The Benson signal., 1919-10-11
FOREIGN


amounts annually to approximately
$643, 100000, according to statement,
issued from Omsk by the minister of
finance of the Kolchak government.
Economic negotiations between Lux
emburg and Belgium have been broken
off by Belgium as result of the refer
endum in Luxembourg, under which
France became LuXemburgs financial
ally. The Belgian minister in LuXem-
burg has been recalled.
Brig. Gen. Edgar Jadwin of the
American mission in southern Russia
who was reported to have been ex-
ecuted by the BOlsheviki, is we'll and
on his way home, according to a dis
patch to the War Department from
United States Minister Gibson at War
saw.
simultaneously with the renewal of
the offensive against the BOlsheviki
on the eastern front by the KOlchak
forces, General Yudenitch has begun
an advance toward PetrOgrad from
the Archangel district, according to
bassy at Washington.
The Chamber Of Deputies at Paris,
ratified the German peace treaty by
vote of 372 to SO. The chamber then
took up the treaties between France
and the United States and France and
Great Britain. The Franco-American
and French-British treaties were un-
animously ratified.
from which the HohenZOllern arms
have been eliminated. 1t consists Of a
black one-headed eagle on, golden vel
low field. The new" eagle, which has
shed it's erstwhile imperial crown and
collar, is not rampant bird, and
would look sedate enough in it's sit
ting posture but for the color of it's
beak, tongue and talons, which are red.
Art treasures valued at more than
$1OO,OOO,000 which belonged to Gather
inc II of Russia, who died in 1896, have
been discovered by the Bolshevik COM
mission charged with classifying the
property of the late Car Nicholas in
| the winter palace and in the palace of
| TsarkOe Selo. The cases containing
| these treasures had never been opened
since they were sent to Catherine from
Rome. The find includes more than
1000 paintings and sculptures by some
of the greatest French and Italian mas
ters, including Terpolo, Roughi, Latour,
Iancret and Fra gOnard
GENERAL
Herman Smith, Buffalo's feather
| weight, Outpointed Joe Leonard Of New
York before the Queensbery Athletic
Club at Buffalo.
The estate of Anna Held, the actress,
| totaled $27826O, according to an ac-
counting filed by Charles F. HanlOn of
| San Francisco, executor, with petit
| ton asking that his duties as executor
be wound up.
| Seymour Cox, Jr, II years old, made
an airplane flight from Houston, Tex,
| to New York to get an education. With
| his mother Mrs S. E. J. Cox, wife of
Houston oil operator, and Pilot Harold
making the trip without incident.
Brand Whitlock, former minister to
Belgium, assumed the rank of ambas-
sador to that country when he pre-
sented the credentials to King Albert
in the latter's suite at the Waldorf
Astoria. This is the first time in his
tory. it is believe, that a ruling SOW
ereign has received q foreign diplO-
mats credentials on the latter'S OwD
soil.
| investigation shows that the forest
| fires which ragged over the week end
along the line of the Pacific Great
Eastern railway above the Squamish
| were so intense that steel rails were
melted. Thousands Of huge trees fell.
A train with forty~five passengers was
held up for two days by the fire, which,
driven by heavy wind, swept through
| the Cheakamus valley.
The clocks of the country will be
| turned back one hour, under the provi-
sions of the daylight saving law, Oct.
| 26, the last Sunday in October at 2
| O'CLOCK III the IuOTIllHS. Lie ldW, W1llCH
was passed in 1918 and repealed in the
summer of this year, says that the
clocks shall be turned forward one
hour on the last Sunday in March and
turned back to normal time again on
the last Sunday in October.
A marked increase in the prOduc-
ton of wheat and the milling Of flour
this year over last year is noted in
the report just issued by the United
States Grain Corporation Of New
York city. The total wheat receipts
from farms, in bushels, extending over
the period from June q to Sept. 10 OF
this year amounted to 425,369,OO0. The
total receipts for the same period last
year amounted to 3S1, 100000. The
production of flour from June q to
Sept. 10, this year, amounted to 2S,-
$4,000 barrels, as compared with 24,-
$4,000 for the same period last year.
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