The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-10-08
WORLD NOTES OF INTEREST


Assurance has been given to S. L.
yeenstra, secretary of the Neither
ands Emigration League by Immi-
grafton Commissioner Wallis on Ellis
Island, that the United States au-
.horities viii aid in placing many I'M
migrants from Holland who are plan
ming to come to America. Mr.. Veen-
stra said that many thousands OF
Dutch were applying for passports to
the United States and that he had
a branch of the emlgra-
ton league here.
American visitors in Belgium this
summer were greatly struck with the
almost incredible number of brass
bands marching in the hundreds of
street parades, celebrations of one
sort or another, which occurred al
most daily at Brussels or Antwerp.
In enjoying her first period of peace
since the war, Belgium is observing
every possible fete day and each of
these seems to call out literally
scores of brass bands, each parish or
each workingmen's organization
seeming to have one.
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The population of Amsterdam, ac-
cording to latest official figures just
announced, is 47,125.
Fear that the declining gold pro-
duction in this country would make
it difficult to retain the nation on
gold standard basis during popular
campaign for credit restriction, ac-
companied by declining prices, was
expressed in formal statement is
sued Tuesday by Chairman McFad-
den, of the House banking commit
tee. Mr.. McFadden is the author of
a bill pending before Congress under
which a tax of $40 an ounce would be
levied on gold used in the industrial
arts. This tax in turn would be paid
TO producers to stimulate their. eff
forts.
The importance attached by the
British government to the mainte-
nance of the morals of the Irish police
is shown by the fact that it has taken
the unprecedented step of publishing
a newspaper called the Weekly Sum-
mary for circulation in all the police
barracks. Three numbers have already
appeared and been distributed to the
police. 1t contains brief and striking
editorials eulogizing the force, and
assuring them of support in their
trying situation.
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Airplane forest patrols in Califor-
MIA were able recently to reach the
scene of a fire forty-fve hours sooner
than had they proceeded by train and
pack mule, a report to the army air
service shows. An aerial observer
spotted its blaze in Lassen forest
while all foresters were engaged in
fighting fire in the MERGED forest.
Flames picked up the fire-fighters in
the MERGED zone and rushed them to
the Lassen fire.
No Porto Rico sugars are being
forced on the market, says San Juan
dispatch. Whatever sugars there are
here are being held, for better or
worse. This is evidently being done
to prevent refiners from reducing the
price of raw sugar. as the Cuban
growers have asked the Porto Rican
producers to join them in an attempt
TO prevetn cut in prices.
The soviet is taking measures to
spread education in the southern
Russian towns. In Rostoff and Max
hitchevan 81 schools have been Open
ed for 1900 pupils. Since Sept. 1st
$50 other schools have been started.
An exodus of Jews from Poland,
which has been steadily increasing
for many weeks, has reached such
proportion that Polish army officers
say it is certain that more than $780,
600 soon will have left. Most of them
are bound for America.
From the ruins of Louvain, to
which the Germans applied the torch
on August 25. 1914, are springing
dozens of modern buildings. They
lack the historic interest of the de-
stroyed structures, but no city in
Belgium will be able to boast of a
more up-to-date appearance than
Louvain when the work of recon
struction is finished.
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Close observers of the Russo-PoIish
situation say the Russian soviet army
will not content itself with defeat but
will either begin a counter-offensive
this winter or launch a fresh cam
paign in the spring.
A high-power wireless station.
capable of direct communication with
America will be constructed about
27O miles from Moscow.
New York city will have a new
|double-decked subway running most
of the length of Manhattan island If
the plans proposed by John H. De-
laney, transit construction commits
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