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SATURDAY, JANUARY, 4, 1919.
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JAPANESE TROOPS
LEAVE SIBERIA
TOKIO Jan 4—It has been officially
announced here that he Japanese gov
ernment is going to withdraw her
troops from Siberia. Jealously
among the Allies who questioned her
motives in sending troops to Siberia in
an endeavor to restore and maintain
order are reported to be mainly re
sponsible for this contemplated with
drawal of the Japanese troops. The
embarcation of some contingents of
troops has already been accomplished
at Vladivostok and the remainder will
entrain for Japan as fast as trans
ports arrive here. The members of
the diplomatic carps are greatly sur
prised at this action of the Japanese
government.
LONDON Jan 4—Dress advices
I from Russia state that the Bolsheviki
| have after heavy fighting reached
| Viina midway between Dvinsk and
Riga and the cant are of tMS important
city is imminent.
The forces opposed to the Bols'ne
| v.ki are badly organized and lack >ior.d
I leaders. The capture of Viina an im
portaut railroad center will be of the
nmost importance to the B'dsheviki
forres.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 30—It is re
ported here that marines have been
landed at Riga on the Baltic from
the British blooding fleet encouter
ing strong opposition from Bolsheviki
troops. Spirited fighting followed the
landing of the marines and the out
come of the strugggle is so far undecid
ed. No details of the battle have so
far been procurable.
RADICALS
CONTROL CONGRESS
LONDON Dec SO—Continental ad
Tices from Berlin Germany state that
the German majority socialists have
gained control of-the Soviets Congress
in Berlin and their parliamentary vic
tory is complete. The independent
members of the provisional govern
ment are reported to have resigned in
a body owing to their inability to
agree on a political program no com
promise between the independents
and the radicals being possible.
LONDON, Jan 1—It is reported
from Berlin that the radical element
has gained complete control of the
provisional government of Germany.
Dr Karl Liebknecht and Rose Luxem
burg both of whom served two years
in prison for their outspoken opposi
tion to the war, are the recognized
leaders of the radical movement and
the real powers in the new govern
ment.
The German Trade unionists have
called their members out on a general
strike following the attempes of the
German industrial magnates to induce
von Hindenburg to gather an army
and suppress the radcal movement
forcibly. The independent socialists
members of the provisional govern
ment are reported to have resigned.
Liebknecht seems to have full support
-• Herman working people and the
outcome of the struggle between the
radicals and the conservative element
is being watched with a great deal of
interest by the people of Great Bri
tain.
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POLISH ARMY
INVADES GERMANY
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BERLIN. Jan 2—It is admitted
here that the whole province of East
Prussia is in tho hands of an army
led by that famous General Pader
ewski, who instead of as formerly
thumping the keys of a piano is
thumping the Germans now.
Every since the first news of the
astounding victories of the Polish
army were received here, the whole
world is. watching with breathless in
terest the unfoiding of the marvelous
military genus of Generalissimo Pa '
erewski, the latest star of the first
magnitude to appear on the military
firmament, dazzling all beholders
with its scintillating brightness. His
follwers struck with awe by his stu
pendous achivements, worship him,
acclainlng him a second Alexander the
Great and a modern Caesar. Yielding
to the prayerful demands of his sol
diers for a personal keepsake, he has
sacrificed his greatest manly orna
ment his locks, famous on the concert
stage lor many years, giving them to
j those of his soldiers who have most
, distinguished themselves by valor on
! the battlefield. It is reported that the
receiptients are wearing them as
amulets.
COPENHAGEN, Jan 2—It is re
ported here that the invasion of Ger
many by the Polish army is assuming
greater proportions and making
greater progress than expected.
According to unconfirmed reports
circulating here a Polish army is ac
tually marching on Berlin and has as
reported met practically no* resist
ance whatever so far.
COPENHAGEN,'Dec~31—It has
been reported here on good authority
that von Hindenburg has made the
statement that he is in favor of inter
vention by the Brtish government
and that he advocates the occupation
of Berlin Germany by British troops
as the only means to subdue the Ger
man radicals against whom the pro
visional government has proven itself
practically helpless.
