The Raymer enterprise., 1919-05-01
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American army OFFICERS In Pafis say
there are virtually no American troops
left In Italy, excepting few railroad
transport officers and military police.
A clause has been drafted for In
sertion In the peace treaty, fixing the
date for the transition to a state OF
peace sixty days after the signing OF
the treaty.
The provisional government OF vor-
arlberg, the westernmOst district OF
the former Austro- Hungarian empire,
has decided TO submit the question Of
q union with Switzerland to plebis-
cite.
Dramatic and lyric performers on
the French stage. at a meeting. decid-
ed TO form a union. The new organixa-
| ton will be affiliated with the Nation
al Theater union and through II with
the General Labor Federation.
In three years the British public has
bought 3OO,0O0O00 war savings certifi-
Gates at s3.75 each. So successful has
been the work OF the national war saw
ings committee that ii is planned to
continue its 10000 savings associations
on a permanent peace basis.
| Italian military forces will occupy
that part OF Dalmatia and other Adri-
attic territory named In the pact OF
London. with about 100000 men, IL was
was stated by Captain Pozzi, Of Pre-
mier 0rlando's staff. A similar force,
the captain added, would be sent to
the northern region and around Fiume.
The state of New South Wales, OF
Australia, In settling its returned sol
diers on the land, not only provides
them with farm on easy payments,
but makes sure OF the repatriated An.
zac's welfare by paying him an allow
ance up 10 $40 week for sustenance
during the unproductive period Of his
| tenure
Almost as suddenly as the recent
strikes began In Berlin there and
everywhere, Germany appears to be
euieting again. The coal miners In
the Ruhr district are returning TO
work and those In the Dushburg and
| Muehlheim districts. as well as half
a dozen other places, returned to the
collleries.
Almost 100000 persons have died
In British India Of Spanish Influenza
and fully 100000 others are believed
to have died In the native states OF
the same cause, according TO a report
of the Indian government. The area
affected contained population OF
23S, ,02G,2i0. In few months, IL is
observed, influenza claimed half AZ
many victims as did the dreaded
plague in twenty years.
SPORT
The American crew was defeated by
the crew from New Zealand In the
final heat OF the regatta on the Seine
today for the trophy offered by the
Rowing club OF France.
The annual North and South trap
shooting tournament Mt Pinehurst end
ed with w. n. Boylston, Florida state
champion, the winner OF the 225-target
contest, and H. A. Merson Of Char
lotte. n. C., the victor In the North
and South handicap.
GENERAL
All records for the greatest number
OF troops to return from France in one
day were broken in New York when
four transports and two battleships
brought home total OF 22,913 officers
and men.
| Physicians believe temporary insan-
ity caused Frederick Drew, Pacific
coast representative OF the lnierna.
tional Harvester Company, to leap 10
his death from a hospital window in
Chicago.
Immigration of 2,0Oo0O0 foreigner
mostly Chinese and Japanese, ever
year for the next fifty years. was pre-.
dlcted In Chicago by Abraham Bowers,
immigration secretary of the Y VI. e.
A., In the course OF an address before
the Illinois State differentiation
committee.
After considerable research, Prof.
Trevor kincaid. department OF zoolo-
gy, University Of Washington, has
identified the so-caled Puget Sound
pilchnrd fish MS plain herring.
Federal Judge landis has ruled that
Postmaster General Bureson could
not increase intrastate telegraph rates
He said he would dissolve the tempo
rary injunction restraining the attor.
ney. general Of Illinois from interfering
with the imposition of the higher
rates.
A naval seaplane Of the F-5 type
propelled by two Liberty motors Of 40C
horsepower each and carrying a crew
of four men, remained in the air al
the Hampton Roads naval base fol
twenty hours and ten minutes. estab
fishing what naval officers said was d
worlds record for seaplanes.
Judge Hart Of the Circuit Court sent
enced Mrs. lnez Johnson, convicted OF
the murder of Miss Beatrice Epler
. aged sixteen, of Alma. Mich, Sept. 4