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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop'r.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
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?E-RR¥, HOUSTON COUNTY, OA., THURSDAY MAY 11, 1922.
No. 19.
WAR fS RASING K3 PHIl
London.—An {urp.’ane bciftb was
dropped near a trau.load of American
marines on the ron 1 to Peking, Ly an
aeroplane belonging to the Chi li or
attacking army under General Wn Peij
Fu, according to the correspondent of
The Lon Times.
The bomb, lunvover, did not fall near
enough lo the tram to cause any
damage.
Peking.—Martial law was declared
in Poking. The armies of General
Chany Tso-Lln and General Wu Pei*
Fu fought continuously . The fighting
centered around Chnngsinticn, 12
miles distant. A government commun
ique says Chang T a-Lki was victor
ious in the fighting at T,Inching.
Tlie rosidenth of Peking feel safe,
nothwithstanding tlm booming of can
non heard from tiio direction of
Chang Sintien. The gates of the city
hero nro heavily, guarded. They are
being kept open, but it. is expected
they will he closed in the event of
any indication of a rush toward Peking
by defeated, troops.
Commander/ Charles T. Hutchins,
American naval attache at the lega
tion hire, returned from the battle
field. The automobile be used flew
the American flag.
He reported that firing had not
ceased during the last 36 hours. From
a hillside overlooking tho HutV’rivcr
he witnessed the operations of both
armies, with Chang Tso-Lin’s troops
holding tho village of Chang’Rintien
and the Wu Pei-Fu forces two nines
southward fighting desperately to ad
vance. •
Smoke from the cannon enveloped
the hillsides; shells were busting in
tho trenches; camels were to ho seen
transporting guns to various points
and refugees were observed running
from their homes. A vivid picture of
the seriousness of the contest was ob
tained.
About 1,000 dead or wounded wore
observed by Commander Hutchins.
Both sides appeared lo he shelling)
.wide areas. The 'elative position of
the contending forces did not seem 1o
have changed materially since the bat
tle began.
The opinion expressed by Comman
der Hutchins as Hint Wu Pel-Fu’s ob-
'ject is to push forward and capture
Peking, with a view to controlling af
fairs from the capitol. Chang Tso-
-Lin,' in a declaration, asserted that
Wu Pei-Fu was ambitious to become
a Chinese Napoleon.. He declared that
peace would not be possible until
.Wu Pei-Fu was captured, Cliang Tso*
Lin said he was willing lo resign and
assist in abolishing the Chinese sys
tem of military dictators.
The foreign legations, foreign busi
ness houses and institutions like tho
American board of missions} the
Rockefeller institute and the Ameri
can mission are flying the flags of
their respective nations conspicuously.
The streets of Peking were unusually
animated with picturesque confusion
among the people of many nations and
vehicles and animals. Frequently
stretchers, borne by coolies, were to
be seen passing through th estreats
with wounded from the fighting zone.
Camels, carts and automobiles are be
ing pressed into service to move val
uables to places of safety.
HEAVY CANNONADING REPORTEC
IN PROGRESS SOUTH OF
TIENTSIN, CHINA
U. S. Rear A
U. S. Mini,
lion
rural To Confer Witt
:er Ractardinq Prrtcc-
Of Foreigners
Poking, China.— Heavy cannonading
at last accounts was in progress at
various points along the front extend
irg from Macbang, south, of Tientsin
across the country to the vicinity ol
Peking. Fevero lighting occurred at a
point along die Hun llo river, thirty
miles south of this city, where forty
thousand troops of Con. Wu Pei-Fu,-
'SOME THINK THE COLLAPSE
THE GENOA PARLEY IS
IMMINENT
Allied Ultimatum Makes Assumption
Or Czarist A.nd Kerensky Obliga
tions Condition Of Aid
' c-acj naao nsmactnflc KtanaacaaaasH®
WAGONS ‘ !
Genoa, Italy.—-Soviet Russia must
recognize tho Czarist, and Kerensky
debts if she expects reconstructive aid
from the alien, according to tho terms ] ^
of the so-called ultimatum .just finished
by the political sub-commission of tho
conference.
