Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-10
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Legions of Fiuman girls enticing sol
iers to desert from the ranks OF the ltallan
Army forces stationed at Abbazla and other
points on the armistice line IN order to IN
crease Gabrielle d'Annunzios army of occu-
nation The girls leave Fiume hidden in mo-
tor trucks and driven over c1rcu1tous route
in order to evade the watchfulness on the
CarabineerS who are stationed between the
regular Italian Army and dAnnunzlos forces
When they leave the motor trucks at various
posts the girls begin work quietly by talking
to soldiers on the street. and the soldiers
in turn convey their word to their COM
rades. Sometimes through this method en-
tire battalons have gone over to the FIume
Amy, among them battalion OF bersa-
gIieri and another of machine gunners.
The Austrian government continues to is
| sue it's declarations that national bankruptcy
in Austria will be avoided, but it is neverthe-
less discussed freely in Vienna as an lmpend-
ing event. The Austrian crown is practically
worthless outside the country, and its pur-
chasing value in Austria has declined at such
a rate that the problem OF purchasing food
seems unsolvabIe on the present basis of ex-
change.
The government has announced that de-
spite various protests it will sell the govern
ment art treasures, including the famous Cob
elm and Flemish tapestries from the royal
castles, which aresnow being listed and ap-
praised. InGSe are the only assets available
outside of the food credits.
The weather is chilly and there is grow
ing scarcity of food Increased prices are
adding to the depression and unrest of the
people. The Deputy Workmen's Councillor,
Franz Mueller, admits that the reactionary
feeling daily is growing.
Forty Sim Fein prisoners, including twenty
six brought from Cork Prison, began rioting
this week in MOutjoy Prison. Dublin, after a
hunger strike. They smashed the windows and
furniture in their cells, Several prisoners were
| injured before the disturbances were quelled.
The Guatemalan assembly has ratified the
peace treaty, to the unspeakable joy of the
| people, who made demonstrations in honor
of the president and assembly. Guatemala is
the first nation in America to approve the
| treaty.
In commemoration of such a happy event
the assembly has ordered memorial tablets
| to be placed in the assembly hall in honor
| of Presidents Cabrera and Wilson. Crowds
| hailed Guatemala, the United States and the
| Guatemalan and American presidents.
The Guatemala emblys commission will
probably go to Washington to deliver to
President Wilson a decree issued in his
| honor.
Thousands of radicals of Russia are in
| Japan awaiting for the lifting Of the war
! time ban on passports to flock to the United
States, declares Representative Albert John
son, chairman of the house immigration COM
mittee, after a study of this phase of the i'm
| migration question.
He has induced the house foreign relations
| committee to hold hearings with the idea
of continuing wartime regulations against
| BOlSheViStS and other radicals until an eff
| fective immigration law can be enacted
AS chairman Of the immigration committee
Mr.. Johnson said congress could not pass
prohibition against this class until the flood
gates had been let down.
Following the receipt by Mrs. Rodman Wan
amaker, of New York, of a highly charged
explosive bomb, her discharged butler, Ernest
Albert Gustav Kurth, whom the police charge
with being a German subject, has been ar
! rested Mrs Wanamaker escaped injury only
| because her suspicious aroused by the
| package before it was opened and every pre-
caution was taken with it.
Reports persist in official and diplomatic
circles in Washington that Henry P. Fletcher,
| ambassador to Mexico will be transferred to
Rome, succeeding Thomas Nelson Page, who
has resigned. White House officials diSclaim
| knowing whom President Wilson has decided
! upon for the post at Rome.
Mr.. Fletcher in point of service, is the dean
of the American corps. Of seventeen years
in the diplomatic service all but two have been
| in the Latin countries The ambassador has
not been at his post in Mexico City in several
months, and it is recalled that Great Britain
| has no diplomatic officer with the Carranza
| government at all, while France, Spain, Italy
and some of the other powers have for time
| had their legations in hands of charges DAT
|, flares.
! The navy department has established a
. southeastern recruiting division with Atlanta
/ as headquarters and with Commander Wal
ter G. Roper, a Georgian as divisional COM
T mander.
The navy, heretofore, has divided the
country into four sections for recruiting pur-
poses, with Now Orleans as southern head
quarters. But because of the rapid growth
| of Atlanta it has changed this arrangement
| by establishing the new southeastern divi-
sion, consisting of Georgia, Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi Alabama, South Carolina, Florida
and part of North Carolina.
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