, 1919-09-25
FOREIGN

killed in August, 1914, in the Belgian
Ardennes
The attorney general, Sir Gordon
Hewart, has completed the case for
the prosecution of the former German
emperor. The place for the trial has
not yet been settled.
Thomas Howell, Canadian national
secretary of the International Brother
hood, announced at the city temple in
London that Lloyd George is going Ia
visit America SOON.
The Porto Rice government has an
nOunced that the last sugar crop ag-
gregated 0 5000 short tons, or $1,000
tons less than the 1918 crop. 1t added
that shipments to date had been 3d.
o tons.
Divorces have increased tremendu-
ously since the war and the number
of dlvorce cases on the court docket
sets a new high record for England.
There are LOGO cases to be tried dur
ing the present term In London alone.
Five masked men bound and gagged
the mail clerks on the Ocean Limited
express of The Canadian National rail-
way near Harlaka and robbed the mail
car of $4,000 in silver and paper. The
money was being shipped from Mon
treal to Halifax
Announcement has been made of the
postponement of the execution of
Pierre Lenoir, who was tried with San
ator Humbert, and others on a charge
of communicating military intelligence
to the enemy and who was to have
faced he firing squad in Paris.
Russian troops on the Archangel
front are carrying out a successful of
fenSive against the Bolsheviki in the
railway sector, says an ArchangeI mes
sage received in Paris. Russian volun-
teer troops, it is announced, have &C.
cupied the town of Omega, which was
taken by the Bolsheviki In one of their
recent pushes northward.
GENERAL
Figures have been compiled showing
that upward of S1S,O0O.O00 worth of
automobiles were stolen last year.
The wreck of the seamer Barnsta-
hle, disabled in a storm en- route to Ha-
vana, has been located by the revenue
cutter Itasca and one survivor rescued.
Jack Kearns, manager of Champion
Jack Dempsey, has refused to consider
an offer of S150,00O for a champion
ship bout in London, according to re-
ports in New York.
Capt. Kermit Roosevelt has been
appointed secretary OF the American
Ship and Commerce Corporation, the
holding company of the Cramps Ship
building Company n the Kerr Navi-'
CATION Company.
A radio experiment made off New
London by the experiment station,
naval section, established communica-
ton, both telephone and telegraphic,
between a hydroplane flying nearly
1000 feet in the air and q submerged
submarine several fathoms in the wa
ter. This Is said to be the first time
that an airplane and a submarine SUBJ
merged have communicated with each
other directly.
A campaign urging the government
to reissue the 2-cent coin, withdrawn
from circulation in 1874, the new coin
to bear on the diverse side a has re-
lief of the late President Roosevelt,
has been inaugurated by the Women's
Roosevelt Memorial Association. The
new coin, 1t is pointed out, would be
useful in the payment for war taxes
on small articles, newspapers and
street car fares.
rehabilitation of the navy has de-
moraliZed the Atlantic fleet so far as
Ia power is concerned, it has been
said at the Navy Department. Scores
of ~battleships, cruisers, destroyers and
other vessels are moored at navy
yards with crews so greatly reduced
that In many casts it is difficult, and
in som cases impossible to keep
up steam. Only two battleships of the
Atlantic fleet have anywhere near full
crews.
Miss Julia Heinrich of Philadelphia,
o Metropolitan Opera Company singer,
vas instantly killed at Hammond, La,
when she was struck by a baggage
truck which was knocked from the IL
linois Central tracks by a locomotive.
A bomb was found at the rear en-
trance to the federal building directly
under the window of District Judge NJ.
b. Blanding's office at Lawton, Okla.
a percussion cap was in place, but the
mechanism to explode it had not been
attached.
Five thousand well-to-do British
women determined to obtain American
husbands soon will arrive in the United
States, according to a warning issue
to bachelors by Mrs. s. C. Seymour of
Camden, n. j., who has just returned
from Europe.
Chicago's building strike and lock-
out which for more than two months
had made idle more than 100000 work
ers and halted construction contracts
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