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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1920)
11. S. FIRMLY CALLS GREAT BRITAIN BRITONS INFORMED U. S. WILL NOT BE EXCLUDED FROM ANY TERRITORY ISSUE TAKEN WITH BRITAIN * 'l. S Doesn't Propose To Waive Any Privileges, Even If Not A Member Or League Warhlngton.— The United States government has informed Great Brit ain politely, hut firmely, that It does net propose to he excluded from par ticipation in the rights and privileges secured under mandates provided In the treaties of peace. Th- position of the United States is s it forth in a note hy Secretary Col by to Karl Curzon, the British secre tary of state for foreign affairs, and the specific question discussed is that of the Mesopotamian petroleum fields. Mr. Colby's note is dated November 20, and was made public following its delivery to the British foreign office early In the past week. The note is in reply to a British note of last August 9, which has never been made public and which deals with the application of the principles of equality of treatment to the ter ritories of the near east to be placed under British mandate. The American note takes issue with what is described as the British po sition that mandate agreements and threats are to he considered only hy states that are members of the league of nations. It states that the United States, as a participant in the world war, "and u contributor to its successful issue, cannot consider any of ihe associated powers, ihe smallest not less than it self, debarred from discussion of any of its consequences, or from partici pation In the rights and privileges se cured under the mandates provided In the treaties of peace.” Mr. Colby says, In his note, that the American government accepts the statement of Ihe British government that it has refrained from exploiting the petroleum properties of the man dated territories in question, and "wel coming your pledges” that It Is far from the intention of Great Britain "to establish any kind of monopoly or preferred position in its own inter est.” "1 need hardly refer again,” Mr. Col by continues, “to the fact that the government of the United States has consistently urged that i| is of the , utmost importance to the future peace of the world that alien territory trans ferred us a result of the war with the central powers should he held uml administered In such away as to us suro equal treatment to the commerce uipl to the citizens of all nations. . "Indeed it was in reliance upon an understanding to (his effect and ex pressed in contemplation thereof that the United States was persuaded that the acquisition under mandate of cer tain enemy territory by the victorious powers would he consistent with the last interests of the world. ■'lt is assumed, accordingly, that your statement, with reference to Mandate A (not described) together with the statement that the draft mandate for Mesopotamia and Pales tine have been prepared with u view to secure equality of treatment for the commerce and citizens of all states which are members of the league of nations, do not indicate a supposi tion on your part that the United States can ho excluded from the ben efits of the principle of equality of treatment." 33 "Conscience Objectors” Released - Washington. Conscientious objec tors who refused to take part in the world war received their greatest pos sible - Thanksgiving Day gift in the fofiu of an order from Secretary of War Baker releasing the thirty-three still held in prison. Edward Rhodes Stitt Surgeon General .Washington. Hear Admiral Edward Rhodes Stitt, head of the naval med ical .school, becomes surgeon general of the navy, succeeding Hear Admiral W. C. Braisted. who goes oil the re tired-' list Admiral Stitt was called I Into 'consultation during President Wilson’s prolonged illness. Reds Destroy Gen. Petlura's Army Warsaw. —Armed conflict between Polish forces and Bolshevik troops which have reached the Polish fron tier the Zbruc river was nar- averted when the Bolshevik! began bombarding the town of Pod woloczyska, al>out twenty-five miles cast*of Tarnopol. Polish military' au thorities protested against the bont bardipent, which caused the deaths of five persons and serious Injury of 16 otlierfc. ‘ o . Germans Don't Like French Negroes Berlin. —Bitterness marked a debate in the reichstag relating to the voting of appropriations to carry out provi sions of the Versailles treaty. Mem bers of the chamber denounced the ac tion of the allies in keeping such a . large force of men along the Rhine and, in particular, assailed France for sending negro troops into Germany. Doctor Zaps. a member of the Ger man People's party, said Germany's financial situation seemed hopeless MRS. LLOYD GEORGE M 4 wlik a>. Z'&jjtHfs''* fVEE Mrs. David Lloyd George, wife of the prime minister, has been made a dame of the empire, highest degree of the Order of the British Empire. U S. AGENTS AFTER FARMERS Charles S. Barrett Says Word Has Been Passed Around Farmers Are To Be Taught A Lesson Washington.