Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-16
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Southwark Ho!

Southwark Ho!
The Milford Biological Expedition has
sailed for South America on the Grace Liner
Santa Elisa. The expedition will be gone two
years. exploring the headwaters Of the ANA
zon and hunting rare plants and herbs USE
full to the medical profession.
The Santa Elisa is bound for Antofogasta.
Chile. Members of the expedition included
DR.. Henry H Rusby, Of the Columbia Uni
versity School of Pharmacy, who is its chief:
DR.. Frederick L. Hoffman, vice president of
the Prudential Insurance company; DR.. Or
man e. White, of the Brooklyn Botanical
gardens; DR.. Everett Pearson, of Indiana
| entomologist of the United States Bureau OF
Entomology. and George F. Mccarthy, pho
tographer.
Bull Fights
The little town of Mines In Trance, 10
busy preparing for its greatest attraction.
the Whitsuntide bull fights, writes W. Branch
Johnson in The London Daily News They
are held in the huge Roman arenas which
still survive in several towns along the low.
er valley of the Rhone, but Mines is in
| many respects the headquarters Of the
sport" They are going to kill six Andalus
sian bulls on the Afternoon. Of Whit Sunday,
! and it is expected that the population of the
| town--80, 900 normally--will be doubled to
see them do it. No football match or popu.
lar race in England excites greater interest
or causes more money to. change hands.
In Spain, one accepts this barbarlty with
an impotent shrug; the popularity OF bull
| fighting in southern France Is not realized.
| In such places as Biarritz and Bayonne only
a few miles from the Spanish border, IT 10
comprehensive enough; but the Rhone VAL
ley in almost the opposite corner OF the
southern frontier of France, is az herce IN
| its hatred of the "toros' as any Iberian.
The matadors-the highly skilled men
with the salary of prirna donna, whose duty
| 1t is to kill the bull with light sword AFTER
1t has been made sufficiently savage-do 80
in these "Corridos Meutres" on their knees,
| a single false move meaning death to thena.'
Last Sunday in Mines woman VINO was
actually posing as a statue In front or tins
enraged bull was seriously mauled-
| Moorish Fighters
Two OF the Moorish tribes who are hght-
| ing the Spaniards seem determined to light
to the death for their independence. They
are the Bocoyas and the Beni-Urriaguels.
| The Bocoyas are the more numerous, evs
cry man being warrior and a fearless fatai:
list The Beni-Urriaguels have been engaged
| in most of the rebellions against Spanish
rule in Morocco which have taken place IN
the vicinity of Alhucemas.
The members of the latter tribe are well
supplied with arms, munitions and money,
for they have evaded all the vigilance OF the
Spanish coastguard vessels and have been
carrying on an active trade with British ana
French blockade runners in wool, SILK, wax
| skins, eggs and almonds.
Even when the sultan was supreme In MO-
rocco his forces were never able to dominate
these two tribes, who had their refugees In
the almost inaccessible Businesses in the We
cinity Of Alhucemas and Penon, from which
tgey still harry the Spanish troops.
| Big Balloon
The huge Italian dirigible Roma, pur-
chased by the war department from the
Italian government, is en- route to this coun-
| try on the United States naval collier Mare,
according to information received from
Rome. 1t left Genoa May 49,.
| Bars Hazing
All forms of hazing have been abolished
BY the student senate of the University OF
Wisconsin, it was announced as the result OF
the severe injury Of eight freshmen ana
sophomores in a class fight The historic
green cap was voted out, along with the an"
nuaI class rush and cap night.
| Leaders of both the freshmen and sopho-
| more classes will 20 on trial before the stu
dent self-governing body this week to race
| charges Of melting troubles. More than L.
600 students participated in Saturdays hghe,
which followed the annual burning OF green
caps worn by freshmen.
Chinese Disarmament
v. X. Wellington Koo, Chinese representa-
tive in the League of Nations, has notified
the secretary of the league that 1t 10 the IN"
tention of the Chinese government to give
effect to the league assembly's recommends
ton concerning limitation of expenditure on
ornaments.
The League of Nations at the assembly
held in Geneva last December, recommended
that the powers limit their expenditures on
armaments during the next two years to their
appropriations for that purpose during tina
last year. a..
China 10 the first nation to notify the
league secretariat oficially of an intention TO
adopt the assembly's Recommendation.
Would Double Debt
Secretary Weeks has asked congress TO
expedite a bill to increase from $15,O00,000
to $50 OO0, 900 the Philippine governments
limit OF Indebtedness. The need OF early &C
tion in the opinion of the war department.
and the Philippine government, was urgent
he said.