The Benson signal., 1919-02-22
FOREIGN

The situation at KadiSh on the Arch
| angel front is more satisfactory for the
| moment, according to an official state
ment issued by the British war office.
Reports from Qmsk state that the
Russian government there has accept
ed an offer from Japan of men, money
and arms to settle the Bolsheviki diff
| ficulties.
The Dutch steamer Rick, Rotter
sank three miles off the Norwegian
coast. The crew was saved and has
landed at Christanstad.
The French dreadnought Moravau
| has been driven ashore at Sebastopol
| in a snowstorm. At last accounts it
| seemed doubtful whether the big war
| ship could be saved from destruction.
The Poles have refused the German
demand to Withdraw troops from the
Posen province, but on the contrary,
have called ala Poles of military age
to the colOrs to defend that territory.
| Germany is preparing to raise u
large loan in the United States as soon
as peace is signed, says Geneva dis
pay for expected raw materials from
allied countries.
| Admiral ViScount JellicOeS book on
| the naval operations of the war which
is now published settles at last the
| mystery of Lord kitchener's death
by stating that the cruiser, Hampshire
sank after striking moored mine of
the type laid by the German U-boats.
/ The Havas agency gives out state
ment by Viscount Chinda, the Japan
ese ambassador to Great Britain, who
now is representing his country at
| the peace conference in Paris, declar-
| ling the reports to be untrue that Jap
an has exercised pressure on China
| to restrain the action of the Chinese
| delegation to the conference.
Few large cities of the countries
that were enga ged in the war Nhaye
1 been less affected by it than the an
cient capital of Greece. Free entirely
| from the menace of air raids and hos
tile bombardment, and participating
actively in the war for comparatively
only short time, Athens is today in
all essential features exactly as it
was in pre-war days.
| The program of the new German
/ government, which has just been pub
| lished at Berlin, includes equal rights
for men and women, the improvement
| of the educational system, .cOnScriptiOn
! along democratic lines to establish a
peoples army, ratiOning at maximum
| prices of food and neceSsarieS of life,
care of the wounded and the families
of those killed during the war, the So
cialization of all industries ripe for
such treatment, particularly the coal
and iron mines, and considerable addi-
tions to income taxes.
SPORT
The Navy wrestlers had walkover
at Annapolis defeating the University
/ Of Pennsylvania team by score OF
33 to @.
4 Wladek ZbysZko, Polish wrestling
champion, defeated Arvid Anderson OF
Boston in two straight falls of 20 and
8 minutes each respectively, at St.
Louis.
Alfredo de Orc, the Cuban cue ex-
pert from New York, wrested the
three-cushion billiard championship
from Augie Kieckkhefer of Chicago by
winning the third block OF their 15o-
POINT match!
West Philadelphia High school set
a new American interSchOlaStic record
i in the S00-yard relay race at the six
teehth annual national interSchOlastic
swimming championships, University
Cf Pennsylvania pool, making the dis
and clipping their own mark made in
1915.
GENERAL II
Careful survey of food prices cover
ing period of thirty days shows the
high cost of living has taken it's first
1 big drop.
/ Charged with the embezzlement OF
$4,000, J. S. Swartz, cashier of the
l.
closed by the state examiner, is in
Mercy hospital in an unconscious and
deliriOuS condition.
A world shortage of gasoline waits
just around the corner for the motor
propelled world, according to Mark l..
Requa, Standard Oil official, who has
been directing the oil division activ-
tiles of the Fuel Administrations:
German ships Of approximately 3OO,-
600 tons flying the American flag and
] furnishing the United States an addi-
tional troop-carrying capacity of more
| than 10000 men a month, will be ready
! to put to sea in the next few weeks.
Following much shooting and hand
! tO-hand battles on tops of freight
cars eighteen men were arrested at
Monroe, Mich, by the state cOnstab-
ulary on the charge of whisky SNUG
/ Cling Several hundred quarts of
! liquor were cOnfiScated.
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