The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
FOREIGN

of France that French general be
given supreme command of allied
forces ON the Rhine.
Marshal Foch has recently asked the
Belgian government to have a search
made for the body of his son, who was
killed in August 1914, in the Belgian
ArdenneS
The attorney general, Sir Gordon
Hewart has completed the case for
the prosecution of the former German
emperor. The place for the trial has
not yet been settled
Thomas Howell, Canadian national
secretary of the International Brother
hood, announced at the city temple in
London that Lloyd George is going to
visit America soon.
The council of five at Paris has de-
cided to permit German representation
at the international labor cOnfere nee
in Washington next month, according
to an official cable from Paris.
The spread of gambling among the
soldiers has prompted General NOske
ing all gambling in barracks, canteens,
mess halls, on parade grounds or in
public places. RI
Five masked men bound and gagged
| the mail clerks on the Ocean Limited
express of the Canadian National rail-
| way near Harlaka and robbed the mail
| car of 5000 in silver and paper. The
money was being shipped from. Mon
! treal to Halifax
Announcement has been made of the
| pOStpOnement of the execution of
Pierre Lenoir, who was tried with San
atOr Humbert and others on charge
of communicating military intelligence
| to the enemy and who was to have
faced the firing squad in Paris
A peacetime army of $4,000 men
| and reduction of the term of military
service from three years to one are rec
commended to the military committee
| of the French Senate in a report sub
| mitted by Paul DOumer, it's president.
Under his plan, 100000 men would be
called to the colOrs annually by con-
| scription and 100000 others recruited
through voluntary enlistment.
GENERAL
| The wreck of the steamer BarnSta-
| hle, disabled in storm en- route to Ha-
vana, has been located by the revenue
cutter Itasca and one survivor rescued.
Jack Kearns, manager of Champion
Jack Dempsey, has refused to consider
an offer of $15O,000 for a champion
ship bout in London, according to re-
ports in New York
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and af
filiated bodies, the Patriarchs Militant
and Association of Rebekah Assemblies
| finished their annual convention at
Baltimore and adjourned to meet in
| Boston next year.
| Prospects for a permanent drop in
! the sugar market appear less prOmis-
ing than when federal authorities first
began their campaign to force down
the price of sugar. United States Dis
trict Attorney Clyne said at Chicago,
haSing his conclusion on rumOrS thai
sugar refiners will demand IL or 11.9
cents a pound for this years crop of
sugar, f. o. b. New York
A radio experiment made off New
London by the experiment station,
naval section, established cOmmunica-
ton, both telephone and telegraphic,
between a hydroplane flying nearly
| in 40 air nd Cl1hJn
submarine several fathoms in the wa
| ter. This is said to be the first time
| that an airplane and a submarine suo-
merged have communicated with each
other directly.
A campaign urging the government
to reissue the 2-cent coin, withdrawn
from circulation in 1874, the new coin
| to bear on the diverse side a baS re-
| lief of the late President Roosevelt,
has been inaugurated by the WOmens
Roosevelt Memorial Association. The
pew coin, it is pointed out, would be
useful in the payment for war taxes
on small articles, newspapers and
street car fares.
featherweight boxing champion,
knocked out frankie Burns of Jersey
City in the fifth round of an eight
round match at the Jersey City base
ball park Burns arose before the
count Of ten, but the referee stopped
the contest, as Burns was helpless.
Chicago's building strike and lock-
out which for more than two months
had made idle more than 100000 work
crs and halted construction contracts
aggregating $5O,0OO,OO0, was an
nOunced as ended when the construc-
tiOn employers yielded to the de-
mands of the union carpenters for 81
an hour.
Work will be begun at once on de-
velopment of farm colony at Wins
low, n. j., for returned soldiers and
| Ca;JorS Tho OrUanizatiOn has ocuuiro6