The Bossier banner., 1919-04-24


If responsibility for the World War.
The majority against prohibition i'll
New Zealand. according to Il press dis
patch of Tuesday. was given ut $500
votes.
A London dispatch says that the
peace treaty will give America the
Of Armenia, the former
Turkish province i'll Northern Asia
Minor.
A London dispatch says that the ru-
NOR that Il Soviet government has been
set up at ConStantinople is entirely
without confirmation and Is now being
treated with incredulity.
Disorders prevail in various districts
throughout both European and Asiatic
Turkey and fear Of renewed Arme-
Man nla:sS;creS is expressed in the dis
patches from central points.
The Belgian investigating committee.
which has been compiling the items Of
damage sustained by that country on
account of the war. has finished its
work and reported the total to be
$7.OOO.OOO.OOO.
The Japanese Governor General and |
also the COnsul-General Of Korea have
resigned because of continued disturb
anceS and riots throughout that coun-
try in emphasis of the peoples demand
for independence.
Australia still has 10 per cent of the
wheat raised in that country during
the years 1915. 1916. 1917 and 1913.
there Eeing now on hand and held for
want of shipping to move it. 16O.OD.OOO
bushels of wheat.
The French Chamber Of Deputies
| has passed an eight-hour law and one
of its provisions is that the reduction
| in the hours Of work shall not be
made an excuse by employers for re-
| ductiOnS in wages.
| The Irish strikers of Limerick are
issuing their own paper money ION
the faith Of the working men of Ire
land" as security. to feed the families
of the striking men. An inscription on
the first bill issued hurls defiance at
- British militarism.'
\ revolution has broken out in Tur-
key and Il Soviet government has been
declared at COnstantinoplp. according
to news coming around about to Paris
from Kiev,. quoting. a Rolsssvik repre-
sentative ut Odessa. who gives the
Turkish consul there as his informant.
David Lloyd George. British Pre-
mier. has agreed to receive in Paris
next week Gov. f. 4. Dunno. Frank T.
Walsh and Michael J. Ryan, the Amer.
lean Irish Societies representatives tO
the Peace Conference. The meeting
with Lloyd George was arranged b!
Col. Edward NJ. House.
The Vienna dispatches announce the
, turning over Of that city to the Bol
| sheviki committees Of soldiers ant
Z wOrkmen delegates. together with til,
l government of what remains of TIN
fcrmer Austrian Epmire. 1t is tn
fourth great capital in Europe to &C
: knowledge Bolshevik rule.
i Following reports from Berlin o
D some weeks ago that the former Ger
r man Crown Prince Frederick William
e had begun proceedings for Il divorc
I comes the news from Zurich that til
latter has also begm like proceeding.
@ alleging intidelities. cruelties and eve
d bodily injuries.
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r Government Is preparing to subm
t. the ratification Of the Versailles peac
d treaty to the people Of Germany in
It general election. preparations IL
"a which can he completed In fOrty-eigl
hours. The government leaders thu
le avoid the responsibility for the cons
s. luences of rejection.
Df The labor troubles and insurrectiOl
III III Germany are not to be allowed to i
at fringe upon the territory occupied !
III the American and Allied armies III
I'll American commander has notified tt
w strikers that they must at once retul
III to work and the commanders of 9th
districts occupied by the British al
he French have done the same.
d. The body Of Edith Carvell, the En-
IT. liSh nurse. who was executed by t
IN Germans during 1915. is to be broug
a to England from Belgium on May III
III. The body Is to be taken OH Il gun c;
Ill riage to Westminster Abbey. where -
'e' vices will he performed in honor Of t
nj dead. Interment will be at Norwi'
ch the home town Of the Carvells.
=" The Japanese Court at Seoul, kOr'
sn has tried and convicted Rev. Eli Mil
VI Mowry on the charge of allowing
use Of his house for the printing
OF propaganda III Korean independei
Jay agitation. He was sentenced to
ell months imprisonment. but is at libel
he on hail. pending an appeal to the hi
'et' er court. Rev. Mowry Is Il Presby
'm' rian missionary to Korea.
!, ,'e Donald \. Craig. special correspo
-. -. ent at Washington of the New Orle;
., Times PcdynHc and New York Hcrt
,'" ''e. says that prominent Republicans ;
Democrats. 10th In and out Of Z
- gresS. are of the opinion that ShO
President Wilson bring back fl
Paris definite alliance with Fra
and England against Germany t
the Senate would readily ratify
agreement.
.ers The French Federation Of Labor
W. called for a one-day strike on May
lntS to emphasize the following deman
my. An eight-hour day. political ANNE
ere. noninterventi0n In Russia, lifting
lent the state Of siege and censorship.
no the return OF constitutional gual