The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-01-25
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Dispatches from BuenoS Aires say
the condition of Count Won Luxburg
former German minister to Argentina
steadily has become worse. Foreign
office officials are apparently tryt
ing to keep Luxburg's condition Sc
cret, but it is reported that he has be-
come insane.
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Porkless Saturdays have been or
dered by the food commissioners of
| dition to the meatless Tuesdays al
ready in effect
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Orders forbidding all Socialist prop.
uganda in the army have been issued
by the German military authorities ac-
cording to message from Swltzer-
land
A price of $3.50 fob. seabOard for
the nitrate fertilizer which the depart
ment of agriculture has purchased
from Chile, has been announced by
Secretary Houston.
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indianapolis theaters, saloons, pool
rooms and places not absolutely neces-
sary have been ordered closed by DR..
Henry Jameson, federal fuel admin
istratOr for the city.
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Yarmouth, England, has been bonn
barded from the sea, it is announced
officially. About 20 shells fell in the
city. Three persons were killed and
10 injured.
The death of Vice Sergeant Max |
Muller, one of the most successful |
German airmen, is reported. Muller |
was killed in fall resulting from a |
defect in his engine. He claimed 80 |
in aerial engagements.
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AS means of conserving fuel
the eastern states which |
have been vitality affected by the coal
shortage, federal fuel administrators
have recommended that President Will
son declare Monday holiday through
)ut this territory for the next eight or
10 weeks.
Only eight British merchantmen
we're sunk by mines and submarines
asst week. These figures, given out
~ the British admiralty in it's weekly
statement of shipping losses. shows q
sreat decrease in the number of YES
plS cont to tho hofton, commando |
With the record for the two previous
weeks in each of which the aggre-
,ate was 81.
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Ex-Premier Callaux of France has
'een arrested on charge of spying.
t is understood the arrest was made
N information furnished by Secretary
rom among the famous Won Luxburg
dispatches. Secretary Lansing, how
yer, refused to confirm or deny the
he report.
The deaths of 81 members of the
american expeditionary forces from
atural causes were reported to the
fdi oCpui tiutill ny OcucIdl l. eISlluS.
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The shipping board has arranged to
dyance to the Maryland steel plant
honey needed for housing shipyard
'orkers at Sparrow, Point, Md. The
mount Of the sum has not been fix I
d but it probably will be more than !
/ 100000. I
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Plans have been announced for the 1
ending of 100000 bushels of boats
'om this country to France within
short time.
Requisition of all American sailing
essels is forecast by an order of the $
tipping board to the department of 0
requesting a report on the q
cation of such vessels. p
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A quantity Of army supplies including
100000 worth of food was destroyed
hen the quartermaster's warehouse
Washington caught fire. A limited
lantity of clothing and shoes was u
10 destroyed. The origin of the fire r.
ls\ not been disclosed by officers. II
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Senator James II. Brady of Idaho | 81
dead at his home in Washington n
ON heart disease. He suffered an >,
ute attack while on his way to Wash !,
gton hrom Idaho, and had been In :
critical state for several days be :
re the end. y