Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-24
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

President Wilson has named Norman Hap
good, OF New York, as minister to Denmark
from the United States; Hugh S. Gibson, Of
California minister to Poland; and Richard
Crane, OF Illinois, minister to Czecho-
Slovakia.
Chinese and Japanese newspapers are in a
furore over allegations that eleven South
China delegates to the Shanghai conference
last April received 100000 in brides from
the pro-Japanese clique in Picking. The lead
err, it is said received $500, 900 and ten others
got 100000 each to desist from taking up
China's territorial claims against Japan
and to refrain from questioning the Chino
Japanese agreements of 1915 and 1918 with
regard to Tsingtao and the Shantung railway.
Development of trade in Persia has been
progressing rapidly ever since the armistice.
Traffic routes from the Gulf of Teheran,
closed for two years, have been reopened and
in the east the railway is being extended
from Quota to Nazratabad With German
influence and intrigue out of the way new
Persian era is being opened by the British.
An arena large enough to accommodate
so, 900 fight fans is being built near Toledo,
Ohio in preparation for the heavyweight
championship bout in that city on July 4
between Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey.
or other foreign languages be barred from
the mails have been introduced in congress
by Senator Myers. Democrat, of Montana. He
also presented bill to prohibit all immigra-
ton 70 rtwenty years, and that from Ger
many, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur-
key for fifty years.
Allied military and civil authorities at
Vladivostock, Russia, still are awaiting in
structions from their governments as to their
attitude toward the All-Russian government
headed by Admiral Kolchak. Although news
papers have printed many dispatches con-
corning the successful progress of negotia-
lions between the Kolchak government at
Omsk and the allied representatives at the
peace conference in Paris, no word has been
received officially by the American representa-
tives as to any change in their policy toward
the Kolchak government. Consequently, the
American authorities are executing with
scrupulous care the instructions originally
given them when the American forces first
were landed in Siberia
Kungau Whang, M. p commissioner of the
Chinese republic for Investigating economic
conditions in Europe and America, arrived
in New York last week from San Francisco,
where he landed on June 8, and after spend
ing two weeks in New York and in Washing
ton he will proceed to Europe The primary
purpose of his visit to the United States is to
pI0S0nI 10 AiueflCdu BUSINESS Inc great uu-
developed resources of China that only await
the coming of American capital.
Lieutenant George Horowitz, of Passaic,
N. j., has been selected by the United States
department to go to France to study the
strategy of war under Marshal Foch. The
lieutenant who was high honor man of West
Points class of 1919, will sail for France
about July TO-
The former German emperOr's place of
exile at Amerongene Castle again became
somewhat animated last week. after 6 long
period of uneventfulness Lieut.. Colonel Hoe
fer, of the Dutch army dined at the castle
Monday night with William Hohenzollern and
Dr. Kriege, director Of the German foreign
office, who had returned to Amerongen from
Berlin. Wednesday Colonel Won Esebek,
dressed in civilian clothes, was brought by
General Won Esdorff to the castle from Anhem,
where he had arrived direct from Germany
The reason for the visit of the Germans has
not been ascertained, but it is generally as
sumed that it is in connection with the situa-
ton existing in Germany after the announce
ment of the reply of the allies of the German
counter proposals to the peace terms. Gen
eral Won Esdorff is about to leave for Ger
many.
The senate foreign relations committee has
before it a treaty with Colombia that
ment for the Panama canal rights, which
has continued for sixteen years. Under the
terms of the treaty it is proposed to pay
Colombia SIS, 100000, although no definite
decision has been reached as to that sum.
In the years of controversy over this question
Colombia has insisted that the United States,
besides paying for the strip of land taken,
must apologize for having taken it.
The state department has been in con-
sultation lately with the Colombian govern
ment through it's minister here, and the later
has agreed that the apology so long insisted
upon be eliminated from the treaty.
Senator Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma, was
jured last week, when automobile in
which he was rushing from Mitchell to Sioux
Falls, S. D., overturned, throwing the senator
out on the ground. The senator was not
painfully injured according to physicians
His shoulder was bruised, but he received
no internal injuries.
The strike of newspaper employees, which
forced the Berlin papers to cease publication,
has been settled by arbitration. All the
papers reappeared Wednesday morning, CIV
ing Greater Berlin the first news in five days
of the latest peace developments.
The Georgia assembly will open it's 1919
session Wednesday. It's membership is large
ly new with only 81 of the 1872 members of
the last house returning and a practically
new senate. Seven new districts are repre-
scented.
Loss of the important Donetz coal basin
by the Bolsheviki is viewed in London as
heavy blow to the maintenance of the soviet
government. The Bosheviki depended on
the coal from the Donetz region to effect i'm
provements on the railways and to operate