The Benson signal., 1919-02-08
FOREIGN


nos Aires.
Sir Edward John Poynter has re-
signed the presidency of the Royal
Academy in England, which he had
held since 1896.
German newspapers predict that
Herr Naumann, Democratic party
leader. will be the first president OF
the German republic
Baron Lambert Rothschild, a lead
ing Brussels banker, who aided in the
formation of the Belgian relief COM
mission, is dead in Paris.
The report that some arrangement
between Great Britain and Spain was
in prospect through which Gibraltar
would be turned over to Spanish jur-
isdiction is denied.
The Thirty-eighth Division of the
French army now formally occupy the
town of Kehl, on the opposite bank
of the Rhine from Strasbourg, in ac-
cordance with the new, armistice
| terms.
Thus far it has been impossible to
estimate the extent of damage caused
| in Belgium by the Germans or to fix,
! even approximately the amount of in
demnity which Belgium will demand
from Germany.
| The Poles in Posen and the Danes
in Schleswig, refrained from taking
| part in the elections to the German
national assembly In Posen out of
1,250,000 Poles entitled to vote only
$4,000 did so.
| Whatever forces may be sent to
Turkey for garrisoning purposes, there
will be no American troops among
them. 1t is pointed out that their use
for this purpose would be inappropri-
ate, as the United States had never
been at war with Turkey.
Lieut. Rene Fonck, the leading
French ace, hes been granted permis-
sion by the French government to
represent France at the annual ban
quet of the Aero Club of America on
Feb. 19 in response to a request by
the foreign service committee of the
! club.
/ That Apaches of all nationalities
! dressed in American uniform were
mainly responsible for the acts of vio-
lence which have caused broadcast
publicity to be given to an alleged
American crime wave Yin Paris was
shown by an investigation conducted
by the newspapers.
SPORT
Shortstop Kopf and Outfielder Crit
fifth of the Cincinnati team have been
traded to the Brooklyn club in ex-
change for First Baseman Daubert,
according to an announcement made
by President Hermann of the local
club at .Cincirnati
Il, Dave Robertson, who was star bat
ter in the worlds series of 1917, has
refused to sign a 1919 contract with
] Manager McGraw of the New York
Giants. 1t was learned that Robert
son, at conference with Manager
McGraw in New York, said he was
through with the National League.
Directors of the Joplin Baseball AS
sociation announced that 1000 for
purchase of the Joplin franchise is in
the Western League has been raised
and that the club will be taken over
from John Savage in Kansas City.
Business men subscribed for the stock.
Rudy Hulswitt of Louisville, KY, was
reelected playing manager.
GENERAL
The struggle between Prussia and
Bavaria for leadership of the German
republic is growing intense.
The Brownings are to replace the
machine guns and automatic rifles
with which all the troops of the Amer
lean expcditionary forces have been
armed
Concerted action to obtain from the
luxury tax upon clothing and many
other articles in common use was
started by department stores, dry
goods stores and many other retail
stores in New York
Fifteen persons were injured, four
| seriously, when the rear coach of pas
senger train No. LOG of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway jumped
the track and crashed or it's side near
Burbank, S. d.
The exploration ship Endurance,
formerly the sealing steamer Nimrod,
which Sir Ernest Shackleton used in
his explorations in the Antarctic and
which had been engaged in the coal
trade between France and England,
was dashed to pieces on the sands off
Yarmouth
| Anti-American feeling in Mexico,
according to advices received by the
State Department, has been increased
! by agitation in the Senate and South
western states for acquisition by the
United States of Lower California, as
proposed in resolution introduced
| by Senator Ashurst of Arizona
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chica-