Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-17
CURRENT EVENTS

According to a message from Cal
| gary, American SportSmen may be
| interested in learning that Alberta
| has arranged to do it's share toward
| the protection of migratory birds, In
| Guiding wild ducks, geese, plover and
so on, and has established seven large
sanctuaries where the wildfoWl will
not be molested.
The size of these safe retreats may
be estimated from the fact that one
| of the smallest is Buffalo Lake in
| the heart of one of the finest wild
| duck shooting areas in the world. The
shore line of this lake measures over
| lis miles.
A dispatch direct from London
! states that the mutiny of the Con-
tom of the state of feeling aroused
among Irish regiments in the British
army by the Carsonian domination
of Ireland, has excited considerable
| alarm. Ever since the armistice the
war office policy has been to send
! Irish regiments to distant stations,
| and there is an unusually large pro-
portion of them at present in India,
Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The public is waiting for'the facts
of the Indian trouble, as SO far only
an official account has been pub
lished, together with dispatch from
| the Reuters agency, which is viz
tually officially controlled. The. pro
!
about Amritsar by the Indian govern
ment makes the public here sceptical
about Indian official statements.
According to a dispatch from
Paris the chamber of deputies voted
an additional indemnity of $4,000
year for cabinet ministers and So
| 900 for secretaries of state in recog-
! ing The vote, which was taken by
| the raising of funds, was almost
unanimous.
! The Italian liner Fernando Pelas-
cano, formerly the North German
Lloyd liner Koeing- Albert, arrived
from Genoa and Naples with 1886
| cabin and 1,S1O steerage passengers
who were taken off at quarantine for
observation. She brought 100000
plaits of garlic, consigned to an i'm
| porter on the east side, near Mulber'
ry street. ooo
| tons of fruit, including 2,277 barrels
of cherries in brine, which were for
merly bottled with maraschino to bt
used in making cocktails.
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary t.
the president of the United States
| has within the past few months peer
placed in the same embarrassing posi- Isl
means Of making livelihood wher
| he leaves the White House mex
March. Both are suffering from the
number and kinds of jobs offered
fiattering salaries. Tumulty, like the
president. is not wealthy and cannot
afford to idle away the remaining
years 1t has taken all Of the com
paratively small salary received. as
/ secretary to the president to fur
nish a comfortable home in the cap
ital for his large family. Just what
he will do after March 4 next Mr.
Tumulty processes not to know. He
has received numerous bids from pub
have offered him partnerships ant
the presidency of several great bust
ness establishments is among the al
| Turing offers. One great publishing
| house, it is said, has offered an at
tractive figure for book of memoirs
The state of health of Desehane
president of France, has revived tall
| in the parliamentary Hobbies of the
| necessity of taking measures to NEE
the possibility of a prolonged inabil
ity of the president, through illness
to discharge the duties of his office
Immediately after the accident which
befel the president recently it was
proposed to create the Office of vice
president, which does not exist under
| the French constitution, but the idef
was abandoned, as President Des
channels period of convalescence ther
seemed likely to be short.
| Soldiers arriving in San francisco
| recently on the transport MadaWask:
brought with them 223 Russian wal
brides. They came from Vladivostok
and were taken care Of by the Rec
Cross officers until their husbands
could get leave to find them homes
The women, attired in picturesque
colored silk and muslin gowns, with
their hair worn in the Russian style
across the forehead and caught with
| large jeweled combs, brought many
visitors to the lobby Of their hotel
| Some of the brides are little more
than children, from their appearance
several of them are beautiful and al
of them attract more than a casua
glance through their apparent delight
to which they have followed theil
husbands. Many of them have chill
dren. 81 not speak English" sale
all of them upon being addressed
but all can give their names both
them the words eighteen years old
Harry S. Hardness, of New York
who died on January %, 1919, left
total assets of $14,471,752. according
to the appraisal of his estate filed
by the deputy state comptroller.
Mrs. Florence S. Hardness, his
wife, in whose favor he had his las
will made the day he died, and his
who says she is the sole beneficiary
have been engaged in a legal strug-
| file over the estate.
The net estate, according to the
appraisal, is $S,928,41 Real estate
is appraised at $1,524,229, the prin-
cipal holding being Speedway park
at Sheepshead bay.
Other items in the appraisers re.
port are: Cash, $454,636; personal
| $125,99O; contents of apartment al
270 Park avenue, $6,467, and stocks
and bonds, $12,611,64S.
Great Britain and Japan have no.
titled the League Of Nations that
they have prolonged their treaty al
lance for a year, according to the
London Daily Mail, at the same time
pointing out that the terms of the
treaty are in accord with the prin-
| ciples of the league.
! The reason for the prolongation OF
the treaty, according to the Mail, is
that Great Britain has not yet had an
| opportunity to consult with the do
minions regarding a revision of the
| treaty, which is necessitated by the
elimination of German influence in
the Far East.
Negotiations for a prolongation Of
| the. a11ianpa hnfwaen Great Rrit01n