The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-03-14

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WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM
Representative Julius Kahn of Cali
fornia, in a speech in Boston, said h,
would introduce in the next congress:
a bill providing for six months com
pulsory military training for every boy
in the United States when he reached
the age of Is years. He declared such
a law would assure the United States
of always having a sufficient number
of trained men for an army.
Seventy thousand Swedish shoe
makers will be thrown out of employ.
ment April 10, by suspension of opera
ton in all shoe factories of that coun-
try. Dispatches to the state depart
! ment at Washington say the manufac-
| turers had decided to sclose their
| plants because of oyerproduction DUR
ing the war and unusual speculation"
since the cessation of hostilities.
Italy has been warned by the Amer
lean government that unless she puts
an end to delays in movements of
relief supplies to the newly establish
ed Jugo-Slavic and Czecho-Slavic
states, steps will be taken to cut off
the flow of American foodstuffs to
Italy.
The British government has decides
to release all Irish political prisoners
says the London Daily mail. In order
to prevent a great public demonstra-
ton, the newspaper adds, the prisoners
will be returned to Ireland in small
patches.
Henry Ford, before leaving Los An
geles for his home in Detroit, an
nounced that ON his arrival there he
would perfect plans for the manufac-
ture by a new corporation of cheap |
er automobile to sell for lower price |
than any now extensively marketed |
Mr.. Ford said he had designed the |
car while resting" at Altandea, near
Los Angeles.
Robberies amounting to many mil
lion marks worth of property in Ber-
lin have been carried out in the last
few days, according to dispatch re-
ceived in London. jewelers. stores
were robbed and also Diapers estab-
lishments, where goods We're taken
valued at hundreds of thousands of
marks. In the northeast of the town.
dairy produce and meat shops have
been plundered.
Jeanette Rankin of Montana, the
only woman who ever served in con-
gress, made her farewell speech in
the house Just before adjournment.
She paid tribute to the membership
for courtesy shown her and expressed
regret at leaving congress without
suffrage by constitutional
an accomplished fact.
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Leon Trotzky, the bolsheviki war
has written from Moscow
Under date of February IA, to friend
n Switzerland, claiming that bolshey-
SIM is spreading through Russia and
Siberia. He declares in this letter that
filter peace is signed a new campaign
will be started among the workers of
he world to fight imperialism and
capitalism.
Seventeen hundred nominations, in
luding those of A. Mitchell Palmer
0 be attorney general and John Skel- !
on Williams to succeed himself as ,
of the currency, remain /,
d unconfirmed when congress adj ,
burned. On the list were approx
lately 1000 postmasters,, 500 army Of ,
icers and 200 naval officers.
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The French chamber OF deputies has
assed without discussion bill au-
1orizing the government to advance :
!, 100000 Irancs for the organization
{ popular restaurants. Z
A watchmaR\ was killed and damage :
BY FIVE department officials I
more than five hundred thousand
pillars was caused BY fire, which !
artly destroyed a seven-story ware
ouse Of Morris l& Co, in the union ]
;ockyards IN Chicago. Four flremen I,
ere overcome by smoke, but were \
'scued