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Show 4 rr i l .3vv t: fi - irF-WW ,sgi Vfi u " w itovVl 1--Captaln Porter, chief of federal secret service in Chicago, and bogus money factory vt bi ang of counterfeiters uncovered in that city. 2 Scene at national conference of boy acout executives at Blue Ridge, N. Ch when DanUi Carter Beard, national commissioner, was presented with goUJ eagle badge. 8 Glrla of Jackson, Cat, laying flowera on coffin of 46 victims of the Argonaut mine disaster. IbIi commanders made several demands de-mands for the withdrawal of the Turks, but Keroal responded that he knew of no neutral aone. To the French he explained that he had occupied oc-cupied these places because the British Brit-ish had disregarded the neutrality of the straits by permitting the Greeks to have free passage through them. RKVOIT by the Greek army against the government, which was expected, ex-pected, came on schedule time. The troops that had returned from the scene of disaster in Anatolia and were concentrated in the archipelago islands rebelled and, using battleships and destroyers as transports, sailed to the mainland and moved on Athens under the leadership of regular officers offi-cers of the army end navy. Military airplanes dropped In Athens proclamations procla-mations demanding the abdication of King Conntantlne, the formation of a ministry friendly to the allies and the sending of reinforcements to Thrace. NEWS REVIEW OF CURREjjT EVENTS Allies Heady to Permit Turkey to Regain Her Former Territory Terri-tory In Europe. KING CONSTANTINE OUSTED Creek Army Compels Him to Abdicate Abdi-cate and Declares for War to . Keep Thrace Federal Fuel Distributor Dis-tributor Spens Gets Busy Death of Senator Watson. By EDWARD W. PICKARD oulty. by loans from the American people, who had no reason to expect that they would not be repaid, lie also drew attention to the American suspicion that If the loans were forgiven for-given the money thus released might be used In new wars. CONfUD E. SPKNS, railway em-, clnl of Chicago, who was appointed appoint-ed federal fuel distributer under the act passed by congress, started In by warning the various slates that bis powers do not extend to coal mined and sold within a given state and their officials must look after that end of the proposition. He then asked eight leading railway executives te serve as an advisory committee la the fuel transportation emergency and named 13 prominent business men as members of an advisory committee for industry, to keep In touch with th distribution of fuel supplies for In. dufitrle In their respective district, Large Indmtr1al consumers are askei to confine their purchnses of coal art- der present conditions as closely to current needs as safety permits; to suspend accumulation of advance stocks of coal until the present emergency emer-gency pressure on production Is relieved; re-lieved; In unload coal cara immediately immedi-ately and return them to service and to promptly furnlxh material required for new railroad equipment or repairs. THE grand jury In Marlon, IHH which Investigated the Herrln coa) mine inaHsncre, Indicted 78 men for participation In the outrage, 44 of them for murder. All of the latter group have been put under arrest, and of the total SO are still at large. Fight of those accused of murder are held without ball. The others were released re-leased on bonds, which were furnldied by the leading citizens . of Marlon. The defence of I he men, as already out lined by their lawyers, will be. In brief, that this Is a ."private persecution persecu-tion by a political boss and a labor-hating labor-hating organization," the allusion being be-ing to Attorney General Rrundnge snd the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. FEDKIUL JUDGE WJLKKHSON In (.liicago formally entered the temporary tem-porary injunction obtained by Attorney Attor-ney General Dnugherty against the railway shopmen, having sustained It on all points. The proceeding were perfunctory and the attorneys for the union did not concern themselves with the form of the order. They sold they hoped to be permitted to take the rase direct to the Supreme court of the United Slates on appeal. SOMK twenty thousand veterans of the Civil war assembled In Des Moines, la., for lite fifty-sixth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. On Wednesday throe-fourth throe-fourth of these grizzled warriors, escorted es-corted by two regiments of the regular regu-lar army, mnrhed in the yearly pa rude -an event that grow more ar.d more pathetic as the years pass. They were reviewed by their commander-in-chief, Lrwl S. Pllcher. and by Harford MacNIder, oaflonal commander com-mander of the American "Lesion. One tragedy marked the occasion. M. J. Marfccnhnn?en of White Bear Lake, Minn., dropped dead after two hours of marching. Judge J. XV. Wlllett of Tama. la., was elected commnnder-ln-chief for the coming year. On Wednesday the cabinet resigned and Constant ine formally abdicated the throne In favor of Crown Prince George, who was sworn in. For the present a revolutionary committee Is In charge of the government. The object of the coup d'etat as announced an-nounced In Athens was to oust Con-slant Con-slant lne In order to unite the country In firm opposition to the Pari conference's confer-ence's peace terms to Mustapha Kemal Pasha and to wage an Immediate and aggressive war to retain Thrace. dMsmy and nary leaders fully support the Thraclan war, and they say they can take Constantinople. THOUGH It had been reported that Bulgaria was ready to seize the part of Thrace which she claims. Dimltrl Standoff, ' Bulgarian minister to F.ngland, denies this. "Bulgaria Is firmly resolved to avoid participation in any military action," said he, "not only because the country is practically practical-ly disarmed, but also because the new Bulgaria is an agricultural country and does not wish to risk a repetition of her previous misfortune." SOVIET Russia formally declared herself the champion of Islam last week. She sent a note to the entente, en-tente, the Balkan nations and Egypt demanding the restoration of Turkey In Europe and warning the world that she would, not cognize "any decision concerning the Turkish straits taken without her participation