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REGRETFUL SURPRISE IS EX
PRESSED ON ULTIMATUM SEN I
TO RUSSIA BY ENGLAND
:TRONG ANTI - JAPANESE SEN 11.
MENT PREVAILS — CHINESE
troops Mutiny
JOHN H. HODGES, Prop'r.
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DEVOTED TO :*O.V5 INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
$1,50 a Y^r In Advance
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY ,24 1923.
CONFERENCE IS PROPOSED
Note Offers To Settle By Arbitration
The Questions Raised By Russian
Seizures Of British Trawlers \
Moscow.—Soviet Russia’s note to
Great Britain, the text of which was
given out here, is couched in concila-
tory terms. Expressing regretful sur
prise at the ultimatum, it proposes a
conference at a time and place to be
arranged with England at which re
sponsible representatives of both gov
ernments. shall discuss not oply the
disputed secondary questions raised in
the British note, hut shall also regular
ize fully the relations between Russia
and Great Britain. .
While admitting that Russia natural
ly sent money to the Russian repre
sentatives in Persia, it says the Brit-
isii are over-suspicious in thinking that
Prussia has no ,use for money in thcl
east' other thfth for propaganda. 7'
The note disavows responsibility for
tke third (Moscow) Internationale. It
offers to settle by arbitration the ques
tions raised by the Russian seizure of
British trawlers and compensate the
families of Charles V. Davidson, an
English civil engineer executed in Rus
sia in .1920, and of another British sub
ject, if the British will agree to give
compensation for the long imprison*
ment bf several Russians in England
and India.
With regard to the two notes sent
to England signed by “Weinstein,”
which Mr. Hodgson, the British agept
in Moscow returned, complaining that
they werje couched in offensive lan
guage, the reply says the first note
returned by Mr. Hodgson was never
sent again to the British government,
and, therefore, must be regarded as,
unsent, while the second letter did not
contain anything offensive. These
were in reply to Mr. Hodgson’B protest
against the execution of Monsignor
Butchkavitch. :
“Ultimatums and threats,” it de
clares, “are not the way to settle pri- ;
vate and relatively unimportant mis
understandings between states and in
any case the establishment of correct
relations with the Soviet republic is
not attainable by this means.”
“Great Britain speaks of the numer
ous challenges which Russia has thrown
to Great Britain,” says the note, add
ing:
< “The Soviet government permits it
self to assent the complete baseless-
iness of such a statement.” ,
Spanish Nation In Need Of Teachers
Madrid, Spain.—-The Spanish; nation
finds extreme difficulty in obtaining ele-
mentary school teachers,, of whom a fur
ther 28,000 are required in order to pro
vide the millions of illiterate children
with education. The reason for the
shortage is the small salaries offered
to elementary educators,: who.begin, with
only 2,000 pesetas yearly, and may, with
great good luck, reach 2,500 after 25
^ears’ service. There are naturally
some posts'ih the profession which are
'better paid, but these; are . few and far
between.
Statistics Show Higher Costs Of Goods
New York.—Advance in prices' of
which we. are just now hearing so much,
is by no means confined to the United
States. The Trade Record of the Na
tional City Bank of New York, which
has made a careful analysis of prices
abroad at (he end of 1922 compared
with the same month one year earlier,
finds- an ;eyidence that price advances
in ail parts of the world are in nearly
as. large proportion as in the United
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BANDITRY IN_S!_X PKES
Three Captlvos Are Hurlod Over Prec-
iplce By Train Bandits Near
Brigands’ Strongholds
Pekin.—-Banditry in six provinces,
anti-Japanese riots in one province, Jap
anese boycotts in several, piracy 911 the
southern, coast and up the southern riv
ers, war in three provinces and warlike
preparations in.a fourth are the out
standing problems • of the past few
weeks .which ai$...confronting the Cl}i-,
nose government.... j
j^t the head of the list owing to the
international coniplications , involved,
stands' the! Snohow outrage, ‘iiv which'
a'strong force of bhndits froriT Shah-
tung and Hoiian provinces raided the
Pekin ' Shanghai express May 6 and
kidnaped a number of . foreigners; in
cluding some American's/1 ymer; stilli ate
held prisoners, ; : t >,( ,/M-.
s At Tangshan, in Chihli ipnoyip^e,. re
cently, Cliinese froop^ mutinied (ind| at
tempted’ to, .loot a^nati^e ba i nk| / ,,War-
ilig damage to the railroad, which 1 it 1 Is.
their duty to guard, American troops it
Tientsin were ’ ordered' out. They re-'
tired without taking action'when it WdS *
found the- railway Was 1 hot' threatened,
but.itlie United States 1 soldiers are be-i
ing held ready to act> in an emergency, ;
A dispatch from Shanghai says, that
three Chinese captives takpn ; by the
Sucho.yr train bandits in tjie raid, on
the Shanghai-Pekin express, have been
hurled to their death over a precipice
near the brigands’ mountain stronghold
as 1 a warning that, negotiations for the
release of the foreign prisoners must
be brought to a ! speedy termination, ac-
cording, to an unconfirmed message re
ceived from. Lincheng.
Muasolini To Give Suffrage Right
Rome, Italy.—Premier Mussolini, has
promised that his government Will ac
cord the vote to certain categories of
women and this has met with the
heartiest approval from the delegates
to the ninth congress of the interna-
;ional suffrage alliance, which opened
Its sessions here. The premier’s dec
laration on;the subject afforded the del
egates a thrill and the discussion that
followed it overshadowed all other
lueatlons. ,f .
