Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-17

For the first time in five years, Serbia to-
day is free of smallpox. Only three cases are
reported in the whole kingdom The an
nouncement is made by the medical staff of
the American Red Cross headquarters in Bel
grade which, week ago, made the even
more gratifying announcement that Serbia is
once more free of typhus, after struggle OF
five years.
A report from Tangier, Morocco, says that
Raisuli, the bandit, has offered to surrender
to the Spanish government. Spanish troops,
according to Mo15cco reports, have occupied
Peni Metuar Ruima, and Scarnia. Raisulis
forces were recently defeated by Spanish
troops and his stronghold in Morocco cap
tured Latest reports had the bandit in
{oht in the direction of the Sinat noun
tains
At the end of long conference with repre-
sentatves of the provincial governments, Chan
cellor Renner, of Austria, said he hoped the
new constitution for Austria would be ready
by the spring. The general plan, he added
contemplated the federation of the Austrian
States each preserving to large degree its
autonomy with the central government con-
trolling interstate relations. West Hungary is
to become a separate state and Will not be
incorporated into Syria, as was first intended
Thus the republic will consist OF eight states
A Bolshevk wireless dispatch picked UP by
the intelligence office of the Siberian Army
at OmSk declares the situation inN BolShevik
Russia never has been SO grave as 1t is at
present; that never before has the front been
so near Moscow The dispatch adds that anti
BolShevik armies are moving toward the heart
of Bolshevik Russia from all directions 1t
says the BolSheyik organizations are diSinte-
grating and even in Petrograd there are at
present only 5000 members of the BolShevik
party
A campaign designed to crush the menace
of anarchy in New York has been launched by
the police of that city. Every investigating
agency of the federal government will assist
in the work.
A special squad of detectives has been as
signed to guard the homes of Justice Barlow
S. Weeks, Assistant District Attorney Alexan-
der Rorke and Detective Sergeant James j.
Geegan, of the bomb squad. These precau-
tons follow the display of intense feeling in
radical circles incident to the trial of Carl
Struggle" Finnish monthly. They are charged
with criminal anarchy.
A circular bearing the heading EARN Your
selves" has been secretly given wide crcula-
ton in New York during the last two days.
1t is signed by the "American Anarchist Fed
Grated Commune Soviet of New York City,"
and calls for a "bloody war on capitalism"
and the overthrow of the government by VIC
lence
Herr HaeniSch, Prussian Minister of Worship,
told the budget commission of the PtuSSian
Diet Saturday that he proposed to adopt radi-
cal means to crush political agitation among
the pupils in the German public schools, which,
he declared has been inStigated by political
prOpagandiStS seeking the regeneration of the
HOhenZOern regime
This nation was two years late in recog
nizing it's duty and getting into the war; it
is now shamefully late in getting into the
peace" said Major George Haven Putnam,
the publisher and soldier, at luncheon
given this week in New York in honor of
Mrs Oliver Hartman, who has been chosen
as first chairman of a newly formed League
of Nations Association which expects to sys-
tematcally work in behalf of the covenant.
Major Putnam said further in his address
that cit is time for congressman to quit
talking like local district members thinking
only of their own pigstys and remember
their duty to the world"
Out of sixty-two strikes in this country,
listed at present as unsettled with the Di-
vision of Cancellation of the United States
Department of Labor at Washington, eight
have been sanctioned by the American
Federation of Labor, according to a state
ment from the office of Frank Morrison
secretary of the labor organization, which
stated that five strikes had been sane
toned through the payment of strike
benefits, two by informal action and one
by approval of the stand taken bv inter
national unions involved. The last named
strike is that of the steel industry, CON
corning which the executive council Of the
Federation of Labor has made no official
statement, but which is admittedly in
dorsed
Director General Hines, in commenting
on the strikes of railroad employees, such
as the one just ended in the Altoona yards
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, characterized
such strikes as "creating the basis for the
argument that it is nonsense to deal with
labor organizations, because they will not
obey their own rulers, and they therefore
make the orderly handling of business i'm
possible" The statement by the Director
General was made in letter to B. NJ
Jewell, acting president of the railway en-
poyes of the American Federation of La
Dor, in regard to the Altoona strike
Pamphlets announcing a plan to wrest
control of Gary, Ind, from the Federal
troops have been scattered throughout the
downtown district, the bulletins calling on
the workers to rise against the military
Colonel w. S. Mapes, commanding the
Federal troops there, said that it was the
most dangerous piece Of literature that has
ever come to his attention.
"Other Red pamphlets have been severe"
he remarked 'but the subject matter US
ually has been general in direction This
is direct appeal to their fellows to- over
throw the Federal troops in Gary It is
the most dangerous situation we have had
to deal with, but it will be dealt with ac-
British Premier Lloyd George in a speech
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