The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-10-19
Brief NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN.
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
9athered From All Parts OF The
Globe And Told In Short
Faraoraphs
Foreign

The British government" it is semi
Officially stated. 'is taking steps to
pay fifty million dollars into the New
York federal reserve bank on October
l6, on account of this years interest on
Great Britain's debt to the United
States"
Inc prince of Wales has passed up
SO many girls suggested to him as ell
Eible as future English queens that
king George, Queen Mary and Lloyd
| George are getting tired Of it, and
royal row is in prospect within the
royal family, according to Lord Claud
Nigel Hamilton. who is in British Co
lumbia to hunt big game.
Five members of the crew of tho
Gloucester fishing schooner Marshal
Foch. which was reported ashore on
Sable Island, arc still reported missing.
according to wireless received at
Halifax from the island. The schooner
carried crew Of 81. Sixteen have
been accounted for.
Lambros A. Coromilas will probably
be appointed by the new Greek gov
crnment as minister to the United
cember 1907, to October, 1910
Admiral e. e. Anderson and officers
OF the Asiatic fleet of the United States
navy are to be foted extensively upon
their arrivalin Hong Kong.
The Greeks authorities in Thrace re-
port that Turkish soldiers garbed in
their arrivals in Hong Kong
Reports from Athens, Greece, say
that thousands Of persons are terribly
emaciated from lack OF nourishment
and suffering from exposure and the
unsanitary conditions in which they are
| forced to exist The refugees, a ma.
| Jority of whom are women, children
and old men, are sleeping in parks, in
cellars and III attics, and generally
about fifty to Il room.
Numerous ambushes accompanied by
heavy outbursts of firing are reported
to have occurred in the streets OF Dub
lin, Ireland, one night recently
AT midnight recently bomb was
dropped on bridge near Dublin, Ire
land. as a truck full of troops was
passing. Rifle fire was also opened
on the Free State troops, who replied
with machine guns and rifles and dis
pcrsed the attackers.
One Of the questions on which it il
expected there will be important differ
ences between the Turks and British
is the cost of the British occupat oI
| OF ConStantinOple and other areas il
| Asia Minor since 1918. The British
have kept careful accounts of the eN
pcnditmcs which are regarded as al
ultimate charge against Turkey. 1t is
believed the bill will run into hun
drcd million pounds sterling, without
regard to what claims might be advanc
cd by France, which maintained twenty
thousand troops in those regions for q
year and Il half.
! strong earthquake shook Rome
Italy, the other day. causing great
alarm among the population No dam
age, however, had been reported up tc
last reports. The apprehension amone
the people was stimulated by the col
lection CT similar shocks, although
much less violent, which occurred il
1917. ami continued whole month.
Coal production started off recentl,
at a marked and almost record-break k
ing rate, which Fuel Distributors
Spens declared in statement was al
index to the effective railroad co.oper
alton obtained for the industry in tn,
attempt to make up deficiencies in th,
country's fuel supply due to the min
cr's strike