Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-17
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

CURRENT EVENT
Even if the allied soldiers did fail to
reach some of the higher officers of the
German military system, death seems to be
stalking them successfully anyway. The
latest death announcement from Berlin is
that of Admiral Won Holtzendorf, head Of
the German general naval staff during the
greater part of the war. He was an ardent
advocate of the U-boat frightfulness.
Hostility between the American soldiers
and the German civilians in the occupied
region, which has been increasing recently,
has resulted in additional clashes during the
last few days. In one instance an American
was killed, and in other encounters in va
,rious parts of the occupied zone several
Americans were wounded. AT Third army
headquarters it was said that at least six
Americans had been killed by civilians since
the American troops reached the Rhine
German officials say that SO far as their
records go, the number of Germans killed
by Americans in fights during the six
months of occupation total no more than
five.
Incidentally the Germans admit that they
are keeping a record of the treatment Of
civilians by the Americans, paying particu-
lar attention to encounters where the civil
ians contended the soldiers were to blame.
In American circles the German record is
called the "red" book.
Colonel Andres Soriano, Honduran minis
ter of war, has been appointed minister
from that republic to the United States.
The new minister is a brother of Nazario
Soriano, candidate for the presidency to
succeed DR.. Bertrand and formerly was
Honduran consul at New Orleans
General Pershing has advised that he pro-
poses to transport 375, 900 men homeward
during the month of June. This breaks all
previous records for moving troops over
seas and exceeds the number Great Britain
moved across the channel in any month.
Gustave Noske the German minister of de-
Tense, who has been a particular object of at
tack by the Independent Socialist organ, ode
Freiheit,'' in Berlin, is attempting to check
it's violent Criticisms by entering suit against
the editor, publisher and directors for insults
of the minister and the troops printed
by the newspaper. ode Freiheit, in a sar-
castle article, declared it welcomes the &C
ton because the editorials complained Of
by Noska were passed on material gathered
by the Majority Socialists. 1t alleges that
various German cities have declared that
Noskes troops were making the tlives of
the inhabitants miserable and endangering
their health and even their existence.
Misery caused by hunger, civil war and
shortage in money exists in Budapest, &C
cording to a special correspondent of the
'"Tageblatt,' of Berlin, who has succeeded
in evading the Hungarian Communist CEN
sorship by a roundabout way
"Bela Kun the correspondent says, "has
grown intolerable again, now that the
Czechs are fleeing before the Magyers and
the Rumanians are weakening Budapest,
however, is slowly starving because the
peasants not only have boycOtted the CAPT.
tai, but will not sell food unless paid with
real money or in goods, neither of which is
available."
The people of Pittsburg, through A. e.
Anderson, an attorney, have filed suit in
equity in court against the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric Railway
Employees in which the union is asked to
pay damages of $2,035, 00O.7S, which sum
it is claimed was lost by the people as a
result Of the recent street car strike.
President Wilson has told representatives
of Irish societies in America that he would
do what he could unoffcially to bring the
Irish question to the attention of the other
peace commissioners Announcement to this
effect was made in Paris by Frank P. Walsh
and Edward F. Dunno, the representatives
Of the Irish Americans, after they had had
a thirty-minute conference with the presi-
dent.
A movement has started in SchIeswig-
Holstein aiming at the creation of an indie
pendent republic, Berlin newspapers say.
The republic would be separate from Prus-
STA and would cede no territory to Den
mark
The Yildiz Kiosk at Constantinople, the
palace inhabited by the sultan of Turkey,
was destroyed last week by fire.
Chinese workers in France-and there are
$1,000 of then-get their news of the peace
congress and of allied activities through a
paper printed in Chinese by the Y. M. G. A.
Moreover, it has the distinction of being the
first newspaper printed in unofficial, unliter-
airy Mandarin. Most of Chinese literature is
printed in what the Chinese call Wen-li, the
old classical written language of China.
Mandarin is the spoken language of a greater
part of China. The paper is printed weekly
and has paid circulation of 1000.
The widow of Kurt Eisner, slain premier
of Bavaria, who was arrested after the occu-
patton of Munich by troops, has been released
though arms and ammunition were found in
her house and though she had sheltered a
Spartacist leader.
France still teaches German in her schools
and universities. Naturally to Americans,
whose schools have boycotted everything Ger
man, this may seem strange Even the
French people could not at first see why Ger
man should not BIZ taken from the curricua
of their schools Prof. M. E. Rochelle,
teacher of German It the Lycee of Bordeau,
says:
eff it were only Ak. affair of sentiment, my
reply would be quickly made. But
for the time in which we live, modern Ian