News from Around the World
ANNOUNCEMENT has been made from Washington that England, France, Italy, and Russia have joined the United States in recognizing the Carranza government in Mexico. It is stated that Japan will soon follow in a like recognition. Let it be hoped that a stable government will soon be established there, and the country be freed from the revolution that has been tearing it so long. TWENTY-FIVE MILLION pounds of prunes are being shipped by California to one of the great nations engaged in the European war. This is nearly half the crop of 1915. This great demand upon California for prunes is doubtless occasioned by the difficulties in the Balkans, one of the other great world sources of the prune supply. THE College of Agriculture connected with the University of California has recently issued a new publication on “Wood Decay in Orchard Trees.” This will be found of great help to the orchardist, and may be secured by addressing the University of California, Berkeley, California. THE Canadian government has authorized an increase of the Canadian over-seas army from 150,000 to 250,000 men. Thus Canada answers the appeal of England for “more men, and still more men.” THE new super-dreadnought Nevada burns only oil fuel, the first in any navy to do this. It carries anti-air-craft guns, and in various other respects outclasses all sister ships. A DISPATCH from Rome indicates that some 500,000 Armenians have been slaughtered by the Turks during the recent revolutions and fighting.