Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-01-11

lean scout cruiser Raleigh. just COM
in the Swiss Alps, where the winter
| mand for the investigation of the ad
ministration Of General Wood in the
Philippines comes up. 1t is likely the
latter inquiry will be enlarged to in
clude the actions of both of the gem
erals sons.
g ECRETARY OF LABOR DAVIS
~ has transmitted to the senate and
house immigration committees draft
of new immigration bill providing
for extension of the quota restriction
to all countries in the western hemi-
sphere, and for various notifications of
the present entry requirements. The
| Italian government has made repre-
sentationS against a proposed pro-
vision that would restrict each nations
quota of immigrants to 2 per cent of
| the number of its native born citizens
in this country in 1890. This stipula-
tion Italy describes as an unjustified
discrimination to the detriment of
friendly nation.
NN THE eve of the assembling of
~ the new parliament the British do
not know just what to do in the mat
ter of new government. King George
has demanded that the Labor party be
given its chance, notwithstanding the
| declaration by its leader, Ramsay Mac
| Donald, that the monarchs right to
dissolve parliaments should be curbed.
But the prospect of Labor or Social
! ist government is having bad effect
, on the money market and the pound
sterling has had a decided decline.
! Consequently there sprang up last
week strong demand for some sort
of a fusion of the Liberals and Tories
to keep the Laborites out of office, and
as it seems impossible to find any
other Conservative leader willing to
take the job, it may be that Baldwin
| will be induced to hang on to the pre-
miership with the promise of Liberal
support, though he ,is represented rs
eager to resign. In the Labor party
there is growing friction between the
intellectuals. who include its leaders
in parliament. and the trades union
lists, who assert they have done most
of the work of building up the party
and therefore are entitled to most of
the offices If the party takes over the
government.
DREMIER YAMAMOTO of Japan
1 and his cabinet resigned following
the attempt on the life of the prince
regent, and Viscount Kiego Kiyoura,
president of the privy council. was
| asked to form new government. He
| announced two days later that he was
unable to form ministry as he could
not get the support of any political
| party in the diet.
ORANGE and Belgium have sent to
L Berlin Identical replies to the latest
/ German note, and their tone is quite
concilatory, the German government
being assured that the two countries
are willing to cooperate with the Ger
ministration in the Ruhr and the
Rhineland. The armies of occupation
already have been greatly reduced, and
only sufficient soldiers will be left in
the Ruhr to preserve the customs
boundary for the application of taxes
on exports for the reparations account.
The chimneys of the Ruhr are smok-
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Industrial magnates have entered in
to agreements Independent of their
governments and are exchanging coke
and iron ore.
Henry NJ. Robinson. the Los Angeles
banker who is the third American
representative on the reparations COM
missions committees of experts. con-
| ferred with Secretary Hughes and the
President in Washington and is now
on his way to Europe.
u w. CLARKE. Imperial giant"
Il. has issued call for national
congress of the Ku Klux Klan in At
lanta, February 90. He asks the klans-
men ito gather together and prayer
| fully consider methods to eliminate
existing evils, or else to follow the ex-
ample of the founder of the original
Ku Klux Klan, and have the courage
and manhood TO devise ways and
means for the immediate disband-
rent Of the organization"
~ ESPITE the protest Of Secretary
~ Hughes, the Turkish government
insists that full customs duties must
he paid on the vast quantities Of food
clothing and medical supplies that
Americans have contributed free for
the destitute in Turkey. Consequently
the Near East Relief has withdrawn
entirely from Turkey.
| be rejuyenated. Now that the secret