• Jf RUssia will ngreo to this recogni
tion pf obligations, tho allies will make
the central Chinese leader, ondoavoroa '< tut i; nr. ■ -.into demaud tor either capital
to force a crossing in order to gain con or interest, and will seek to have their
to
trol of tho Pcking-Tientsin railroad.
Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, governor ol
M'anchurin, and head of tno opposing
forces, from his headquarters neai
Tientsin, ordered trains to convoy the
main body of his one hundred thou
sand soldiers to tho front south of the
great wail. Two Manchurian airplanes
flow over Tientsin and proceeded west
ward.
Later airplanes dropped bombs neai
the station at Hwangtsun, only a short
distanco from here.
Advices received by military attaches
here said that Wu-Pei-Fu was sending
troops northward at the greatest pos
siblo speed.
Fifty thousand eof his troops, con
centrated at Pao Tlngfu are being re
inforced from tho Yantze provinces.
Twenty thousand others, recruited from
Fhantung, are marching afainst Cluing
Tf.o-Lin’s southeastern stronghold at
Mncliang. :
Two thousand dead and wounded i
wovo-foundon-the field after tho bat
tle at Chang Sintien, outside of Pe-I
king. The booming of cannon was |
heard in Poking, but the cannonading |
ceased in tho morning hours. Despite)
the continuation of trench warfare, I
many foreigners, including legation i
legation guards, weiit outside the city |
to view the hostilities. '
Corporal Mason, an American ma-!
rino from'Colorado, was shot in the
arm
respective parliaments re ’... the
amounts due from the Soviets.
Russia, however, must not u ly rec
ognize ail her old debts in full, but also
renounce all counter-claims against the
allies, if she expects to obtain any ul
timate reduction in her debt.
Those are the provisions agreed upon
by tho political sub-commission. They
probably will be ratified villiout much
debate by the allies ancl forthwith
handed to the Russian delegation. All
advance indications nro that, those
terms will ho unacceptable to the Rus
sians. The Soviets not only must
abandon all their protestations against
recognizing the old debts, but they
must sacrifice the vci.v valuable bar
gaining asset of counter claims against
the allies far damages incurred during
invasions of the Y. hito army and for
other attacks which the Bolshevists
claim wore financed by outside na
tions.
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IT. WILL PAY)YOU TO FIGURE WITH US.
Verdict Gays Son Killed His Father
Chattanooga, Tenn.—Tho coroner’s
jury investigating the killing of Dr.
Gas Shipley, member of tho state
board of medical examiners, at Athens,
returned a verdict that the doctor came
to Ills death at tho hands of his son,
Jack Shipley. Miss Mattie Shipley,
daughter of the doctor, testified that
he rfather came home drunk, and at
tacked her mother, who is an invalid,
hut was not seriously wounded. 1 choking and otherwise bruising her.
HEARD BROTHERS
MACON, GEORGIA.
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French employees at the locomotive
works at Chang Sintien narowly os-
when a bomb, dropped from an air
plane, destroyed the works.
Gen. Wu Pie Fu is continuing to
send troops west of Poking in an en
deavor to envelope General Clmng’s
northwestern wing. This precipitated
Then the son shot the father. The
young man will be given a preliminary
hearing soon.
Croker Children May Renew Fight
New York.—The deatli of Richard
Croker may result in one of the most
intricate cases ever decided by a Unit
fighting which lasted an entire night ed States court. The ono-timo boss of
at Fcngtai, ton miles from Peking.
Florida Horticultural Meeting.
Lakeland.—The publicity committee
of the Florida state horticultural soci
ety furnishes information regarding
the convention of the society to be held
in this city May 2 to 5 which is of in
terest. Meetings of several allied or
ganizations will he held at tho same
time, including the Florida state flo
rists’s association, the former inspec
tors of tho Florida state plant hoard
and the Florida state nurserymen, and
it will be seen that a comprehensive
and interesting program has been plan
ned for the occasion.
STAND TOGETHER, MEN!
LET'S KEEP OUR OWN RAZORS
Though Clothiers Report Sartorial
vasion By Women, Men Still
Have Their Rights!
In-
Chicago.—What Julius Caesar really
meant when he uttered that immortal
line “Two can live as cheaply as one,"
was that in 11*22 both husband and
wife could wear the same clothes.
