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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Tin second day of the interallied occupation of Constantinople carried out by large forces from the imposing war fleet in the Bosporus passed with entire calm the Turkish police cooperating in keeping order The ferry and telephone services have been resumed Only small detachments of allied soldiers are visible in the streets and about the public buildings The French and the Italians had only small forces here and they are far less active than the British troops which are excellently organized and took the city over with the preci ¬ sion of clockwork Among the prisoners taken were Essad Pasha nationalist leader and Mohammed Pasha who was minister of war just before the great war opened and has been the chief organizer of the propaganda for an American mandate The Turkish newspapers and the foreign office are so heavily censored that it is impossible to obtain the authoritative Turkish view of tin1 situation The Turks with whom the correspondent spoke however were free in declaring their opinion that Con ¬ stantinople was about to repeat tlie history of Cairo that the British would remain in Turkey as they had in Egypt EgyptThe The collapse of the military revolution in Ger ¬ many in the opinion of the officials at Washing ton has left the Ebert government with an even greater problem on its hands that of controlling the workmens movement started to checkmate the militarists Keports of the formation of Soviets in a number of daces have been received and while the exact extent of this movement is not known some observers feel that the general strike may prove a doubleedged sword Official Wash ¬ ington is discussing how far the allies should go in lending moral support to the Ebert government at this time and because of the present state of the public mind in pressing demands for the pun ¬ ishment of those guilty of war crimes and for in ¬ demnity for the destruction of the German fleet at Scarpa Flow FlowGun Gun toters will go to prison for life if the judiciary committee of the city council acts favor ¬ ably upon a resolution presented at a meeting of that body yesterday afternoon by Alderman Mc Donoigh of the Tith ward Alderman McDoiiough in the resolution asks that the judiciary committee bring about an amendment to the Sadler law passed by the legislature at its last session making the illegal carrying of firearms an act punishable by life imprisonment Just as soon as the bandits and highwaymen become afraid to carry guns Al ¬ derman McDoiiough said the crime problem will be solved But it is not going to be solved until there is a law drastic enough to do away with this practice practiceGiistav Giistav Noske minister of defense in the Ebert cabinet arrived in Berlin by airplane late Wednes ¬ day having made the trip from Stuttgart General vou Seecht chief of staff of the constitutional government has replaced General vou Lucttwita as eommander at Berlin according to advices The danger from bolshevism seems to lie extreme Tin Kappist troops are withdrawing from Berlin and forces commanded by Spartacan leaders are expected to attack the city at any time A consolidation of all parties to fight bolshevism has been formed only the independent Socialists not being included Elections will be held no later than June according to latest dispatches from Stilt tuart tuartTwo Two hundred Americans who have been attend ¬ ing the fair at Leipzig have telegraphed and tele ¬ phoned Major General II T Allen commanding the American army of occupation at Coblenz urgently asking for help to leave Leipzig where they describe conditions as dangerous to their lives General Allen is sending a special train to bring them away General Allen has received about fifty messages of distress indicating thai the situation has grown considerably worse during tin last fortyeight hours There has been some delay in getting a satisfactory train together owing to the shortage of rolling stock stockA A dispatch to the Copenhagen Berlingske Tidcnde from Hamburg reports the situation throughout the district of Khenish Westphalia as of a most serious character During an attack upon the Nuremberg railroad station twenty persons were killed and many others wounded The troops re ¬ mained in possession of tin town At Leipzig the erected barri ¬ message announces armed workers cades and there has been heavy fighting in tliu inner city since 1 oclock yesterday afternoon afternoonThe The London war office advices declare that there have been no disturbances in tins occupied territory where the people were opposed to the Kapp dictator ¬ ship Workmens councils of the soviet type which have been established in some of the factories in Cologne are being suppressed the advices say In ¬ formation received by the war office justifies the statement that the Kapp corp has resulted in a re ¬ vival of the Spartacist movement movementThieves Thieves attempted to steal whisky valued at 200000 from a car in the Iitcisirn yards of the Pennsylvania railroad near Pittsburgh yesterday Thev had cut a hole in the roof of the car and were taking out the cases when surprised by a detail of railroad police Fifteen arrests already have been made and the police are searching for other persons believed to be implicated The whisky was being sent from Louisville Ky to New York City The right of President Wilson to enforce the coal control act at the present time is attacked in a suit which was filed in the United States District Court at Cincinnati by attorneys for the Houston Coal and Coke Company of Blkhoni W Va and the Kaleigh Coal and Coke Company of Kaleigh W Va
