The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-08-30
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

UUNULNuLU IUHM
Twenty three thousand former Rus
sian officers imprisoned in fte Alien
tieff barracks have been released. ac-
rording to ii Moscow dispatch print
ed in the Rhenisch Westphalia Iei-
tung. The dispatch says the Soviet
government was compelled TO aban-
ion it's plans for the internment OF
officers under pressure from the pop
ulation of Moscow.
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Reduction of - per cent of all pub
Iication space in excess of eight pages
for country weekly newspapers has
,een ordered by Chairman Baruch OF
he war industries board.
A senate bill providing S4o,ooo TO
| indemnify Greece, as requested ny
| President Wilson in il recent message
| to congress. for damages suffered by
Greeks in South Omaha. Neh.. riots
in 1909 was passed by the house and
now goes to the president.
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Indefinite Industrial Burroughs for
soldiers whose mechanical skill makes
them necessary in the Shipyards have
become ii thing of the past. Orders
have been received ut Camp Lewis
from Washington disseminating them.
Instead Burroughs will be granted for
10 days only. The order is said to
be due to IL belief of war officials that
the demand for skilled shipyard work
prs will have passed its crest within
10 days.
Taking at its face value Il printed
request not to blow the safe, but to
use the combination. which was given
burglars relieved the strong box of a
San Francisco furniture company of
81. 500 in money and $3.50 in Liberty
bonds. The manager of tire store ex-
planned that he left the sign on the
safe because he did not want it Oh
possibly the building wrecked by III
.. explosion.
The plant of the La Sale Portland
Cement company, known rs the big
gest of its kind west of Chicago ant
doing business of approximately So,
: A. Mitchell Palmer. alien property Gus
$ todiap. Before the war the concerl
was known aS the German American
= Portland Cement works. Seventy-tw,
!, per cent of its stock is said To be Ger
h man owned
) Five thousand persons are homeless
ana 2oo,ooo are without proper foo
as result of flood in the Tun
kiang river, says "A dispatch fror
Hong Kong. The American Red eros
j. is providing temporary relief
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Use of cement by industries enga:
ed in other than war work will h
greatly eurtailed if not completed
stopped by an order issued hN the flu,
administration restricting delivery {
coal IL cement manufacturers TO
- per cent of the normal amount. Ma,
ii ntaeturer> may make cement in exces
n ot their allotment only if greater pr,
n auction IS required by The agYeemen
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IN nNererowded trains and unSatjsfa
rs Tory passenger service in some Sc
ID lions Of The country are caused /
the necessity of using many d:
IL coaches and sleeping ears for tro,
IA transportation and by the heavy hu
II tea 81 hnulins Mar supplies. Direct,
h, General McAioo explains in stat
nent To The public"
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cut of 1000 Officers arrested
10 MeNe"" and retrograd because
counter revolutionary tendencies y
Of h'Ne been >ummarily shot. .aecordi,
" IN Moscow advice> 10 the Kreuz y,
1r tuhS Of Berlin, copy of which n
al eeen sceired In Amsterdam.
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- HE GernunS are now using 9
IA masks on their messenger ni~ao,
NJ >"HS dispatch 10 the London Dai
Il halE The correspondent also reno,
1T mat German airmen are using ma,
Il Nnu'e> 10 escape from damaged a
Do planes. - :