Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-08
T. CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST.

CURIIEN L EVEN |
According to private advices received in
Berne Switzerland, virtually all of Monte
negro is in rebellion against the Serbian mil
itary occupation. Bloody encounters have
occurred in several instances, say the dis
patches, and guerilla warfare is reviving in
the mountains.
President Wilson is expected to land at
Hoboken this afternoon.
An official announcement from the office
of director of sales at the war department.
in Washington says surplus stocks OF canned
vegetables will be sold in carload lots to
municipalities at cost, and stocks OF canned
meat at 20 per cent below cost, provided
they are resold to the public at the prices
for which they were purchased.
Portions of four counties of northern
lower Michigan were swept by forest fires
last week Around the village of Wander
bilt in Otsego county, number of families
were driven from their homes, and in Kali
kaska county householders in three towns
were threatened by the flames
Hundreds of acres of timber lands have
been swept over in Mukegon county. A large
area of timber land has been burned over
in Antrim county. 1t is estimated the none
to 100000.
| Discussing determination of the allied and
associated powers to place on trial William
Hohenzollern, the former German emperor, as
| the man held chiefly responsible for the war,
! Lloyd George declared last week that If such
a course had been followed after other wars
"there would have been fewer wars" 1t is
I the intention to make such an example or
Germany as to discourage others from ever
again attempting to repeat this 1nfamy he
said
The flight of the British dirigible R-34 was
brought about by the Aero Club of America
and the Aerial league, according to the state
ment of Augustus Post, secretary OF the Aero
club. Plans were laid for the flight last
winter but it was found to be impossible at
the time on account of the lack OF landing
fields in this country: The matter was taken
ND again at the aeronautical convention held
during May at Atlantic City, and members
of the Aero club of America agreed to assume
the liability of $2,900,000 for the dirigible
in case of accident here. They also agreed to
underwrite the cost of supplying gasoline,
labor, etc. at some landing field. 1t was
necessary to make arrangements for 1000
cubic feet of hydrogen gas. 5000 gallons OF
gasoline, 500 gallons of oil and 5000 bags
of sand
Hundreds of natural-born American citizens
in New York and elsewhere, recently dis
charged from Canadian, English, French or
Italian armies, will find themselves aliens ii
they try to run for the presidency in. 1928,
or, what is more to the point, when they
try to do business as Americans. According
| to law, any citizen of the United States
who enlisted in a foreign army has lost his
citizenship by taking an oath OF allegiance
| for entering such service. The remedy upon
discharge is to be repatriated before the
courts, which costs nothing and which may
save endless difficulty.
| Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, who re-
signed as chief of the general staff June rs,
| is reported to have told students from Got
| tingen, who called on him. that eff our
| foes want to stand old man like me-
who has but done his duty, up against
wall, they may have me. They would only
| load another disgrace upon themselves"
This incident occurred at military headquar-
| tiers at Kolberg, Pomerania.9d ytuaf u .
General Won Seeckt, it is announced, has
been appointed the new chief OF the general
staff. Major General D. Won Winterteldt"
| former military attache at Paris and former
member of the armistice commission, and Ma
jor General Wrisberg, who represented
| the war ministry in the old Reichstag, have
resigned from the general staff.
Officers of the German great general stair
who offered their designations have with
drawn them upon condition that the govern
ment does not deliver the former German
emperor to the allies, say dispatches received
from Zurich. "r
The Missouri legislature on July ratified
the federal suffrage amendment when the
senate concurring in the action OF the house,
passed the adopting resolution by vote OF
2S to 3.
The Three Hundred and Twenty ninth in
fantry one company of which was reported
as having mutinied at Archangele in April as
the result of the Red propaganda, reacho
New York last week on the transport Won
Steuben, and it's officers and enlisted men were
unanimous in branding the charge as un-
founded although they admitted there had
been much dissatisfaction in the ranks. They
said it was true that the enlisted men had de-
manded from their officers the reason for
their being kept in Northern Russia, but
maintained they had right to do So One
enlisted man summed it up thus: IF Sena-
tor Hiram Johnson and others can ask such
questions in the senate, why can't we, the
ones involved, ask them. And we did, and
that is all there is to it,,
Within thirty days the picturesque uniform
of the yeo1nen (f) and the girl marines OF
the United States navy will be but a memory
of the war. Congress has approved a clause
in the naval appropriation bill which provides
for the rehabilitation of all female members
of the enlisted personnel of the naval reserve
force and the marine corps reserve by August
-. Members of the naval reserve force and
the marine corps reserve whose conduct and
efficiency have demonstrated the desirability
Of their being kept in the service may g
given civil appointments in the navy depart
nv Secretary Danihls