WASHINGTON, Dec 30—Senator
Townsend of Michigan demanded in
a speech delivered in the Senate dur
ing a debate on intervention in Rus
sia that he United States either with
draw their troops entirely from Rus
sia or send at least one million more
soldiers to augment the forces already
on Russian soil. He wanted to know
the reason for keeping a few thousand
soldiers in Russia, a force entirely in
adequate to restore order even in a
small province. i
PRESIDENT WILSON
VISITS POPE
ROME Jan 4—President Wilson
has arrived in this city and was given
a magnificent reception by the Italian
people. The President made an offic
ial call on his Holiness Pope Benedict
at the Vatican. It is reported here by
good authority that the proposed for
mation of a league of nations was at
length discussed by the President and
his Holiness. It is thought highly
probable that the moral support of
Pope Benedict may be enlisted in the
cause of peace and that thru his in
fluence much friction among the dif
ferent nations may be avoided. No
public statement has so far been made
concerning the outcome of the discus
sion between the President and the
Pope.
MANCHESTER, Eng. Dec 30—
Pesident Wilson is reported by good
authorities to have stated that the U.
S. delegates to the peace conternce
are for the establishment of a league
of nations first last and all the time,
or nothing, and will refuse to enter
any other combination which may be
proposed by the other Allies.
LONDON, Dec 31—President Wil
son stated in an interview acsorded
British newspaper correspondents be
fore his departure from England that
he left with the idea uppermost in his
i mind that at least two countries were
| agreed on general peace terms. The
| President said that he still insists on
[the formation of a league of nations
■ considering it the prime object'of the
I peace conference. He asked the cor
| respondents to convey to the British
I public his appreciation of the hearty
welcome accorded him.
BERGER CHARGED
WITH DISLOYALTY
CHICAGO, Dec 31—Socialist Con
gressman elect Berger from Milwau
kee, Wisconsin who is being tried
here on charges of disloyalty to the
United States Government, testifying
in his own behalf stated that he had
not favored the anti-war program of
the extreme Socialists in the U. S. be
cause he was in sympathy with the
government when it declared against
the Central Powers and became on ac
tive participant. Whatever his sym
pathies had been before the U. S. en
tered the war, he decared that he had
always upheld the action of the gov
ernment in entering the war and been
entirely loyal to the cause of the
United States. Berger claimed that
the charges of disloyalty brot against
him were made for political purposes
to prejudice the. loyal workers against
him and assure his defeat at the
election. That thru the fight he has
carried on thru his paper against
grafters and war profiteers he has be
come extemely obnoxious to some of
these persons who have under the
cloak of super-patriotism fleeced the
nation in its hour of need. He point
ed to his record in unmasking crook
ed judges, like Judge Hanford of
Seattle, which had aroused this en
mity against him and had been follow
ed in hs case by the at present well
established practice of charging men
who were against the big interests
with disloyalty and treason against
the government.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
THREATENS GERMANY
!
•. LONDON, Ian 1—It is reported
here that the French government has
officially warned the German people
! that in the event of the German radi
j cal element gaining control of the
German government, the armiBtice
would be considered incalid and all
negotiations broken off.
The French Socialist party is re
ported to be absolutely opposed to
any such steps taken by the French
government to coerce the German
people.
PARIS, Dec 31—It is rumored here
that the Allies will demand of Ger
many the payment of indemnities ag
gregatng one hundred and twenty
nine billion dollars, of which enor
mous sum Great Britain wants 40
and France 80 billion. The remain
ing nine billion is to be divided among
the other allied nations. If Germany
is unable to pay this stupendous
amount (the national wealth of Ger
many beng estimated before the war
at between eighty and eighty five bil
lion) the Allies will pare the inden
mity down to a sum which Germany
will be able to raise.
LONDON, Dec 31—British and
French journals claim that the French
Premier Clemenceau will viBit Eng
land after the peace conference con
cludes its labor.
WASHINGTON Jan 2—Reports are
circulating here that an inspection of
contingents of the American army at
Brest in France show that the soldiers
are underfed and lack sufficient cloth
ing.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 31—News has
been received here that the workers
in the coalfields of Prussian Silessla
have established an independent Bol
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sheviki republic and that they have
informed the German provisional
government of the fact and that they
henceforth refuse to recognize it or
any of its legislation .affecting their
interests. No reliable information is
obtainable on what if any action the
German provisional government will
take to handle this secession move
ment.
EX KAISER SERIOUSLY IIli
AMSTERDAM Jan 2—The ex Kai
ser of Germany is reported to be ser
iously ill. Suffering from a bad cold
his temperature has increased alarm
ingly. His old throat trouble has re
turned and his condition is such as to
cause considerable anxiety to his fam
ily.
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