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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The Germans have agreed to the allied demand for delivery of 2000000 tons of coal monthly with three new conditions it is announced announcedThe The conditions were these 1 The German government to have the distri ¬ bution of the Silcsian coal or be allotted 1500000 tons monthly for northern Germany instead of the present allotment of 1200000 tons 2 A mixed commission to be sent to Essen to examine food and housing conditions 3 The allies are asked to advance money or provide credit for importing additional food for the entire German population populationI I The opening cf the pearldiving season the great event of the year in the French settlements comes in July Diving is not permitted for two years in succession at the same island The various pearl islands are opened in rotation This means that all gear stocks of merchandise and building material must be taken to a new island each year io small undertaking when it is remembered rememberedthat that the coral atoll which in ordinary times sup ¬ ports less than 200 persons becomes in the div ¬ ing season the abiding place of 2500 or more This year the open island is Hikueru one of the Puuinotn archipelago 400 miles to the eastward of Tahiti TahitiResolute Resolute Americas cup defender was forced to quit iii the first race of the international cup test at Rockaway N Y when leading the Shamrock IV at the halfway mark Parted throat halyards forced her withdrawal The Shamrock continued on and finished the course well within the sir hour limit in which she had to finish to win the Gen Carloe Garcia has been captured by gov ¬ ernment forces according to a dispatch from Mon ¬ terey to the Universal Mexico City Gen Garcia is chief of staff of Gen Pablo Gonzalez who According to government reports was responsible for an attack made Wednesday on Monterey by troops under Geu Ireueo Villareal VillarealAt At least TiOJ Turkish nationalist troops were killed by Greeks iii an engagement northeast o Itrussu according to the following communique issued at Greek army headquarters Thursday We surrounded aul annihilated the enemy northeast of Bnissa Five hundred dead have been counted Six hundred prisoners wore taken takenDr Dr A L Shelton a medical missionary stationed for seventeen years at Batang China on the Thibetan border arrived in New York Wednesday after undergoing a surgical operation made nec ¬ essary by his sufferings while held captain seven ¬ teen days for ransom by bandit Yung Tien Fu FuFour Four army airplanes comprising the Alaskan fly ¬ ing expedition left Mitchell Field Long Island N Y at 1233 oclock Thursday afternoon on a 9000mile round trip flight to Nome Alaska one of the longest and most difficult air trips ever attempted in the western hemisphere hemisphereFive Five railroad men convicted of having violated the Lever act by participating in the switchmens strike last April were sentenced to pay fines of 1000 each by Judge B F Bledsoe in the United State District Court at Los Angeles Cal yester ¬ day dayTwo Two persons were killed thirty were wounded and damage amounting to 20000000 lire was done during the disorders at Tricst during which Jugo ¬ slav hotels and business places were attacked by Italians according to a dispatch from Rome RomeFifty Fifty men raided the general postoffice in Dublin Thursday morning and carried off the letters di ¬ rected to Dublin Castle the vice regal lodge the chief secretary and undersecretary returned were administration administrationA A special grand jury returned ten indictments in the fifth partial report of the investigation of the lynching of three negroes at Duluth Minn June 15 Five of the indictments returned were secret secretAn An old horses home and a vacation farm for horses are both to be found on the hospitable acres of L C Probert a Washington newspaper man at Homeland Farm Olney Md MdOne One death and twenty or more persons Injured was the toll of tho street car strike in Chicago which was railed early Thursday morning when 3000 men employed in the power houses walked out outTwo Two motor car bandits yesterday roblnd Frank Vasscr clerk in the Armourdule Kan State Bunk of 10000 when he stepped from a street car in front of tJu builK Tim robbers escaped
