Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-21
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

- OT lin EGIEC
| The Egyptian ministry has resigned be-
cause Of satisfaction with the mission ap-
pointed by Lord Miner, secretary for the
British colonies for the investigation for the
unrest in Egypt according to official dis
patches from Cairo.
Rioting occurred all d2y Tuesday in Alex
andria and the military restored order
| Six more foreign treaties must yet come
! before congress for cons Iteration. They are
| the proposed alliance with France by which
| America would promise to come to the aid
of France in event of unprOvOked aggression;
! the treaty of h1irg Belgian boundary signed
by Germany; the Polish treaty signed by
+ Germany; the treaty with Austria not yet
| laid before senate; the probable treaty with
| Hungary; and the treaties with Turkey and
Bulgaria probably Will be brought before
| senate
Ludwig C. A. Martens, so-called envoy in
! the u. S., of the Russian Soviet government,
has admitted bacore the Lusk legislative
committee Of New York that he is in this
country to aid in the spread o. a worldwide
revolution and thai his Now York offices
are the headquarters in this country for
Lenine and TrotzI-y, whose manifestos call
for the destruction of "all capitalist:c gov
ernments" and "a ro.gn of terror" The DIS
closures made by Martens included the fact
that he entered this country as German
|
since. He says that he did not register at
the outbreak of as an enemy alien be-
cause he had applied by mail for citizenship
under the Russian Soviet government
Lord Robert Cecil, s~eakng in the Brit
ish house of commons Monday, declared that
it would be impossible for Great Britain to
| ignore the seriousness of the action of the
| United States senate on the peace treaty
| with Germany. He said that while he did not
70 m q lnOi oaU
! Of the s2nate's action from the American
point of view, he did believe the reservations
that Professionally had been accepted
amounted almost to the repud.a ion of the
covenant, ana the reputation of the cove
nant meant the Reputation Of the treaty.
"At the BEST" continued Lord Robert,
nothing is to be expected but long period
of negotiations and the possibility OF further
| rejection when the negotiations are con-
GUIDED We desire American cooperation aHd
American lcn ding, but if the United States
desires not to share in this great interna-
tional effort, we must go on, and tie burden
would be the greater upon us and the other
nations"
All hore for the safety of the lake freight
er John Owen, Of Cleveland, and her crew
| of twenty-five, caught in terrific gale on
Lake Superior and missing four days. has
been given up by owners of the vessel,
on receipt of a message from Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, that wreciage had been found
in the vicinity Of Caribou Island bearing the
name John Owen. Other wreckage was
| fourd, but no bodies were located, according
to the telegram. The wreckage was found by.
tugs.
Lieutenant B. w Maynard, the Flying
parSon" who won the recent great trans
continental derby, has announced that he
expects to start sometime this week on a
one-stop fight across the continent. He
hopes to cover 1000 miles or more in one
big hop" in a remodelled Haviland air.
plane which he has named The Greyhound
The seventy-fourth li1eal descendant of
| ConfCcius, the greatest OF all Chinese sages,
died last week in Picking. He is Duke Kung,
| the head of the only hereditary dukedom in
China. PCsthumous honors have been awarded
the deceased, and the president of China has
set aside 81 0G0 for a great public funeral.
! The seventy-fifth descendant of Co1fucius,
| who succeeds to the dukedom, is G. F. Kung,
the Chinese delegate to the peace conference.
| Heavy falls of snow and rain have caused
floods in many parts Of Snan. Seville, Cadz
and Huelva are threatened by the flood, and
other towns have been inundated.
A report from Hesingfors Finland, Oh
| Wednesday stated that 10000 troops of
General Yudenitch's northwestern army hiss
gone over to the Boishevih.
Herman Wetzel, known as Germanys
| Master SPY in North and South America,
is about to face trial in New York on the
| charge of treason Federal authorities de-
clare that there scarcely an enemy pot
of any nlportance in the United States in
which he did not take a leading part either
as active leader adviser or paymaster. AL
! though an enemy alien, he Is charged with
treason because OF the assertion of the Uni
ted States supreme court in several of it's
| decisions that an alien owes temporary allie
glance to the United States while a resident
here