Radicals .Jailed, Ip! Los Angeles
Los Angeles.—A determined drive
:o rid Los Angeles, and the Sap Pedro
ttarbor district of their I. W. W, ele
ment has begun and the police have
raided four trolley cars with asserted
•adicals Whom they arrested on the
itreets of San Pedro. One hundred
ind forty cops, under the supervision
if Gapt. Clyde L. iPlummer, of San Pe*
iro, and Chief of ; Police Louis D.
Daks, began, the taek of , "restoring
peaoe, and . order” ip the, harbor. dis-,
iartetr * ,, . ..... ,
Exploding,, (Boiler, trills., Two ,IV|en
Lake, Misa.r-A 'terrific, boiler ex'plo-
lion took place here recently, killing two
legroes and slightly, jb juriag a fireman.
The boiler was blown 600 feet, break
ing down two large telegraph poles,
scattering flues In all 'directions, final
ly landing • between the depot and the
ijoroer drug store. A large cottonwood
;roe in front of the postoffice was de
molished. Another boiler that was Bet
Aside about 100 feet from the mill was
Struck by the exploded boiler in passing
;ind went throqgh (,he front.porch of Dr.
•M. Moody’s residence.
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Arnrisd Bandits Hold Up Employees
New York.—Holding twenty employ
ees of the Ostermoor & Co. mattress
manufacturers, at bay, three armed
bandits-robbed the treasurer of $1,500)
They, escaped, in . an automobile, passing
.police headquarters in their flight. Most,
of the. employees.;'who were lined up
againstkhe wall were girls. The stolen
money wasjwt of- th,e factory pay
roll. ;■ The~bandits’ ,car r Was parked two
blocks from..police headquarters.
Society Leaders Fleeing bjew, York
t] New York.—Eighty New York society
[ leaders have appeared before the grand
jury investigating ^poison pen” letters
l received by prominent New Yorkers
within the' last’ few years.' The' probe •
Into the “poison letter” 'case, which' re-r
suited iri, the indictment of George Max*,
well, the music publisher, on charges
)f pending an objectionable missive to
Allan A. Ryan, the financier, has caus-
3d many wealthy women to flee the city
Id j escape! lappearing; before a .grand-.
jury, which' is at present making a ther- j
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|0EFICIT OF $110,000 IS SHOWN-
report is ready for
GOVERNOR
Milledgeville.—Sixty-five and one-
urth cents a day is the total amount
quired to maintain each patient in
,e Georgia State senatarium, accord
ing to the report of the board of trus
ses of the state hospital for the in
ane that was completed recently for
nibmission to Governor Thomas W.
ardwick.
This amount of money not only sup
plies each patient with the necessaries
of life, according to the report, but
Jmys for medical attention and hos-
iltal treatment, During 1922,the cost
if each of the patients in the hospital
throughout, the'year Was $238:04, as
cornparied with, a cost of $240.72 int,
921. This exceedingly low cost to the
state of maintaining its needy , wards.
,is attributed to the great efficiency of
management of the state hospital, and
he careful economy of the men in
barge.; t ■
But despite the low cost of main-'
gaining the sanitarium, the legislative
’appropriations for 1922 were insuffi
cient to meet the expenses of open-
,tion. The summary in the yeport to
be governor shows that th,e cash lia-
iiities of the sanitarium at the close
f the year exceeded its resources by
76,137.15, Included- in . the resources ;
.owever are $5,282.81 in “receivable's"
hich are of doubtful value. Supplies
how a shrinkage of $26,924.17.
The 1921 report of the board to the
’governor estimated ' the deficit at
260,650.00, for which an appropria-
ion Was asked, but the legislature
anted only $150,000.00, and conse-
uently an approximate deficit of f 110,-
00.00 remains which sanitarium of-
icials hope will be made up by legis-
atiye appropriations for; 1923.
The report shows that 3,972 patients
esided in the sanitarium at the, close
f 1922, which is an-: increase of 74
er the previous year. The increase
patients during the past ten years
as been 688, an annual increase of
bout' 68. 1 each year)
Illiteracy Drops In Butts County
Jackson.—A striking decrease in illlt*
.•acy in Butts county in the five year
leriod since 1918 is shown in the Ilg-
ires compiled in the recent school cen-
ivjs, The figures reveal there are only
i white children in the county unable
Jo read and write. The total number
pi white school children is 6,641 and
hie per cent of illiteracy is 1 3-10 ot
«ie per! cent There are 85 school cjill*
Iren unable to read and write, out of
total of 2,095, making the per cent)
of illiteracy for colored 4 per cent. <
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New Cotton Concern Is Organized
Summerville.—The Jolly Cotton com-
J - has been organized here, and the
fners, J. L. Jolly, of Rome, and E. A,
cmard, of Summerville, have applied
a, charter for the new enterprise,
vhich will have a capital stock of $50,-
00, The principal office will be at
Stimmerville. The trade to be carried
Dni by the corporation will be that of a
general cotton and warehouse business,
the dealing in spot cotton and cotton
for future delivery, cotton products, fer
tilizers, seeds, etc.
.
Bank Clerk Is Assistant Comptroller
Washington.—Willis J. Fowler, who
sneered the government service from
?oyt Wayne, Ind,, in 18S6 as a $900
i year clerk, has been appointed first
leputv comptroller of the currency, and
rosjeph W. McIntosh, formerly, of Chica
go land now director of finance of the
Emergency Fleet corporation, has been
aaihed deputy comptroller, of agricul-
—a credit corporations. ‘ -
Ivp Tramps Killed In Train Wreck
Independence, -Nans.—Five tramps,
ding on a freight train, near hexe, were
Ihd when 'sixteen “cars went into a
Itch. Two other men stealing., a ride .
{he train were injured, one serious-
The dead and injured were taken
Mound Valley. . J ■■ r .-, T
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