The Benson signal., 1919-05-03
I FOREIGN

there are virtually no American troops
left in Italy, excepting a few railroad
transport officers and military police.
A clause has been drafted for in
sertion in the peace treaty, fixing the
date for the transition to q state of
peace sixty days after the signing of
the treaty.
The provisional government of Vor-
arlberg, the westernmOst district of
the former AustrO-Hungarian empire,
has decided to submit the question of
a union with Switzerland to plebis
cite.
Dramatic and lyric performers on
the French stage, at a meeting, decid-
ed to form union. The new OrganiZa-
ton will be affiliated with the Nation
al Theater union and through it with
the General Labor Federation.
IN three years the British public has
bought 300O00,O00 war savings certifi
Gates at $375 each. SO successful has
been the work of the national war saw
ings committee that it is planned to
continue it's 10000 savings associations
on a permanent peace basis.
Italian military forces will occupy
that part of Dalmatia and other Adri
attic territory named in the pact of
London, with about 100000 men, it was
was stated by Captain Pozzi, of Pre-
mier Orlando's staff. A similar force,
the captain added, would be sent to
the northern region and around Fiume.
The state of New South Wales, of
Australia, in settling it's returned sol
diers on the land, not only provides
them with farm on easy payments,
but makes sure of the repatriated An
zac's welfare by paying him an allow
ance up to $40 a week for sustenance
during the unproductive period of his
tenure.
Almost as suddenly as the recent
strikes began in Berlin there and
everywhere, Germany appears to be
Cuieting again. The coal miners in
the Ruhr district are returning to
work and those in the Dushburg and
Muehlheim districts, as well as half
a dozen other places, returned to the
collieries.
Almost 100000 persons have died
in British India of Spanish influenza
and fully 100000 others are believed
to have died in the native states of
the same cause, according to report
of the Indian government. The area
affected contained population of
238,O2624O. In a few months, it is
observed, influenza claimed half as
many victims as did the dreaded
plague in twenty years.
SPORT
The American crew was defeated by
the crew from New Zealand in the
final heat of the regatta on the Seine
today for the trophy offered by the
Rowing club of France.
The annual North and South trap
shooting tournament at Pinehurst end
ed with w. N. Boylston, Florida state
champion, the winner of the 225-target
contest, and HI. A. Merson of Char
lotte, N. c., the victor in the North
and South handicap.
GENERAL
All records for the greatest number
of troops to return from France in one
day were broken in New York when
four transports and two battleships
brought home a total of 22,973 officers
and men.
Physicians believe temporary insan-
ity caused Frederick Drew, Pacific
coast representative of the Interna-
tional Harvester Company, to leap to
his death from a hospital window in
Chicago.
immigration of 100000 foreigners,
mostly Chinese and Japanese, every
year for the next fifty years, was pre-
dicted in Chicago by Abraham Bowers.
immigration secretary of the Y. M. G.
A., in the course of an address before
the Illinois State AmericanizatiOn
committee.
After considerable research, Prof.
Trevor Kincaid, department of Zoolo-
gy, University of Washington, has
identified the so-called Puget Sound
pilchard fish as plain herring.
Federal Judge Lands has ruled that
Postmaster General Burleson could
not increase intrastate telegraph rates.
He said he would dissolve the tempo
rary injunction restraining the attOr-
ney-general of Illinois from interfering
with the imposition Of the higher
rates.
A naval seaplane of the F-5 type,
propelled by two Liberty motors of 400
horsepower each and carrying a crew
of four men, remained in the air at
the Hampton Roads naval base for
twenty hours and ten minutes, estab
fishing what naval officers said was
worlds record for seaplanes.
Judge Hart of the Circuit Court sent
enced Mrs. Inez Johnson, convicted of
the murder of Miss Beatrice Epler,
of