Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27


cipher" official state department cable
gram sent to Secretary Lansing at Paris
on January "a concerning the acceptance
by the United States government of the
Japanese plan for control of the Siberian
Railway by an inter-allied committee. The
official statement given out by the state
department says that attention of the de-
partment of state has been called to he
alleged text of a telegram from the acting
secretary of state dated January "a, 1919,
to the secretary of state at Paris which,
press reports state, was read at a radical
mass meeting in New York as an argument
that the president is wagng a private war
against Soviet Russia
A state of siege has been declared in
the district of Munster, in Westphalia,
northeast of Cologne, because of Spartacide
disturbances, according to information
reaching American headquarters at Cob
LEM. General Won Waiter, commanding
the German 9TH Corps, with headquarters
at Munster, has appointed General van
Brauschitch military commander of the
district.
Porto Rico has planned a Fourth of July
celebration on a big scale. The day also marks
the four hundredth birthday of the city of
San Juan. Numerous American officials have
been invited to the celebration.
President Wilson has submitted to Pre-
mier Clemenceau the resolution of Senator
Borah asking a hearing for Irish delegates
at the Paris peace conference.
The big British Tarrant triplane, the largest
airplane ever constructed, having six engines
Of 500 horse power each, smashed on
it's trial fight at Farnsborough.
Great Britain is waking up to the ndus-
tTioI
headed by Sir Thomas Holland has made a
report recommending drastic measures to pre-
vent foreign enterprise benefting from India S
unexpected riches Modern methods of agri-
culture, labor-saving machinery in industry,
industrial education of natives, better exploit
tation of forests and fisheries and a survey of
coal possibilities are among the proposals.
All cotton mills in Lancashire, England,
closed last week because of the strike of
100000 workers. About 5F.OO0,O0O spindles
and thousands of looms silent. The cot
ton mill owners say that they will make
no attempt to run the mills.
Henri Rochelle, the French banker and
promoter, who convicted of swindling
before the war broke out, brought again
before the criminal court of Paris last week
on the charge of the abuse of confidence
in connection with the issue of 5000, 900
francs in bonds of the Central Mexican rail-
road in 1910. M. Rochelle throws the re-
sponsibility on his associate, M. Carbonneau,
now dead, who, he claims, sent part of the
funds realized from the sale of the bonds to
Madero, who used them for revolutionary
propaganda in Mexico.
Brazil will rejoice in continuing to de-
velop more and more the relations that bind
her to the United States, President-elect
Epitacio Pessoa, Of the Brazilian republic,
declared at dinner given in his honor by
the vice president of the United States. The
distinguished visitor, who is in this country
as the guest Of the nation emphasized the
admiration of the Brazilian people for the
United States, and said that it was our
entrance into the that decided Brazirs
procedure.
A half-pint of unfading ink has been for
warded to President Wilson in Paris for use
in signing the world peace declaration.
Government chemists have declared after
tests that it is impossible to bleach the ink
and that it will last as long as the paper
on which it is written. The ink is the in
Vention of a New Orleans man.
George H. Roberts, the food controller
of Great Britain, presiding at the Labor
Conference last week. said that in the in
terest of the consumer he had decided to
retain control of food during the coming
winter. While the average cost of food
was As Cd weekly less than in November,
he added, there was no reason to believe
that there would be further decrease in
the near future.
Electrifcation of Belgian railways has
been decreed by the minister of railways,
following a favorable report on such a
project made by a committee appointed to
investigate such a course. The first line
to be electrified will be that from Brussels
to Luxembourg, and later the Brussels-Os-
tend railway. Action to this end probably
will be taken in August, with the expecta-
ton of beginning the reconstruction work
at the beginning of next year. Electrical
ton, it is said, will make it possible to go
from Brussels to Antwerp in twenty-five
minutes and to run trains at intervals of
fifteen minutes
Vice Admiral de Bon chief of naval ope-
rations for France, has issued orders reducing
the naval service to a peae footing. The
orders disband the Mediterranean mine
sweeper fiotilla, except that a few vessels
will remain in service to pick up stray mines.
Reports in Coblenz, Germany, stated that
the eX-kaiser sent word to the German as
sembly at Weimar urging that the peace
treaty be signed. Also one of the compell-
ing influences is said to be the outline given
by Won Hindenburg of what Marshal Foch
an dthe allied troops would do to Germany.
Owing to peace, the German rate of ex-
change has risen from about "a to 40h
francs for 100 marks. The Austrian rate has
risen from Is to 20 francs per 100 crowns.
Fire in the airdrome at St. Cyr, near Paris,
last week destroyed eighteen hangers and
1902 airplaneS. An enormous amount of
other damage resulted. The loss is estimated