The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-11-01
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

The war revenue bill will not be re-
ported to the senate until after the NO
vember elections, Senator Simmons,
chairman of the senate finance COM
nittee. which is revising the house
draft of the measure. has announced
A revised list of commodities which
will be considered for expectation TO
Holland on and after October % was
| made public last week by the
war trade board. FOOdstuffs are ex-
GUIDED from the list. which includes
clothing, carpets, jewelry, drugs, glass
ware, toilet articles and the like.
The Italian draft treaty. providing
| for reciprocal military service of cit
liens of that country and the United
States, has been ratified by the senate.
The treaty is similar to those already
made with Great Britain, France and
Greece.
Seventy thousand miners of the CEN
trail Pennsylvania bituminous coal
fields have voted TO work Sundays to
overcome the falling off in production
due to the Spanish influenza cpl
demic, Fuel Administrator Garfield an
nounceS.
Use of saccharin in foods is re-
garded as an adulteration under the
food and drug act by the department
of agriculture. The department has
Just announced that saccharin as
substitute for sugar reduces the food
value and that persistent use of it is
likely to impair digestion.
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The whole of the province of western
Flanders and Hainaut having been re-
covered from the Germans, the Bel
gian government has decided to estab-
lsh its administrative departments in
Bruges.
Because of their inefficiency, from S
10 to 20 shipyards now building wood II
en- ships for the Emergency Fleet cor
poration will not receive any addition {
al contracts. Chairman Hurley of the 9
board said there would be no |
eurtailment of the shipping program, G
he step being taken to save material,
abOr and money. S
President Wilson, as cOmmander-in- I
thief of the United States army, has a
lwarded the distinguished service a
medal to Marshals FOch, Joffre and 4
1aig, and Generals Petain, Diaz, Gil v
ian and Pershing.
Sick and wounded soldiers landed !,
n the United States from the Amer !,
can expeditionary forces during the !,
reek ended October 1S, numbered 637, :
he war department announces.
New credits for $7OO,OOO,OOO for
tally and S1OOOOO,OOO for France were al
established this week by the treasury, O,
laking the total loans to Italy ST GEO. ID
10000, and to France, $2,165, 0000O0 h,
or all the allies American loans now tn
mount to $7,520.476, $685.. at
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Kiel harbor is unable to accommo- re
ate all the submarines which have
,turned from Ostend and Zeebrugge Oh
nring the last week and some are DC
ing off shore, according to adyices IN
.ceived in Switzerland. M
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DIR. John Dill Robertson, health COM "
issioner of Chicago, is going to vaccI-
tie everybody In Chicago against
leumonia following influenza. Those :
ho have hae influenza are excepted. an
90 10.
A check fAr S16034.32 has been BE
rwarded to Secretary Baker by the th'
itional Baseball commission. and 10
til $2,315.27 already given by the Ad
'ston American peague club players, SAL
presents 10 per cent OF the revenue ia
ceived by all interested parties in M
e recent worlds series 10 he 10 ar
ted to war charities I'M