Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-25

: Historians of the Hawaiian Islands assert
that Hawaiian monarchy was the first gov
eminent in the world to put absolute prohl
bition into effect.
| Kamechameha the Great, first king OF
| United Hawaii, in 1875, after having con-
quered all the other islands, issued edict
| imposing prohibition. It's penalties were
drastic. An offender was stripped of his
property, real and personal, and was driven
| from his village clad only in a lo1n cloth.
| In later years foreign nations forced liquor
on the Hawaiians, and it's sale was general
in the islands until the great war, when, with
the opening of the army training camps in the
islands, prohibition went into effect.
Word from London states that sunken
treasure worth 100000 pounds has been
raised since the war began around the Brit
ish Isles.
The Restorer and the Reliant, two salvag-
ing vessels that were bought by British
concern from the American navy, have new
device, an oxyacetylene hame, which is
worked under water for cutting holes in the
isdes of submerged vessels.
Each ship has twenty-five electric pumps,
capable of pumping 100000 gallons of
water an hour, and carries two divers, search
lights, line-throwing guns, electric welding
plants, rock drills and otner accessories.
Each diver is equipped with a. telephone.
The Restorer last year recovered 100000
pounds in gold from the Laurentic Off Lough
Swilly, and both vessels are now operating off
Newhaven, on the channel coast
The ascendancy to power of the old pro-
German Nationalist party in Turkey, which
has resulted in the present crisis, is described
for the first time in confidential reports re-
ceived in Washington from Constantinople
by Professor der Hagopian of the Armenian
national delegation of the peace conference.
Copies of the reports have been submitted
to the state department.
The Nationalist party was supposed to have
been crushed by the operation of the armis-
tice terms but it's present movement under
the leadership of Mustapha Kennel, the
famous defender of the Dardanelles, is de-
scribed as rivaling that of tie Committee OF
Union and Progress" which in 1908 de-
throned Sultan Abdul Hamid and proceeded
to the systematic repression of the alien races
in the Divan-Cushion Empire.
According to reports from Bucharest, it is
understood that the Hungarian Royallsts lay
revolt in Germany to the allies. One OF the
leading Royalist party is quoted as saying:
'The recent uprising demonstrates conclu-
sively the allies are going on the wrong track
in suppressing natural inclinations OF peo-
pies. We will have to wait the result OF the
movement.
Sooner or later the German people Will
doubtless restore the dynasty to the place
where it legally belongs That Socialist re-
publics are incapable of surviving in coun-
tries where for centuries the people have been
accustomed to monarchies.
John Kelly, fifty years old, said to be
the shortest man in Illinois, is dead OF
apop1exy at his home, Macomb, Ill. Kelly
was forty-four inches in height and weighed
$50 pounds. In his younger days his legs
were doubled-jointed, enabling him to move
as rapidly backward as forward. Kelly used
stepladder when Harvesting his horses
The Italian government according to advices
to the department of commerce, is overlooking
nothing in its plans for smoothing the way for
prospective American tourists. big influx
of American sightseers, it is held, would &C
far toward rectifying the present exchange diff
| ficulty and because of the premium on the
dollar Americans would find prices in ltal,
| hut little higher than before the war.
New hotels are planned for various sections
and official attention is being given to trair
schedules.
A French decree prohibits the expectation
of raw, green and dry hides and skins; raw
fur skins and prepared hides and skins OF
horses, calves and heifers (vachette), tanned
from the ministry of finance. Exception is
made with respect to foreign hides and skins
that are certified to have been imported with
a view to re-exportation.