The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-04-15
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS or THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
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I Andrew Bonar Law, the government
| spokesman in the British house OF
| commons, is understood to have reach
ed an agreement with Premier Miller
and of France regarding the Ruhr sit
uation.
The French, says a Paris dispatch.
hold President Wilson partly response
BILE for the entrance of the Germans
into the Ruhr BASIN Berlin evidently
decided the moment had come to risk
the boldest evasion of all to test the
strength of the Versailles treaty" is
the way one newspaper puts it.
French occupation OF Frankfort and
| other German cities, together with civ
il conditions in the Ruhr district, is
being considered by the council OF
ambassadors at Paris, it is learned in
London. 1t is declared at the foreign
office that the British are not fully
decided as to what course to follow,
because of conflicting reports. but are
inclined to give Germany benefit of
a doubt thus far.
The finance committee of the cham
Der of deputies of France has approx
the incomes of bachelors of 10 per
cent over the normal rate.
A news agency dispatch from Co.
penhagen says an unconfirmed report
from Warsaw declares Leon Trotsky
proposes to visit London and Paris
to negotiate a definite peace.
Famine conditions continue to pre-
vail in Slovakia. 1t is reported that
people are collapsing in the streets
due to hunger and that there have
been hunger riots in various dis
tricts.
Canvass of the votes cast in the re-
cent Argentine elections show that
out of 158 seats in the next congress,
which will convene in May, Radicals
will hold at least 102. President Fri
goyen's party will remain in power.
Notwithstanding the removal of po-
litical obstacles and the announcement
that the general strike has been call
ed off, it still continued to be effect
We. The employers organizations and
the trades unions have not yet reach
ed definite agreement.
Z The youngest daughter of Archduke
Frederick, the archduchess Mary AL
ice, has become engaged to marry Bar
on Frederic Haldbot, who is a scion
of an old Prussian family, Frederic is
80 years old, is a bank clerk and is
making $40 year.
Absinthe, forbidden during the war,
has recently been creeping back into
the stocks of some cafes in Paris and
it's consumption has assumed proper
tions sufficient to attract the attention
of the police. Great difficulty has been
encountered in the past by those fgiht-
ing the use of this liquor, which is
being served under various names.
Greek troops have been authorized
by the supreme military council of the
allies to advance in Asia Minor in an
ticipation of an eventual attack by
Mustapha Kemal. They have occu-
pied a stregic position of the sector
they have held around Smyrna, &C.
cording t Ga dispatch to the newspa-
per Ethnos.
Damid Ferid Pasha has been formal
ly indicted into office as grand vizier
of Turkey, and announces that he will,
in addition, hold the portfolio of min
lister of foreign affairs.
The German battleships Nassau and
Ostriesland arrived at the Firth of
Forth, constituting the commence
ment of the surrender of the remainder
of the German warships under the
term of the treaty Of Versailles.
Labor onstrations of an imposing
nature are expected in France on May
1, and it is expected to- foment seri-
Gus trouble.