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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1921)
PRINCE HIROHITO REGENT OF JAPAN EMPEROR SAID TO BE VERY SICK NOT EXPECTED TO RECOVER REGENCY NOT UNEXPECTED Regent Has Already Accomplished A Great Deal In Establishing A More Liberal Understanding Toklo. —Crown J’rinee Hirohlto has been designated regent of Japan. Designation of Crown Prince Hir ohlto as regent of Japan follows re ports which have been in circulation for about a year that Emperor Yos hohlto was in bad physical condition. A despatch to a Honolulu newspaper in May of last year reported that he had suffered a mental and physical breakdown. Early last month a rumor that he was dead circulate d in Toklo, and the Imperial household, in denying it at the time, stated that he was so ill It was feared that he could not re cover. Washington. The announcement from Toklo of the regency of Hiro hlto was expected in Japanese circles here as the recent tour of the crown prince to Europe generally was under stood to have been the first step in the court arrangement to give Hiro hlto the conduct of the empire because of the continued Illness of the em peror. This tour, which was quite extensive, was arranged in order that before taking up the duties of regency. ; the young crown prince would have an opportunity to study fort l-n lands and j foreign customs. Representative Japanese recently •niphusizi'd how much this visit to western countries had meant for Japan it was recalled that when the crown prince returned to Toklo he made a memorable speech to the peo ple, in which he frankly admitted that Japan had much to learn from western countries, and that till the subjects of tile empire must strive their utmost to tiring Japan to tin* high develop ment necessary for her national prog ress. The regent, who is only twenty years old. lias already accomplished a great deni in establishing a more lib eral understanding between the im perial court and the people of the j empire. He lias already abandoned the ancient Idea of imperial aloofness j tied in striking contrast to the earlier day when Japanese were not sup posed to gaze upon their emperor, Hirohlto litis recently appeared at va rious public meeting in quite an irk formal manner and has made a num ber of speeches. Japaneses here assort that the ro , cponstbllty of having Japan emerge ; from the olden days to the present liberal movement as regards the court, however, is In the hands of Viscount MiikinO, minister of the imperial I housnhold, who wits on > of Japan's delegates at the Versailles conference, and Viscount Makino lias before him llic task of meeting (lie wishes of mod ern Japan with its democratic ten dencies without offending the old court i nobles who are inclined to resist too many innovations. It is tlie understanding here among ' Japanese (lint (lie immediate reason for tlie regency is the conviction that the emperor is incurably ill and is quite unable to carry on the duties of the throne. x Flying Auto is Latest Development Paris \ fl> ing automobile is the latest development in tlie French aero world. A successful demonstration of an ordinary automobile with fol line wings, two engines, one of ten-horse power for landing going and the other of 300-horsepower for air travel, was held recently at Hue. Seine < t-Oise. The machine performed all the usual feats of an airplam and also of an ' automobile. Christian Science Directors Win Suit , Boston, Mass The directors of the Christian Science church have author ity over the board of trustees of the Christian Science Publishing society and have the power to remove such trustees, It is held in a decision, long awaited by Christian Scientists ( throughout the world, which was , handed down November 23 by tlie su premo judicial court of Massachusetts. . Circling Buzzards Lead To Corpses Atlantic Pity. N. J. David Haie.v. from liis bridgetower near the se;y coast at Longport. lately began to no the buzzards circling over the deso late salt meadows of the place, hut thought nothing of them until when it recently struck him that buzzards mean The bridge-tender got a skiff and rowed and poled to the cen ler of tlie buzzard's circle. There he found the body of "Gunnie" Johnson. tm« of the eleven fishermen who went out from tlie village of Anglesea were j overtaken by a storm and lost. Radium Uused For Cancer Os Face New York Cancer of the face is being successfully treated with ra dium in Europe, according to Max Heiner. Vienna specialist, who arrived in this country to study American ra •dio-therapic methods. Radium. Hei ner says, is still unsatisfactory in cer tain types of persons. Three grains of radium a year is all that is being recovered from the pitchblend deposits of Bohemia, he states. Heiner will visit Dr. J. M. Lynch of the Barthol omew hospital and the Mayo Brothers in Rochester. Minn CHINESE RESOLUTION SIGNED Pledge Made To Refrain From Seek ing “Special Privileges” Inimical To Other Nations Washington.