The Tomahawk., 1919-08-21
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Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
Washington

and proposing remedies to check the
high cost of living, President Wilson
declared that existing laws were inad-
|eQuate and that high prices were not
justified by shortage of supplies, but
were created In many cases "artifcial-
~ and deliberately" by "vicious prac-
tices."
One million homes to cost $4.OOO,-
100000 are needed in the United
Estates. Senator Calder of New York
declared in an address in the senate
at Washington, in support of his bill
proposing a system of "home" banks
similar to the farm loan banks.
The country's corn crop showed q
decrease Of 27,O52, 600 bushels as re-
suit Of weather and other conditions
during July, according to a report is
sued by the department of agriculture
at Washington.
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. President Wilson notified Director
General Hines at Washington that he
was authorized to take up the de.
mands Of railroad shop employees for
higher wages and decide them on their
merits.
An army of $4,000 regulars and a
system Of compulsory military train
ing, as proposed in the Washington
war departments bill establishing a
permanent military policy, would cost
5000. .0oo.o0o a year.
Representatives Of IA different rail-
road unions now have Joined in COM
munication to Director General Hines
at Washington asking immediate in
crease in wages. So far as known this
is the first instance on record In which
all the railroad unions, representing
100000 employees, have acted US
unit.
Secretary Lansing told the senate
foreign relations committee at Wash
1ngton that the American plan for
League Of Nations was mot pressed"
nt Versailles and never presented to
Suc Auu pcuCc COuIcAcuSSs
General Pershing cabled the war de-
partment at Washington that on July
81, 9S,4S7 troops were overseas. The
maximum number Of American troops
in Europe was 100000 November II,
de1s.
Seven hundred and flfty-six of the
American soldiers killed In action were
Victims Of gas, according to m an
nouncement by the war department at
Washington. The average age Of all
the men killed was twenty-three years.
Foreign
Dispatches from Warsaw carry the
announcement by the newspapers
there that Polish troops have occupied
the city of Minsk. Minsk is some 200
miles east Of the borders Of the old
provence Of Poland.
An Athens dispatch says the Turks
have proclaimed "holy war" against
the Greeks landed at Panderna.
The Japanese residents Of Peking
have been warned to remain indoors Mt
night. The warning was given because
of i'll feeling among the Chinese over
the recent incident Mt Kwang Chang
'Tsu.
A $1O,O00,OOO program of coi:struc.
ton was decided on by the municipal
council Of Santiago, Chile, In order to
give work to the unemployed and al
:leviate the social unrest.
A strike on the trans-Sibcrian rail-
way Is becoming serious menace. All
traffic, including military trains, is at
q standstill, according to q Peking
dispatch.
The Stockholm Social Demokraten
reports that Archangel is in the hands
of the bolsheviki, who, it says, have
succeeded in cutting the connections
between the Murman and Archangel
coasts.
Diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Argentina are delicate as
a result Of the purchase by Argentina
Of the German steamship Bahia
Blanca, according to the Buenos Aires
La Nacion.
Aviator Stoppani plotting an air
plane from Madrid to Rome, arrived
there. The flight was made without
stop BY way of the gulf Of Lyons, Mar
settles, Spexia and Pisa.
Brig. Gen. Harry H. Bandholtz, on
the interallied military commission ap-
pointed by the allies to arrange set
ltlement at Bucharest will leave Paris
for Hungary as soon as possible.
King George at London conferred
upon Premier David Lloyd George the
Order Of Merit aS n SIGN of hiS an.