Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-27
CURRENT EVENTS

r1nSed neaunlen anu many lHlilof
chiefs, recently assembled in the
courthouse at Maritzburg and deliv-
TEEN for Lord Sidney Charles Bux-
ton, retiring governor general of
South Africa, and Lady Buxton, who
accompanied him on the farewell
visit. There was an enthusiastic
demonstration. Chief Manzolwandhi,
son of Cetewayo, as a chief Of the
royal Zulu blood, voiced his thanks
for 1.-The beneficent British rule"
Then Chief Mini spoke. He said:
great war and If assistance Is needed
again they are prepared to die for
their king and country"
Although nearly million and
three-quarters gross tons less of
States today than year ago, the re-
duction in the world total under con-
says It eSa n ust ss Rse 'eb By
Lloyd's register Of shipping. Returns
from all countries for the quarter
7,720,000 tons under way, compared
with 8,017,000 at this time last year.
The Rev. o. U. Kvale. of Benson,
is disqualified as the Republican can
didate for congress in the Seventh
OASLL1Sl1 dlI0 IL
A: j. Volstead, author of the prohi-
bition enforcement act, is declared
to be the duly nominated candidate"
in a decision filed today by District
Judge AL bert Johnson, who heard the
suit contesting. Kvale's nomination.
the June Fl primary. Kvale was in
dorsed by the Non-Partisan league.
The aerial police got into action
for the first time at the zach trace.
Colonel Herbert Mapes, acting COM
mandant OF the aerial police force
of New York City, watched from the
DESTROYER Semmes land planes and
other aircraft persistently violating
the rules concerning the maintenance
of an altitude of 1000 feet and a
horizontal distance of 500 feet from
the contending yachts. They also
were flying dangerously low over ex-
e elnt 1 steamers out to see the race.
chase the offenders himself. Colonel
Mapes got busy otherwise. He sent
radio to Colonel G. C. Brant, air
service officer of the department of
the East at Fort Schuyler to send out
the cops"
American warships are going to
sink three German sea fighters off
The doomed ships are torpedo boat
destroyers that were used in the
early stages of the war against the
British and French, but did not come
out of their sheltered harbor after
America entered the war. They will
off Norfolk to be shot at. They will
furnish excellent targets for the
American gunnerS, who have been
smashing targets at from 5000 to
$4,000 yards off the Virginia capes.
The smallest and the biggest guns in
NV I, 30
get shooting and some excellent hits
have been made. Night firing has
been practiced to a greater extent
this year than usual, and the rec
ords made by various gunners are
expected to prove interesting when
they are made public by the navy
department.
Whirling winds have immense lift
ing and carrying power. At Chris
temporarily emptied the harbor to
such an extent that the greater part
Of the bottom was uncovered. Nat
urally, great quantities of small fish
ana other marine organisms were
thus picked up and carried long dis
tances.
Another phenomenon of that kind
Is recorded as having occurred dur
ing a violent storm at sea some
from Paris. When morning
came the streets were found to be
covered with fish of various sizes.
ne1ghboring fish pond had been
sucked nearly dry and only the
arger fish were left behind.
The Ward liner Mexico, which reach
New York last week, was delayed
twenty-five days at Hawai-, at a cost
Of $4,000 day to the line, because
the longshoremen at that port were
too busy specializing in sugar to
liam Harry Smith, president of the
Ward line and general manager in
Havana, said that the congestion
at that port was the worst in it's
history. "These deplorable condi-
ttons," said DR.. A. P. Geibm, ships
SUI surgeon on the Mexico, ARE due to
merchants seemingly do not care
whether they obtain shipments of
goods. Whenever their supply of a
commodity runs low they boost it's
price,
Thomas Masaryk, president of
zecho-Slovakia, in conversation with
correspondents recently
said the withdrawal of the United
States from European affairs had
weakened the hand of the entente
in settling vital controversies.
The German bark Reiherstieg, now
oading oil at Pretty's Island in the
Delaware, boldly flies the merchant
lag of the old imperial German gov
eminent from her masthead. mo
German skipper worthy of the name
will hoist the redI black and gold
Of the new Socialist government"
asserted Captain Wilhelm We4Atphal.
The horizontal blocks of red, white
and black stand for order, loyalty
and proud record of fearless sea-
he continued. what does
he new flag represent? Disorder,
1ntried or discredited rule, chaos,
munger and misery"
And the crew of the trim merchant
nan is heartily with the skipper.
new problem because of the recent
influx of American "undesirables"
who have come to John Bulls capital
20 escape the rigors and sorrows of
Among the visitors are many
'roughnecks" from New York, whose
If both cities.
One result of this to London's I'M
1erworld is the 1iveliness apparent
n the Chinese quarter, the Lime
1ouse, where fights between Ameri-
'an gunner and the yellow inhabi-
ants have become "a daily occurrence.
'ully supplied with money, a. situa-
ION which is not overlooked by the
who operate opium Joints
Ind gambling houses.
AT "pukkapoo," Chinese gambling
game imported from San francisco
or the benefit of the new arrivals,
ne Oriental proprietors are making
arge sums of money.
With the nose of her envelope col
aps1ng because of the escape of gas
Trough rents in the top of the bag,
ne naval blimp Clio, which had been
,,onarlng above the yacht race, fell
5000 feet one afternoon last week
MO jamaica bay. The dirfgibie.
vith eight passengers. f1oated two
nlles to Barren Island and landed
mere a wreck: Nobody was Injured
\ frantic effort to keep the bag
'Ioft until above a safe LANDING
'Iace had sent the blimp 1000 feet to |
!, height of 1000. Aboard the dirigi- |