The Benson signal., 1919-03-15
FOREIGN

tire in favor OF Prince Regent Alex
ander, according to Fiume dispatch
to the Idea Nazionale, quoting advices
from Belgrade.
AS result of representations CT
American officials, the British govern
ment has consented to the removal Of
all censorship on business, commercial
and all other messages.
A republic has been officially pro-
claimed in Luxembourg. Princess Char
lotte, who succeeded her sister, Marie
Adelaide, on the throne, has fled and
is probably in Switzerland.
An American relief commission has
arrived in COnstantinOple and is en-
gagged in preparing for transportation
of food and medical supplies and
clothing into the Caucasus, Anatolia,
Armenia, Cilicia and Syria.
On the casualty lists of the French
army, the word missing" is written
opposite the names of 314, 900 men, In
vestigatiOns have established the fact
that of this number all hope for ap-
dOned
Following the reception of German
East African troops, headed by Gen.
Lettow Voybeck, in which tens of
thousands of people took part in the
Pariser PlatZ, crowd stOrmed the
Hotel Adlon in an ant-American dem
OnStratiOn
The committee of jurists appointed
to consider the war guilt of the ex-
kaiser and others has decided that the
sovereign of state cannot be pro
ceeded against, but the decision must
be ratified by the peace conference as
whole before it is effective.
Discovery of nationwide Bolshe-
visit wOman's organization in Finland,
through the arrest of an 1S-year-old
girl, is reported in dispatches from
Helsingfors. 1t was said that COM
plete list Of BOlshevist agents had
been obtained from the prisoner
A settlement has been reached be-
tween the Berlin strike leaders and the
government, according to information
from the German capital. The strik-
ers had the support of the Spartacans
and in the fighting which accompanied
the movement many persons were
killed.
Great Britain operates the worlds
largest flying boat. The machine is
PIN feet high and has total span of
123 feet. 1t is triplane, the bottom
wing being shorter at either end than
the upper two. The hydroplane weighs
3,40O pounds and is fitted with five
Rolls-ROyce engines.
SPORT
Illinois Wesleyan University won
the basketball championship of the lit
tie nineteen for 1919, defeating James
Milliken University of Decatur, II to
10, in the title game played in Bloom
ington.
By vote of II to the State Sen
ate of Nevada passed the 25-rOund
boxing bill over the veto of Governor
Boyle and it now becomes a law. The
Assembly passed the bill over the gov
ernor's veto last week
Jimmy HanlOn, the Denver light
weight defeated Bobby Waugh at
Fort Worth in a 15-rOund bout This
is the second time in week that Han
Ion trimmed Waugh, the first at Hot
Springs, Ark, in ten rounds.
1t is hoped to have the Olympic
games of 1920 held in Rome, but no
definite decision as to this has yet
been reached. Premier Orlando was
recently approached by the Italian
Olympic committee on the question
and reply is expected from him with
in few days.
GENERAL
twenty-five dollars a glass-which
is merely at the rate of $1OO quart
will be the price of imported cham
| pagne after July 30-if there happens
to be any left then-according to an
| announcement OF local dealers of New
York.
China'S first wOAlan lawyer, Nile.
r. Tcheng, has arrived in Canada
from the Orient OH her way to Paris,
where She will represent the peace
conference for the Associated Press of
China.
A commercial airplane which will
take it's place with the tugs, barges,
lighters and other necessary auXiliar-
les of a large steamship company is
soon to make it's appearance in New
York. The plane, according to A. e.
Clegg, vice president of the Kerr
Steamship Company, will be used to
transmit to vessels at sea clearance
papers and other documents for the
handling and discharge of cargo at
ports of destination.
A mammoth hydroplane with wing
spread of $50 feet, the largest yet de-
signed, is now under construction for
the American navy at League Island