The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-04-05
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Completion of the first of the new
Niberty motorcycles for army use has
been announced by the quartermaster
corps. which soon will begin tests of
the new vehicles, similar to the tests
used to prove the Liberty motor trucks.
Like the trucks, the motorcycle is the
composite work of several leading de-
slgners, embodying the best of all
standard machines.
Finlanders arriving at Stockholm
say that the German transport Frank
land struck a mine and sank at Moor
land, according to dispatch from
Stockholm. The transport was crowd
ed. with soldiers, cannon and NUM-
tions and, according to the dispatch,
the crew, all of the soldiers and Adj
miral Won Meyrer were lost.
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1t cost about 100 per cent more to
live in France at the end of 1917 than
in 1914, according to statistics attach
ed to a bill recently introduced in the
chamber of deputies to increase the
supplementary pay of non-commission-
ed officers Wages have increased
s. per cent for men and 80 per cent |
for women in the same period.
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The Bolsheviki government has de- |
cided to transfer Nicholas Romanoff, |
the former emperor, and his family, |
from Tobolsk to the Ural region, &C.
cording to an announcement in PetrO-
grad newspapers. 1t was decided to |
take this step in view of the possibili-
les of complications in the far east.
The 1ong-range guns bombarding
Paris, according to Vienna dispatch,
ire of Austrian manufacture, having
,een built at the Skoda factory. The
nun itself is not new, but its novelty
omes from a new type of shell and
he explosive gases used in the gun.
Resumption of fighting in Ukraine
etween the Germans and the Bolshe-
ike is reported in a dispatch from
The Bolsheviki are said
0 have recaptured the city of Kher-
on.
To discourage all new Industrial
rejects not deemed essential to the
rosecution of the war, the war indus
-ies board will withhold from such
ew plants the benefits of priority !.
f transportation for their products. ,
The war department bill empowering ,
ne president to requisition timber and .
lmber to conduct logging operations
)r the army, navy and the emergency Z,
eet corporation has been passed by
ne senate and now goes to the house.
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Prince Henry of Reuss, head of the
ounger branch of the Reuss family,
as been killed in the fighting on the I,
estern front, according to Central )
ews dispatch quoting advices re- :
lived from Berlin. |.
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In transmitting a check for $1,000
10 from the American to the British
ed Cross. William Endicott, Ameri-
IN Red Cross commissioner to Great
ritain, said the American Red Cross
lit it privilege to alleviate as far
possible the suffering caused by :,
le great battle now raging in France :.
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All st. Louis afternoon papers have :
lnounced that hereafter their price .
III be two cents. The morning pa !,
srs already are TWO cents.
Chicago police have begun drive
.ainst clairvoyants who are preying :.
/ mothers who have sons in France J,
.veral persons have been arrested +
id other arrests are to follow, it is I,
id. According to police, hundreds =
clairvoyants in the city are involved. Z
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Senator New, Republican, of Indi- = :,
", speaking In the senate, declared !,
N instead of 1900 combat airplanes =
ing delivered in France By July 1, =
ptoyfded in the original airplane =
ogrAm, the number viii amount to =
ly 81. =