Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-07-02
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formation received from the principal
allied capitais.
The commission of jurists In session
for formation of permanent court of
international justice. as provided In the
League OF Nations covenant, has unan-
imously decided that the court shall be
located Mt The Hague.
American missionaries stationed at
Ressht, Persia, near the Caspian sea,
retired from that town when the Boil
sheviki approached 1t and are safe. the
State Department was advised by the
American legation at Teheran.
OF all industries in japan, ship
building made the greatest progress
| during the war. reports the depart
ment Of agriculture and commerce. Be
fore the war Japan ranked sixth
among the powers In the number of
vessels. Last year she ranked in
third place after the United States
and Great Britain.
| The department of overseas trade Ia
dispatchiEg an official trade circus"
to tour the British domInions to adver-
tise British goods Those to Far East,
|
| have been postponed because manu-
facturers cannot work off present
commitments, say the American Cham
Der Of Commerce at London.
More than 5000 Americans will here
after be entitled to wear new bronze
decoration on their uniforms, hanging
from ribbon striped alternately red
and white. The medal is the new sery-
| ice badges of the French army. com
| memorative of the war. The 5000
Americans entitled to wear II have all
served with the French army.
Mrs. Richard Mansfield, widow OF
the American actor, and Colin Glenn
| ents of New York, poet and play
wright, hive returned 10 Paris after
being held prisoners by the Turkish
Nationallsts at Urfa, Mesopotamia,
| for three months. They escaped TO
Jerablus. on the Euphrates. and from
there were taken to Aleppo by friendly
Arabs.
Two thousand British, Austrian, Ger
man and Finnish prisoners OF war
We're drowned when Il Bolshevist
steamer was sunk recently in the Neva
river according to a Helsingfors dis
patch to the Central News In London.
A Reuter- report from Stockholm
would seem to confirm this dispatch,
saying that ship was sunk June 6
with 1000 repatriated prisoners on
board.
The Canadian government has de-
cided TO introduce bill providing an
increase in pay from $500 TO $4,000
a year for members of the Senate and
House of Commons, Sir Robert Bor-
den, the premier, announced at Otta-
wa, Can. Salaries of Dominion cabi-
| net ministers, OF the speakers of the
| two houses of parliament and of virtu-
ally all Canadian judges also are to be
increased, 1t is understood.
GENERAL
The State Legislature of Tennessee
will be called to meet on Aug. o at
Nashville, to consider the federal suf-
frage amendment, ii was stated nj the
capitol.
Between S2,O0O,00O and S4,OOO,OOO
damage was done to corn, tobacco and
cotton crops by hailstorm which
swept Wayne, Pitt. Lenoir and Greene
counties In North Carolina. The grow
ers declare little of their crop can be
saved
| Operating revenues of the Southern
Pacific Company and proprietary com
pnnies for 1919, as disclosed In the an
nual report published in New York,
amounted to s239,657,27 an increase
of $1S,046,O ,O66. or S.14 per cent over the
preceding year.
A S3.0O0,000 cargo OF South African
gold, consigned to the banking firm
of Kuhn, Loeb & Co, and shipped
aboard the steamer Mauretania, has
arrived in New York. The metal was
purchased in the London open mar
ket last week.
The sum of $4,000 and an annuity
of $4,000 were left Miss Mary Kihm,
for twenty-seven years secretary TO
George W. Perkins of New York, by
the will of the finuncier. The bulk of
the estate was left to Mrs. Perkins and
the two children.
President Lowell has announced gifts
to Harvard during the year totaling
$500, ,615. This amount does not in.
clude sums less than $4,000, or pledg.
es. Total subscriptions to the pro
posed endowment fund of Sl5,250,OOt
have reached $12, 157,764.
Since the beginning of the World
war in 1914, the United States hat
rolled up a trade balance of approx.
mately $1,000, 100000 against the
world. This exceeds by several bill.
lions of dollars the total balance in
favor of the United States from 1895
to 1914.
Allan A. Ryan, chairman of the Stutz