The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-08

-CQudl " Quly OAC-llttIu VI ttiC lAlCiC
we will pay our nationals on the
amount of money we borrowed from
them to lend to Italy. The settlement
with Great Britain has cost Great
Britain nothing at all. She has agreed
to pay us $150,000,O00 a year for
period of years and she has Immediate
ly adopted an export policy with ref
erence to rubber coming to thei United
States from her colonies by which she
collects back from us every year twice
as much money as she pays u.s."
ORIG. GEN. SAIEDLEY D. BUTLER
- is once more in the Marine corps.
having withdrawn his resignation after
being fired from his job as director
of public safety in Philadelphia. He
was welcomed back by Major General
Lejune and resumed active duty at
once. being assigned to command the
base at San Diego. Cal.
MARSHAL CHANG TSO-LsN won
Iva great victory over Gen. Kuo
iCduCi VI Liz ICNOtt OStI1ot
Chang, in the vicinity of Mukden. Kuo
and his wife were captured and their
heads and legs were cut off. carried
through the streets Of Mukden and
nailed to a gate of the city. Changes
entry into Mukden was not opposed
by the Japanese who have been pro-
tecting the place. but they refused to
surrender to him eight civil officers of
Kuo's army who had taken refuge in
the Japanese consulate.
General Feng. leader Of the national
peoples army, captured Tientsin after
two weeks Of heavy fighting. and then
sent most of his troops southwark in
pursuit of the defeated army of Ii
Ching-ling.
XXIHILE large part of the United
w States has been shivering in sub
zero weather, Europe has been swept
by terrific gales and afflicted with dis
astrous floods. In Pennsylvania scores
of peasants and thousands of cattle
were drowned. and in France the
losses were severe. The valleys of the
Rhine and its tributaries are flooded.
The state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. was
shaken by five earthquake shocks and
the people abandoned their homes in
terror. Mount Popocatepetl, the great
volcano near Mexico City. was aroused
to activity. From Anchorage. Alaska.
came word that Mt. Mckinley, the
Hottest peak in North America. was
sending up great volumes Of smoke
and steam.
TURKEY is not going to fight Eng
= land for possession of Mosul, back
ing out as gracefully as possible by
putting forward the statement that
the cost of war would be prohibitive
for her, but she means to keep the
issue alive in memory pending time
when the wrong done Turkey can be
righted. That Is the substance of
speeches made by President Renal
and other officials at the opening Of
the new Military club in Angora. They
asserted the Ottoman army was eager
for vengeance.
FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER
DOUMER'S fiscal project was unan-
imously approved by the cabinet and
submitted to the chamber of deputies.
which body sent it to the finance COM
mittee. 1t was predicted the com
mittee would pass the plan, leaving the
fight for adoption open to the cham
Der. This fight. it was certain. would
be bitter.
The Doumer plan provides an addi-
tional 3.000.000,O00 francs in receipts
through increasing the income tax and
3,800,O00000 francs through the i'm
position of an extraordinary and TEN
porary tax of / 10 per cent on all
business transactions. The plan pro-
yides that this super business tax may
be applied by government decree be-
fore parliament ratifies 1t. Another
1,O00,O00000 francs will be raised
through augmenting the price of to-
bacco, cigars, and cigarettes, and G0O.-
100000 francs more will come from in
CredSeu eApOTl uutieS. OtTlcleT ell
forcement of the fiscal administration
and control is expected to yield an
additional 300,0O0,O00 francs and tax
of one-tenth of one per cent on bourse
transactions another 1O0OoO.OOO francs
Drank A. MUNSEY. the New York
publisher. left almost his entire
fortune of about S40.OO00OO to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art He had
intended to make a new will mutual
izing his properties and taking care
Of old associates. but delayed N too
long.