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Great Britain last week made on time its eighth semi-annual payment of War debt interest (this time $67,950,000), and its fourth annual payment of principal (this time $25,000,000), $92,950,000 in all. Seven other nations: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, made payments totaling $3,568,418 more...
Lithuanians were uncertain last week whether a dictator had seized their government or not. Overnight, Conservatives, headed by onetime President Antona Smetona and a former Tsarist Russian officer, Major Plekhavicius, seized and arrested President Kasimir Grinius and Premier Nicholas Slezevicius of Lithuania, both Socialists...
...although most Americans are hazy as to the whereabouts of Lithuania, and although there could be six revolutions to the minute there without affecting us, there will be plenty of readers to follow the stormy career of bold General Smetons, and to read of the opposing Cabinet Ministers, whose fate in such cases is always a hard and intriguing...
...Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Chersonesus in Tauria, Tsar of Georgia, Lord of Pskov and Great Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Finland, Duke of Estland, Lifland and Kourland and of Semigallia, Samogitia, Bialostok, Karelia, Tver, Jugoria, Perm, Viatka, Bolgaria and others, Lord and Grand Duke of Novgorod in the Low Country, Tchernigov, Rjasan, Polotzk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Bialosero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Bitebsk, Mstislavl and Lord of All Northern Lands...
Premier Mykolas Slezevicius of Lithuania journeyed to Moscow last week and signed a treaty of neutrality and non-aggression with Soviet Russia. The treaty is to run for five years and contains a clause recognizing the territory of Vilna as Lithuanian. Poles were vexed, since Poland claims that Vilna is Polish. Moscow newsorgans hailed the pact as a blow to British influence in the Baltic...