The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-11-13
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF This
= AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
The NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What 10 Taking Place In The South.
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sharp distinction between the mill
| tary protection of the railroad which
i, is willing to undertake.
Owing to the menacing advance OF
the Bolshevist force, Admiral Kol-
| chak has ordered preliminary evacu-
alton of Omsk by the American hos
| pital and such government depart
ments as are not directly necessary
| in Omsk.
| Colonel Emerson has rescinded the
order to the American railway corps
| to retire from Siberia and the men
are remaining at their posts for duty
The French government as COM
pliment to Hugh c. Wallace, United
States ambassador, has preso nted to
Tacoma, Wash, Mr. Wallace's home
town, one of the largest guns captur-
ed by the French from the Germans.
The German government, it is re-
ported, does not consider itself bound
to surrender it's authority over the ter
ritory of the free city OF DanZig until
the United States shall have ratified
the treaty of peace.
November 10 has been fixed by the
supreme council as the date when
the plebiscite commission created un-
der the German peace treaty shall
meet in Paris to discuss the elections
in the various areas the political af-
fiIiation of which is to be settled by
popular vote. The United States will
not be represented even unofficialy at
this meeting.
France has taken the initiative in
presenting to the Washington govern
ment new proposal for settlement OF
the Fiume question. The newspapers
say the move has the support of Eng
land.
The French Academy has fixed the
conditions by which next yea ninety
endoWments of five thousand dollars
each will be made to French families
with the largest number of children.
The lockout which commenced in
Barcelona was the starting of fight
tt the finish between the employers
and employees of Spain. Each side is
we'll organized, but it is freely pre-
dicted that the employees will win.
ViscOunt Miller British secretary
for the colonies, has sent telegram
to the governor Of British Guiana, de-
nying that the British government has
any intention of selling British Guiana
or any British West Indian colony.
Finding of a note in the Chicago fed
eraI building telling of a plot to blow
up the structure resulted in the rush
ing of several details of police to the
building.
Approximately fifty thousand bales
of cotton have been forwarded to Ger
many from Savannah and Galveston.
Approval blythe Toledo, Ohio. voters
of an ordinance forcing the street car
company to suspend business finds the
city entirely unprepared to provide
transportation. Toledo will have to
walk unless there is some speedy So
luton.
MayOr-elect Hancock of Mobile, &C
companied by ten city commissioners
made formal demand of Mayor Phil
lans and Commissioners George E.
Crawford and Pat J. Lyons that they
relinquish the city government into
the hands of the new mayor and COM
missiOners. The demand was re-
fused.
The price for this seasons yellow
clarified sugar was fixed in New. Or
leans at II cents a pound. The price
is subject to the approval OF AttOr-
ney General Palmer.
Nothing but the official count,
which probably will not be completed
for a week or ten days. will determine
whether Ohio voters have approved
or repudiated the action of the general
assembly in ratifying the federal pro-
hibition amendment. The vets so far
are leading.
In Mississippi, the Democrats, fac
ing a Socialist ticket, won a victory
by a plurality of approximately fifty
thousand.
Thomas Perry, a Chicago bantam
weight boxer, who was injured in his
bout with Sammy Marine OF New York
at Milwaukee, died at Emergency hos
pital in Milwaukee, where he had how
cred between life and death for three
days. Death was caused by frac-
ture of the skull.
The question of a forty-eight hour
week was debated by the International
labor conference at Washington. An
International convention limiting the
hours of work in industry to 48 a
week in all countries ratifying the !
agreement by July l, 1921, was pre- /
pared on the basis of the organizing /
committee.
In New Jersey, which was one of |
the five states holding guber- atorial !
elections, prohibition was an Indirect /
ISSUE The result is still in doubt.
The Republican candidate said he
would, if elected, make New Jersey as
wet as the ocean.