—-Declaring he under stood "that federal agents are already going over Kansas, lowa and other states trying to get evidence neces sary to the indictment of men who are asking farmers to hold their crop. Charles S. Barrett, president of the National Farmers' Union, through a statement issued recently, appealed to members of his organization to stand together and not sell their products at present "ruinously low prices.” “Show that you have the moral cour age to go to jail if necessary,” Mr. Barrett advised members of the farm ers' union. "The word seems to have been passed around that farmers were to he taught a lesson—they were get ting troublesome.” The farmers’ answer to claims of over-production, Mr. Barrett suid, should be: “We simply will lessen production.” This was “no idle threat," he said, adding: “From ev ery part of the country comes the promise that this policy should be ad hered to until the country wakes up to the fact that it must either go on short rations or pay you wages high enough to live on.” Efforts of the farmers toward co operation, Mr. Barrett said, have met with strong opposition from the first. He charged that "deliberate efforts" have been made to prevent them from buying collectively. “For seven long, weary years," the farmers’ union president added, "the farmers of this country hud placed over them a secretary of agriculture not in real sympathy with, and with little understanding of the needs of agriculture, and who now as secre tary of another department, is lieitig used apparently ns a willing and eager tool to .enforce deflation of farm prod ucts.” Mr. Barrett’s appeal further stated that the only course left to the farm ers was to help one another and by raising sufficient money to finance more adequately "our business under takings so that we can hold and mar ket farm products ourselves in a busi nesslike. orderly fashion.” Illegal To Stuff Turkey With Liquor Montgomery, Ala.—A bottle of corn liquor is not legitimate stuffing for a Thanksgiving turkey, according to a ruling of the Montgomery police de partment. Mose Jackson, colored, was sighted hy a policeman with a dress ed turkey in his possession, in the cavity of which was found concealed a bottle of contraband beverage. Army Man Fylies 3 Miles A Minute Mineola. N. Y. Flying at a speed of virtually three miles a minute, Lieut. C. C. Mosley, piloting an American made Verille-Packard army plane, won the first Pulitzer trophy in the aero nautical ruee here against a field of thirty-four starters. Fortune In Securities Found In Woods Fredericksburg, Va —Liberty bonds and other securities valued at approx imately $76,000, taken from the Bank of Mineral. Va., hy robbers the night of November 6. were found in the woods near Aquia creek, in Stafford county, by a party touring in an auto mobile. The tourists hud stopped by the roud for lunch, and upon arriving I here reported to the authorities that j they had seen some papers which j might he of value. ! Some Janitors Get $5,000 A Year Chicago.—With unother janitors’ i strike looming after the Chicago real 1 estate board's refusal of new wage I demands, officials of the Chicago ten- I ants' assocation declared they would shovel their own coal "rather than j submit to extortion." The association | has about twenty thousand members. Some Chicago janitors are making $5,- 1 000 a year, according to James J. Car | roll, of the real estate board. When l officials of the janitors' union met j with a committee from the board, they | asked for a 50 per cent increase. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR VT, VERNON. GEORGIA. FRANCE MAY LIFT SOVIET BLOCKADE REQUEST RECEIVED BY RUSSIA FROM FOREIGN CAPITALISTS AFFORDING SUCH RIGHTS DECREE ISSUED BY RUSSIA French Trades To Be Encouraged To Get All The Russian Business Possible Paris. —Suppression of the blockade of Kusßia is favored, by Premier Ley gues, he told the committee on for eign relations of the chamber of dep uties recently. Inasmuch as the Soviet government is actually in operation, he declared, It has been decided to permit French traders and manufacturers to do all the business they can with Russia. In addition, says Marcel. Cachian, who is a member of the committee, and who has written an account of the premier’s statement for the news paper Humanite, M. Leygues said he was arranging to encourage trade with Russia. Discussing General Baron Wrangel and the recent defeat of that anti-Bol shevik leader, the premier asserted he considered the rout of General Wran gel’s troops represented nothing, and that France was released of all en gagements toward hint. France Is now feeding General Wrangel’s army out of humanity, but would continue this work no longer than necessary. The premier said he was not thinking of using that army in any way, and incidentally announc ed that half of General Wrangel’s troops were now in Serbia, where they are being reorganized. London. —The supreme economic So viet of Russia, says a Moscow wireless message, has issued a decree pointing out the general principles on which foreign capitalists will be permitted to exploit the natural riches of Rus sia. The Soviet government has received requests from foreign capitalists to afford such rights, the message states, and Soviet Russia requires offers of experienced forced and large mate rial means in order to create within the boundaries of Russia an inexhaust ible source of raw materials for manu facture on the spot and abroad. A new law permits foreign capital ists to work the natural riches of Russia, the message declares, receiv ing in return the right to export abroad a portion of their production. The Soviet government promises foreign capitalists (hat nothing they invest in undertakings in Russia shall be nationalized, confiscated