The Ordway new era., 1919-08-08
VOREIGN

scriptiOns amounted to E767, 300, 600, II
was announced in the House Of Com
mons.
Socialist motions to hasten the bill
establishing state tribunal to investi-
gate the cause of the war and the guilt
for 1t, has passed the national assem-
bly, at Weimar.
Premier Nitt Of Italy is organizing
a new mission to the United States. It's
purpose will be to present Italy's finan-
cial and Industrial needs, the establish
ment of credit, and the facilitation of
exports and Imports.
The Polish advance into Galicia was
made SO rapidly that the Ukrainians
had no time to destroy the railways or
bridges as they retired. The Poles, ac-
cording to this announcement, took g.
800 prisoners and forty-one guns a.
well ms vast quantities OF munitions.
One hundred and seventy thousand
cases of typhus exist in Poland and
the Baltic Russian states, according to
reports received by officials connected
with the American sanitary expedition
now hurrying by train and by automo-
bile through Germany to the afflicted
districts
The French commission appointed
by Albert Claveille, minister of public
works, to study the feasibility Of a
tunnel under the English channel, has
reported fnvorably on the project. NJ.
Claveille has authorized the French
company which holds the concession
.f.r tv.r, \, Al
latest piercing machinery.
King George received Marshal Foch
at Buckingham palace and conferred
upon him the rank of field marshal of
the British army. Marshal Foch later
was escorted to the Guild hall where
he was given the freedom of the city
and presented with sword of honor
similar to that given General Pershlng
July 1S in connection with the celebra.
ton of peace.
America is god-mother to $4,000 or
phans in Armenia. Twenty-elght or
phanages in the Armenian republic are
now In operation, under American su-
pervislon. The United States relief
committee has signed an agreement TO
luht Niisil &c VI lultb
in Armenia and TO pay for their main
tenance. There are $4,000 orphans in
the region of Erivan and 5000 in Geor.
gia.
The Berlin newspapers say that the
former German emperor has written to
the archbishop of Posen, asking him to
preserve the Protestant chapel at Po-
Mo
former monarch said that 1t would be
unbearable to him to have Roman
Catholic services in the chapel, into
which he had put his whole soul and in
which he prayed for victory for Ger.
many.
GENERAL
Four automobile bandits entered the
jewelry store of Joseph Brandt In Chi
cago and after binding the proprie-
tors brother and an employe, escaped
with jewelry valued at $4,000.
Jack Britton of Chicago, welter-
weight boxing champion, and Mike
O'Dowd of st. Paul, the middleweight
title holder, will meet in an eight.
round contest at Newark, N. j., Aug.
%. The men are to weigh In at 15s
pounds.
The abnormal demand for pennies 10
still taxing the capacity of the presses
in the Philadelphia mint, the enormous
total of Sc, 1881 600 having been struck
during July. The other coinage con-
sisted Of $4,000 dimes and 9,3O8,OO0
nickels.
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former heavyweight champion; Tex
Rickard. fight promoter, and Frank G.
Hall, movie man, has been filed In the
Federal Court by the Standard Film
Service Company, for loss due to the
ban on the movie pictures of the fight.
teen injured in a head-on street car
collision on the outskirts of Minneapo-
lis. The motorman on one of the cars
was among those killed.
The Indiana Public Service Commits
sion has denied the petition of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
for permission to continue in effect the
20 per cent increase In rates collected
under government control.
The demand for tobacco is the great
est in the worlds history, according to
n statement made by Benjamin Duke
He declared that America is supplying
much of the worlds output and that
1000, 600 cigarettes are made in the
United States every three days to meet
the demand.
So serious has Buffalo's downtown
parking problem become the City
Council has begun consideration of n
plan to have subterranean municipal
garage constructed. The proposal is
to have subways leading to parking
space constructed beneath one of the
city's public squares, the subways to
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