And, despite the laughter of his short-
visioned auditors of that morning on
the Rubicon, the red-headed emperor
was right, as fashion leaders at the
convention of the United National
Tammany Hall married, against his
children’s w.ishes, Beulah Benton Ed
monson, of Florida, who styles herself
an Indian prinless. Opposition of his
sons and daughters to the matlh is
said to have embittered tho father so
deeply that he revoked early wills in
whihh the estate, then estimated at
nearly ten million dollars, was to have
been divided between them.
Another Indictment Against Morse
New York.—The hand of the federal
government is once more reaching out
toward C. W. Morse in connection
with his offensive shipping operations
during the war. Morse, his three sons
and twenty others, seme formerly high
in the councils of tho domocratic party
Clothiers’ Association convention here'. 01 ’ £ (,riliel 'ly associated with the United
can toll you. The sign on the door, ® a, - GS shipping board, were indicted
’ ” ’ ’ • ’ charged
mails to
stock of
you.
“Gents’ Furnishings,” doesn't mean
anything any more, they say.
Women, according to W. L. Mohr,
by tho federal grand jury here
with conspiracy to use tho
defraud investors in selling
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of Batteries.
New Willard Batteries in stock.
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GALVIN E. McLENDON, Prop’r.
PERRY - GA.
DON’T BE DECEIVED .
Buy your Goods for Cash and I will sell you, Grocer
ies, Hardware, Enamehvare, Crockery, Stoves/ Ranges,
Glassware, Churns, Etc., CHEAPER, fian any man in
Perry. I am in business to stay: I know that all Mer
chandise is cheaper than it was six months ago; I have
taken my loss and if you buy from me I will not sell you
one article for less than cost and make it up on something
else. All I ask is an opportunity to meet honest compe
tition on any line I sell. ?
Lets Forgetthe Blues, Go To Work a yd Make
The Best of It.
J. W. BLOODWOKTH
i“THE FARMERS FRIEND. - ’ .
PERRY, - GEORGIA.
secretary, are buying all kinds of men’s ) United States S eamship company
clothes for themr.o! ves. '
Tennessee Lr.'-or Convention Opens
Memphis, Tern —The Tennessee
State Federation of Labor met in an
nual convention here with more than
a hundred prominent state and national
labor leaders in attendance. The con
vention will conti-ue several days.
They are buying knickers, hundreds
of them; they are buying men’s felt
hats; men’s shirts and soft collars and
string ties for their own wear.
“Tho only thing trey aren't buying
so far is men’s trousers,” it was stated.
“It. may come to that, Athletic women
ere buying all kinds of men’s aeon -
sories for sport purposes.”
Decision Postponed In Red River Case
Washintgon.—The Supreme court
has declined to decide at this time
what constitutes the south bank of
the Red river—an issue in the contro
versy bet wo n Texas and Oklahoma
Involving rich oil lands—but in an opin
ion delivered by Justice Van Devar.ter
declared the claim of Oklahoma to the
bed of the ;. w, was not well founded.
Founder Of G. O. P„ S3, Is Dead
Chicago.—Edmund Abbott .West, re
puted to have been one of the founders
of the Republican party, who celebrat
ed his 99th birthday anniversary re
cently, died here the other day. His
death was caused by pneumonia con
tracted on his birthday. .
New -- EevcricPe Race In b-.di v •’
. Indianapolis.—Senator Harry S. Is a v J
and Albert J. Beveridge were running |
neck ana neck for the Republican j
nc-mii: 'ion for the senate- on the face;
re urns from the recent pr : -j
Compilations from 158 widely (
a precincts throughout ibel
.vo Now 9,033 and Beveridge i
of ea
! rnnry.
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Gays Japr
Peking. <:
lonflictirq.'. r
raging on •
it is evide:
Wu Pei Fu,
vading ui
are standi;
army apye
Assist Chinese Invader
a.—Out of the name of
/ts from the battles now
• fronts around Peking,'!
that (be forces of Gem.
'.} :ing to bold off tlie in-
J Gen. Chang Tso Lin,
Lbeir ground. Neither
to have* yet. won any stra
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