The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-07-29
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place II The South.
land viii Be Found IR
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign

- VA S~AS
The Persian government has in
Btructed the Persian minister at Rome
to open direct negotiations with the
Soviet government.
DR.. Haniel Won Haimhausen, under
secretary Of foreign affairs, with Herr
MOll, counselor of the government,
representing the project of police, paid
a personal visit to the French embas-
sy to express official regret over the
removal on "Bastille Day" of a French
flag hoisted over the French embassy.
Herr Moll announced the arrest of the
guilty person.
Many Germany farmers are reported
to be emigrating to Brazil. The Bra
lillian consul at Hamburg has an
nounced that so many are going that
no more free passages will be granted
to emigrants on Brazilian vessels until
further notice.
The hangmen of Germany have gone
ion strike At Meiningen the execu-
ton of a murderer could not be car
ried out, as the hangman refused to
work without more pay.
What is tantamount to a threat of
direct action for the purpose of fore
ing the government to call a truce and
withdraw the troops from Ireland and
institute an Irish parliament was
voted at the Trades Union congress
in London when a resolution intro |
duced by the Miners federation was |
adopted on a card vote by 2,760,OOO |
against 1,636,0OO
Lieut.. John Stokes, who was dis |
charged three weeks ago from the |
British army and appointed to organ
lie the defense of police headquarters
jim Ireland, was killed during an attack
on the Newport barracks in County
Minsk has been captured by Russian
Bolshevik forces, according to. an Of
fetal statement received from Mos
COW which says the soviet troops oc-
cupied the town on the morning of
July II.
The Polish military authorities
have informed the allies that they can
put into the field an army of 1000, 900 ,
men, but they need 100000 rifles, 5000
guns, 1000 field guns and .
lrmored cars and tanks, together
With great variety of munitions.
The Russian soviet government has
lot replied to the request of the allies
hat an armistice be arranged with
Poland. The message was sent by l
wireless to the soviet authorities "
through the British government be- I
ause of the relations already exist l.
ng between Premier Lloyd-George and
'eon1d Krassin, the Bolshevik minis I
er of trade and commerce..
Inc Rt. Rev. VIM. T. Russell, bish- /
p of the diocese of Charleston, s. c..
ras received in audience by Pope Ben
diet at Rome {
Ladislas Grabski, the, Polish pre- t,
her, is due to arrive in Warsaw from Il
pa bearing the assurances of the al fl
es that ample arms and munitions a
Ill be supplied Poland in case the O
usslans do not agree to an armistice
unduly delay their reply to the re- e
uest Of the allies for same. a
1t is stated on good authority that d
le result of the plebiscites in West S
russia and East Prussia show an G
German majority. c
News from the Russo-Polish battle a
ont is meager, but at last accounts d
10 Poles were reported to have evac- fl
tied Minsk, Kovel and other towns 81
ward which the Bolshevik are ap-
coaching in their twelve hundred el
lometer GAS miles, westward ad- "
nee. Many of the telegraph wires
e down and the railroads have been ID
It at many points. 81