The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-08-15
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

General Pershlng has cabled the wal
department that on July 81 a total Of
49, 497 troops were still overseas.
A verdict in Henry Ford's $1.OOO, OO(
libel suit against the Chicago Tribune
is expected by August II, just three
months from the day the hearing be-
gan before Judge J. G. Tucker at Mt.
| Clemens, Mich.
Seven hundred and fifty-six of the
| American soldiers killed in action
were victims of gas, according to an
announcement by the war department
at Washington. The average age of
all the men killed was % years. The
total of missing in action on July 81
was PAL.
The Prince of Wales has left Ports
mouth, England, for Canada on board
the cruiser Renown. There was no
ceremony attending the departure of
the cruiser.
King George of England has confer
red upon David Lloyd George the or
der of merit, as a sign of his apprecia-
ton of the premier's war service.
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Marshal Foch of France. represent
ing the veterans of all the allied
armies of which he was i'm supreme
command. Will be invited to attend the
first national convention of the Amer
lean Legion. the national organization
of American veterans of the great war
which Is TO be held in Minneapolis Nov.
10 to II, it was announced at nation
al headquarters of the Legion in New
York.
New credits just established by the |
treasury for France and Greece bring
the total for the allies to S965S, 172. 567. |
France received $37.947,9 77. making
her total $3,047, 974,777, and Greece
got $4.S23, 1858, increasing her total TO
AS, 236, 500.
The Paris peace conference has
cached a solution of the Thracian
according to the Paris Intrn-
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lumber of parts, some going to Greece
nd others being designated to form
he future free state of Constantinople
nd a new free state under the league
f nations.
National prohibition is held respon-
ible for shortage of men to operate ,
he North Dakota penitentiary insti- ,
utions. The institution requires $50 ,
len for its activities and has but 131 /,
mates.
A bolshevik submarine has been !.
unk in the Baltic sea by the British !,
,rpedo boat destroyers Valorous and
ancouver. according TO an official
by the British admiralty in
ondon.
Claiming that they had prosecuted
i'm and prevented him from obtain
e position, Roger Sprague, a young v
'aduate of the University of Cali a
,rnia, shot and seriously wounded a
J. III. Hildebrand and Pro- e
ssor Edmund O'Neil of the univer- e
tvs department in the Institutions G
lemistry building. 81
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Ratification by the Nebraska legisla- 81
re last January of the federal prohi- S,
ton amendment is not referable to OF
referendum under the states mi
tive and referendum law, according h,
Secretary of State ID. NJ. Amsberry. in
& Il OF
Complaint that 113 Mexican citizens el
Corona, Riverside county, Califor- tt
a, are being denied the use Of the is
bile park and have been forced to al
cept segregation, has been sent to a
vernon Stephens of California by tn
lillermo s. Seguin, acting consul gem bs
al Of Mexico at San Francisco. CO
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Although establishment of a naval CT
ademy on the Pacific coast espe-
lily for the training of officers OF
} new Pacific fleet has been sug-
sted to the naW department, Act pa
, Secretary Roosevelt says no def in
e action would b. taken until the icy
emily enlarged fachtties OF the An m,
polls academy had been given tol
trough trial. DO
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King George Of England has given tn
assent to the GermanA peace treaty 10,
! to the Angle French treaty. tn,
ich thus become law. a.