or requi sitioned. The capitalists shall have the right to engage workers and oth er employees in accordance with the existing law on labor in Russia. NEW YORK CROWD RIOTED AT SIGHT OF BRITISH FLAG New York. The usual Thanksgiv ing Day here was violently interrupt ed shortly afternoon when crowds who had attended a high requiem mass in memory of Terrence MacSwiney, for mer lord mayor of Cork, rioted at the sight of a British flag decorating the facade of the Union Club across Fifth avenue, from St. Patrick's cathedral. After a fight participated in bjr hun dreds of Irish sympathizers, in the course of which plate glass windows of the club were shattered by missiles hurled by member of the mob, order was restored when a cordon of 200 police established itself around the the building. The union jack, which was the cause of the assault, though taken down at the first demand of the crowd and subsequently replaced, still was draped on the sidewalk with the emblems of France and the Unit ed States when the fracas ended. Special Sales In Paris To Aid Loan Paris. —France doesn't know how about America's Thanksgiving Day, but this republic had a celebration of its own, which probably caused a lot of shoppers as well as the finance ministers of the country, to give thanks. All the stores of Paris staged special sales, with the announcement that the proceeds of all sales would go to the national loan. There was an unprecedented rush of shoppers. Conference For Hebrew Education Pittsburg.—A national conference to organize a national association for He brew education will be held in the near future, Sol Rosenbloom. temporary chairman of a preliminary committee on organization, announced here. The project has for its purpose the perpet uation of Jewish culture and litera ture in this country. Mr. Rosenbloom said. He added that the national con ference probably would be held in New York City. Member Os Posse Led To Own Home Meridian. Miss. —Roy Miner, twenty ■ two-vear-old son of a wealthy manufac- I * turer of this city, and living on a farm eight miles southeast, was a member of the posse that followed bloodhounds | that trailed the alleged slayer of Mrs. I Lewis. 56. to his own home. Miner I was immediately placed under arrest | by Sheriff Martin and with his father- I in-law-, J. E. Johnson, who is fifty- I five years old. are in jail pending fur ther investigation. EDWARD HUBBARD Edward Hubbard, pilot of an air alane company, has signed a contract :o establish an international air mail service between Seattle and Victoria, 8. C. manTuTsTklo™ Englishman Sa ysU. S. Has Money, Men And Spirit To Handle The Armenians And Turks Geneva. —The assembly of the league of nations decided, without i dissenting vote, to appeal to the powers in the hope of finding a gov srnment willing to undertake media tion between the Turkish National ists and Mustapha Kemal Pasha and the Armenians. An earnest debate preceded the vote on the resolution, which was pre sented by M. Viviani, former premier as France, inviting the council of the league to take the action indicated, it threatened at times, however, to justify the predictions of the league’s apponents, that the work of the as sembly would founder on the rule re quiring a unanimous vote. Lord Robert Cecil, A. J. Balfour, Rene Viviani, Hjalmar Branting, Dr. Fridtjjof Nansen, C. J. Dougherty (Canada) and M. Stalaiovch (Jugo slavia) participated, but the real con test was between M. Viviani and Mr. Balfour. Mr. Balfour explained the failure of .he league council to find a manda tory for Armenia. He referred to the refusal of the United States to ac cept such a mandate, and hoped that the committee of the assembly might 3o better. The former French premier pleaded warmly for prompt action, provoking the first enthusiastic demonstration as the assembly. He declared that if the assembly was unable to do bet ter than name another committee, it would proclaim its own impotence. It was remarked that Lord Robert Cecil applauded vigorously from the South African bench, while the Eng lish delegates, Mr. Balfour and H. A. L. Fisher, remained stolidly indiffer ent. It was evident that Mr. Balfour was fighting against an eventual military expedition more than against medi ation, as proposed by M. Viviani. Al though Doctor Nansen was the only one to speak boldly in favor of an expeditionary force to deal with the Turkish Nationalist leader, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, all the others, with the exception of Mr. Balfour, approached as closely as they could to this even tuality without actually saying so. The general impression after the debate was that the assembly favor ed fighting Kemal Pasfro if no other way was found to end the conflict in Armenia. Moonshiner Freed By President Wilson Washington.