The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-11
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS or THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN Days GIVEN
fHE NEWS OF The SOUTH
What Do Taking Place On The South
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Ninety-eight men have been arrest
ed at Donora, a steel town on the
Monongahela river, Pennsylvania, thir-
ty miles from Pittsburg, when troop
ers of the state police raided Llthua-
MAN hall, headquarters of the district
steel workers of that district.
A box containing $4,000 in gold coin
shipped to the Anglo and London
Paris National bank Of San Francisco
on the liner Korea Maru was found
to contain scrap iron and metal wash
Ors when opened by the consignee in
Hong Kong, according to cable ad-
vices received by the bank and steam
ship company in San Francisco.
Mexican bandits at night raided the
Clareno ranch, on the American side
of the Rio Grande, eleven miles to
the southeast of Zapata, Texas, es-
Gaping with provisions from store
on the ranch.
Mandamus proceedings to compel
Secretary Lansing to cancel the state
department proclamation announcing
ratification of the prohibition amend
ment have been filed in the District OF
Columbia supreme court, Washington.
The ground is that the required num-
Der of states have not yet acted on
the constitutional amendment which
enioins nationwide prohibition.
Frank L. Polk, head of the United
States delegation to the peace con-
ference, Paris, summoned Kurt Won
Lersner, chief of the German repre-
sentatives at Versailles, and told him
Germany should not interpret as be-
ing in her favor any delay that might
be encountered in ratifying the Yer
sailles treaty at Washington, accord
ing to newspapers.
Speaking at Portypridd, Wales, Sir
George HeWart, attorney general, said
the suggestion was not true that there
was any discussions or waverings with
reference to the trial of former EN-
peror Of Germany.
An agreement which it is hoped
will solve the Adriatic question has
been prepared in Paris by the Amer
lean, French and British peace repre-
sentatives for submission to Italy, ac-
cording to private dispatches received
in London.
The use of automobiles in Bermuda
is not permitted.
The American delegation to the
peace conference, which was to have
sailed from Brest or the United
States on December 6, has postponed
its departure for home. The change
in the plans of the delegation is due to
the failure of the Germans to sign
the protocol ratifying the peace treaty.
A serious earthquake occurred in
western Asia Minor, seven villages in
the districts of Soma and Balikesri
being destroyed. Many persons were
killed and injured.
The French representatives in the
peace conference are urging the dele
gates from the United States to de-
lay their departure for home until the
protocol is signed for putting into eff
feet the peace treaty with Germany.
December / was the date set for
the exchange of notifications of the
peace treaty, no definite news was at
hand regarding the intention of the
German government.
Sir Horace Plunkett, who is chair
man of the Dublin convention, and
who has generally kept aloof from
Irish politics during his long career
of public service, haSsissued warning
that the announcement that hunger
strikers will not be released from the
jails in Ireland hereafter, if it is in
tended to break the spirit of the Sim
Fem, will have the opposite effect.