Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-23
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST


100 years ago and by him presented to
the cadet corps Of the German army, has
been stolen from the military academy at
Gross-Lichterfelde, near Berlin, where it
was kept as a treasure.
The transport George washington, on
which President Wilson made his trips to
and from Europe during the peace con-
ference, has sailed again for Europe, this
time to bring King Albert, Queen Eliza
beth and Crown Prince Leopold, of Bel
GUM to the United States The George
Washington, after going to Brest, went to
Antwerp, where the royal party embarked
Monday.
Marshal Foch is enjoying the first holiday
he has had in five years. On his estate at
Morlaix near Brest, the generalissimo of the
Allied armies is living the simple life, dress
ed in loose tweeds and wearing a cap, only
retaining his feather leggings as reminder
of his uniform.
radio experiment made off New London
in Long Island sound by the experiment sta
tion, naval section, established communica-
ton, both telephone and Geographic, be-
tween a hydroaeroplane flying 1000 feet in
the air and a submarine submerged several
fathoms in the water. This was a demon
stration for the delegates to the annual con-
vention of the Edison Society of Electrical
Engineers being held at Eastern Ioint
1t is said to be the first time that an air.
plane and submerged submarine have COM
municated with each other directly, and is
considered by naval officials as an important
factor in coast defense and in naval warfare.
The state department at Washington has
been advised that the prohibition upon the
re-exportation of American cotton from Eng
land has been abolished.
British firms may now export American
cotton and cotton products to Germany
Acting Secretary of State Phillips has re-
ceived a dispatch from London stating that
as a result of the efforts to raise the German
vessels scuttled at Scapa Flow the battleship
Baden, the cruisers frankfort, Nuremberg and
Emden and fifteen destroyers have been float
ed, and three other destroyers probably will
be raised.
Oak Hill estate, near Leesburg, Va, for
merly the home of President Monroe, contain
1900 acres and including an old orchard
from which Queen Victoria of England was
supplied with Albemarle pippin apples, has
been sold by Mrs. Henry Fairfax to Frank c.
Little, of New York.
deficit of $3,691,2 73,345 faces the
United States treasury by the end of the
made to the house last week by Representa-
tive James W. Good Republican, of Iowa.
chairman OF the appropriations committee
Total probable expenditures are $1O,831,2O1,
5S5 and total receipts $7,239,928,2 40."
According to the Jill Shimpo.. published
I'M Toxic, Japan, the United States govern
has requested a memorandum from japan
stating, first, that Japan has no aggressive
designs on the province of shantung; second
that Japan is to abandon her rights to the
establishment of an exclusive Japanese set
Element in Tsing-Tao and, third announcing
the exact date for the return of Shantung
to China and also the date for the with
draWal of the Japanese troops there.
Ihe newspapers point out that it will be
difficult to fix the dates, as these must be
settled by direct negotiations between Japan
and China.
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1.-THE present world unrest means that the
old order of things is in slits death throes;
that a new society is about to come to it's
birth and that age-long in5ustices and in
CAPABILITIES that burdened the lives of the
common people are at last to be swept away"
declared Arthur Henderson, secretary of the
British Labor party, before the International
Brotherhood congress, in session in London.
"Class rule in politics is doomed to disap-
pear" he added, "but it, Is. still doubtful
whether the ideal of true political liberty
will be realized in this or, other countries
without violent CONFUSION of society,"" The
main problem now, he said is to restore
popular confidence in representative insttu-
lions and Ito guide the movement of the
masses along the path OF constitutional
changes and to enable democracy to become
master in it's own house without violence
An order has just been issued by the Aus
trian government expelling 10000 war
refugees, mostly Galician Jews, from the
country, according to advices received in
Stockholm, Sweden. The order will be
hard blow for the refugees, who are unable
to return to their devastated homes
The commission Of the high court, sitting
in Paris as a tribunal of accusation has
ordered Joseph Caillaux, former premier of
France, to face charges of intriguing to
bring about premature and dishonorable
peace with Germany. The justice discharged
Louis Loustalot and Paul Comfy, who were
held in relation to the Cailaux case. Call
laux, who has been in custody for year and
from prison to a hospital because of i'll
health, upon recommendation of the commits
sion of the high court.
China has issued mandate declaring her.
self now at peace with Germany
The sixtysixth congress promises to be a
record maker in time wasting. 1t has been
in session more than 100 days without put
ting through single constructive measure
with the exception of the resolution to sub
nit the woman suffrage amendment to the
constitution. The house has spent months
talking about prohibition, petty investiga-
tions and a soldiers land bill, and the SEN
ate has frittered away the entire session de-
nouncing the League of Nations.
With the official ceremonies in his honor