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CAN YOU SEE AROUND A CORNER?
on
o
wiithdraw
ail
workers,
including
pumbmen
and
engineers.
{rom the piis
Sir Robert
Horne
rejoined
that this
was
a oreat
decision
and
that
he hoped
that
hofore adopting
such
a
course
the
miners
would reconsider
it
He
offered
to meet
the
miners
executives
at
any
:‘ime
to-
moirrow.
The
exc<cutives
ot
the
triple
alliance
made
up of the
miners,
the rail
vaymen
and
the ‘ransport
worKkers,
held
a
private
preliminary
meeting
today.
They
will
reassemble
tomorrow
to
dis-
euss
lis
enurse
»f action.
Birmingham,
March
31st.
—Mr. Austin
Chamberlain,
who
recently
was
eiected
leader
of the House
of Commons,
resign-
ing the Chancellorship
of
the Exehequer
on being appointed
Lo:d Privy Seal,
was
formallv
reelected
to
parliament
today
from
the
west
division of Blrmingiam.
Mr. ‘hamberiain
was
unopposed
at
the
polls
The changes
in his official
siatus
nece=sitated
his
seeking
reelection
to
parliament.
'
Berlin,
March
3lst.—That
the
Govt.
b:lleves
tne day of a Communist
rising in
Barlin is pasrisshown
by the removal
yes-
tordoy of the barbed
wire barricades
and
the reonzning
of
Wilthelm Strasse
trar-
fic as
well
as
a marked
reduction
in the
number
oi._sentinels.
The
communists
hava
failed
to ' revail
on
the
Berlin
workers
to strike.
London,
Mareh 31st.--{ne
irial of war
crime
prisoners
in Germany
apparently
has
peen
fturther delayed,
aczcording
to
a
despatch
to the London
Times
from
Ber-
lin.
Depositions
by
English
witnesses,
savs
the
despateh
have
heen
found
not
to
conform
wiin
the
provisions
of
the
German
procedure.
A
member
of
the
Govt. law office is
to be
sent
to Englaad
at
the end of April
to participate
in the
h=aring
of
witnesses
in
the three
cases
cited by
the British
Govt.
for trial.
Havana
March
30th.—Jose
R. Capab
lanca,
the
Cuban
chess
master,
tonight
defeated
Dr.
Samuel
iasher,
the
Ger-
man
experi
in
the
fifth
game
of
the
world
cnampi'nship.
The
end
of
the
game
came
after
46
moves.
Tonight’s
game
was
the first
decisive
result
of the
tournament,
the
four
previous
games
having
been
drawn.
Budapest,
March
30th.—Count
Ste
fan
Betlen,
fully empowered
to act for
the
safety
of
the State
as
the plenipo-
tentiary of Regent
Horthy, has
been
sent
to
Steinamanger,
the
western
Hunga-
rian
town
near
the
Austrian
border,
where
ex-emperor
Charles
has
taken
refuge
after
a
vain
attempt
to regain
the
throne.
London,
March
3lst.—An
Exchange
telegraph
despatech
from
Paris
today
says
it
is
reported
the
majority of the
Hungarian
troops
have
rallied
to
thz
standard
of exemperor
Charles.
Vienna
Marceh
31st
—The
republicans
in this city exaitanily declare
that
the
vi-
sit of Charles
in Rulapest
and
the fiasco
attending
his
atteampt
to
regain
power
have
dashed
whatover
chanee
may
have
existad
for
the restoration
of
the
monar:
chy,
#ither in Hungary
or Austria.
Mon-
arciists
reiuctantly admit
that
a
restora-
rion
seems
impossibie.
Paris,
Viarch 31st.— Ex-emperor Charles
crossad
the
fr nti2r
between
Hungary
and
Ausivia
on
Saturday
by
producing
a
foreign
passport,
which
represented
nim as
a red
cross
official, says
a Havas
despateh
trom Vienna.
Rome,
March
3lst.— Count
Siorza,
Italian
Foreign
3Minister
has
been
in-
formed
by
the
Huangarian
Minister
to
Italy
tha*
Admira;
{dorthy.
