The Benson signal., 1919-11-01
FOREIGN

IOrCy QeaCnS. Many miners were in
| jured
1t has been reported in dispatches
from Lisbon that Portugal had granted
the United States a concession in the
Azores for a naval station.
Marshal Foch has informed the Bel
gian government by telegraph that 49,
| 600 Belgian freight cars have been
| found on the left bank Of the Rhine.
Hundreds of American children will
receive Christmas dolls, gifts of the
French children of the city of Mez-
ieres, as a mark of their gratitude for
| the organization there of the schools by
| the American Red Cross.
A large quantity of arms and ammu-
milton intended for Portuguese revolu-
tionaries has been taken over by the
Spanish authorities at Alamedilla
| Park, in Salamanca, about 115 miles
northwest of Madrid. The seizure was
made at the request of the Portuguese
consul.
| 1t is given out that Archduke Joseph
|
Hungary. If the entente objects, the
crown of Hungary will be offered, it
| is stated, to foreign prince, probably
of the English royal family. A re-
sumption Of the throne by former En-
peror Charles is out of the question.
wave of diamond buying has
struck England despite the repeated
| pleas of the government and business
| organizations for thrift. West End
| jewelers. report doing an extraordinary
| business in precious stones, especially
among women who made big wages in
war work.
NikOlai Lenine, BOlShevist premier
| of Russia, has been captured by anti
BOlshevist forces, according to wire
less message picked up by the Japan
ese ship Tenyo Maru in the harbor at
Honolulu. The message gave no fur
ther details of the reported capture Of
Lenine.
An official census shows that the
population of Korea at the end of 1918
was II ,O57 032. This shows an increase
of SS,035 as compared with the end of
1917 and of 3,744,O15 over the figures
for 1910, the year of annexation to
Japan. Japanese residents number
336,872.
The British government has already
realized $S12, 100000 by the sale of war
stores which it had on hand when
peace was declared. Hundreds of
motor cars and trucks have been
marketed at prices frequently in excess
of the price originally paid for them
by the war office, owing to the great
scarcity of cars.
The supreme council has refused a
| that members of interallied commits
siOns in Germany should not wear uni
| forms after the peace treaty comes in
| to effect. The council declared it saw
| in the request an attempt to weaken
| the authority of the commissions.
The net bag of German submarines
destroyed by the American, French
and British navies during the war was
200 out of total of $40 completed by
the enemy up to the armiStice, accord
ing to the war cabinet blue book Each
of the three navies developed entirely
| different systems of submarine detec-
ton apparatus, and their results were
constantly exchanged
GENERAL
Alfred T. Ringing, head of the firm
of Ringing Brothers, circus owners,
died suddenly on his estate at Oak
Ridge, N. j.
The Old Clothes Society was organ
| lied by clerks in the city hall in Chi
cago with "chapters" in each of the
principal departments Of the municipal
| government The object is to glOrify
the wearing of patches, frayed or shiny
suits, soft collars, re-soled shoes and
revivified neckties as a means of COM
batting the high cost of living "Wear
| your old clothes" was one of the Obli-
| cations of membership included in the
| bylaws.
George "Babe" Ruth, world cham
pion home-run hitter of the Boston
Americans said before leaving for Los
Angeles that he would demand $4,000
salary next year.
| For hours detectives with drawn
guns guarded a papier-mache safe in a
store in New York. Burglars had re-
moved the real safe to safe point for
cracking and left "camouflaged' one.
| What is said to be new record in
| the price of books was established by
the sale of single volume for 100000.
| The purchaser, a New York collector,
asked that his name be withheld. The
book is the only known copy Of the
first collected edition of Shakespeare's
works, published in London by Thomas
Pavier in 1890 and printed by William
| Jaggard.
The cargo carrier Sundance, named
in honor of WyOmng's work in the