The Benson signal., 1919-06-07
FOREIGN

now exceeds 1000 daily, according to
Swedish press reports.
Six persons were killed and twenty
wounded in the riOting and fighting
which took place at Lima Peru, as a
consequence of the strike Martial
law has been declared in Lima and
CallaO.
The Poles have occupied Stanislau,
Galicia, seventy-five miles sOnth-south-
east of Lemberg, according to an Of
ficial announcement from Warsaw
The Ukrainian garrison of Stanislau
was disarmed by the Polish forces.
The French military authorities hold
periodical sales by auction of automo-
biles for which the army has no further
USE The demand for these machines,
many of which do not need very great
| repairs, is so great that one days re-
ceipts recently were the equivalent of
$240,O00.
A worldwide collection for the pur-
pose of rebuilding the cathedral of
Rheims is being organized under the
auspices of the Red Cross Among the
members of the committee are the
Princess Margaret of Denmark Queen
Maude of Norway and Princess Inge-
borg of Sweden.
J. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of
the excheQuer, announced in the
House of Commons in England that tho
present indebtedness of the British
| government to the American govern
ment is $2,25O,0OO,OO0, while the vari-
| Ous American departments owe the
British departments, roughly, $21O,OOO,-
600.
| Male citizens in the streets of
| COblenz were compelled to salute the
American flag when the American
| Third army's composite regiment
marched through Coblenz for an in
formal review. AS the flag passed
along the streets the color guards COM
PEELED the Germans to remove their
| hats in token of respect
| The whereabouts of Enver Pasha
and Talaat Pasha, the leaders of the
Turkish government during the war, Is
not known, but the British govern
ment is taking steps to bring them to
account, Cecil HarmswOrth, under Sec
retary of state for foreign affairs, an
nOunced in the House of Commons. Mr.
Harmsworth said he understood a pro-
vision requiring the surrender of En-
yer and Talaat would be included in
| Ivy
SPORT
Walter WesbrOOk, the University of
Michigan star left hand tennis player,
defeated Henry Adams of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota in the final singles
of the Western conference tennis tour
nament by scores of 81; go; 60 at
Chicago.
Miss Alexa Stirling of Atlanta, Ca,
national woman golf champion, added
the Southern championship to list OF
| golf honors by defeating Mrs. Dave
Gaut of Memphis 3 up and 2 to play
in the finals of the eighth annual tour
nament of the Womans Southern Coli
Association.
The record long run of the 1919 trap.
shooting season to date is 270 straight
by Homer Clark, East Alton, ILL.,, the
professional champion. This straight
score, made at the Mississippi state
tournament, held at Vicksburg, has
been officially recognized by the
American Trapshooting Association.
Ichiya Kumagae, the Japanese
tennis player, in addition to trying
to win the New York state tennis
championship at the Yahnundasis Colt
Club courts, Utica, on July 16, will be
accompanied by a newcomer, K. Yama.
saki, who arrived recently in New
York. He is one of the best players in
Japan.
GENERAL
Two highwaymen slugged a Wall
street messenger in the heart Of the
financial district in New York and
robbed him of 5000 worth of Liberty
Bonds which he was carrying in o
satchel on his way to the federal re
serve bank.
Governor Gardner of Missouri signed
the bone dry enforcement bill, which
was recently passed by the General
Assembly. The bill becomes effective
Jan. 20 next
Fishing in Browns quarry in Chi
cago was so good, junk men planned
to try seining With block and tackle
insurance men recovered two stolen
automobiles from the depths
Because he kept Is cents out of his
wages and his wife became angry
George Vantigan had her arrested on
peace warrant. She was placed I'm
der $1O0 bonds at BogOta, N. J.
Ten strokes of the lash and ten years
in jail was the sentence given at Van.
couver to Sidney Price, said by police
to be the leader of a trio which held
up the caretaker of the Vancouver
| Yacht Club recently and attempted to