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collection it houses, will eventually
for American coast dcfenses recently
new brass diving suit in which ho
This will be done by preliminary
platform committee of 80 members
which will maintain permanent head
quarters in Washington.
Although the country, already short
Of sugar, is confronted with an actual
famine in that necessity, the senA.
tors from Louisiana, Ransdell and
Gay, last week undertook q filibuSter
to defeat the McNary bill which is de-
signed to relieve the situation and
check eXorbtant prices. The measure
would enable the sugar equalization
board to buy the Cuban crop, est-
mated at 100000 tons, and to place
it on the market at a "fair and rea-
sunable price," This naturally does
not suit the sugar planters of Louis
lana and their senators were, as al
ways, quick to come to their rescue.
Last summer seven of the eight MEM
bers of the equalization board urged
the president to buy the Cuban crop,
but the other member, Professor Taus-
sig, dissented and persuaded the ad-
ministration to let the law of supply
and demand take its course. Taussig
is member of the new industrial
"a ,,rnci1ant
Having slightly softened the terms
of the protocol submitted to Germany.
the supreme council at Paris told the
Germans they must sign 1t, and at last
reports was sitting back waiting for
the signature. Meanwhile various
rather disturbing reports came out OF
Germany The most serious of these.
told how four trainioads of the Iron
division troops that were being re-
moved from. the Baltic states, having
arrived at Tilsit, refused to obey the
allied commissions order and returned
to Mcneil, where they continued to
threaten Courland. The German army
headquarters at Koenigsberg assumed
responsibility for this action, saying It
was according to it's orders. The Ger
mans in the Baltic region are becom-
ing more truculent daily and number
of allied officers have been attacked.
Negotiations at DOrpat between the
bolsheviki and the Esthonlans con-
tinued, with indications that they
would result in an armistice though II
was considered improbable that .
peace treaty would be signed. The
terms which the bolsheviki seek to i'm
ians baked especially at the demand
for guarantees, feeling it incOmpati-
Bile with their dignity. During these
negotiations the armies of the soviet
government and of EsthOnia are fight
ing fiercely on the Narva front. where
the bolsheviki were repulsed after
making ten assaults.
Under Secretary Polk and the other
American delegates to the peace con-
ference departed from Paris, and GER
tain French newspaper writer's took
occasion to express the belief that this
closed the League of Nations stage OF
the conference. "The hollow shell OF
the league may perhaps remain" said
they. "but the era of alliances has re-
turned And they pointed to the con.
ference in London between Clemen.
ceau and Lloyd George as confirma-
ton. 1t was believed the French pre-
mier went to tighten up the entents
cordiale. Dispatches from London
said the two statesmen were largely
concerned with the Turkish situation
and with the British request that the
peace conference with the Turks be
held in London.
The efforts Of Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman to prevent their
deportation to Russia having failed
everywhere else, the two anarchists
asked the Supreme court of the United
States to take up the matter. The
federal officials announced that Berk-
man and Miss Goldman, together with
other aliens, would be shipped out Of
| the country within two weeks.
A notable achievement of the week
in aeronautics was the completion Of
his airplane flight from England to
Australia by Capt. Ross Smith, an
Australian aviator. BY finishing the
| trip in thirty days he won a prize Of
$50, 900. as well as other money prizes.
| In making the journey Of 1900 miles
from Houndslow, near London. to Port
Darwin. on the northern coast of Aus
tralia. Captain Smith passed through
Paris, Rome Saloniki. Cairo. Dumas
| rus, Bagdad, Bushire, Delhi. Rangoon,
Bangkok Singapore and Kalidaiti
w est Java.