Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-10-19
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT coUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
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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
Is, on account Of this years interest on
Great Britain's debt to the United
States"
The prince Of Wales has passed up
so many girls suggested to him as eli
gible as future English queens that
King George, Queen Mary and Lloyd
George are getting tired Of II, 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 the
Gloucester fishing schooner Marshal
Foch, which was reported ashore on
Sable Island, are still reported missing
according to a wireless received at
Halifax from the island. The schooner
carried a crew Of p. Sixteen have
been accounted for.
Lambros A. Coromilas will probably
be appointed by the new Greek gov
eminent as minister to the United
States. He held this post from De-
cember 1907, to October 1910.
Admiral z. E. Anderson and officers
Of the Asiatic fleet Of the United States
navy are to be feted extensively upon
their arrivalin Hong Kong.
The Greeks authorities in Thrace re-
port that Turkish soldiers CARRIED 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 in attics. and generally
about fifty to a 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 a bomb was
dropped on a 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
persed the attackers.
One Of the questions on which It Is
expected there will be important differ
ences between the Turks and British
is the cost OF the British occupation
Of Constantinople and other areas in
Asia Minor since 1918. The British
have kept careful accounts Of the ex-
penditwes which are regarded as an
ultimate charge against Turkey. It Is
believed the bill viii run into a hun
bred million pounds sterling, without
regard to what claims might be advanc-
ed by France, which maintained twenty
thousand troops in those regions Sor
year and a half.
A strong earthquake shook Rome,
Italy, the other day, causing great
alarm among the population. No dam
age, however, had been reported up to
last reports. The apprehension among
the people was stimulated by the col
lection Of similar shocks, although
much less violent, which occurred in
1917, and continued a whole month.
Coal production started off recently
at a marked and almost record-break-
ing rate, which Fuel Distributors
Spens. declared in a statement was an
index to the effective railroad cooper
alton obtained for the industry in the
attempt to make up deficiencies in the
country's fuel supply due to the min
er's strike.