Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-19

Enver Pasha, former Turkish minister OF
war, now under sentence OF death because OF
his conduct of the Turkish government dur.
ing the war, has been crowned king OF
Kurdistan, according to a statement from
Constantinople. Kurdistan is wide region of
underlined borders, lying between Mesopota-
mia and Persia. The Kurds number about g.
100000 people, who are, for the most part.
Mohammedans.
Enver Pasha was minister of war in the
Turkish cabinet from January, 1914, to Oc-
tOber, 1918. He was the leader of the Young
Turk movement, an ardent pro-German, and
an enthusiastic pupil of the German general
Won der Goltz According to white paper
issued by the British government in Novem-
Der, 1914, Enver Pasha was responsible for
Turkey entering the world war. He, with
Talaat Bey, former grand vizier, and Djemal
Bey, former minister of finance, were said
to be responsible for the massacres of Ar
menlans. After the signing of the armistice
IN November, 1918, Enver fled from Con-
stantinople to Berlin in disguise
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker Columbus
and Major James R. Meissner, Birmingham
Ala, aces in the American air service. denied
last week before the house subcommittee ON
avlatlon reports that Lieutenant Quentin
Roosevelt had been killed after his fIvinp
companions had deserted him.
Melssner said Roosevelt had been lost in
cloud bank and due to his inexperience
as a pilot, was confused, and Joined up with
d german squadron, being later shot down ;,
Rlckenbacker added that the flight during
"nlch roosevelt was killed was ONLY the
second in which he ever particinatad &c '"o
combatant 40
The airplane Of Captain Cedric Ernest
Howell, one of the British airmen in the Lon
oon-Melbourne flight was wrecked off St
Georges bay, Island of Corfu December IN
mere is hone that
mechanlc1an escaped, according to a dispatch
TO LLOYD s from Corfu. The dispatch adds that
the log OF the afrplane has washed ashore.
Rather than be separated from Alexander
Berkman, Emma Goldman, advocate of ter
rorlsm and assassination, through her attor-
ney, Harry Weinberger, has announced that
she is ready to go to Russia with the eighty
other aliens on Ellis Island waiting deporta-
ton. The "Reds" will be started for Europe
in about ten days, according to the latest
plans Of the Washington authorities.
Inc Goldman woman gave out a statement
charging that the order for her deportation
showed 1.-The hysteria of government Off
Gals"
Colorado completed ratification of the
woman suffrage amendment to the federal
constitution Inc house of representatives
having UNANIMOUSLY passed the senate resolu-
ton providing for ratification. Colorado is
the tWenty-second state to ratify.
An unexploded bomb, dropped by a Ger
man Gotha airplane during the war; has been
found IN the basin Of the Fountain of the
Med1cfs in the Luxembourg Gardens. Paris.
oy workmen who were cleaning the basin.
British army estimates for 1919-192O
provide for the expenditure of 4O5 ,OOO, 900
pounds. These figures, made public in Lon
don, foreshadow an army strength at the
end of the financial year, March 81, 1920, of
100000 British troops and 100000 Indian
troops. These forces, however, will be re-
duced later. When estimates were made in
March, 1919, an army of 2, 500, 900 men was
provided for, of which 1,548,OO0 were in
process of rehabilitation and since have
been released
The British army in 1913-1914 numbered
Sall ranks, all arms) SO5,O32, with an eff
fect1Ve strength of 666,S17, maintained at a
cost OF nearly 100000 pounds ($15O,OOO,-
00O.) ,
secretary of the Treasury Glass has an
nounced that he will take his seat as senator
from Virginia on the reconvening of con-