The Benson signal., 1919-08-16
| FOREIGN

offered nj. Clemenceau the highest
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 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, United States
| army officer, committed suicide in
dramatic fashion at Nice. He waded
out into the sea in sight of numbers Of
| pleasure seekers and then drew a re-
vOlver ond shot himself
Marshal Foch, commander-in-ch 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 we'll 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
dred million dollar loan concluded by
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
other highly alcoholic liquors are con-
cerned. Soon after the armistice was
signed 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, tho
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
at Kaiser, has been demanded by the
allies as the first of the enemy Off
| cials to be tried for violations of inter
national law during the war, according
to 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
A sample loaf of bread refused to
explode when Chicago police shot at
it within package. They thought the
box Judge Lands got in the mail was
| a bomb
| 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
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 load
| ed revolver were found in the flat. All
of the men were Firms.
| Chicago.-George Fleming, youth
recently released from the navy, was
bayoneted by Private Edgar MOhan, f
company of Fourth Illinois reserve
militia. Fleming was in the "riot
| zone" and was ordered to "mOve on
| This he failed to do and in the argu-
ment he was thrust in the abdomen
with the soldiers bayonet.
Twenty persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the Tern schOOn-
| er Gallia was sunk in collision with
the British steamer War Witch, near
| Halifax.
The sugar yield from the Louisiana
cane crop will be more than 100000
tons below the average for the preced-
ing ten years, according to estimates
of the federal bureau of crops made
public.
Approximately $2,Oo0,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
was said.
Two MeXicans were shot and killed
by American customs guards at Ell
PasO, Texas, while attempting to
smuggle six barrels of whisky to Mex
| leo, according to the announcement Of