The Dolores star., 1919-08-15
ToREIGN

1t 10 learned that the Shuberts have
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 $1,000 Il 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 re-
volver ond shot himself
Marshal Foch, commander-in-chiet
of the allied armies during the war, is
reported by the Echo de Paris TO hav"
been invited by the United States gov
ernment, us well as several orgnniza-
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 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 Amer
can banks will be made through the
American government, the latter hav-
ing asked that the loan be reserved
for purchases made under its 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 nrmiStice was
signed law was passed forbdding the
manufacture and sale of such bever-
ages
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
The surrender of General Kruska,
commander Of the German prison camp
Mt 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 mt the Kaiser
camp which caused the deaths of 3,OO0
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
Il 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 We're arrested in New York
by detectives of the bomb squad after
a raid on their apartment in the Bronx
Much anarchistic literature and load
aI in hn flo
of the men were Films.
Chicago.-George Fleming, Il youth
recently released from the navy. was
bayoneted by Private Edgar NOLAN, 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 10 have
lost their lives when the Tern schoon-
er Gallia was sunk in Il 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 100000 worth of
surplus leather goods, finished and un-
finished, purchased by the government
before and during the war, was sOll
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, 1t
was said.
Two Mexicans were shot and killed
by American customs guards at FL
Paso, Texas, while attempting to
smuggle six barrels of whisky to Mex
leo, according to the announcement of
Judge Jesus Cuen, of the District
r,urt who rnpnnIataI on tIn