Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-15

american army will not exceed $2,000,0O0,
or about 81 man for all the soldiers in the
American eXpeditiOnary force, according to
estimate made by Lieutenant Colonel Robert
Z. Burkham of st. Louis chief claims Off
Ger, who recently returned from abroad. This
sum represents $4,000 separate claims, rang
ing from broken windows to charge OF
5000, 900 francs for destruction Of forests
and forest lands through American artillery
practice at SOuge near Bordeaux.
British officials are inclined to believe the
report published in the London Observer
saving that Fiscount Grey is giving favor
able consideration to the governments oHer
10 him of the post Of ambassador to Wash
iucton. Lord Grey, who at the beginning
Of the World war was Sir Edward Grey, Brit
ish foreign minister, was of the most
ardent workers for peace and an amicable
settlement of difficulties with Germany.
Lord Grey has long ranked as one of Europe's
most sagacious statesmen.
Three million dollars will be required an
nually fer the worldwide prohibition fight
under the financial budget of the World Anti
Saloon League, as formulated at meeting OF
the general finance committee in Montgom-
cry, Ala. Another meeting of the committee
will be held in Chicago in September.
Two hundred students armed with dog
whips stormed the town hall in Budapest last
week and thrashed the Communist officials
still there, says dispatch from the Huna-
garan capital by way of Berlin.
The students afterWard attacked Jews and
there were many collisions between Jewish
and non Jewish students near the university.
There is much uneasiness at Prague, where
the Socialist organ, Praylldu, declares that no
Communist government could be so dangerous
to the Czech state as Archduke Joseph's rule.
Camp Mills at Mineola, L. L. has officially
ceased to exist, and no more troops Will be
received there for rehabilitation. The camp
will be abandoned as soon as the government
has arranged for the sale of buildings.
The recently established aerial forest fire
patrol discovered thrty-tive fires in Cali
fornia and Oregon. and made seventy-nlne
flights for total of $3.50 miles, the air serV-
ice has announced. The patrol service was
extended last. week to Oregon and twenty
eight of the fires. discovered were IN that
state Ninety-one fires have been discovered
by the service since it was inaugurated seven
weeks ago. The forestry service, the an
nouncement said, was able to extlngu1sh the
greater number of these fires before they
gaind Roadway.
Fifty persons we're killed in disturbances
last week near Chemnitz, SaGony' IN Ter
many. Troops were overpoWered ana aus
| armed bv a mob. The soldiers horses were
| slaughtered and the flesh was distributed TO
| the crowd Many wounded persons are IN the
Chemnitz hospital. Additional troops are oe-
ing sent to quiet the disorders Inc rlo1s
are due to the shortage Oh tood'
uhiin raoroanizing the secret archives OF
the vatican in Rome, Cardinal Gasquet, IL
! hrsrian of the Roman Catholic church, DIS
| covered twelve boxes containing docuinents
| CONCERNING the diplomatic relations Det"een
England and the Holy See during the nlteentn
century. In the year 1915 the documents
! uIoro removed 70 Paris by Napoleon and were
| later restored.
Hostilities have ceased between Great
Britain and the Afghan tribes Wnlch nave
boon harassing northern India, the peace
agreement having been signed in LONDON l"S'
week.
The Japanese minister to China already has
opened negotiations with emma IN re-
gard to Shantung, according 10 Inc
| newspaper "Jiji Shimpo, published IN
| Toxic. japan The paper says Japan is ready
to make restitution of Shantung as soon as
| China is prepared to fulfill the terms or the
| dual agreement concerning the province anu
| that Japan will. withdraw her troops and
divide Tsing-Tao into three settlements, Jap
anese, Chinese mad international. The news
| papers generally are giving calm editorial
| treatment to the various phases or the DEBATE
| in the United States senate on the Shantung
question The opinion most widely advanced
| is that the Republican senator's who are oppos-
ing the Shantung provision of the peace treaty
are using their arguments against Japan
mostly for political purposes and with the IDEA
Of discrediting President Wilson.
Two airplanes of the American army patrol
we're fired on by Mexican Federal soldiers near
| Andrada, Lower California, Mexico, six miles
west of Yoma, Arizona, last week. They re-
turned the fire and the MexiCans scattered Ac-
| cording to witnesses of the affair, the planes
were on the American side of the interna-
tional boundary line. The airplanes were on
their way back to their home base at Rock
we'll Field, San Diego, after making the daily
patrol. The Mexicons used machine gun
and rifles. The aviators sprayed the country
where the Mexicans we're with bullets from
their machine guns.
Twenty Polish girls, members Of the Polish
Grey Samaritan Unit, which has been train
ed in this country by the Y. w. G.. A. to fit
girls of Polish birth or parentage to do re-
construction work in their own country, have
sailed for Warsaw as the advance guard of a
large group which will sent if funds for
transportation can be provided by the Polish
Reconstruction committee.
Savenay, France, for two months a huge
embarkation camp for American army nurses,
holding as many as 5000 nurses at time,
is closed. The camp was to remin open until
September when suddenly word came to move
into new barracks. Twelve hundred nurses
and their baggage moved in one day.
Professor Ernest Heinrich Haeckel pro-
fesGor Of zoology at the University of Ger
his research work supporting the theory of
! nVn1UtiOn lena last week Little