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This article presents information, on socio-political conditions of the U.S. An agreement was sanctioned on July 7, according to a Russian wireless message, between representatives of the United States, France, and Great Britain and the Murman Regional Council for the defence of the Murman region against the powers of the German coalition. The three Entente Powers are to provide the Russian command there with equipment, supplies, transports, and instruction for the Russian armed forces, and will admit Russian volunteers into the Allied forces. All of the telegraph and telephone systems in the United States will come under Government control for the period of the World War I, beginning at midnight on July 31, according to the terms of a proclamation signed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson on July 23.