The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-07-10
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counter offensive along the whole Ca
l1cian-VOlhynian front, according to adj
vices from Warsaw. The Poles claim
that they have everywhere broken the
Ukrainian resistance that the Lem
berg-Halicz-Stanislau railway line is
again in Polish hands.
A monument to the American SOL
diers who persisted in France will be
erected in May of next year near the
tomb of Lafayette in the Pic-pus GEM
etery in Paris.
The American army of occupation
technically ceased to exist when the
moval of the units still in the Rhine
land began. 1t is expected that with
in comparatively short time there
will. remain on the Rhine only one
regiment, with auxiliary troops, total
approximately 5000 men.
The allies, it is reported, have re-
ceived assurances that the Dutch
government il the last resort will not
refuse to surrender the former Ger
man emperor for trial. The surprise
Of the week ending July was the
news that the former German emperor
would be tried in London.
After great meeting at ForIi, It.
ally, in which a vast crowd protested
against the high cost of living, the
people, excited by inflammatory
speeches, attacked, sacked and de.
stroyed many shops which refused to
sell commodities at lower prices. Soon
the fury of the mob madt no distinc-
ha1
pal shops were plundered, and the
mobs controlled the entire city. The
mob took possession of lorries and
transported all kinds of goods and
food supplies from tho p.1laged shops
to the chamber of labor. On the
walls of this chamber they wrote:
These goods are at the disposal of
the people"
Great state trials in England, of
which there have ben none for many
years have been held in Westminster
hall, but it is not believed that Will
liam Hohenzollern will be given that
honor.
The former German crown prince,
Frederick William, escaped from the
Island of Wieringen. The flight of
the former German crown prince had
been expected, as it was reported that
preparations were under way for his
hasty departure on the signing Of the
treaty of peace. Several vessels were
lying off the island.
The allied governments have repre-
sented to the government of Holland
the necessity Of taking steps to pre-
vent the departure Of the former Ger
man emperor from Holland.
Two French civilians were killed
and five American soldiers and sail
ors were injured severely, and more
than one hundred wounded in riots
in Brest, France. Two of the Ameri-
can soldiers are expected to die. The
casualties occurred as a results Of ex-
change of shots between American
military and naval police and French
sailors.
Peace with Germany became all
actuality at Versailles June 20, 1919.
AS far as the ceremony itself was
concerned it lacked impressiveness.
Earthquake shocks in Tuscany, Italy,
caused the deaths of 1T persons and
injuries to several thousands. The
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parently was Vicchio, a town of eleven
thousand Inhabitants, fifteen miles to
the northeast of Florence.
The French-American convention
was signed on behalf of the two gov
ernments, according to the newspa-
pers. It is said that the covenant in
cludes several articles, and specifies
that violations of the peace treaty by
Germany will give France the right to
request American and British assist.
ance.