The Benson signal., 1920-01-03
FOREIGN

SUI Ill LOuuOH. Princess fdITlCld was
married to Commander Alexander Rob
ert Maule Ramsey of the royal navy
in February.
Yves lie TrOcquer, under-Secretary of
state for liquidation of stocks, told the
Chamber of Deputies in Paris that g.
OOO,OO0,OOO francs would be realized
from the liquidation of French war
stocks and that 13,0OO,OOO,OOO francs
would accrue from the liquidation of
American army supplies
Premier Nitti of Italy, expressed the
opinion that from $4,000, 100000 to 49,,
O00,000,O0O lire would be subscribed to
the victory loan, the sale of which be-
gins Jan. 9TH On his return from the
visit he is to make to Paris and Lon
don early in January Premier Nitti
will undertake a speaking tour on be-
half of the loan.
The Bolsheviki captured fifteen
guns, 1000 horses and 300 men after
defeating the forces of General Nam
ontoff and General Chelnokoff in the
region of Staroniensk, according to a
wireless dispatch received from Mos
cow. The dispatch adds: More than
thousand Cossacks were killed, in
Guiding General Chelnokoff."
The rebels in Eastern Siberia, says
a Moscow dispatch, have completely
several all communication on the
Amur line and Observation-Disclosures has
been cut off. The dispatch adds that
Galician troops, intended for the de-
fense of Kiev, have revOlted against
General Denikine, the anti-Bolshevik
leader in the South and attacked the
volunteer army in the rear.
The University of London is planning
to build an institution of phonetics at
a cost of 100000, where seventy as
sistants would be engaged in research
work on the 1000 languages of the
British empire The scheme, which
originated with Daniel Jones, head OF
the phonetic department of the univer-
sity, calls for the expenditure Of $2,-
100000
An epidemic of Influenza similar to
that which swept around the world last
year has broken out in Japan, accord
ing to Toxic advices to the Nippon Jill,
a Japanese newspaper of Honolulu. Re
ports from different parts of Japan re-
ceived in Toxic, says the Nippu Jiji
correspondent, states that the govern
ment has taken energetic measures to
block the spread of the epidemic.
Inps1s
mier, stated in Budapest to a deputa-
tiOn representing those crippled during
the war, that Communism had cost Hun
gary eighteen billion kronen (nOminal.
ly about $3,60O,OOOO0O, according to
report received in Berlin. The pre-.
taken thirty-six billion krOnen more
The national assembly now had to re.
store Hungarys finance from deS-
perate condition.
GENERAL
New York City is planning the cree
ton of fourteen piers of the skyscrapeI
type in Jamaica bay, Murry Hubert
commissioner of docks, announced. The
of Hamburg and Copenhagen and other
European ports.
Sir Horace Plunkett, the Irish pub
liciSt, arrived in New York on the
steamship Adriatic, for a business trip
He refused to comment on Premier
Lloyd Georges plan for dual parla
ment for Ireland because he had no'
examined the proposition in detail
John d. Rockefeller gave to man.
kind a Christmas present of 100000,
OOO-half to the General Education
Board to raise the salaries of college
professors and half to the Rockefeller
foundation to aid in it's work of com
batting disease through improvement o,
medical education, public health ad
ministratiOn and scientific research. i
is estimated that Mr.. Rockefeller's
public gifts now approximate $3.50,
100000
Statistics obtained show that 1,725
British girls married American dough
boys Of these only seventeen remain
to be sent to join their husbands in the
United States,
New York boasts of a new school
boy tennis wonder in the person of
Charles M. Wood, Jr., IA years old, of
the Dewitt Clinton High school. Play
ing in the semi-finals of the junior in
door national championships the youth
easily won his match and displayed
such powerful service and speed at
volleying that experts among the spec
tatOrS were fairly daZzled.
A bill pending in the Mexican Sen
ate proposing abrogation of the treaty
with China which permits immigration
of Asiatics into Mexico has met gen
eral approval in the states of Sonora
and Sinaloa, according to the Excel
sior of Mexico City. The newspaper
says messages from Sinaloa and Sc
ora, where many Asiatic colonies are
located, declare that the invasion of
Asiatics causes degeneration of the