—A resolution declaring j for the territorial and administrative j integrity of China was adopted unan imously late recently by the confer- ; ence committee on Pacific and Far I Eastern questions. The resolution, . I the first concrete action of the arm- j | ament limitation conference was draft ed and presented by Elihu Root, one of the American delegates. An agreement embodying the reso | Unions, was signed by eight powers, China refraining from attaching her ■ ignature, it was said, because she j could not very well pass upon a docu ment expressing a policy concerning herself. One of the delegates declared w'ith reference to the agreement that "a long step already has been taken to wards formulation of the Far East question.” “The firm intention'’ of the eight signatory powers Was asserted “to respect the sovereignty, independence and tlie territorial and administra tive integrity of China.” The further intention “to provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China "to develop an effective and stable government was asserted. The purpose of the powers, iit was declared, was to use their in fluence in establishing and maintain ing the principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations throughout the territory of China.” A pledge was made "to refrain front taking advantage of the present | conditions'' in China to seek special privileges which might abridge rights of friendly nations, and also to re frain from “countenancing action in imical to the security of certain states.” Adoption of the resolution follow ing two hours’ discussion of Chinese problems at the rect nt meeting of the delegations of the nine nations on Pacific and Far Eastern questions. The discussion was said to have been general and participated in by spokes men for ;ill the principal nations rep resented. Hie Root resolution, it was learn ed. was one of tlie principal subjects of discussion recently at the meeting of the four American delegates. ALL POWERS UNITE IN PLEDGE TO CUT LAND ARMAMENTS After Briand Tells Os France's Fears, Balfour Practically Pledges British Aid If Needed V ashington. —Acting in unison again, spokesmen of tlie great powers at tlie arms conference pledged themselves to reduction of land armaments, hut, according to tlie varying 'conditions which they outlined as affecting their assurances of national security. , In a dramatic hour. Aristide Briand. j seven times premier of France, out lined tlie fears of France of an at tempt at storation of Prussianism in the former central European empires, and Arthur James Balfour, heading | t’u' British delegation, rose in his place, and, in solemn words, practical ly pledged Great Britain to the aid of France in any future threat pf tlie lust of military combination. Briand. strong man of France, ac knowledged by Lloyd-George as hav ing the.host parliamentary voice in all Europe, was at his best as in electric phrases he pictured a Germany disarm ed physically, but not morally, and. with a powerful faction preaching the doctrines of military restoration, Ger many, he : aid. could mobilize between I si \ million and seven million men trained in war, and her industrial in g< unity would enable tier to equip litem quickly ns a menace to civiliza tion and the world. Foch May Cancel Visit To Southeast Richmond. Ya. After a day devot ed by tlie entire population of Rlch i mond to paying him honor, Marshal Foeh left'for Washington en route to Harrisburg, Pa., the first scheduled stop in his transcontinental tour. There ! were reports, however, prior to his ■ departure that some portions of the j itinerary might be cancelled, the swing i through Smith Carolina and the South- j i eastern cities being mentioned as the most probable deletions, if such action . became necessary. Tax Revision Report Fassed By House Washington.- By a vote of 232 to 10i> the house approved tlie tax revision hill as rewritten in conference. The measure immediately was sent to the ’ senate, where it will he taken up with Republican leaders determined upon its tinal enactment in time for the end ing of spei lal session of congress. Be fore adopting the conference report on the bill, the house defeated, 202 I to HI, a motion from the Democratic side to semi the measure back to con ference with instructions to accept the I senate amendments. Senate In Uproar As Watson Speaks Washington.—The Ford - Newberry senatorial election contest in Michi gan was laid aside by the senate prob ably not to come formally before the body again for several weeks. After a day of discussion iu which Henry- Ford. who is contesting ihe seating of Senator Newberry, was both de nounced and defended, and which was , enlivened by a heated tilt between i Senators Williams of Mississippi and . | Watson of Georgia, Democrats, the ; , election controversy was sidetracked I tor ike revenue bill , THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON. GEORGIA. SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS ENDS REMARKABLE RECORD FOR AB. SOLUTE LACK OF TANGIBLE CONSTRUCTIVE RESULT PRESIDENT SIGNS MEASURES Only Benefit To Business And Pro* duction Has Come Through Old Democratic Legislation Washington.