Williams news., 1919-08-15
FOREIGN

notes and gold, says a d1spatcn rom ConstantinopIe.
 It is learned that the Shuberts have offered M. Clemenceau the highest salary ever offered to any individual for a 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 S5,OOO a round trip, which will be made via West Africa.
 A shortage of more than 7O,OO0.00o tons of coal, as compared with the 1913 output, is faced by Great Britain in the coming year, according to Sir Auckland Geddes, president of the Board of Trade.
 Budapest is occupied by Rumanian troops who advanced from the river Theiss, 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 waded out into the sea in sight of numbers of pleasure seekers and then drew a re volver ond shot himself.
 Marshal Foch, 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.
 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 followed suit so far as whisky, gin and 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.
 The Prussian government, according to American reports, is planning to or ganize a new and separate police force,'' to consist of from 100000 to 100000 trained soldiers, solely as a force to suppress disorder. It is
 
 latest type of military weapons and to put the men in garrisons through out Germany.
 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 its naval guns. If successful in this the Americans will have vir- tually monopoly of the steel works of the continent, it is said.
 Germany has cut the high cost o1 living in half. The reduction applies to all rational food, principally flour potatoes, meat and fat. The govern ment is spending one and half billion marks ($375, ,OO0,OOO) in an attempt to bring food prices down to permanent ly lower level At the same time the meat and fat ration is being increased American imports being assured. GENERAL
 A sample loaf of bread refused to explode when Chicago police shot, at it within package. They thought the box Judge Landis got in the mail was bomb.
 Twenty persons are believed to have lost their lives when the Tern schoon- CT Gallia was sunk in collision with the British steamer War Witch, near 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, ii was said.
 An extraordinary attempt of eleven Koreans to commit suicide by tying themselves together with rope and then jumping overheard is reported from Chemulpo. The incident occurred on a ferryboat All were picked up, but three were dead.
 Two Mexicans were shot and killed by American customs guards at Fl Paso, Texas, while attempting to smuggle six barrels of whisky to Mex ico, according to the announcement of Judge Jesus Cuen, of the District Court, who completed an investigation. One of the smugglers was identified as man named Ruiz, of prominent family in Juarez. The other was said to have been his chauffeur.
 A petition bearing the signatures of 142,548 voters, asking the submission to the Ohio electorate at the November election of a constitutional amendment repeating the statewide prohibition amendment and re-establishing the liquor license system and home rule To- cal option, and defining intoxicating beverages as those containing in ex- cess of PTS per cent alcohol, has been filed with Secretary of State Smith