. Paris, June 4 An armistice con
vention with Mustapha Kemal Pasha,
chief of Turkish nationalist forces in
Asia Minor, has been signed at Bey
rout by Baron Robert De Caix, Secre
tary General of the French high com
mission there, says Pertinax, political
editor of the Echo De Paris. This
step which was taken five days ago,
is said to have been necessary because
the French are compelled to regroup
too widely scattered forces In Syria.
However, It motorists are positively
unwilling to drive in the road, they
should remember that the ditch is
usually a softer landing place than a
tree or a stone wall.
SINN FEIN NOW
CONTROL TYRONE
Belfast, Ireland,, June--4 As a re
sult of county and district ' council
elections the Sinn Fein-Nationalist
alliance has secured control in county
Tyrone for . the first time. ' In addi
tion it has maintained its hold on
county Fermanagh by a majority of
559.
Keenest interest was taken in these
elections because both counties are
included within the Ulster area out
lined in the Irish bill now before the
British parliament. Various election
tricks were revived, One woman dis
guising herself and voting as her own
mother. Another woman is said "to
have voted seven times. The feature
of the elections generally in northern
Ireland was the ascendancy gained
by Sinn Feiners over the- followers o
RedmOnd..
Formerly the . man "who. .made tw
blades of grass grow where one-gre'
before, was a benefactor. " Now th
idea is to make half a blade ' grow
and get a 'three blade price for it..
