The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-24

| prepared for presentation to the king
| asserting that Fascist terrorist or
| ganization similar to the Russian
cheka exists in Italy with the approval
Of Premier Mussolini to get rid Of the
| opposition leaders.
The London Telegraph says there is
in existence an energetic international
campaign to overthrow Mussolini and
the Fascist regime and that occult
forces, from Wall street to Vienna and
from Milan to Moscow, are working to
this end" They are said to have
within" and to be well supplied with
| funds.
nEFIANTLY refusing to resign at
- the demands Of his political enc
mics, Foreign Minister Stresemann of
Germany will stand or fall ON the
success Of his security pact negotia-
tons with Great Britain and France,
and he has drafted his reply to the
French note, though its contents have
not been made public. 1t Is said
Stresemann thinks his plan will en-
able Germany to free itself from the
Rapallo treaty and Russia and would
go far toward preventing war be-
tween the western powers and Russia
fought ON German soil.
TN A desperate attempt to break
1 through the Taza-Fez line and cap
ture the capital before the French and
Spanish get their cooperative cam
paign working, Abd-el-Krim began an
attack with all his forces along 200
mile front. The Riffians passed the
French blockhouse line and were fight
ing about 25 miles north of Fee and
20 miles north of Taxa. Many more
tribesmen hitherto friendly to the
French or neutral have been induced
to join the Riff chief. France is hurry
ing reinforcements and has called for
volunteers. Premier Painleve has ac
cepted the offer of a number of Ameri-
cans, formerly of the Lafayette Es-
cadrille and the Foreign Legion, to
enter the Sultan's army for the Morocco
war and to form an aerial unit. Among
these Americans are Commander Par
ker of Montana, who in the war COM
manded the American seaplane de-
Tense along the Italian coasts; Maj.
Granville Pollock and Col. Charles
Kerwood of New York, Paul Rockwell
of Atlanta, Ca, and Maj. William
Rogers of Pittsburgh, Pa.
lT Asst week President Coolidge
IL pretty nearly passed up all bust
ness for rest and diversion. With Mrs.
Coolidge he sailed ON the Mayflower to
Quincy on the Boston south shore,
where he inspected the Lexington, the
navy's big new airplane carrier now
nearing completion, and then motored
to the two old colonial cottages where
Presidents John Adams and John
Quincy Adams were born. Tuesday
the President gave luncheon for
Count Alexander SkrZynski, Polish
minister of foreign affairs; Assistant
Secretary of State ]. Butler Wright;
James c. White, special secretary to
Senator Butler of Massachusetts. John
Hays hammond. and Melville e.
Stone, counselor for the Associated
Press.
TNCLE SAM is advertising for bids
~ from individuals and corporations
for the operation of eight contract air
mail routes. These routes are:
From Chicago to Birmingham, Ala,
by way of Indianapolis, Louisville,
Nashville and return.
From Chicago to st. Paul and Min
neapolis by way of La Crosse. Wis.
and return
From Chicago to Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas, by way of Moline, st.
Joseph, Kansas City, Wichita and
| Oklahoma City, and return.
From Chicago to st. Louis by way
of Springfield, ILL.,, and return.
From Boston to New York by way
of Hartford, Conn.,, and return.
From Elko, New, to Pasco, WASH.
by way of Boise, Idaho. and return.
From Salt Lake City to Los Angeles
by way of Las Vegas, New. and return.
From Seattle. Wash, to Los Angeles
by way of Portland, Medford, Sacra-
mento. San Francisco. Fresno and
Bakersfield.
c TANDAIiD OIL COMPANY of New
~ Jersey has adopted the eight-hour
| day instead of the twelve in its oil
fields and has readjusted the wage
scale so that the men receive only 81
less for the shorter day. The EN-
ployees agreed enthusiastically tq the