—President Wilson has granted a pardon to John F. Schwein berg, who pleaded guilty several weeks ago in Cincinnati to a charge of oper ating a liquor still. Schwelnberg was sentenced to. serve six months in jail. The court and prosecuting attorney recommended Schweinberg be pardon ed on the ground that he had not been making liquor only for his own use and was ignorant of the law. Missing S. C. Man Found In Florida Columbia. S. C. —Marion Hagood, a Elythewood farmer, whose blood-stain ed automobile was found near here and for whose body searching parties have hunted without success for forty-eight hours, wired his father at Blythewood from Jacksonville, Fla., that he was all right and was returning to Co lumbia according to advices received here by telephone from Blythewood. Hagood's telegram stated that he had "just got loose from burglars.” ac cording to further advices received by the sheriff's office. Shoe Prices Reduced By Wholesalers St. Louis. —Further reductions in the wholesale prices of certain styles of shoes were announced by two shoe manufacturers here. A general re duction of 10 per cent was made by the McElroy-Sloan Shoe company of ficials of that firm. The Brown Shoe company announced that men's calfskins were reduced from $7.50 to $6.50, enabling a retail reduction from sll to SS. Women's calfskins, the announcement added, were cut from $6 to $4. enabling the retail price tr decline from $S to 6, or $6.50 DOORS TO LEAGUE ARE OPEN TO U. S. WORKS TO LEAVE THE WAY OPEN FOR UNITED STATES TO HAVE HER SAY AMERICAN ARMY AT GENEVA Visit Os Major Churchill Has No Sig nificance, But Puts Delegates To Talking Geneva, Switzerland. —The arrival here of Maj. Marlborough Churchill, assistant chief of the military intel ligence division of the general staff of the United States army, which so far as appears now has no real sig nificance except to himself and his department, has created a mild sensa tion in league of nations circles. The "United States” has been on the lips of almost every spokesman in the assembly of the league and probably in the minds of every dele gate. The hope that the United States will some day join the league is unmistaka ble. The entire work of the assembly has visibly been directed so as not to prejudice the most important ques tions at issue regarding the league covenant, and so as to leave the way open for the United States to have her say in its eventual revision. The appearance during this assem bly of any official or unofficial repre sentative of the American government was the last thing hoped for. Major Churchill, consequently, was all the more an object of attention when his presence here became known. Major Churchill conferred with the United States members of the league’s secretariat and also with Colonel Re quin of the French military delegation in attendance here. Major Churchill explained that he was on a tour of inspection of all the United States military attaches in Eu rope and came to Geneva to find out the manner in which the military com mission was organized and become ac quainted with the activities of the as sembly regarding intelligence work and other military questions. The United States, Major Church ill said, is interested from the stand point of the future and naturally is anxious to know what has been done or may be accomplished in a military way by the league. TO LAUNCH LARGEST VESSEL IN UNITED STATES NAVY AFTER NEW YEAR’S Quincy, Mass. —It is authoritatively announced here the keels of the su perdreadnaught Massachusetts will be laid soon after New Year’s Day. The Massachusetts will be larger than any vessel in the United States navy. With a length of 660 feet over all and 106 feet beam, her displace ment will be 43,200 tons. She will have electric drive and engines of 60,000 horsepower, and her speed is to be twenty-three knots. The armament will comprise twelve 16-inch guns and a secondary battery of sixteen 6-inch guns. The keel of the Lexington, a battle cruiser, will be laid soon after that of the Massachusetts. She will have almost exactly the same beam as the Massachusetts, but her length over all is to be SBO feet and her displace ment 43,500 tons. Her engines of 180,- 000 horsepower will yield a speed of thirty-five knots under electric drive. She will mount eight 16-inch guns and sixteen 6-inch guns and also will have eight torpedo tubes. These two huge warships embody the latest developments in naval con struCtion and incidentaly show how rapidly types have changed in recent years. The locks of the Panama ca nal, which are 110 feet wide, will allow only two feet margin on each side for the passage of a vessel of the Massa chusetts’ beam. Kitchen Stricken By Acute Indigestion Washington.—Representative Kitch en, minority leader of the house, was stricken with an attack of acute indi gestion as he entered the postoffice department for a conference with the postmaster general. His attack was of short duration, however, and after receiving treatment he was taken to his home. His physician, Dr. Louis Battle, says Mr. Kitchin's condition is not in "any way alarming.” Price-Cutting Wave Rolls On Asheville Asheville, N. C.—Men’s wear, beef, pork and bacon will be cheaper in Asheville as the result of a wave of price - cutting which struck the city. Clothing houses advertised reductions of 33 1/3 per cent in men’s suits and several firms included in their lists other wearing apparel, silk shirts in some instances being cut 50%. The butcher shops announced reductions of between 20% and 25% on all grades of beef, pork and bacon. Marine Is Accussed Os Killing Haitien Port-au-Prince. Haiti. —Dorcas Wil liams. a marine sergeant, formerly of Birmingham. Ala., accused of killing a native of Haiti, arrived here in the custody of officers aboard the destroy er McCormick. The court of inquiry, which is investigating the activities of the American marines in Haiti, de ferred hearing Williams to enable him to confer with witnesses for the de fense. 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