The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-24
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Five million more silver dollars nave
been melted into bullion for export
| under the new silver bill, the treasury
has reported. and this probably will be
continued to meet the allies needs for
the metal for subsidiary coinage. About
$40 OOO. 900 in silver already has been
exported to India.
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prisoner in Germany since the
fall of Antwerp in 1914, Dr. Henri s.
Beland formerly postmaster general
! of Canada. has been released and is on
his way home.
A shipment of 500 pounds of whale
| steaks received in Evanston, Ill.,, re-
tailed for % cents a pound and soon
appeared in the restaurants.
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The Austrian food controller is con-
considering the introduction of one
breadless day a week. according to
dispatch from Switzerland.
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Stockholders of Swift & Co. Chica-
20 hackers, have formally approved
the plan to increase the capital stock
of the corporation from Sl0o00O.Oo0 to
S15O.OOO.OOO. Half of the increase is
to be distributed among the sharehold-
ers as a stock dividend while the other
S25,OOO,OOO will be offered to share
holders for cash at par at the rate OF
one share of new stock for each four
shares of old stock.
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Secretary McAdoo has authorized
further loans of $20O,000,000 to Great
Britain. s1OO,OOO,OO0 TO France and
s1OOOO,OOO to Italy, making the total
loans to all the allies S5,763, $4,000.
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James Gordon Bennett, proprietor
of the New York Herald is dead at
Beaulieu, France.
Under an announcement of army
regulations approved by Secretary
Baker. necessary dental work is added
to the remedial treatment to which all
soldiers are required to submit under
penalty of court martial. The num-
her of cases in which fighting men
ouailed before the dentists forceps is
said to have made the order necessary.
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An amendment to the postoffiee APP
preparation bill providing for an in
crease of $500 year in the salaries
of clerks, letter carriers and certain
other postal employees, and increases
of 20 per cent for rural mail car
riers and for employees receiving less
than $500 a year, has been adopted by
the senate.
proceed Immediately on a large scale
with the building of concrete ships
and will increase the program out of
the appropriation of two and one
quarter billion dollars asked for the
next fiscal year.
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Alexander F. Kerensky, who became
premier of Russia In 1917 and was de-
posed in November by the Bolsheviki, |
is expected to arrive in the United |
States soon, according to report pub,
lished in the New York Call, Social
ist organ.
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BY vote Of AZ to 9 the senate has
tentatively accepted committee
amendment to the postoffice appropria-
ton bill appropriating 100000 for the
establishment of postal motor routes
in order to transport food products
from agricultural districts to city.
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Four unmasked men entered pool
room in the heraf of the business dis
trict in Richmond, Va robbed the oc
cupaiNs Of about $1,000 in. cash and
valued at $1,000 and escaped In
an autopobile.
An American soldier. John Byra Of
Franklin. ~. j., testified at the trial
II 112 Industrial Workers Of the
World, being held in Chicago, that
of the organization
promised him and his fellow men pro-
lection from the authorities ii they
would evade the selective service actf