The Benson signal., 1919-09-20
FOREIGN

with the Serbian army in the 1915 re-
treat only 5000 survived, according to
Two British deStroyers have been
sunk in the Baltic by mines with the
loss of twenty lives, according to in
formation received
Japan is not planning to withdraw
troops from Siberia, according to an
official statement issued at the war Of
flee in Toxic.
figures voiced by American Red Cross
workers and forwarded to national
headquarters. Most of these returned
to their homes to find themselves or
phans, and the Red Cross is seeking to
aid them by the establishment of or
phanages.
A news agency dispatch from
Cologne reported that more than two
hundred persons were injured and an
unknown number killed in munitions
explosion at Neuwied, near COblenz.
Many buildings were said to have been
demolished
To show that he is really patriot,
Prince Louis of Bourbon, pretender to
the French throne, has just entered
the butter trade in Paris. He says he
will fight prOfiteering and if he can
reduce the cost of butter he will feel
he has done his bit for the people.
An American company having cap
ital of $1OO,O0O,OO0 is being organized
in Poland to extend credits to Polish
cities so they may meet their necessi-
ties, especially for the construction OF
canals, water plants and hospitals, ac-
cOrding to the VOssische Zeitung Of
Berlin
Extension of relief activities in
western Russia and the Baltic prov
inces has resulted in the American
Red Cross increasing the appropriation
| for it's commission in that region from
$27O,OOO to $5O0;000, it has been an
nounced. Both Esthonia and Lithu-
| ania will benefit.
Albertas wheat yield a few weeks
| ago was estimated as being practically
negligible, but two weeks fairly steady
rains so improved thes ituatiOn that
| the yield is cOnservatively estimated
| at q, ,948,0OO bushels, while the yield OF
| oats is estimated at 56,220,OOO, barley
| 1851 900 and rye 100000. These fig
ures are certain to be exceeded as the
| threshing results are exceeding eXpec-
| tations.
GENERAL
Figures have been compiled showing
that upward of $1S,O0O,00O worth Of
| automobiles were stolen last year.
| Johnny Dundee holds a twelve
round decision over frankie Britt Of
| New Bedford. Dundee was Britt's
master in every round at Providence.
Two unmasked bandits robbed the
State Bank of Chautauqua county at
Wichita and escaped with $1,000 in
currency and Liberty bonds valued at
from $500 to $4,000.
A bomb was found at the rear en-
trance to the federal building directly
under the window of District Judge NJ
B. Blanding's office at LawtOn, Okla.
| A percussion cap was in place, but the
mechanism to explode it had not been
| attached.
The House of Commons of Canada
assented without reservation to the
treaty of peace with Germany. Both
houses of Parliament now have rati-
| fled the treaty and notification to this
effect was forwarded Immediately to
the British government.
Twenty-nine lumber dealers and
eight ice cream dealers and manufac-
turers were charged, in indictments re-
turned at Dayton, Ohio, by the Mont
gomery county grand jury with VIOLA
ton of the Valentine antitrust act in
operating in restraint Of trade and fix
ing prices.
| Two" men were killed and six in
| iured by the explosion of a SiX-inch
shell which was being unlOaded from
a barge in the Raritan river at the
| Raritan arsenal at BOnhamtOWn, N. j.
The ammunition on the barge was
being transferred to one Of the maga-
zines. The victims of the accident
all were civilian employees.
Burial of the dead at Mobile, Ala,
on Sunday is punishable by a fine OF
500 under a city ordinance just
adopted. Passage of the ordinance
was the result of petition to the city
commission by ministers, undertakers
and grave diggers.
DemobilizatiOn Of the navy has de-
moralized the Atlantic fleet so far as
man power is concerned, it has been
said at the Navy Department. Scores
of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and
| other vessels are mOOred at navy
ards with crews so greatly reduced
that in many casts it is difficult, and
in some cases impossible to keep
up steam. Only two battleships OF the
Atlantic fleet have anywhere near full
| crews.
eff anyone attempts to raise the rel
| flag of anarchy in this country, shoot
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