The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-08-30
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Twenty-three thousand former Rus
tieff barracks have been released, ac-
cordihg to Moscow dispatch print
ed in the Rhenisch Westphalia lei
tung. The dispatch says the Soviet
government was compelled to aban-
Ion its plans for the internnent of
officers under pressure from the pop
ulation of Moscow.
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Reduction of p per cent of all pub
ication space in excess of eight pages
FOR country weekly newspapers has
1een ordered by Chairman Baruch of
he war industries board.
A senate bill providing $4,000 to
indemnify Greece, as requested by
President Wilson in a recent message
10 congress. for damages suffered by
Creeks in South Omaha, Neb., riots
n 1909. was passed by the house and
aow goes to the president.
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Indefinite industrial furloughs for
soldiers whose mechanical skill makes
hem necessary in the shipyards have
become a thing of the past. Orders
nave been received at Camp Lewis
rom Washington disseminating them.
Instead furloughs will be granted for
70 days only The order is said TO
De due to belief of war officials that |
he demand for skilled shipyard work |
RS will have passed its crest within |
10 days.
Taking at its face value q printed |
euuest not to blow the safe, but to
Use the combination, which was given.
burglars relieved the strong box of
,an Francisco furniture company of
j 800 in money and $3.50 in Liberty
onds. The manager of the store ex-
lained that he left the sign on the
afe because he did not want it or
ossibly the building wrecked by an
EXPLOSION.
The plant of the La Sale Portland
cement company, known las the big
est of its kind west of Chicago and
ding a business of approximately 3d.
10000 year, has been taken over by
!. Mitchell Palmer, alien property Gus
ldian. Before the war the concern
ras known as the German-American
ortland Cement works. Seventy-two
err cent of its stock is said TO be Ger
ian owned.
Five thousand persons are homeless
nd 100000 are without proper food
S a result of flood in the Tune
lang river, says dispatch from
long Kong. The American Red Cross
providing temporary relief.
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Use of cement by industries engag-
/ in other than war work will be
realty curtailed if not completely
.opped by an order issued by the fuel
restricting delivery of
1al to cement manufacturers to 70
ar cent of the normal amount Man
facturers may make cement in excess
their allotment only il greater pro-
Iction is required by the agreement
Overcrowded trains and unsatisfac-
Try passenger service in some sec ]
ons of the country are caused by |
lie necessity Of using many day |
,aches and sleeping cars for troop
and by the heavy bur- {
IN Of hauling war supplies. Director ,
eneral McAdoo explains in a state !
ent to the public" t
Out of 1000 officers arrested at !
oscow and Petrograd because OF
'unter revolutionary tendencies, 236
I've been summarily shot, according
Moscow advices to the Kreuz Eel t
ng Of berlin, copy Of which has i
zen received In Amsterdam. rs
The Germans are now using gas n
asks on their messenger pigeons. t
Us dispatch to the London Daily r
ail. The correspondent also reports $
at German hirnlen are using para d
utes to escape from damaged air b
anes.