The Benson signal., 1919-08-09
FOREIGN


The recent British victory loan SUBJ
| scriptiOns amounted to f767 100000, it
was announced in the House of Com
mons.
| Socialist motions to hasten the bill
| establishing a state tribunal to investi-
| gate the cause of the war and the guilt
for it, has passed the national assem-
bly, at Weimar.
| Pirates operating on the Black sea
have held up and robbed the steamer
| Constantine of $15,0O0,0O0 worth Of
notes and gold, says a dispatch from
| COnstantinOple.
The German cabinet will be recon-
structed in few days with Count Won
Bernstorff succeeding Herman Mueller
as foreign minister, a dispatch from
Berlin stated in London.
A shortage Of more than 70,OO000O
tons of coal, as compared with the
1913 output, is faced by Great Britain
in the coming year, according to Sir
Auckland Geddes, president of the
Board of Trade
An extraordinary attempt of eleven
Koreans to commit suicide by tying
themselves together with rope and
then jumping overheard is reported
from ChemulpO. The incident occurred
on ferryboat All were picked up,
but three were dead. The act is be-
lieved to have been inspired by Budd-
hist superstition.
| Tho Er0n0h nj
| by Albert Claveiile, minister of public
works. to study the feasibility Of a
tunnel under the English channel has
reported favorably on the project. M.
Claveille has authorized the French
company which holds the concession
| for the tunnel to experiment with the
| latest piercing machinery
| King George received Marshal Foch
| at Buckingham palace and conferred
| upon him the rank of field marshal Of
| the British army. Marshal Foch later
was escorted to the Guild hall where
| he was given the freedom of the city
and presented with a sword of honor
| similar to that given General Pershing
| July IS in connection with the celebra-
tion of peace.
| America is god-mOther to $4,000 or
phans in Armenia. Twenty-eight or
phanages in the Armenian republic are
now in operation, under American su-
pervisiOn The United States relief
committee has signed an agreement to
take charge of all parentless children
in Armenia and to pay for their main
tenance. There are $4,000 orphans in
| the region Of Erivan and 5000 in Geor-
| gia
The Berlin newspapers say that the.
| former German emperor has written to
| the archbishop of POsen, asking him to
preserve the Protestant chapel at Po-
sen castle for Protestant services The
former monarch said that it would be
| unbearable to him to have Roman
| Catholic services in the chapel, into
which he had put his whole soul and in
which he prayed for victory for Ger
many.
GENERAL
Four automobile bandits entered the
| jewelry store Of Joseph Brandt in Chi
| cago and after binding the prOprie-
| tors brother and an employe, escaped
with jeWelry valued at $4,000.
More than $4,OOOO0O worth of sur
plus textiles were auctiOned off in
| New York in about three hours by the
surplus property division of the army,
with representatives of Admiral KOl-
| ahoIr 70
more than $1,OO0,OOO of it, ::
So serious has Buffalo's downtown
parking problem become the City
| Council has begun consideration Of
| plan to have a subterranean municipal
garage constructed. The proposal is
space constructed beneath one of the
| city's public squares, the subways to
| be about two blocks in length each,
one for inbound and the other for out
| bound cars.
The abnormal demand for pennies is
still taxing the capacity Of the presses
in the Philadelphia mint, the enormous
total of 3S,931 900 having been struck
| during July. The other coinage con-
sisted of 95O,OOO dimes and 100000
nickels.
The United States submarine G-2,
which is listed as an obsolete craft
and used for experimental work, sank
with open matches in Long Island
sound and three Of it's crew of eight
were drowned. Others were rescued
by men from the United States coast
| guard cutter Acushnet, which was ac-
companying the submarine.
A petition bearing the signatures OF
| 142, ,548 voters, asking the submission
| to the Ohio electorate at the November
election of a constitutional amendment
repeating the statewide prohibition
amendment and re-eStabliShfng the
liquor license system and home rule To-
cal OntjOn and defining Intoxicating