Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-25

thirteen miles, was constructed IN
1917. Through the efforts of the
Picking Motor Club, it is reported,
loan of $15O.OOO has been negotiat-
Chine for the construction of a mod
ern road between Tung-chow ana
Tien-tsin.-Dallas Morning News.
So many important records of tn
last few days of the erne1~ So
disappeared from :i4e hungarian
governments tiles that the war
: lorced to appeal to officers and Of,
ficials to come forward with verbal
testimony or personal papers in or
der. to complete the history of the
period.
1t is presumed that these docu-
ments were removed at the instance
Of officials upon whom they reflect
ed unpleasantly or to hide person
al guilt. The government promises
offense. which the testimony they
seek might disclose so that the COM
plete history of the breakdown,
both on the war fronts and internal
ly, may be written.
London's hospitals-and, indeed,
those of all the United Kingdom
are need RACING double crisis They
on their present basis and they are
having great difficulty in obtaining
nurses.
A typical case is provided by the
London hospital, a great institution
which draws it's patients especially
from the poorer classes in East Lon
don. This week it was brought be-
fore the court of governors of the
hospital that the institutions fl
nancial status made imperative one
of three measures-the closing of
the entire hospital, the closing Of
wing of 300 beds, or the conversion
of some Of the wards into paying
ones at rate of $40 week. The
patients SIS week and children half
this amount; but patients who can
not pay even this charge are not
turned away.
The first step to local self-gov-
eminent in Corea has just been taken
with the publication by the COVER
nor general of four DEGREES and four
| ordinances, all Of which relate to
the creation Of local consultative or
advisory bodies throughout the coun-
try. The consultative bodies to be
| created by virtue of these laws are
of three kinds, namely, provincial
municipal and village councils.
Captain Joe Bernard and A. Ander-
son arrived at Nome, Alaska, today
with their vessel. the Teddy Bear,
after four years spent in the Arctic
during twenty-five months of which
| time they were tcebound at Taylor
Island in Victoria strait, near King
William Land.
Captain Bernard brought with him
a native of the land of Stefansson's
famous blonde Eskimos, but declared
| that after two years search of that
district he was unable to find any
! of the blonde natives.
He found sod houses, evidently
| of great age, in East Carnation gulf,
he said. and brought back pieces of
| old ivory and other curios uncovered
| in the ruins.
A professor and his wife have
placed $4,000 in the hands Of tho
accumulate until the funds amount
to about $6,500,000, when they will be
used for the founding of an insti-
tute of pure and applied mathe-
matics. 1t is estimated that the in
stitute will be in operation at the
end Of 100 years.
Prominent Japanese will unveil a
monument to Ernest FenelloSa,' an
American, to commemorate his SER
vice to Japanese art, it is announced
here. Fenellosa, born in Massachu-
setts, came to Japan in IS as pro-
fessor at the Imperial university
here. His collection of Japanese art,
In the Boston museum, is regarded
as one Of the finest in the world. He
died in London in 1908, and his ashes
were brought to Japan and placed on
the shores of Lake Biwa, near kyoto,
where he studied Buddhism. Hi;
influence was paramount in inducing
Japan to'conserve national art treas
ures.
The monument will be unveiled
September 20. with a Buddhist cere-
mony.
Captain Road Amundsen, whose
Polar expedition ship, the Maud, is
wedged in the ice twenty miles Off
Cape Serge, on the Siberian coast, is
in danger of losing his vessel and
may be forced to abandon his Polai
expedition, according to DR.. j. T..
Condit, superintendent of the Pres
byterian missions in Alaska, who
arrived at Victoria from Nome.