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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
DUNNE TO ATTEND
PARIS MEETING TO
AID IRISH CAUSE

Washington. u. c., March 29-
Ireland claims to self-determina-
tion are to be urged before the
world peace conference at Paris by
a committee from the Irish race in
America which will sail from New
York next Wednesday on the liner
Touraine
Members of the committee are
former Governor Edward F. Dunno
of Chicago. Frank P Walsh of New
York. who will act as chairman.
and Michael j. Ryan of Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. Walsh and Mr.. Ryan. repre-
senting the committee, called at
the state department yesterday and
presented a written request for
passports to France. stating as
their purpose ito obtain for the
delegates selected by the people of
ireland a hearing at the peace con-
ference, and to place before the
conference. if that hearing be not
given, the case of Ireland-her in
sistence upon her right to self-de-
termination and to international
recognition of the republican form
of government established by her
people"
Mr.. Walsh was granted the pass
ports.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
COMMUNITY COOK
SOLVES CHICAGO
SERVANT ENIGMA

Chicago, March GA real com
munity kitchen is said to have SOW
ed the servant problem for at least
one community in Chicago.
Miss Ethel Lendrum is the presld-
ing genius under no less title than
Home Advisor of the States Reia-
tion service of the department of
Agriculture"
Assisted by a cook in one small
kitchen. dinners are prepared for
20 families, at 25 cents per dinner.
The department expects to start
other kitchens. but none will be
larger than this one. as it is said
that food cooked in quantities too
large loses in SAVIOR.
The menu consists of meat, pota-
toes, one vegetable and a dessert.
The method of distribution Is
simple The children of member
families leave the family dinner
basket with Miss .Lendrum on the
way to school. Returning from their
studies. they call for the basket,
filled with food packed in sealed
jars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
WILL FORCE THEIR POINT
DESPITE GERMAN REFUSAL
TO PERMIT POLE LANDING
PRICES GO DOWN
BUT ARE HIGHER
THAN LAST YEAR

Washington. D. c.. March 29.-
Wholesale prices. though showing
a downward trend this year, remain
much higher than those of a year
ago, it was disclosed today by the
March issue of the Monthly Labor
Review of the department of labor
Food, clothing and metal products
were reported as showing the great
est declines in the last two months.
Wholesale prices in the United
States showed a downward trend
With the beginning of the new
year" said the review, the weight
ed index number of the bureau of
labor statistics standing at 2O2 for
January. as compared with 206 for
december, 1918"
Cotton. corn. oats, hiees, tobacco,
butter, eggs. lard, bacon. wooden
goods, bar iron. copper. steel, oak
and poplar lumber were listed
among important articles whose
prices were less in January thar
the preceding month. Cattle, pota-
tees, soap and whisky averaged
h CHER, while hogs, canned goods,
beef, sugar and milk were among
those that remained practically un-
changed.
Comparing prices in January.
Albany. the duke of Cumberland
Guided the review, 1t is seen that
the index number of farm products
increased from 2O5 to 220. that o.
fc cd articles from 1873 to 204, and
that of cloths and clothing from
.c9 to 231."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
HUN ASSEMBLY
CHIEFS CLASH
Socialist Leader in Attack On Min
lister of Defense and Chancel-
IOr Scheidemann.

Weimar, Friday, March 2S.-( By
the Associated Press. In the ma
tional assembly today Hugo Haase,
the Independent Socialist leader,
made a violent attack upon Gus
tave Noske, the minister of de-
fense, for his methods in suppress
ing the recent strikes, the shooting
of spartacans and other alleged
abuses of power. claiming that the
defense minister's course consti-
tuted a return to Imperialism. Herr
Haase also attacked Chancellor
Scheidemann for Understanding
Sundays demonstration in Berlin
in favor of General Ludendorff, de-
claring this showed that the pres
ent military leaders of the nation
were standing solidly behind Lu-
dendorff, supported by the con-
servatives and other parties of the
right. as well as a portion of the
bourgeoise.
Herr Haase declared in favor of
entering into immediate relations
with Russia, saying that the
Ukraine would soon be able to sup
ply Germany with raw material
and later with food. He said, how
ever, that the Independent Social
lists would not consider treaty
with Russia as initiating against
England or the entente in general.
Herr Haase asserted that Ma
thias Erzberger, the Centrist lead
er. falsified when he told of a cab
met meeting held Dec. u, in which
Independent Socialists nonmem-
bers of the government who were
present agreed with the decision to
send a note to the entente urging
the necessity for a common fight
against bolshevism by Germany
and the entente.
Herr Erzberger. replying, insist
ed that his statements were true.
Herr Noske. in his reply to Herr
Haase. charged the Independents
with being the originatOrs of the
spartacan Vaccinations and said
the government would place be-
fore the assembly all the facts in
connection with the murderous
acts" of the spaTtacans.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
SEE HAMBURG AND
STEITIN NATURAL
FORTS OF CZECHS

