The Holly chieftain., 1924-03-27


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n. commander Of the flight, unt one
of coronation of Pope pius
sherty und his friends are said to
is to start from Southampton in nn
attempt to beat the Americans around
the world. He will fly from west to
east
OF MORE than local interest is the
~ sale of the New York Herald by
Frank Munsey to the New York
Tribune, for price said to he in the
nelghborhod of S40OO,0OO. The Herald
has-gone out of existence after a life
of eighty-nine years. The combined
papers are now called the New York
Herald-Trlbune. Mr.. Munsey sold be
cause he could not buy the Tribune.
He says the nmalgamation was in
evitabe for economic reasons.
G IR ESME HOWARD, ene new Brit
~ ish ambassador, made his first
public address at dinner of the Pill
grim society in New York. The most
important of his utterances was this:
"An attitude Of complete nloofness
and lack of interest in the affairs of
the other white continent cannot be
wholesome for either Of the two.
cannct but believe that America will
unquestionably feel the impulse to
work, in her own way and in her own
time, for permanent peace in Europe,
on which, to put it on no higher
grounds, so much of her own pros
perity depends. We in England have
long ago realized that policy of
splendid isolation was but an idle
dream and a vain imagining"
TN AN important statement dealing
L primarily with the definite abandon
ment of the Singapore naval base
project, Prime Minister Macdonald
told parliament that the British gov
ernment would do nothing to encour-
age the new race for armaments. He
pointed out that the government stands
for policy of international co-opera-
tion through strengthened and en-
larged League of Nations. settlement
of disputes by conciliation and judi
cial arbitration, and the crestion of
conditions which will make compre-
hensive agreement on the limitation Of
armaments possible.
ENERAL DAWES commission of
" experts, 1t is now said, will not
report until April 3. The German
elections are set for May 4 and those
Of France for May IL, and presumably
there will be no decision as to accept
ance of the report until the results of
those elections are known.
Bears in the franc market, especially
banks in Zurich, Amsterdam and VI
emma, are in difficulties because they
were caught short in the great squeeze
resulting from the support that Nor
gan and LaZard of London gave the
Bank of France. The latter institu-
ton bought all the francs offered and
refuses to settle, demanding actual
delivery.
THE Chinese government has re-
fused to ratify an agreement with
Russia which was signed by Its repre-
sentative and has ordered the soviet
envoy to leave Peking because ne
wrote insulting notes to the foreign
office. Moscow. therefore, has broken
off the negotiations for peace treaty.
The situation is considered dangerous
and correspondents say civil war in
China is likely to break out again.
The Chinese also are having disputes
with Japan concerning the Shantung
railway and two Japanese naval squad
rons are in Chinese waters.
nOWN in Honduras, where revolu-
~ tionary movement has been going
on for some time, the rebels have won
n series of battles with the forces of
Generals Arms and Busso, who as
sumed dictatorlal powers after the
death of President Gutierrez. and have
occupied Tegucigalpa. the capital, and
all the ports There Yves Wild disorder
In the capital and tho American min
listers asked for protection, SO land
ing force from the cruiser Milwaukee
was rushed to the city from Amapala.
GROVER CLEVELAND BERG,
" DOLL. the draft evader, says he
will soon return to America uncondI-
tionally and stand trial for draft eva
sion, pleading guilty. But he already
10 under sentence for desertion and
presumably must serve five years for
that offense IL he comes back. q. w.
Powell, director OF the Americaniza-
tion commission of the American LIE.