian republic at
1915 O'Clock Wednesday morning at ST.
German. The delegates of Rumania and
Jugo-Slavia did not sign the Austrian treaty
Wednesday, because they are awaiting in
structions from their governments says the
iavas agency. The supreme council, it adds
has given them until Saturday to make known
their definite intention.
Opposition to the nomination of William
E. Gonzales, of Columbia, S. c., to be am
bassador to Peru virtually ended Wednes-
day when the senate foreign relations COM
mittee unanimously ordered a favorable re-
port on his appointment, and recommended
senate confirmation. Mr. Gonzales has been
under investigation by foreign relations sub
committee, which submitted it's report We'd
nesday and the action of the full committee
followed. He formerly was minister to Cuba
and was named as ambassador to Peru when
the rank of the American representative there
was raised from minister
! LaWlessness was rampant in Boston, Mass,
| Wednesday following the strike of the city
! police force because some of it's members
| were disciplined for joining the union. With
| out adequate police protection, private citi-
| zens were left to their own resources to pro-
| tect their lives and property. Governor
Coolidge called out the Fourth brigade of the
| state guards, made up of the Eleventh,
| Twelfth and Fifteenth regiments and the ma
! cnlne gun company of the Fourteenth regi-
ment. The troops were ordered to report to
Mayor Peters forthwith strike of the city
| fremen is threatened. President Daniel
Looney, OF the f1remenL union, said that the
hremen believed the police union should ex-
list, and what labor demands of us we will
! deliver"
A shipment of 10000 tons of potash from
Germany to the United States said to be the
! first since 1914, has been contracted for, and
ships provided for it's transportation. The
potash will be loaded at Hamburg and dis
| charged at the ports of Norfolk, Savannah
and Wilmington during October and Novem-
| Der.
Private Reass Madsen, of Sacramento,
Cal, with the army of occupation in Ger
many, was shot and instantly killed a
few days ago by German soldiers in the
neutral zone about mile form the bounda-
ry Of the Coblenz bridgehead. Madsen and
Private Bert Balsinger, of the Eighth in
| fantry, who had been on outpost duty, were
deer hunting when they encountered a Ger
man patrol of thirteen soldiers. According to
Balsinger, the Germans began firing with
out asking explanation as to why the
| two Americans were in the neutral zone
Balsinger was taken prisoner by the Ger
mans and later turned over to the Ameri-
can provost marshal. Major George Cock
| rell, and taken to Coblenz. Madsen was
buried in the American cemetery at Cob
LEM.
Property valued at approximately So
| 100000, sold recently by the Americans
to the Germans, was destroyed this week
by series of explosions in ammunition
dumps near Nieuwied, Germany. Among
the material destroyed was ammunition
worth $750,O00, which was sold to Ger
man company for commercial purposes
Fire followed the first explosion and de-
stroyed about fifty buildings scattered
about forty-acre tract used for years by
the Germans and then by the Americans
for storing shells of various caIibers.
According to a Stockholm dispatch,
gang of robbers recently burglarized the
Russian State bank at Moscow and stole
valuables to the amount of $2,50O,000 ru-
bles. This was the third attack recently
made on the bank.