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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS! British Cabinet Succeeds in Its Efforts to Settle the Coal Miners' Strike. EMERGENCY- ACT IS PASSED Government Ready for Any Contingency Contingen-cy Irish Everywhere Deeply Affected Af-fected by MacSwiney's Death Prince Paul Offered Greek Throne American Farmers' Farm-ers' "Strike" by Hold-ing Hold-ing Wheat. The coroner's inquest oc MacSwiney was held Wednesday. The British jury refused to accept the position that MacSwiney was a suicide, bringing bring-ing in a verdict that "The deceased died from heart , failure due to a dilated di-lated heart and acute delirium, following follow-ing scurvy due to exhaustion from prolonged pro-longed refusal to take food." The body was then taken to St. George's cathedral in Southwark, where it lay in state. Thursday requiem high mass was said and . then a' tremendous throng of Irish and their sympathizers accompanied the casket to Euston station, sta-tion, whence it was taken to Cork. In that city arrangements were made for the final ceremonies on Sunday, and there was a great deal of uneasiness over what might accur. The authorities authori-ties placed no limit on the size of the procession, forbidding only military formations. The people of Cork were said to be in sullen and threatening mood. The Irish sympathizers in the United Uni-ted States are not letting up any In the Lithuanians in an offensive against the 1'oles. The plan, apparently, appar-ently, is first to drive Zellgouski out of Vilna and then sweep southward to Suwalki, Grodno and the Ossowiecs fortress. The matter of Vilna was referred re-ferred to a plebiscite by the council of the League of Nations. Last Tuesday the council adopted the plan for a permanent court of international in-ternational justice recommended by The Hague committee of jurists, with the exception of the provision for obligatory jurisdiction. The plan was in large measure the work of Elihu Hoot. The council closed its session Thursday. Some of the farmers of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Northwestern North-western states began last week their "strike" against the low price of wheat on the Chicago board of trade. Following the instructions of their organization or-ganization leaders, they are withholding withhold-ing their wheat from the market, and By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Excepting for our presidential campaign, cam-paign, of whose closing days there is little or nothing to say, the affairs of Great Britain supplied the most interesting inter-esting and important news of the week. The strike of the coal miners, with Its threats of further arid greater economic troubles, added to the Irish problern, gave the British enough to worry over and these two matters continued con-tinued to draw the attention, sympathetic sympa-thetic or otherwise, of the English-speaking English-speaking world. Prime Minister Lloyd George and his cabinet were unremitting in their efforts to settle the miners' strike, and on Thursday it was announced that they had succeeded, if the miners would accept the plan. After repeated conferences with the labor leaders a tentative agreement was reached. The settlement upon which the miners' min-ers' delegates, coal mine owners, and the government are agreed is a very complicated one. Briefly the men get a sliding advance of two shillings to one shilling six pence, according to age as was originally demanded. The miners and owners solemnly pledge to co-operate to secure an increased in-creased output of coal. National and district committees are to be established estab-lished immediately to control the output out-put and a joint national wage board will be established at the earliest possible pos-sible time before March 31 for regulation regula-tion of wages for the whole Industry, with regard to profits of the industry and the principles on which profits should be dealt with. The miners' executive committee was to submit the settlement to the miners' federation for approval, so the return of the men to the pits will not be delayed. de-layed. The railway men and transport workers, in view of the hopeful character char-acter of the negotiations, postponed any action looking to a sympathetic strike. Though very optimistic, the government govern-ment made ready for all contingencies by rushing through to final passage its emergency bill. This arms the government govern-ment with added powers to enforce the law in case the strike continues and the rail and transport men become be-come involved. Though it was passed by a large majority, some concessions were demanded and received by the labor la-bor party. The law as enacted provides pro-vides that nothing in the act shall be construed as authorizing the proclamation procla-mation of any form of compulsory military mil-itary service or industrial conscription conscrip-tion or make it an offense for any person per-son to participate in a strike or peacefully peace-fully persuade any other person to participate in a strike. Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, finally succeeded in starving himself to death in Brixton jail, a "martyr" in the cause of Irish freedom. free-dom. The second death among the hunger strikers in prison in Cork also was recorded. These events deeply stirred all the Irish, in Ireland and America as well, and there were numerous nu-merous masses and other ceremonies In connection with the deaths. The British authorities' took every precaution precau-tion to guard against outbreaks, and presumably the.Vjwere seconded in this by the wiser among the Sinn Fein leaders. For the latter know that these would but bring on more reprisals re-prisals and further repression. their activities. The other day a delegation dele-gation of them, headed by Frank P. Walsh, presented to Secretary of State Colby arguments favoring the recognition recogni-tion of the "new republic of Ireland." Mr.