The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-28

There President and Mrs. Coolidge will
to come and in the impending cleo
ton campaigns of the "a senator's who
come up for reelection In November.
G ENATOR REED Of Pennsylvania,
- who supported Pepper, said he
would advise his friends in the Penn
sylvania legislature to vote for the
holding of a referendum on prohibit
ton modification, and at a conference
with President Coolidge and Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon he urged this
course. New York state is going to
have such referendum, for the bill
providing for 1t was signed on
Wednesday by Governor Smith after
he heard both sides.
MARSHAL JOSEF PILSUDSKI
1VA succeeded in bis revolutionary
coup in Poland, and now doesn't seem
to know just what to do with his sue
cess. He installed Rataj as acting
president and Charles Battel as pre-
mier, but he firmly resisted all the de-
mands that he assume the dictator
ship, asserting that he was a liberal
democrat and opposed to absolute
rule. Neither would he stand as
candidate for the presidency. This
led the Socialists and Radicals to de-
sort him on5 10 dopo,,poo bi,,, fop g,
needless shedding of blood, although
the marshal apparently had done all
he could to. avoid this. Indeed, his
supporters say he originally had no
intention of overthrowing the govern
ment, desiring merely to make a DEM
onstration before the Belvedere palace
in protest against the corruption of
the administration. Acting President
Rataj has summoned the national as
sembly to meet May % to elect new
president. Many of the deputies de-
manded that the session be held out
side of Warsaw.
General Halter, one of Pilsudski's
leading opponents, was supposed to be
organizing counter-revolution at Po-
sen where it was reported he had more
than 10000 troops. Pilsudski started
negotiations with him to avoid further
fighting.
n IsPATCHEs to the London Daily
~ Express tell Of another terrific
bombardment of Damascus by the
French in which the Midan section of
that city was utterly destroyed by
shells and flames and 500 civilians
and 100 rebels. were killed. Drusel
rebels had attacked French military,
posts and then took refuge in the Mi
dan quarter. The French commander
gave the inhabitants an hour to get
out of range of his guns and then
opened fire on the barricaded Druses
with three-inch guns, howitZers and
airplanes. The bombardment lasted
Is hours and the slaughter Of the ma
tives was terrible. In a recent inter-
view given a correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune the nationalist lead
ers of Syria declare they will continue
the fight against the French to the
death unless their demands for in
dependence are recognized. They
hope for Intervention by the League
of Nations. since France holds the
mandate for Syria under the league.
THE Norge, which landed at Teller,
L Alaska, instead of Nome, after its
epochal flight over the North pole, has
been dismantled for shipment to the
United States and Captain Amund-
sen says he is done with polar explo-
ration. Since he has been to both the
North and South pole, his retirement
is understandable. On the other hand,
Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd,
the American who was first to fly over
the North pole in an airplane. is now
planning an expedition to the South
pole. He and his party have left
Spitzbergen for London.
HOUGH Great Britain is return
4 ing to normal conditions In most
respects after the general strike, the
miners are still out Thursday their
delegates in conference rejected the
governments proposals for settlement
because they included a reduction of
wages. The delegates asserted the
pay does not at present provide for a
decent standard of living.
The country is beginning to learn
what the general strike cost it. Wal
ter Runciman. in the house of COM
mons, estimated the total direct loss
to trade at f26,50O,000 (about $780,
OO0,0O0) and indirect loss to the coun-
try's industries of more than 100000
900. Four railway companies roughly
estimated their losses at more than
100000, while the National Union
of Railway Men figures the strike cost
to it at more than 100000. The