The Holly chieftain., 1923-12-20

adoptedfather, George L. Wade, who
the four army airplanes that will start
be paid in paper. Under the provisions
of this law the government will repay
more than S2O000,O0O,OOO war loan
and other debts for less than 8 cents
on the dollar.
Unless another coalition govern
- ment can be arranged, Great
Britain may find it necessary to hold
another parliamentary election in the
near future. In the new, parliament,
which meets January s, neither of the
three parties will have majority.
After Prime Minister Baldwin had
talked with King George and the party
leaders had held many conferences, 1t
was announced that the Baldwin cabI-
net would continue until parliament
had assembled. About the same time
the Labor party chiefs announced that
they would undertake to form a gov
ernment II called upon, with Ramsay
.'AlSl'ohdlu III lHe lltuu. lUe DFOSDeCI
is that soon after parliament meets
Macdonald will propose IN amended
address to the throne and that this
will be of such nature that the lib
erals cannot refuse to support 1t. This
would mean the overwhelming defeat
of the government and the immediate
resignation of the Baldwin cabinet,
tv-N Nhn
Donald to form new ministry But
this. too, would be minority govern
ment and could be ousted Mt any time
by a combination of the conservatives
and liberals.
CENSORSHIP of the news from
~ Mexico makes 1t difficult to learn
just how the revolt against President
Obregon's government is progressing.
If the Information given out by the
rebels is correct, 1t is doing very we'll
indeed. 1t may be that Obreg0n will
have been overthrown before this
reaches the reader. Revolutionary
armies from various quarters were
moving on Mexico City last week, and
1t was said De la Huerta had an
nounced that he was In control Of the
country and had begun appointing his
cabinet. However, the latest dis
patches at the time this Is written say
Obregon has checked the rebel ad-
vance from the west. Gen. Angel
Flores dealt the rebellion blow by
renouncing his candidacy for the pres
idency and casting in his lot with Obre-
son. for he Is believed to have the sup
port of Sinaloa. Chihuahua, Tamauli-
pas and the federal district. An upris-
ing of the Yaqui Indians probably was
squelched by the execution Of their
chieftain.
A MONG those taken by death last
\ week three are worthy of men
ton In this column. Two were Ameri-
cans-William A. Pinkerton. head of
the detective agency that bears his
name and hero Of many exciting stories
of criminal life; and John r. Rathom,
editor of the Providence (R. ~ Jour
nal. an eminent newspaper man who,
during the first part of the World war,
obtained numerous scoops" concern
Ing the activities of Germans in the
United States. The third was Baron
Shaughnessy. chairman of the board of
directors of the Canadian Pacific ruil-
road, who is properly regarded as one
of the builders of modern Canada.
n NE Of the worst wrecks in the his
~ tory of the New York Central
lines occurred at Forsythe, N. Y, when
one section of the Twentieth Century
train ran into another section which
had stopped after hitting an automo-
bile. Nine persons were killed in their
berths and about forty were injured.
Darkness, fog and an engineers neglect
of warning signals We're blamed for the
disaster.
r ENITO MUSSOLINI, premier of
~ Italy. believes he and his Fascist
government have proved so acceptable
to the country that 1t is no longer nee
essary for him to exercise dctatorial
powers. Therefore. at his request, the
king has closed the present session of
parliament and new elections will be
held, probably in April. at which Mus
solini will ask Italy to approve his acts
by returning him to power rs premier.
There is no sign of organ zed opposi-
tion to him.
u RNEST CIIUARD of Lausanne wa
- elected president of the Swiss con.
federation for 1924. The Swiss parlia,
ment, which chooses the president,
gave him 1S9 of the 219 votes. The
new vice president is Jean Musy of
Fribourg.