The Benson signal., 1920-04-03
FOREIGN

took the places of striking lockers at
Amsterdam and Rotterdam. A num-
ber of ships were loaded after a six
weeks tieup
Germany is threatened with q seri-
GUS food shortage, especially in Ber-
lin and the larger cities, unless imme-
diate measures are taken to restore the
country's demoralized traffic, accord
ing to semi-Official advices at London.
Canadian ex-service men want a
bonus from the government ranging
from a minimum of $1,000 to a maxi
mum Of $1,000, according to resolutions
adopted at the annual convention of
the Great War Veterans Association of
Canada
Bonds and stocks to the amount of
6O,OOO,OOO crowns were recently found
in leather bag in a Paris-Warsaw
train by Polish customs official. It
is believed the bag was destined for
Bolshevist propaganda in central
Europe.
The Russian soviet drive against Po-
land, according to advices from Berlin,
is merely the first step in an ambi-
tious military project which contemp-
lates drive through Rumania, Aus
tria and Hungary to form junction
with the Italian Socialists and set up
a soviet government in Italy.
More than 1000 Communists were
killed in violent fighting between Ebert
troops and the Reds in the regions of
Wesel, Gotha and Hennersdorf, ac-
cording to dispatches. Fighting be-
tween Belgian troops and the German
reds was reported in the Duisberg dis
trict.
The Rev. L. w. B. Jackman, an
American medical missionary, who re-
Gently shot and killed Maj III D. Cloete
at the northeast frontier post of Sad
years imprisonment Domestic rea-
sons were said to have been response
bic for the tragedy.
Six members of a bandit gang,
which is said to have raided the Los
Torres mine in the southeastern part
of Sonora, near the Chihuahua state
line, during the latter part of Febru-
ary, have been captured, and, accord
ing to the military officials, executed
near the scene of thee rime by a troop
of Mexican cavalrymen from a lower
Chihuahua garrison.
Three thousand five hundred three
inch field guns have been found by the
interallied commission in the vicinity
of Berlin alone, and altogether $4,000
of these guns have thus far been dis
covered throughout Germany, as well
as 5000 airplanes intact According
to the terms of the treaty of Versailles
the German army should now have
only 204 three-inch guns and no air.
planes whatsoever
GENERAL
Seventeen scholarships, ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000, in memory of Prince
ton men who fell in the war, have been
established at the university, Pres-
dent John G. Hibben announced in
New York.
Joe Stecher, world champion heavy
weight wrestler, disposed of Mort Hen
derson in two straight falls at New
York in thirty-seven minutes and fifty
seconds and fourteen minutes, re-
spectively.
More than 67 per cent of Chicago's
total population, based on unofficial
and incomplete census figures, is COM
posed of foreign citizens. Of the esti-
mated total of 2,S84,S27, IA per cent
are Germans, the count of that ma
tionality being given as 4O3,7S5 APP
proximately $40, ,452 native white Amer
leans are Chicagoans.
The body of a young woman taken
from the Illinois river three miles
above Peoria, ILL.,, is believed to be that
of Jeanne de Kay, the heireSS who dis
appeared Christmas eve. She walked
out of Hull house, Chicago, and no
body found answers in all descriptions
that Of the missing girl.
Sir Auckland Geddes will sail for
New York on April 10, to take up his
post as ambassador to the United
States, according to announcement
lust received from London.
Lewis Gompers, brother Of Samuel
Gompers, the labor leader, is dead aft
er a long illness at his home in Brook
lyn. Mr.. Gompers was president Of
the Retail Tobacco Dealers Associa-
ton.
Three bandits, with a show Of pO-
likeness, held up a clothing shop in
Philadelphia, bound and gagged four
men and a girl, gathered together
nearly $4O0, four watches and some
clothing, and escaped. They refused
to take the money of a girl customer,
saying they would not rob lady.
That the boxing game is a big sue
cess in the state of New Jersey is
clearly shown in the report just fur