The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-12-21
FOREIGN

sador to Russia, went to Paris to re-
port on Russian affairs to President
Wilson and Secretary of State Ian
sing
President and Mrs. Wilson made
their entry into Raris Saturday morn
ing, greeted by 100000 of the popula-
| ton not only of the city but of the
surrounding districts.
The executive committee of the
Brussels Chamber of Commerce has
unanimously adopted a resolution In
favor of Belgian annexation Of Zee
land and the Maestricht enclave.
While the official result of Satur-
days election will not be known for
fortnight, there is every indication
that the Lloyd George coalition gov
eminent has been reelected by a con-
siderable majority.
Occupation of Petrograd Kronstadt
and Moscow is advocated by Rear Ad
miral Kemp, in letter to the Lon
don Times He was senior British
naval officer in northern Russian wa
ters until November
An order in council adopted at OF
tawa authorizes the seed purchasing
commission, to buy in the United
States seed oats required in Alberta
and southern Saskatchewan, and pro-
vides that the oats purchased shall not
be subject to customs duties
The Czecho SlOvak government, ac-
cording to advices from Prague, plans
to present to the national assembly a
bill providing for the division Of
Czecho-S lovakia into twenty-five can
tons, four or five Of which would in
clude German language territory.
Premier Lloyd George wound up his
speech making campaign at Gambler
well by attacking the name Labor
party" because it did not represent
all the labor of the United Kingdom.
The party represented only small
part of labor, whose votes, he declared
would largely be cast for the govern
ment.
President Wilson landed in France
at 1924 o'clock Friday afternoon, Dec.
49, amid a demonstration of popular
enthusiasm and national sympathy
such as rarely, if ever, has been &C
corded the head of a foreign govern
ment visiting France. The President
left Brest at o'clock the same after
noon for Paris, where the heart Of
France acclaimed him as the nations
guest.
Several thousand former inhabi-
tants of Smyrna and of nearby locali-
ties have arrived in Smyrna the last
few days, coming from inland districts
to which they had been deported by
Turkish authorities. Their condition
is pitiful 1t is asserted about half
the people deported died of bad treat
ment or lack of food. 1t is said also
that the women driven from their
homes by the Turks were subjected
jority of the young girls were sold as
slaves to Turkish notables.
SPORT
The American association league
baseball season of 1919 will begin
April 29.
Football claimed the lives of nine
players during the 1918 season-three
less than the 1917 toll, nine less than
in 1916 and seven under the roll of
1915.
Jack Johnson, cabling from BARGE
Iona to New York, has asked H. T.
Booker, Anglo-American baseball pro-
moter, to arrange bout for him with
either Porky Flynn or Jim Savage
Stephen McGinnity, athlete and
baseball manager, is dead of influen-
"a. McGinnity was born in Chicago
and when years old lost his hearing
from the effects of scarlet fever. But
the handicap did not prevent him from
taking an active part in athletics. At
one time he was 105-pound amateur
boxing champion of Chicago Later he
was interested in baseball, becoming
a noted amateur player
GENERAL
President Wilson has accepted an
invitation from King George to visit
England and it is expected he will
stop in London on his way home.
According to Havas dispatch from
Lisbon, the assassin of President Paes
of Portugal was lynched by the crowd.
Tamagnini Barbosa, the minister of
the interior, has assumed the presi-
dency.
The 15Sth infantry, Arizona Ma
tional Guard, Col. E., T. Grinsted, COM
handing, has been detailed as a guard
of honor during the stay of President
Wilson in Paris. It's band will be the
official band
A collection of 1925 dangerous
weapons, taken from criminals and
others since Jan. and valued at $780,
600, was thrown into the ocean off
Scotland lightship by the police de-
partment of New York
President Wilson spent his first
Sunday in Paris by going twice to
church LAYING q wreath on tho tom