—The first and special session of the sixty-seventh congress ended recently, after President Har ding had visited the capitol and sign ed measures enacted in the closing hours. Chief among the measures signed by .Mr. Harding were the tax revision and maternity bills, each of which, for several months, has occupied the at tention of one branch of congress or the other. Washington.—The final adjournment of the special session of the sixty, seventh congress, says a correspond ent, accentuates a seven and a half months’ national legislative record that is the most remarkable in the ns- j tion's history for its absolute lack of tangible constructive result. Called to convene one month after j the inauguration of a Republican ex- i ecutive, with both branches over- j whelmingly in party sympathy with the president, and opened w’ith a pro posed program formidable enough to meet some of the demands of a war depressed nation, particularly as ef fecting the producing interests that had been sorely embarrassed by a cur tailment of export trading, the bald fact stands out that the gavel has fallen upon tlie extra session without one single piece of legislation having been enacted that can be even po litical or partisanly construed as, of economic value in the rehabilitation of the nation’s agricultural and com mercial interests. That these interests have overcome the tide of post-war tribulations and have taken an advanced step forward, have been in spite of and not by rea son of any legislation inaugurated or put through by th" controlling con gressiona! majority. Indeed, it was a Democrat from Georgia. Judge Charles H. Brand, v.-ho first proposed tlie re-establishment of the Demo cratic war finance corporation, anc the title of financial distress has turn ed alone by this agency and its co-or dinated federal reserve system, an other product of a former Democratic congress. The special session that has just adjourned passed a temporary tariff bill that lias already gone far toward paralyzing the sugar industry. and i correspondingly the financial integ rity of Cuba, while at the same time costing millions of dollars to Amer ican consumers, as well as further de- j stroying much of America’s pre-war trade. It has permitted the permanent tar- j iff bill to go over to the regular ses- j sion under a cowardly political fear j to pass it in its present shaps. in the ; ' face of the conference of nations now ! i in session at the seat of the nation. • ■ This tariff bill as proposed will gc , further toward tearing down the bend: j of mutuality and reciprocity in inter i national trading than any proposition ■ ever made by the American congress and the Republicans, between the up- I per and nether stones, with some of j the American money and ninnufactur j ing interests prodding them to action, have dared not pass the hill until the ; arms parley shah have closed and the ! delegates return to their respective : . hearths. Terrorism Reigns In Belfast City Belfast. Ireland. —After a day of funerals, eighteen victims of the re cent fighting being buried in various cemetf ries. Belfast was thrown into panic again November 21 by the bomb ing of a tram-car loaded with shipyard workers on their way home, in a crowded street. Two passengers were killed and six were injured. The ex plosion threw the great crowd which packed the street into wild confusion. 1 and people were trampled as they fled. ! ; Terrorism accompanied by looting ! again reigns in the city. Twenty have been killed in the recent fight ing. Os these twelve Catholics and six l’rotestants were buried on the 21st instant. Freight Rate Cut On Farm Produce Washington.—A 10 per cent reduc tion in carload freight rates on farm products coupled with reduction in railroad wages, was proposed by the carriers to the interstate commerce commission recently as a substitute for the order of the commission dated October 20. reducing rates on hay and grain shipments. The substitute chedules would be effective “for an experimental period of six months.”’ The commission was asked to reopen its decision of October 20. in order that argument might be given. President Signs The Anti-Beer Bill Washington.—The anti-medical beer bill was signed recently by President Harding Signature of the bill on which congressional action was com . pleted recently automatically closed the gap in the nation's prohibition laws. Former Brewer Take His Own Life Cincinnati. —A man identified as George Reif, 45. a former brewer of , Chattanooga. Tenn.. committed suicide recently by inhaling gas at a boarding bouse in this citv PARLEY AT WORK ON DETAILS Machi /ery Is Working So Smoothly That Observers Predict Definite Agreements Soon Washington.