The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-03-29
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Treasury officials and congressional
leaders have reached an agreement on
the principal features of program for
extensive government dealings in sill
| yer as a war measure, and bill to
authorize the melting and sale of more
than $200,000,0O0 of silver dollars now
in the treasury, will soon be intro
| duced.
The troops sent recently by Germany
Finland to assist in putting down the
Red Guard are meeting with hostile
| forces which are continually being in
creased, says a semi-official statement
| issued in Berlin. On this account, fur
Their help by Germans is said to be
urgently needed.
Fire which broke out in q moving
picture theater in Coquille, Ore, de-
stroyed 10 buildings and residences,
entailing an estimated loss of $4,000.
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The Vancouver, b. c.. city council
has ordered the Russian flag removed
from set of flags of the entente al
lies at the city hall. The action was
taken, the resolution said, because Rus
STA signed a disgraceful and ignoble
peace.
An international peace plan, both
to effect immediate cessation of the
war and to maintain future peace in
the world, has been outlined to the
senate by Senator Owen of Oklahoma, |
author of a resolution proposing a
league of nations to enforce peace.
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Figures on the shipping output and |
tonnage losses of Great Britain will be |
published regularly redeafter, it was |
announced in the house of commons |
by Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the |
British admiralty.
AS Kansas City bound passenger
train on the Burlington railroad was
leaving Aurora, H., the engineer saw
great steel chain hooked across the
tracks. which at this point are on 30
foot elevation. Officials think that
enemy plotters stretched the chain in
the hope of wrecking Camp Grant fur
Tough specials.
Near-beer beverages are barred from
Camp Lewis canteens, exchanges and
officers mess by an order issued by
Major II. A. Green. No explanation
was Forthcoming at division headquar-
tiers offices Pop and grape juice are
still on sale.
Representative Hillard of Colorado
has introduced a bill in the house to
empower the government to acquire
by eminent domain in the form of
leases, the telephone and telegraph ia
cilities of the country.
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The number of persons lost in the
disaster of December 6, in Halifax,
due to the explosion of munitions
ship, has been officially placed at 1900
The chairman of the mortuary an ,
that the official list contained
$50 names, and that the number of
persons known to be missing brought
the total up to 1900.
The American consul at Odessa
before the German occupa
ton of that city and is now safe at
according to dispatch to
the state department from American
Consul Summers at Moscow.
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Germany is charged in official dis.
patches reaching Washington from
France with attempting to force Swe I
len to become a participant in the !
Brest- Litovsk conferences for a settle
nent Of questions affecting the Baltic |
Tax slackers who fail To file theii
income tax report by April first viii q
he prosecuted as vigorously and re :
entlessly under the war revenue acll
Is draft slackers were under the Sc
ertiye service act, according % al
statement made by Daniel G. Roper
commissioners of Internal revenue