The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

The governments war trade board
has taken measures with q view to re-
Stricting the expectation of wool and
checking the increase in prices, which
have risen 200 per cent since the war
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Camp Mills, Long Island, where the
Rainbow division of the National guard
was modified, will not be used again
this winter. The camp is suitable
only for summer use. The process of
abandoning the camp is now being car.
ried out.
Secretary Bakers annual report for
the war department has just been COM
pleted and in it the war secretary goes
On record as opposed to universal mil
itary training as a regular national pol.
| Icy for this country.
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President Wilson has rendered an
accounting to congress of the expen-
diture of the S10OOOO,OOO war emer-
gency fund placed in his hands last
April.
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An embargo on all export freight
except for the United States govern
ment on all railroads reaching north
Atlantic seaboard ports has been or
dered by the general operating COM
mittee of the eastern railroads.
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Henceforth contraband liquor seized
In the state of Washington will be
turned over to the federal government
instead of being destroyed.
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The war department has announced
that men Of the National army will
not be given Christmas furloughs I'M
less they live within trolley distance
Of their environments.
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French troops in considerable num-
bers have taken up their allotted por-
ton Of the Italian line without seri-
Gus interference from the opposing
Austro- Germans.
A large class of United States army
bayonet experts has just been gradu-
ated by their British instructors in
France. They are now ready to 20
over the top.
Police Chief Buckingham of Seattle |
has complied with Mayor Gill's re-
quest and handed in his resignation.
His successor, Joel F. Warren, has
announced his intention of curbing
The vice element in the city.
Miss Katherine Stimson, the Texas
aviatrix, has set new nonstop
airplane record, being in the air for
nine hours and covering an unofficial
of $50 miles.
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Two million dollars will be adyanc-
ed by the war and navy departments
to the Bethlehem Steel company on
munitions contracts, because of the
difficulties in obtaining
funds from private sources to expedite
The National American Woman Suf-
rage associations forty-ninth annual
convention is now in session in Wash
ngton.
Sergeant Leverne Straley of Still
water, Mont, member of truck COM
)any 346, at Camp Lewis, has been
sentenced to six months in the federal
prison at Leavenworth, following his
conviction by court martial on charges
# stealing pair of shoes and attempt
ID conspiracy to steal.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor has is-
ued q statement attacking Postmas-
er General Burleson for his recon-
nendation that postal employees be de-
lied the right to organize and affili. {
tie with the Federation.
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In a recent speech the Austro-Hun-
.arian foreign minister, Count Czern;n,
s quoted as saying that while the !
United States declaration of war on
AustrfS Hungary was painful" it
would not affect the events of the war.
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1t is Estimated that approximately
90 men have suffered frozen noses r
r fingers In the zero weather Of the d
asst few days at Camp Grant, Ill.
he minimum temperature recorded ?
as been sit below, but stiff west
lind has made the men believe the Z
old more severe. IL