Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09

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at the report which has reached the ISLANDS
to the effect that persons DESTROYS of visiting
| the colony were being informed by some
American tourist agencies that the hotels were
| full. Such statement, if made to any pros
pective traveller, has been incorrect. There
is ample accommodation in the Bermuda is
| lands for many more VISITORS and the Fur
nesS-Bermuda Line is to operate another steam
ship, the Fort Victoria, on the route in ad-
ditiOn to the Fort Hamilton, at present main
tanning the service. The additional steamship
will provide weekly round trips.
News from Washington states that production
| of potash in Germany in January reached
the record total of 5000 OtonS The greatly
| increased output was aScribed largely to i'm
proved industrial conditions and to the fact
that a large number of returning prisoners of
war have gone to worl, in this industry
A project is under way the dispatch said,
to import anthracite coal from the United
States, as this fuel is urgently needed in the
potash industry
Charges of immortality and lax discipline
among inmates of the Portsmouth, N. H.,
naval prison were held to be without founda-
ton in the report of the special board of in
vestigation, made public in Washington by
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt a member Of
the board.
The first drigible airshp built for paSSen-
ger service in this country was sold recently
to a Kansas syndicate, according to the Manu-
facturers' Aircraft Association.
The drigible is ninety-five feet long, has
a gas capacity of $4,000 feet, a cruising radius
of 400 miles at forty miles hour and can
carry two passengers besides the pilot.
The machine will be used between Kansas
City and st. Louis and other Middle Western
points. 1t will be flown to Kansas City for
delivery to its new owners.
1t is understood the senate passed and sent
to the house the Underwood joint resolution
creating commission to treat with Canada
of wood pulp and news print paper. Senator
Underwood told the senate some action was
imperative, as the newspaper publishing indus
try in the United States almost faced extinc-
tom because of the dwindling neWSprnt sup
ply.
A dispatch from Troy, N. Y, states that
General John J. PerShing and staff made
an official inspection of the WaterVliet Arsenal
there. In an address to several hundred en-
ployeS in the arsenal cafeteria the general
thanked them for the part they played in
winning the war and said he had been par
ticular1y impressed with the efficiency of each
individual and with the efficiency of the or
ganization as a whole"
Army authorities recently authorized the pub
LEGATION of details of a new automatic air
plane cannon motor, which while driving battle
planes through the ar automatically fires one
pound Shells capable of piercing armor plates.
The motor is a recent invention and is of the
Wright Martin, Hispano Suza design. 1t is
a modification of the 3oo-horsepower type, and
is geared down. Through the center of the
driving shaft thirty-seven milimeter auto
matte cannon is installed, its muzzle projecting
through the hub of the propeller.
The cannon is capable, according to army re-
ports, of piercing the armor of tanks and
submarines. The motor is also equipped with
two machine guns. These are spontaneously
attached to the engine so that they can be
fired through the propeller
The new airpane motor cannon is to be
exhibited at the second aeronautical show in
New York.
The tree on the courthouse tower has made
Greensburg, Ind, famous and given it the
name of the Lone Tree City" This tree first
appeared in 1874. 1t is still vigorous, leafing
out in the spring as soon as the other trees
and waving its beautiful branches at a height
of 40 feet from the earth. 1t is said there
in only one other place on earth where there
is anything of the kind and that is on the
chimney of an old mill in Scotland, not far
from the birthplace of Robert Burns.
Whenever a passenger train goes through