Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-30
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Conscientious DIRECTORS in increasing
numbers are being released from English
prisons but there still are about So Quakers
and othe1 directors t. military service who
are working out hard labor sentences.
More than 450 have been set free since
April g. when war Office measure govern
ing the release of directors became effective.
The order applies only to those who have
served sentences aggregating in length Two
or more years. Altogether 6,l35 men have
resisted the British military service acts
and $3.50 of them have been courtmartial-
ed. Since the armistice 240 men have been
tried by military courts. Sfxty-three Or
jectors have died since being arrested, nine
while in prison.
Sir Barton, the three-year-old colt that
won first money in the Kentucky Derby and
the Preakness race, has scored another tr1-
umph at Belmont Park where he won the his
toric Withers' States Saturday in the pres
ence of $4,000 cheering spectators. De-
spite soggy, dead track the colt ran
fast race, the time being 1888 AS for the
mile, which no winner of the W1thers
Stakes, except Spur, has beaten on any kind
of track in As years. Within two weeks
time Sir Barton has carried off more than
$4,000, and his record in the three races
sends his valuation up to $150,000.
Destroyed buildings to the number of
$4,000 must be reconstructed in Frances
devastated area, according to the figures Civ
en- out by M. Lebrun, the minister of Lib
Grated Territories OF this number 100000
were totally destroyed and 100000 were
damaged.
Food is now plentiful in Spain and al
most as cheap as before the war. Life in
the cities is just as gay and the big res
taurants and theaters are crowded and ho-
tells filled. Americans by the score who liv-
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it more comfortable in Spain than in France
or Italy.
In Kossovo plain, where Jugo-Slav
troops were crushed in 1889 by the Turks,
a great monument is to be erected to COM
memorate the Jugo-Slav union. 1t will be
known as the Temple of Kossoyo. Ivan Mes
trovic, Dalmatian sculptor, will execute the
work.
Swedish state railroads and various gas
works have bought 10000 tons of American
coal at prices below those for which English
coal was offered.
Women's institutes have now been formed
in nearly 1000 English villages. They're
on the order Of the women's clubs in Amer
lea but their work is broader. They have
formed national union and are devoted
to definite program Of welfare work in
IL.
Their membership is largely made up of
women and girls of the Land Army which
kept up production during the war.
Swiss delegation of one hundred and
thirty men, twenty-five of whom are mem
bers of the Swiss parliament, are planning to
visit the United tSates in the autumn to
study economic conditions in this country.
Lloyd George is also coming to the United
States in the fall. He has been invited by
the American delegation to visit this country
and has accepted the invitation, it is stated.
| The first casualties in the American Ex-
| peditionary Force in Siberia were expert
enced May 81, when three Americans were
slightly wounded. They were pursuing
| through the hills Bolsheviki who had at
tackled running train guarded by Ameri-
| cans forty miles northeast OF Vladivostok,
| near Shkotova, at the head of Ussurf Bay, in
| the maritime province, which is seething with
disorder and revolt against the authority of
| Admiral Kolchak.
Additional American troops have been dis
patched to the Suchan district 1t is not ex-
| pected that they will have difficulty in han
| ding the situation, despite reports from Ko1-
| chalk government sources that the organized
| bands of Bolsheviki number 10000. The
| Americans are operating in the wild and
! hilly country in extreme wet and foggy
weather, but are carrying on" magniicently.
| The fourth anniversary of Italy's entrance
into the war was celebrated Saturday quietly
and without demonstration, public gather
ings being discouraged by the government.
| Lieutenant Roget, a French aviator, whose
attempt at transatlantic crossing has failed,
| has nevertheless beaten the Meas distance
record. Roget flew from Villa Coublay,
France, to Kenitra, thirty kilometers from
Rabat, Morocco, a distance of 1,348 miles,
! while the NC-4 covered only 1,211 miles.
Roget's projected flight was by way of Dakar
to Brazil
The Germans have acquired the note
writing as we'll as the book-writing habit
since the armistice. A friendly rivalry seems
| to have sprung UP between the ex-royalties
and the ex-generals-all of whom are writing
| books to explain the why's and wherefores of
the war and its failures-and the members of
| the German peace delegation, who have sent
in, so far, thirteen lengthy notes to the allies
| to explain why everybody else is at fault eX-
| eept Germany.
Fully three million persons in the United
| States are victims of the drug habit and one
hundred thousand of these may be found in
the citv of New York, according to the state
ment of Royal S. Copeland, health commits
sioner of New York. He declared also that
last year 475.0O0 pounds of opium was con-
sumed in this country. This Is ten times
more than in any other country, according to
DR. Copeland's statement.
Cecil Harmsworth, under secrtary for for
eign affairs for England, announced recently
in the house of commons that the Suez canal
on May 13. is being maintained with naval
and military assistance because of it's vital