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 Con contingent cy irish everywhere deeply af fectea by death prince paul offered greek throne american farmers strike by hold ing wheat by EDWARD W PICKARD excepting for our presidential cam laign closing days daya there Is little or nothing to say the affairs of great gibat britain supplied tho the most interesting and important news of the week the strike of the coal miners with its threats of furt further lier and greater economic troubles added to the lie irish problem pio blem gave the alie british enough to worry over tind these two matters continued to draw tile the attention sympathetic or otherwise of tho the english speaking world prime Aff nister lloyd george and ills cabinet were unremitting lit in their efforts to settle the miners strike and on oil thursday it was announced that they had succeeded it if tho the miners w would accept the plan after repeated conferences with the labor lenders leaders a tentative agreement was reached the settlement upon which the miners delegates coal tat no owners and tile the government are agreed Is a very cry complicated one briefly tho 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 operate cooperate co to secure till an increased output of coal national und and district committees are arc to be immediately to control tile the output and a joint national wago wage board will ile be established at the earliest possible time before march 31 for regulation of wages for the whole industry with regard to profits of tho the industry find the principles on which profits should bo be dealt with the miners executive committee was waa to submit the settlement to the miners federation for approval so the alie return or of the men to the pits pita will not be delayed tho the railway men and transport w workers in view of the hopeful character of tile the negotiations postponed any action looking to a sympathetic strike though very optimistic tho the government made ready for nil contingencies by rushing through to final passage its ita emergency bill this arms the government with added powers to enforce the law tit in case tile tho strike continues and ami the rail and transport men become involved though it was passed by n large majority some concessions were demanded and received by the labor party tile the law as enacted provides that nothing in the net act shall bo be construed as authorizing the proclamation of any form of compulsory military service or industrial dionor ion or make it an offense for tiny any person to participate in a strike or peacefully persuade any other person to participate lit in a strike terence macswiney lord mayor ot cork finally succeeded in starving himself to death in brixton jail it martyr in tile the causo cause of irish freedom donaj the second death among the f r strikers in prison in cork also was recorded these events deeply r jirred till all the lie irish in iii ireland and america at as well find there were numerous musses masses ond anti other ceremonies la in connection with the lie deaths the hellish british authorities took every precaution to guard against outbreaks and presumably they were seconded deil in tills this hy tile the wiser among tile sinn fein leaders for the latter know that lint these but bring rn more moir re kt asals aid further cepro slon fon the coroners inquest on macswiney was held wednesday tho the british i jury ury refused to accept the position t that hat macswiney was a suicide bringing i ng in a verdict that the deceased died from heart failure due to it a dilated heart and acuto acute delirium following scurvy due to exhaustion from prolonged refusal to take food the body was then taken to st georges Georgo 8 cathedral in southward Bouth South wark 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 huston euston station 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 accor tho the authorities placed no limit on the size of the procession forbidding only military formations tho the people ota cork were said to be in sullen and threatening mood tho the irish in the united states are not telling letting up any ariy in their activities the other day a delegation of them headed by frank 11 walsh presented to secretary of state colby arguments favoring the reco recognition atit or of the now new republic of ireland mr colby listened without comment but bill cautioned sir mr walsh when reference was anade to eamonn do valera as president of ireland that as secretary of state lie ho could hear thorn them only on tile understanding that they were thero there as 01 american citizens anti not tia as representatives of officials of the irish people wo inao demand recognition not as a favor said mr walsh but its as a right the irish republic Is now established as n do jure and do de facto gov ern eminent ment its stability and representative character are attested by tile tho in dor of the ballots of 00 per cent of the irish people tho the courts of the irish republic are arc functioning dally and their decisions are arc respected by the ilia entire population though not so important on an event as it would have been before the world the death of the king of greece may lead to developments level oam oil is of some moment lit in that country alexander died on monday as tile result of a monkey bite the alio state council fit at once decided abat the ho throne should be offered to ills hla younger you 1 nger brother brot lier prince paul but stipulated that if lie accepted 1 I former aln 4 constantine must formally hs clelia to tho crown paul lot let it bo be known that ills his decision must be arda by ills ilia father there Is a chance that tf if lie ho declines the ilia throne will be offered to prince christopher brother who early in the year married mrs william it leeds an american still more likely however Is tile the establishment ot of a republic probably