or arrived at agalntit her Interests." ACCORDING to an agreement about completed between (lie United States and Japan, the International Interna-tional technical control of the Chi nese Eastern railway by the Stevens commission will soon be terminated, ft is provided that the commission Jholl cease to function upon completion comple-tion of the evacuation of Japanese troops from Siberia. The Chinese government Is to be made responsible responsi-ble for the continued operatta) and protection of the railway, and If It fails In this, there will be a resumption resump-tion of international control. The ethtf alUrJ pcn.ers arc it. accord r?:th this plan. That Is the news that comes from Washington. From Peking come reports that put another face on the Matter. The president of China has sunpended the Russian Boxer Indemnity In-demnity of about $5,000,000 annually and the soviet government, In Its reply re-ply of protest, intimates that It will seize the Chinese Eastern railway. John F. Stevens, the head of the commission, com-mission, according to a correspondent, is convinced the line Is lot to China. GREAT BRITAIN has offered to pay $.10.(100.000 of Interest due the United States, and the World war dt lit funding commission bss been considering the proposition. At the rate of 5 per cent, the Interest due in the next two Installments, October 16 and November 1!5, amounts to $3").0OO,-000, $3").0OO,-000, but the funding law authorizes a rate of 4 per cent, so It Is suggested suggest-ed that the $50,000,000 be paid 0.;-tober 0.;-tober 15 and adjustments be worked out wHb Sir Robert Home, ho Is coming over soon. Congressman Burton Bur-ton of Ohio, who la a member of the funding commission, Is In London, and at a luncheon attended by prominent financiers he said plainly that the United States expected Great Britain to pay In full. He pointed out that the lonns mide by America were not liven out f an overflowing treasury, but were raided, 'sometime w lilt dirfl- n................ ----- a I -AWING to the military and i diplomatic skill of Musta- J pha Kemal Pasha and his col- J leagues In the Turkish Nation-- J i allst government, and to the strong determination of the ( i people of the allied nations not ' to embark In another war. It is ( practically certain that Turkey i will regain the territory in Eu- i J rope which eho lost in the J i World war anJ probably a con- i J sldcrable part jof Mesopotamia, "J i now under British mandate. Do i J you and your Vriends think the j i Turks are entitled to this resto- J J ration and are really no worse ( I than mott of their neighbors? J i Or do you believe It is worth ( another great Mar to keep them J S out of Europe? i 1 4 U. ..a CONCILIATION and concession were the order of the day In the Near East. The allies. In formally Inviting the Turks to a peuce conference, assured as-sured them that they "will take ad-vanpige ad-vanpige of this opportunity to declare de-clare that they look with favor upon the desire of Turkey to recover Thrace op to the Marltza river, and Adrlen-ople." Adrlen-ople." It was even Intimated that Russia would be admitted to the conference, con-ference, and M. Franklln-Boulllop. who last year negotiated an agreement agree-ment between the Nationalists and the French, was sent to Smyrna with a mandate to deal with Kemal. The stipulation of the allies was that the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora and the Bosporus must remain free and open to ail nations. The British also Insisted that the neutral zone, which embraces the straits and Constantinople, Constanti-nople, must not be Invaded by the Nationalists during the peace negotiations. negotia-tions. Early In the week Kemal gave a long Interview to a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, In which be said that he hnd no desire to provoke hostilities hos-tilities with Great Britain, but that he Insisted on complete Independence of the Tui!sh empire &t; ro.-.iplcte freedom of the straits to all nations. He said Turkey bad no wish to fortify for-tify the Dardanelles, but that she must control the Sea of Marmora and the Bosporus to secure the sufety of her capital Constantinople. On Wednesday Wed-nesday the Kemntists announced they would respect the neutrality of the straits pending an armistice conference confer-ence with the British generals. They then formulated their reply to the allied pence proposals. Not given to the public at this writing, this answer Is nndei-jtood to provide, among other things, that the Nationalists shall occupy oc-cupy all strategic positions prior to the opening of the conference; that nil Br'tlnh forces en route be recalled and th British shall not fortify the; neutral zone; that the Nationalists shall ociupy Thrace lefore the conference, confer-ence, at which Russia, Ukralnla and all countries bordering on the Black ea shall be represented; that If these conditions are accepted, the Nation-, allst agree to sn armistice conference confer-ence at Mudnnla, which Is to be followed fol-lowed In three days by the opening of the peace conference tc Smyrna. Meanwhile Kemal, wto has freely txprrssod his distrust of the British nd wv-lally Lioyd George, sent varkms onits into tfu Asiatic part of tle i.entrjil zoix and occupied 'rate-fr 'rate-fr posltloD Tiorn which inau:;j tvptrolh! A Dardanelles. TV? Hrlt- TIIOMA8 E. WATSON, United States senator from Georgia, on of the most fiery political figures of the time, died suddenly of asthma Tuesday In Washington. For 40 years he was active in ytate and national na-tional politics, and he was the Populist nominee for vice president In 1890 and for Pres'di ftt In liWt. The Populists elected him to the house of representatives repre-sentatives In 1801, and In 1!20 he w.is elected senator. He was opposed to Woodrow Wilson and his polUlcs and was especially against the League o' Nations. ACCORDING to the Freeman's Journal of Dublin, Kamoi de Valera has abdicated as leader of t ' Irish republicans and IJniu Lynch ha succeeded him. The newspaper, say this destroys hope of a rational peace as Lynch Is driving his follower to fight to the bitter end. Th republicans repub-licans are keeping up their guerrilla warfare, but the Free StVi ar steadily cleaning them op, capet'Isl1; now In County Kerry. |