—The negotiations re nting to both the Far East and armament limitation moved more slow ly recently as the attention of the arms delegates passed from general policies to specific details. China’s economic embarrassments formed the text of the Far Eastern discussions, which resulted in the ap pointment of a subcommittee of repre sentatives of nine nations to study the whole subject of administrative au tonomy for the Chinese republic with particular reference to tariff and tax restrictions. The land armament problem also was considered at various informal conferences during the day, and a meeting of the armament committee of the whole was called for tomorrow with the expectation that Premier Briand. of France, would say at least a word as to his country’s attitude on reduction of armies. It is understood that he is anxious to bring the ques tions to a point of a formal expression by the conference before his departure for France. On the side of naval armament, in formal exchanges continued between individual delegates and naval experts with an air of growing confidence that details of the American plan, al though requiring considerable time for determination, would eventually bring all the powers into agreement. It is possible that the naval plan may receive some consideration at the coming meeting of the five delega tions which constitute the armament committee of the whole, but the great er attention is expected to center in land armament, in view, of the immi nence of M. Briand's departure. It is the preservation of her army, with the moral backing of the principal powers, that most interests France at the present stage of the negotiations, and it is known that M. Briand would be pleased to take back to France with him a formal conference indorsement of the position he has taken against material reduction. Whether the other delegates will be willing to go so far as to take formal action of that character just now is uncertain, although it is taken for granted that at the coming meeting there will be many general expres sions of appreciation for the reasons which impel France to maintain the largest army in the world. Land, naval and Far Eastern ques tions were talked over by Secretary Hughes recently with the American advisory committee of twenty-one, and after he had presented a report on the present status of the negotiations a number of subcommittees were in structed to prepare reports for the American delegates on various sub jects of detail. The submarine issue raised by Great Britain will be one of j the questions to be thus investigated and another whose inclusion was re garded as forecasting an entirely new angle of the negotiations will be the : use and legitimacy of new weapons of warfare. Thus far that subject has not been mentioned in the conference proper. Many Are Killed In Belfast Riots London. —War broke out again in . Belfast as the Ulster government as ! sumed control of the police establish men, November 22, taking over police affaits from the empire government. At least twenty persons are believed to have been killed by bombs or bul lets. The fighting, which had con sisted mostly of sniping during the morning, reached the height of Us fury late in the day when a bomb struck in the midst of a crowd of working men. killing twelve outright, and an , other shattered a tram-car. killing three of the passengers and wounding sixteen. 2 Persons Killed By Bomb In Belfast Belfast. Ireland. —Two persons were killed outright and eight were wound ed when a bomb exploded in a tram car carrying a load of shipyard work ers along Royal avenue. Throughout ihe day the city, which has been the scene of several outbursts of bombing and shooting within the last three days had been comparatively quiet. This new explosion, however, brings the to tal number of deaths since the disor ders began to twenty-two. Bankhead Highway Meet For Phoenix Memphis. Tenn. —Announcement is made as a result of a conference be tween Asa J. Rountree, of Birmingham. Ala., director general of the Bankhead Highway association, and representa tives of the state blanches of the or ganization in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, that the next annual meeting of the association will be held in Phoenix, Arjz , April 24-29. 1922. It is stated that advices have been re ceived from thirteen states approving the selection of Phoenix as the next meeting place. Foch Is Visitor At Naval Academ) Annapolis, Md. —A short address to the regiment of twenty-four hundred midshipmen marked the visit of Mar shal Foch to the naval academy. No vember 22. He was given a great ova tion. General Foch delivered his ad dress in the admiralty building. The * general came here from Baltimore by automobile accompanied by Governor i Ritchie. He was received by Admiral i Wilson and staff of officers of the j academy and a 19-gun salute was fired 'ln his honor. He spent little more j than an hour here HARDING SUGGESTS WORLDASSOCIATION ALSO PLAN TO SUBMIT RESULTS OF PRESENT PARLEY FOR AP PROVAL OF OTHER NATIONS DELEGATESTOMEETANNUALLY Nothing Definite In President’s Pro posal, But Delegates’ Replies Are Encouraging Washington.