The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-06-28
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

| Four residents of Berlin escaped
from Germany last week in two alp
planes and succeeded in landing safely
in Denmark. The occupants Of the
'airplanes declared that they fled from
Berlin because of conditions there.
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| Word has reached the state depart
mentment from the Spanish ambassa-
dor at Berlin that the German govern
ment has agreed in principle to con-
| ference with a representative of the
United States to discuss the treatment,
| welfare and exchange of prisoners.
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/ Provost Marhsal General Crowder
has called S,976 registrants with gram
mar school training for special training
in technical schools. AT the compile
ton of the course the men will be
placed in special services.
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Sergeant Kobayasi, the Japanese avi-
ator in the French service, has been
killed in an aerial battle. He was
fighting against Il number of enemies
when his machine was set on fire by
an incendiary bullet. He jumped from
his airplane at the height of about o.
900 feet and fell behind the French
lines.
A favorable report was voted by
the house military committee on a
resolution by Representative Madden
of Illinois, asking President Wilson
to report the number of men of draft
age employed by government agencies
created by executive order and for
whom exemptions from military ser
vice have been allowed.
Grace Lusk, who was found guilty
at Waukesha. Wis, of murder in the
second degree for Staying Mrs. Mary
Newman Roberts, wife of DR.. David |
former state veterinarian, was
declared by Il board of alienists to be |
sane and was sentenced by Judge Mar
tin Lueck to 10 years Imprisonment. |
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The far eastern Russian committee |
for the salvation of the motherland"
has resolved TO appeal through Japan
for immediate intervention in, Siberia
by entente allied forces. The Russian
committee claims there will be no diff
ficulty in establishing an allied army
In Siberia.
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Mai Gen. Harry A. Greene, who has
been in command of the Dist division,
National army, at Camp Lewis, Wash,
has been ordered to report to Wash
ington. No explanation of the order
was forthcoming from the war depart
ment. Brig. Gen. Frederick S. Foltz
has been placed in command at Camp
Lewis temporarily.
Fire, which the police and firemen
said was surrounded with indications
Of incendiarism, destroyed the sawmill
Of the Rice Kinder Lumber company in
Portland. The loss was 100000.
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Percy Bayliss, former acting consul
general of Great Britain at Moscow,
who was driven out of Russia several
months. ago by the Bolsheviki, was
'ound dead in his home ip San Fran
.isco. Escaping fumes from an open
yas Jet caused death, according to ply
,icians. Bayliss came to San Francisco
after he left Russia with
lis family. The police said he had
Worried over his financial condition.
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Employers engaged in war work are
Urged Ia a statement by President Will
'on to Scfrain after August ] from
ecruitfnA Hnskilled labor in any man
Ter except through the United States
service recently organic
d by the department of labor.
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After having been IS days at sea in
24-foot beatl the crew of the burned
chooner Creacent, with Captain T.
bison and his wife. calmly tied their /
raft at pier In Sap Francisco and
limbed stiffly up ladder to shore
nd safety. ~