Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST


The senate military committee has voted
unanimously to recommend an additional
appropriation of $15,OOO,O00 for army air.
craft construction in order that plans of the
air service to establish routes to Panama,
Alaska and even to Asia may be carried out.
British and French warships in the harbor
Of Riga have cleared for action, according to
a dispatch from Riga to the Lettish informa-
ton bureau at Copenhagen, on account Of the
attack by German troops under the command
of General Won Der Goltz upon the Lettish
army defending Riga.
Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Weymss has re-
signed as first sea lord of the British navy.
It is announced that he will be succeeded by
Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty.
The Rome correspondent of the Morning
Post says that he has learned from reliable
source that King Emmanuel has threatened
to abdicate if the army and navy persist in
supporting d'Annunzio at Fiume. The CORE
spondent denies the report that d'Annunzio
has been assassnated.
General Won Hindenburg once commander
of the German armies is now living on his
Hanover estate the quiet life he left to enter
the East Prussia campaign five years ago,
writes a correspondent.
Zeppelin airship service between Stock
holm, Sweden, and Berlin has been opened by
the German Aircraft company. The airship
Bodensee left Berlin at 5 o'clock in the morn
ing and reached Stockholm at half-past IL in
the afternoon on the first trip.
The company promises regular bi-Weekly
Gvo of Il M
passenger. twenty-five passengers can be
accommodated on each trip.
The question as to where are the big guns
with which the Germans bombarded PARIS
during the last few months OF the war IS DE-
ing asked both in and outside OF Germany;
and a recent issue of the Berliner Tageplatt
shows that this question was propounded by
one of it's representatives to Major Irepper'
formerly attached to the German war minis
trv. and participant in the arm1stlce par
lows The major also was asked whether Ger
many had pledged herself to hand over these
guns. Major Trepper is quoted as Replying
that Germany had given no such pledge ana
as adding: A. 1or
of the French newspapers want TO know
where these guns are they can pc toiu 'n Ia.
thew are we'll hidden and guarded IN our
fortresses on the coast
The union of international associations has
submitted a petition to the Belgian parlia-
ment. asking it to negotiate with the League
of Nations and to offer, with complete SOW
ereignty suitable Belgian territory having
maximum area of $500 acres, which will be-
come for all interested governments world
federal district similar to the District OF Co
lumbia in the United States! The union
formally proposes, to carry out the plan, the
adding of an article to the Belgian constltu-
ton, revision of which will be undertaken
soon.
The first German to enter the United States
on passport from Berlin since 1914 arrived
on the steamer Noordam at New York last
week. He is Erich Hecht, who was in this
country when we entered the war, but who
returned to Germany to aid in the prosecu-
ton Of he war for Germany. He is return
ing to marry an American girl.
DR.. Max Levien, the Spartacide leader, who
munist government set up in Munich in Feb
ruary, and for whose arrest the Bavarian gov
eminent later offered a reward of 10000
marks, has gone to Vienna. DR.. Levien and
his colleagues in the inner council of the COM
munist government were accused OF compile
ity in the execution of the non-Socialist
hostages held by the Red Guards in February,
and evidence was introduced at the court
martial of communist leaders implicated in
that killing that the councillors were aware of
the plan to kill the hostages.