Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST.

are apparently unperturbed by the POSSIBLE
tiles that proceedings will be brought by
the entente for the extradition of the former
emperor from Holland, Members Of the
former monarch's suite have indicated in
conversation that it was their opinion any
proceedings from allied quarters would be
prOtracted for many months without any
certainly that The Netherlands government
would consent to hand the former kaiser
over for trial They are almost unanimous
ly convinced that they are in Amerongen for
long sojourn and are making preparations
accordingly
King Victor, of Italy has issued decree
that profiteers will be in future fined TO-
600 lire or sentenced to from three months
to three years in prison and WILL IN addl-
ton, suffer confiscation of the goods, &C
| cording to Rome dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company Unauthorized middle
men dealing in food will suffer similar pun
ishment, it is said. The dispatch states
that general strike was declared in Naples
on Monday After looting outlying stores IN
that city, crowd attempted to reach the
center of the place, but was prevented by
the police.
Marshal Foch and Marshal Petain will lead
the Victor march through Paris on July II,
the anniversary of the fall of the Bastile, &C
cordng to Marcel Hutin, writing in the Echo
de Paris The triumpha1 march will be over
course from the Porto Maillot to the Place
| de la Republique. All the armies which par
ticipated in the war will be represented by
picked detachments carrying their flags. Gen
| erals Castlenau Fayolle, Maistre, Mangin and
Gouraud will lead the section of the PARADE
which is to include the Foreign Legion and
the Moroccan units. President Poincare and
Premier Clemenceau will review the troops
from their tribune at the Arch of Triumph.
! With the value of the hemp, sugar, tobac-s
co and coconut crops of the Philippines near
ly double in 1918 the figure for the previous
year, agriculture is credited with large
share in the increased prosperity which has
come to the islands, according to the annuaI
report of Director Hernandez Of the bureau
of agriculture. The only blot on the record
was the scarcity of foodstuffs, as the philip
pines failed to produce the supplies of rice
and other products necessary for home con-
sumption.
Austria is goating over the political
troubles that beset the government OF the
new Czecho-Slovak republic. Pressure or
Agrarans and Socialists on the government
is increasing. They would hasten the nation
alization of the land mines and industries
generally, removing the big owners. Wen
nese who draw large incomes from Industrial
concerns in Bohemia are especially angry over
the plans for liquidation OF rman-Austrlan
concerns within the new country, under au-
thority of the peace congress, a provision for
which the Czecho-SIovak government is re-
sponsible.
Medals are getting so numerous in Great
Britain that an official order has been thought
necessary reserving the left breast for war
decorations All foreign decorations and other
orders such as coronation and jubilee medals
will be worn on the right side. Which is
rather said for staff officers who have collect
ed enough ''trinkets" to make triple row
but whose actual war decorations are few or
nil. .M5
1t is expected that more than 100000 drug
4 addicts in New York City with complete 1den-
LITIGATION marks and photographs Will De
placed on the records Of the health depart
ment and the state narcotic commission under
the new regulations governing hablt-formlng
| drugs which will go INTO effect shortly.
81 - "The allies can only have my dead body;
daImwill myself decide my life or DEATH,
4 the former German crown Prince is quoted
7 as having said in discussing possible demand
for his extradition This statement reported
I;by the British Wireless Service correspondent,
was said by him to have been made to Dutch
official who talks daily with the former Crown
Prince According to this official, Frederick
'Hohenzollern is in excellent health. ~
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