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Show WASHINGTON. The state department was advised Friday that a passenger train between Vera Cruz and Mexico City was wrecked by Mexican rebels. There were no casualties and the report did not Identify the rebel baud. Damage caused by the burning of the power house at the Hampton j ICoads, Va., naval base will not exceed I s."iii,ix)0, the navy department announced an-nounced Friday on estimates received from t he commandant . I'lans for resuming general trade with parts of Russia and Finland were disclosed Friday by an announcement from the war trade board that applications appli-cations now will he considered for import im-port licenses for commodities, tiie chief of which are platinum, various hides and skins and fuels, sulphur and various var-ious kinds of seeds. Shipments will be made to Pacific ports on vessels allo-! allo-! cated to the United States-Russian bureau, bur-eau, incorporated, of the war trade board, under conditions to be defined by the board. By a vote of 103 to TO the house passed a iiill providing salary increases of $1500 a year for each of the 131 judges of the United States district and circuit courts and the court of claims. The measure now goes to the senate. District and court claim judges would receive .$7500 a year and circuit judges $8500. Negotiations have been begun by the United States for the purchase of property rights on the island of Ta-boga, Ta-boga, at the Pacific entrance of the Panama canal in Pannmnn tetrritory. It is said that the plan is to add to the canal forttifientlons six batteries of coast artillery aud a post of 3000 men. The cost of the property rights, it is said, will aggregate ?15,oOO,000. Low flying and acrobratics by military mili-tary aviators during celebrations In the? vicinity of cities, towns and buildings are forbidden under threatened penalties penal-ties in an order by the war department. a uepartment announcement said increase in-crease In the flying accidents on home training fields since the armistice had made action necessary. Belgium loans from the United States were increased Thursday to $213,320,000 by an additional credit of 3,200,000. Credits now authorized for all the allies amount to ?S,223,-540.702. ?S,223,-540.702. Formal announcement was made Thursday by the shipping board at Washington that Charles Piez has been elected director general of the Emergency Emer-gency Fleet corporation to succeed Charles M. Schwab, who resigned last week. Sailing of four army transports bringing additional units from France was announced Friday by the war department. de-partment. The ships are the transports trans-ports H. R. Mallory, Rappahannock, Leviathan and Celtic, with about 9000 men. Prohibitory legislation against the teaching of the German language in the schools of Washington, D. C, was re-enacted for another year on Wednesday by the house, in considering consider-ing the District of Columbia 1020 appropriation ap-propriation bill. Music and the day's news, both' over the telephone are to be provided by the Red Cross for every patient in the reconstruction wards at the Walter Reed hospital here. If the system proves successful, similar ones will be installed in all hospitals where soldiers are under treatment. By each "soldier's bed will hang a telephone receiver connected con-nected with a music box or with a person reading news bulletins. The patient can "listen in" by pressing a button on his telephone. Only forty-four vessels of the navy, including army and cargo transports iiinnneH hv nfivnl crews ivpre Inst- from the declaration of war, April 6, 1917, until hostilities ceased, November 11. 191S. And only twelve of these were destroyed by enemy submarines. Legislation designed to carry into effect ef-fect the recommendations of the federal fed-eral trade commission to President Wilson Wil-son that the government regulate the meat packing Industry has been introduced intro-duced in the house by Chairman Sims of the interstate commerce committee. By direction of President Wilson the conservation division of the war Industries In-dustries board is to become a permanent perm-anent part of the machinery of the department de-partment of commerce. The American Railway Express com. pany has applied to the interstate commerce com-merce commission for authority to increase in-crease rates applying .to or from offices of-fices of the Canadian Express company, com-pany, Canadian Northern Express com pany and rhe Western Express company com-pany in order to. align these rates with the generally increased domestic rates. FOREIGN. Dr. W. S. Solf, German minister of foreign affairs, has handed In his resignation, res-ignation, which has beeu accepted by the cabinet. Lieut. Dagoberto Godoy, of the Chilean army, Thursday morning crossed the Andes' mountains at their highest point in a Bristol airplane. The last contingent of American prisonous from Germany, numbering 5G0, left Genoa Wednesday night for Vichy, where they will rest before leuv ing for home. |