Hungarian
Regent,
desires
to keep
hi:
word,
which
was given
the
Allirs,
not
to
allow
the
restorauon
of
tue
Hapsburgs
in
Hun-
gary
Berlin,
March
3lst —Further
long
notes
have
been
exchanged
between
tite
inter-allied
commission
and
Ger-
many
in
which
the
Allies
claim
that
Germany
has
failed
to
eomplete
the
dilivery of arms
and
material
from
for-
tresses
and
the
German
Govt.
in
de
tailed explanations
ciaim it has
retained
only armssufficien:
‘or an army of 100,000
and
foriress
materials
absolutely
ne-
cessary.
Germany
denies
that
she
has
intfringed
anvy
of
the
provisions
of the
peace
treaty
relating
to- cisarmament
ard fortresses
an:!
says
that
she
is will-
ing
“to
submit
any
points-
at
* variarnce
with
the
Allies
to
an
impartial
court
®t arbitrati
n.
i.ondon, March 31st. -Sir Robert
Horne,
President
of
the
Board
of
Trade,
to-
day
succeeded
Mr.
Austen
Chamberlain
as
Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Washington,
March
381st.— Problems
involving
trke
collection
by
France
of
reparations
from-Germany
were
discuss-
ed by Vivia i, envoy
extraordinary from
the
French
Republic,
with
Senator
Lodge,
Chairman
of
the
Foreign
Rela-
tions
Committee,
and
other
United
States
officials at
a
dinner
tendered
the
former French
Premier tonight
by
Am-
bassador
Jusserand.
Athens,
March
3lst.—The
Greeks
have captured
Avghin and
held it against
22
Turkish
couuter-attacks,
says
the
official
communication
issued
today,
Kovalitza
also
has
been
taken
by
the
Greeks.
Paris,
March
31st.—A
decision
was
reached
today
by the financial
commis-
sion of the
League
of Nations
to
send
a
commission
to Austria consisting
of three
persons
to
investigate
relief
pians
in
that
country.
The
investigation
will
cover
a peridd of
from
5 to six
weeks.
The
decision
was
reached -after
Baron!
Eichhoff,
the
Austrian
Ambassador
to
France,
had: addressed
the Commission.
THE HOME PAPER
By X
When
the evenin’ shade
is fallin’ at
the
°
endin’ o’ the day,
An’
a feller
rests
from
labor
smokin’
his pipe o’ ciay.
There’s nothin’ does
him
so much
good,
be fortune
up or dewn,
g
As
the little
country
paper
‘rom
his
ol’ home
town.
[t’s ain’t
a thing
o’ beauty
an’ its
print
ain’t always elean,
But ir straightens
ont his
temper
when
a ieller’s
feel ng mean:
.
It
takes
the
wrinklesof
his
face,
an’
blushes
off his frown:
['hat
little
country
paper
from
his
ol’
home
town.
It tells of all the parties’ar’
bells
of Pun-
'
kin Row,
s
.~
‘
"Bout who spent
Sunday
with kis
girl,
and how
the crops
will grow:
How it keeps
a feller posted
’bout who is
up an’ whn is down-
:
T'bat
lirtle country
papér
from
his.
ol’
home
towh,
,
.
Now,
I like to read
the dailies,
an’
the
story
papers,
too,
-
An’
at
times
the
yellow
novels
at’
some
>ther
trash - don’t you?
But when
1 want
some
readin’
that
will
-
brush
away
a frown,
:
I
want that
little paper
from
my
ol’
home
town.—Good
Hardware.
THE RURAL EDITOR’'S I.OT.
A
child is born
in the neighbourhood:
the
editor gives
the
loud-lunged
young
ster
and
the happy
parents
a sendeff
and
gets
§so.oo.
It
is
christened
and
the
minis
er
gets.
$6
and
the
editor
SO.OO
The editor
blushes
and
tells
a dozen
lies
aboui
the
beautitul
and
accomplished
bride.
The
minister
geis $lO. and
a piece
of cake
and
the editor gets
SO.OO.
In the
course
of time
she
d'es;
the
doctor
gets
from
§sls
to SIOO,
the
minister
gets
per-
haps
another
$5,
the
undertaker
gets
trom
$75
to
S2OO,
tht editor
prin‘s
an
obituary two columns
long and
a
card
of
thanks
and
gets
SO.OO
- No
wonder
so
n:any
small
town editors
get rich.
Have
you paid your subscription,
:
:
—Altamont
Times.