, 1919-08-14
FOREIGN

1t is learned hat the Shuberts have
offered NJ. Clemenceau the highest
salary ever offered to any individual
for n lecture tOur of the United tates
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
made by Lieutenant Colonel I,omanel-
Ii, the Italian representative of the al
lies ut Vienna.
George Johnson, Il 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 n re-
volver ond shot himself.
Marshal Foch, commander-ln-chief
of the allied armies during the war, is
reported by the Echo de Paris to have
been invited by the United States gov
eminent, as well as several o%rganiza-
ton 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 u COM
mission which almost has completed
the task of li~quidating the affairs of
the royal house.
The SOir that the nun
dred million dollar loan concluded by
the Belgian government with Amerl-
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 armistice was
signed n law was passed forbidding the
manufacture and sale of such bever-
ages.
A 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 a monopoly of the steel works
of the continent, it is said.
The surrender of General Kruska,
commander of the German prison camp
at knfCnr hae hAaVN 1at,,nIa1 Ir a.,
allies as the first of the enemy Off
Gals to be tried for violations of inter
national law during the war, according
to a Copenhagen dispatch, quoting Der.
lin advices. General Kruska is accused
of having been responsible for an cpl.
demic of typhus fever at the Kaiser
camp which caused the deaths of 5000
French prisoners.
GENERAL
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.
The sugar yield from the Louisiana
cane crop will be more than 100, OOC
tons below the average for the proceed.
ing ten years, according to estimates
of the federal bureau of crops made
public.
An extraordinary attempt of eleven
Koreans to commit suicide by tying
themselves together with a rope and
then jumping overheard is reported
from Chemulpo. The incident occurred
on n %ferryboat. All were picked up,
but three were dead.
Charged with criminal anarchy un.
der an old section of the penal code,
four men were arrested in New York
by detectives of the bomb squad after
n raid on their apartment in the Bronx
Much anarchistic literature and a load.
ed revolver were found in the flat. All
of the men were Firms.
explode when Chicago police shot at
it within a package. They thought the
box Judge Lands got in the mail was
n bomb.
Twenty persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the Tern schoon-
er Gallia was sunk in a collision with
the British teamer War Witch, near
Halifax.
Approximately S2,O0O.OOO worth of
surplus leather goods, finished and un
finished, purchased by the government
before and during the war, was sold
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, it
was said.
Two Mexicans were shot and killed
by American customs guards at 81
Paso, Texas, while attempting to
smuggle six barrels of whisky to Mex
leo. according to the announcement of
Judge Jesus Cuen, of the District
Court, who completed an investigation.