Arizona state miner., 1919-08-15
FOREIGN

salary ever offered to any individual
for lecture tour of the United States
under their management.
The first passenger airship to fly to
Rio de Janeiro from England will
leave next month from Barrow. The
fare will be $4,000 a round trip, which
will be made via West Africa
Budapest is occupied by Rumanian
| troops who advanced from the river
Thesis, in spite of representations
made by Lieutenant Colonel Romanel-
| Ii, the Italian representative of the al
lies at Vienna.
George Johnson, a United States
army officer, committed suicide in
| dramatic fashion at Nice. He wadeG
out into the sea in sight of numbers OF
pleasure seekers and then drew re
volver ond shot himself.
Marshal Foch, commander-in-chief
of the allied armies during the war, is
reported by the Echo de Paris to have
| been invited by the United States gov.
ernment, as well as several organiza.
| tions in the country, to visit America
All the castles and buildings which
the HOhenZollerns can prove they pur
chased with their own money they may
retain. This is the decision of a com
mission which almost has completed
the task of liQuidating the affairs OF
the royal house.
The Soir announces that the hun.
| mill o11 nd hu
the Belgian government with Ameri-
can banks will be made through the
American government the latter hav-
ing asked that the loan be reserved
for purchases made under it's control
The United States is not the only
prohibition country, Belgium having
followed suit so far as whisky, gin anC
other highly alcoholic liquors are con
cerned. Soon after the armistice was
signed a law was passed forbidding the
manufacture and sale of such bever
ages.
A statement has been made that
American steel companies, after hav-
ing bought out the Doehlewercke steel
| factories at Vienna and Dusseldorf, the
largest in Europe, are now negotiating
| to acquire the famous Skoda works,
noted for it's naval guns. If successful
in this the Americans will have vir-
tually monopoly of the steel works
Of the continent, it is said.
The surrender of General Kruska,
commander of the German prison camp
| a X oiS he
allies as the first of the enemy Off
| cialS to be tried for violations of inter
national law during the war, according
to a Copenhagen dispatch, quoting Ber,
lin advices. General Kruska is accused
of having been responsible for an cpl
demic of typhus fever at the Kaiser
camp which caused the deaths of 5000
French prisoners.
GENERAL
The sugar crop of Cuba this year is
expected to break all records, accord
ing to Gabriel G. Menocal, brother OF
the president Of Cuba, who is in New
York from Havana
The sugar yield from the Louisiana
tons below the average for the preced
ing ten years, according to estimates
of the federal bureau of crops made
public
An extraordinary attempt of eleven
Koreans to commit suicide by tying
themselves together with a rope and
then jumping overheard is reported
from Chemulpo. The incident occurred
on ferryboat. All were picked up
but three were dead.
Charged with criminal anarchy un
der an old section of the penal code
four men were arrested in New York
by detectives of the bomb squad after
a raid on their apartment in the Bronx
Much anarchistic literature and a load
ed revolver were found in the flat. AL
of the men were Finns
sample loaf of bread refused to
explode when Chicago police shot al
it within a package. They thought the
box Judge Landis got in the mail was
a bomb.
Twenty persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the Tern SchoOn'
er Gallia was sunk in a collision with
the British steamer War Witch, neal
Halifax.
Approximately $2,OOO,OOO worth OF
surplus leather goods, finished and un'
finished, purchased by the government
before and during the war, was sold
at public auction in Chicago. The
prices obtained for the material were
greater than those paid by the govern.
ment at the time of the purchase, it