—ln the midst of devel opments that helped dear the air for all the -big subjects before the arms conference. President Harding let it be known recently that he had taken the first step toward a continuance of international discussions which may lead to an “association of nations.” Conferences among the nations once a year to consider whatever may men ace good understanding have been sug gested by the president informally to some of the foreign delegates and their replies are said to have encouraged a hope that a permanent plan of con sultation will receive world approval. Lacking all the properties of a formal proposal, Mr. Harding’s plan is declared to have been offered only as a personal sugestion. without any hint as to the details of its accom plishment. Whether a more formal approach to the subject will be taken before the end of the Washington con ference remains to be developed. Within the conference itself, definite progress was made in both the Far Eastern and naval negotiations and it became apparent that although the question of land armament had been laid aside for the present without an attempt to agree on limitation of ar mies, some of the delegates hoped later to translate the sentiment of the con ference into a point declaration of general policy. The naval discussions centered for the moment about Japan's recapitula tion. of her present naval strength, in connection with her hope for a modifi cation of the 5-5-3 ratio of the Amer ican plan. Experts of the British, French and Italian delegations with held their decisions but the American advisers made known their conviction, reached after examination of the Jap anese data, that no change in the ratio was warranted. Resuming the Far Eastern negotia tions, the delegations of the nine na tions approved "in principle” China's plea for amelioration of the extra ter ritorial rights now enjoyed by the pow ers. A plan of modification with a view to final abolition is expected to be worked out by an international com mission of jurists. The Harding suggestion has by no means reached the point of a definite proposal for an association of nations but it was revealed recently that the president’s personal conversations with foreign spokesmen on the sub ject had greatly increased relation ship as a result of the Washington conference. It was indicated that as a first step toward world wide recognition for the conference plan the results of the negotiations here might be submitted for approval not only to the participating nations, but to those not represented here, including Ger many and Russia, U. S. Corporation Okays Advances Washington.—Approval of 57 ad vances for agricultural and live stock purposes, aggregating $2,205,000 was announced recently by the War Fi nance corporation as follows: Ne braska, $221,000; Montana, $217,000; Colorado, $540,000; Wisconsin, $17,- 000; Illinois, $50,000; Kansas, $13,- 000; Minnesota, $100,000; North Da kota. $222,000: lowa. $691,000; South Carolina, $87,000; Texas, $131,000, and Georgia, $99,000. Railroad In Florida Sold For $90,000 Pensacola. Fla. —The Gulf, Florida and Alabama railroad, extending from Pensacola to Kimbrough, Ala., has been sold under a federal court /de cree to William Fisher, attorney, rep resenting the road's creditors. The price paid for the line was $90,000. The line is one hundred and forty three miles long. Plans of the cred itors' committee call for an ultimate extension of the road to Jasper. Ala., it is stated, following the sale. Memphis Woman Held For Murder Memphis. Tenn. —Bessie Lee Sisk is being held by the police pemPrg in vestigation into the death of Herbert Bingham, musician, who died from gunshot wounds. Before his death, Bingham is said by the police to have declared that he shot himself while cleaning a pistol, but Miss Sisk later, according to the authorities, asserted that she fired the fatal shots because of jealousy aroused by finding Bing ham in company with another woman. The woman is said to be held on a charge of murder. Red Tape Unwound To Save A Lift New York. —Red tape of Ellis Island was swiftly unwound recently to save the life of fourteen-year-old Manuel Salones. who arrived from Panama on the steamship Colon a few days since to undergo a delicate brain operation at the hands of Dr. Charles H. Fra zier of Philadelphia. The lad trav eled with funds subscribed by resi dents of Panama City, with whom he was popular because of his ambitious nature and studious habits. 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