with premier venizelos as its first president nt the expected concerted movement of the reds n haron baron in southern russia has not developed very rapidly possibly because the lie are too much occupied in combating revolts within the ha territory gry which they control te latest ot of these outbreaks are re reported parted to bo in tile tho regions of odessa cherson and that the in the moscow district Is 18 serious for tile the soviet government Is indicated by tile fact that president of tile the extraordinary executive committee has been appointed commander in chief of nil all the troops there ile iio Is the most brutal of all tho ilia bolshevist leaders and Is for much of the he red terro terrorism and for many murders meanwhile continues to inflict defeats on his adversaries and to capture prisoners and material atiel lie ho does not seem to havo lost any ground to the neds the nil russian has ratified the peace treaty with poland bolandi nod and ling has given tile poles more territory than they asked af it first in return for a pledge not to help nget being informed I 1 by their military missions Ionn in lithuania that large bodies of well ell equipped german troops nvere crossing into that country frons from hast east prussia sla und concentrating in the koeno legion the allies protested to berlin berian but the german foreign office replied that it was to prevent tho file i movement it was supposed the chyi n ns were preparing to assist the ho lithuanians Lithuania ns in till nn often against tho the poles tile tho plan apparently la Is first to drive out cut of 0 vilna and then sweep southward to kl ki goodno and tho ifie fortress the matter of 0 vilna was waa referred to a plebiscite by tho ilia council of tile the league of nations last tuesday the council adopted tile plan far a permanent court of international ter justice recommended by the hague committee of oc jurists with the exception of tile tho provision tor for obligatory jurisdiction the plan was in largo large measure the alio work of ellhu coot tile tho council closed its ita session thursday some of tile lie farmers of kansas oklahoma nebraska and ilia northwestern states begun began last week their strike against tho the low price of wheat on tho chicago board of trade following the instructions of their organization leaders they tire withholding their wheat from tho the market and the effect of decreased receipts began to be felt at once in fit tile tho vicinity ot or wichita kan hall farmery farmers picketed tho ilia roads urging those on their way to tho the elevators to turn back tile wheat raisers ot of iowa were urged to take part in tile strike by 11 1 A Cunning cunningham liani secretary of tile state farm bureau the iowa wheat crop cost a bushel to harvest and the oats oata crop cost 75 cents a n bus bushel liel no ho blamed manipulation for tho ilia recent sharp declines iri 1 prices of grain there Is no justification for ill tho tremendous break in tile the market lie ito said wo we believe a reaction must come coine wo we urge avery ever falner to with hold his fits commodities the station cannot become more mora serious and a further furt lier decline can do nothing awre than to add to the seriousness of tile the situation on tho other hand a reasonable reaction would probably avoid financial ruin tile the farmers tire are asked by mr air cun cull liftig harn to buy nothing but essentials Farm farmers eriq complain that they havo have to pay high ailigh rates to borrow money to handle the bumper crops meanwhile canadian wheat which la in coining into tile tho united states duty free for milling purposes is being bought in large quantities by mills and exporters in ill this country tile tho duty on canadian wheat ani taken on off by belics pres icet wilson at tile suggestion of wheat director J 11 II barnes in tho the effort to reduce the cost of 0 living it was expected that in this way our millers would bo be enabled to lower tile the price of lour flour the effect was limited however for the ho first time atnee lie wait taken ill more alinn it a year ago president wilson allson delivered a speech on oil wednesday A group or oc pro league republicans headed by hamilton holt called on him in tile tho white house and in response to their address ho he spoke from ills his wheel chair tin in defense of tho the league covenant na as lie he brought brou glit it from paris in upholding article 10 lie he said it Is the bitle pledge of the members of the league that they will unite to resist exactly tile the things which germany attempted no matter who attempts thein in the ahe future it la Is as aa exact a definition afi as could bo be given in general terms of the outrage which germany would havo have committed it it could instead of being a threat threat of war lie ho said later arciclo 10 la Is an assurance of tile the concert of all the free peoples of the world in tho the future ns as in tile tho recent post past to ace DC justice done and humanity protected and vindicated this la Is tho the true tru the ret real it americanism tills this Is tho the role of leader leadership and championship of the ho right which the letti lenders lers of the republic intended that it should ploy play tho so co called americanism which we vve hear so BO much prating about now Is in spurious and int invented for party purposes es only one sporting event closed last week and began in tile the international balloon race in tills this country the 11 belgian elginn entry was declared the winner on saturday thero wn was soiled sailed oft aff 1101 halifax far tho ilia first race of a contest between Ix tween tho the fishing schooners scho onera ners esperanto Kap cranto and De lawanna the representatives senta tives respectively of tho ilia new england and canadian fleets the contest Is ret recognized by tile tho governments of 0 this country and the hie DomIn loa |