- Colby listened without comment, but cautioned Mr. Walsh, when reference refer-ence was made to Eamonn de Valera as "president" of Ireland, that as secretary sec-retary of state he could hear them only on the understanding that they were there as American citizens and not as representatives of officials of the Irish people. "We demand recognition, not as a favor," said Mr. Walsh, "but as a right. The Irish republic is now established estab-lished as a de jure and de facto government. gov-ernment. Its stability and representative representa-tive character are attested by the Indorsement In-dorsement of the ballots of 90 per cent of the Irish people. The courts of the Irish republic are functioning daily and their decisions are respected by the entire population." Though not so important an event as it would have been before the World war, the death of the king of Greece may lead to developments of some moment in that country. Alexander Alex-ander died on Monday as the result of a monkey bite. The state council at once decided that the throne should be offered to his younger brother, Prince Paul, but stipulated that if .he accepted accept-ed former King Constantin nust foi mally renounce his claim te the crowii. Paul let it be known that his decision must be made by his father. There Is a chance that if he declines the throne will he offered to Prince Christopher, Chris-topher, Constantine's brother, who early in the year married Mrs. William Wil-liam B. Leeds, an American. Still more likely, however, is the establishment establish-ment of a republic, probably with Premier Pre-mier Venizelos as its first president. The expected concerted movement of the Reds against Baron Wrangei in southern Russia has not developed very rapidly, possibly because the Bolshevik) Bol-shevik) are too much occupied in combating com-bating revolts within the territory which they control. The latest of these outbreaks are reported to be In the regions of Odessa. Kherson and Podo-lia. Podo-lia. That the situation In tlje Moscow-district Moscow-district is serious for the soviet government gov-ernment is indicated by the fact that Dzersjinski, president of the extraordinary extraor-dinary executive committee, has been appointed commander in chief of all iSe troops there. He is the most brutal bru-tal of all the Bolshevist leaders and is considered responsible for much of the Red terrorism and for many "murders. Meanwhile Wrangei continues to in--flirt defeats on his adversaries and to capture prisoners and material; and he dees not seem to have lost any ground to the Reds. The ail-Russian soviet has ratified the peace treaty with Poland, and has given the Poles more territory than they asked at first, in return for a pledge not to help Wrangei. Being informed by their military missions in Lithuania that large bodies' bod-ies' of well equipped German troops were crossing into that country from East Prussia and concentrating in the Kovno region, the allies protested to Berlin, but the German foreign office replied that it was powerless to prevent pre-vent the movement. It was supposed the Germans were preparing to assist the effect of decreased receipts began to be felt at once. In the vicinity of Wichita, Kan., farmers picketed the roads, urging those on their way to the elevators to turn back. The wheat raisers of Iowa were nrged to take part in the "strike" by E. A. Cunningham, secretary of the state farm bureau, who said the Iowa wheat crop cost $1.88 a bushel to harvest har-vest and the oats crop cost 75 cents a bushel. He blamed manipulation for the recent sharp declines in prices of grain. "There is no justification for the tremendous break in the market," he said. "We believe a reaction must come. We urge every farmer to withhold with-hold his commodities. "The station cannot become more serious and a further decline can do nothing more than to add to the seriousness seri-ousness of the situation. On the other hand, a reasonable reaction would probably avoid financial ruin." The farmers are asked by Mr. Cunningham Cun-ningham to buy nothing but essentials. Farmers complain that they have to pay high rates to borrow money to handle the bumper crops. Meanwhile Canadian- wheat, which Is coming into the United States duty free for milling purposes, is being bought in large quantities by mills and exporters In this country. The duty on Canadian wheat was taken off by President Pres-ident Wilson at the suggestion of Wheat Director J. H. Barnes in tho effort to reduce the cost of living. It was expected that in this way our millers would be enabled to lower the price of flour ; the effect was limited, however. For the first time since he was taken ill more than a year ago President Presi-dent Wilson delivered a speech on Wednesday. A group of pro-league Republicans, headed by Hamilton Holt, called on him in the White House, and in response to their address ad-dress he spoke, from his wheel chair, in defense of the league covenant an lie brought it from Paris. In uphold ing article 10 he said: "It is the spe citie pledge of the members of tli( league that they will unite to resist exactly ex-actly the things which Germany attempted, at-tempted, no matter who attempts them in the future. It is as exact a definition defini-tion as could be given, in general terms of the outrage which Germany would have committed if it could." Instead of being a threat of war, he said later, article 10 is "an assurance assur-ance of the concert of all the free peoples peo-ples of the world in the future, as in the recent past, to see justice (lone and humanity protected and vindicated. vindicat-ed. This is the true, the real Americanism. Ameri-canism. This is the role of leadership and championship of the right which the leaders of the republic intended i that it should play. The so-called Americanism which we hear so much prating about now is spurious and invented in-vented for party purposes only." One sporting event closed last week and another began. In the international internation-al balloon race, in this country, the Belgian entry Belgica was declared the winner. On Saturday there was sailed, off Halifax, the first race of a contest between the fishing schooners Esperanto and Delawanna, the representatives repre-sentatives respectively of 'the Xmv England and Canadian fleets. The contest is officially recognized by tho governments of this country and the Dominion. |