The Public Volume 22 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...before the treaty comes before it."--It has been learned in trustworthy quarters that the United States, Great Britain, and France have united in sending a note to Italy requesting an explanation of the landing of Italian forces in Turkey. The Italians landed forces at Adalia, Budrum, and Makri during the period when Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino had withdrawn from the Peace Conference, making the landings without notice to the Allies. Reconstruction--News has been received that Japan has dispatched a military mission to Germany, consisting of two Captains and one doctor, who will study German conditions for a period of three years.--During the month of April, $18,672,065 were loaned to 4,271 farmers of the United States by the Federal Land Banks on long time first mortgages, according to the monthly statement of the Farm Loan Board.--Between February 25 and April 25 the Army Clemency Board, headed by Lieutenant Colonel S. T. Ansell, passed upon 2,857 cases. The board made complete or partial remission of sentences in 91 per cent, of these. On April 25, 2,100 cases remained to be disposed of. It is expected that the board's work will be completed by June 1. The average sentence was reduced from seven years and six months to one year and eight months.--The New York Call asserts that complete repudiation of recent attempts by agents of Siberian consumers' cooperative societies to create the impression that 20,000,000 heads of families they represent in Siberia and Northern Russia have given their support to the Kolchak Government at Omsk and that cooperative leagues throughout Russia generally had taken a stand against the Russian Soviet Government, was contained in a statement made to one of its reporters by Alexander M. Berkenheim, chair...