Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-12-20

the TOUR army dlrpldneS lndl Will start
be paid in paper. Under the provisions
of this law the government will repay
more than $20,00o,O0O000 war loan
and other debts for less than 8 cents
on the dollar.
r 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 a majority.
After Prime Minister Baldwin had
talked with King George and the party
leaders had held many conferences, it
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 gov
eminent if called upon, with Ramsay
Macdonald at the head. The prospect
is that soon after parliament meets
Macdonald will propose an amended
address to the throne and that this
will be of such a nature that the lib
erals cannot refuse to support it. This
would mean the overwhelming defeat
of the government and the immediate
resignation of the Baldwin cabinet,
followed by the summoning of Mac
Donald to form a new ministry But
this too, would be a minority govern
ment and could be ousted at any time
by combination of the conservatives
and liberals
CENSORSHIP of the news from
~ Mexico makes it difficult to learn
just how the revolt against President
Obregon's government is progressing.
If the information given out by the
rebels is correct, it is doing very well.
Indeed, it may be that Obregon will
have been oyerthrown before this
reaches the reader. Revolutionary
armies from various quarters were
moving on Mexico City last week, and
it was said De la Huerfa 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 adj
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 Cbre-
con, for he is believed to have the sup
port of SinaIoa, 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
n 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 OR. ~ 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 rail-
road, who is properly regarded as one
of the builders of modern Canada.
~ 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 were blamed for the
disaster. o
ID ENITO MUSSOLINI, premier Of
- Italy, believes he and his Fascist
government have proved so acceptable
to the country that it is no longer nee
essary for him to exercise dictatorial
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 as premier.
There is no sign of organized opposi-
ton to him.
ERNEST CHUARD of Lausanne was
IL elected president of the Swiss con-
federation for 1924. The Swiss parlia-
ment, which chooses the president,
gave him 189 of the 219 votes. The
new vice president is Jean Musy OF
Fribourg.
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