Paris. Friday. March 2S. - by
the Associated PreSs.-Hamburg
and Stettin are considered the ma
tural commercial outlets to the sea
for Czecho-Slovakia according to d
decision reached today by the COM
mission on the international regime
of waterways, ports and railways.
This action. which grants the de-
mands of the Czecho-Slovaks dele
gates to the peace conference.
would provide if finally approved.
that the new republic enjoy every
privilege as to foreign commerce
at the two ports as if they actual
ly belonged to it.
Czecho-Slovak trade would reach
Hamburg and Stettin through the
EIbe and Oder rivers in boats fly
ing the Czecho- Slovak colors. In
addition to these craft. the repub-
lie would be allowed to possess
merchant sea fleet. The same priv
ilege would be extended to Switzer-
land regarding navigation of the
Rhine and the operation of merch-
ant vessels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
ALLENBY SOUNDS
EGYPT WARNING:
WILL USE FORCE

Cairo. Egypt, Friday. March IS
General E. H. Allenby, the new
communicative chief in Egypt. told
a gathering of Egyptian notables
today that he would be forced to
employ active repression to restore
order in Egypt. He said that ii had
been found impossible to restore
order by defensive measures.
The policy of repression. the gen.
eral admitted. would bring great
suffering to the people and he asked
II Egyptians to devise measures to
achieve the desired results with a
minimum of suffering. He conclud-
ed with this emphatic warning:
II intend to do my duty. 1t is for
you to do yours"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
VOLUNTEERS TO
REPLACE YANKS
YET IN SERVICE
Occupation Army Men
Eager to Return,
Told of Plan.

Coblenz, Friday, March 2S.-(By
the Associated Press THE an
rouncement by the war department
of its intention to send from the
United States, volunteers enlisted
for use in replacing units of the
permanent army of occupation,
who desire to leave the service
reached third army headquarters
today. The announcement was made
by the department to allay unrest
among the regular army divisions
which are due for replacements
and which contain large percent
age of men who volunteered for the
duration of the war, and among ua
tional guardsmen who are eager TO
return home as soon as possible.
A plan also is being worked out
for the segregation into the regu-
lar army divisions of the army of
occupation of regular officers and
such other officers as desire to re-
main in the regular army service.
The department by this means. con-
templates relieving as soon as feas-
ible those reserve and national
guard officers who desire to return
to tn United States ror business or
other reasons.
Many Eager to Go.
Washington, March 29.-The de-
cision to raise a special foreign
service volunteer replacement force
of $4,000 men, General March said
today was based on the discovery
made by Secretary Baker and him
self in their tour of army camps
that a large number of men were
anxious to enlist in the army if
guaranteed service abroad.
A great number of men among the
units which were trained in this
country for service against Ger
many but who never reached
France, he said, had expressed a
desire to make the trip abroad.
On their recent tour. General
March and Secretary Baker found
the rate of enlistments very low,
only 2,797 men having been recruit
ed at the regular depots. This re-
cruitment is under legislation auth
orizing a total of 175,00O men The
term of enlistment is one third of
the total for one year and the re-
mainder for three years. General
March said that enlistments so far
were about equal for the two
classes.
The $4,000 replacement troops TO
be assembled at Camp Meade, are
being recruited under this authority
and their number represents the
total which the war department
feels it can promise immediate for
eign service to take the place OF
men in the Xpeditionary forces who
are eligible for and who desire Gfs.
charge
Men TO Go Where They Want To.
So far as possible, General March
said, the wishes of the men who en-
list under this special call as to the
place of service will be met by the
department. If a recruit resires
service in Italy he will be sent with
a replacement unit to the American
forces there. If he desires service in
France or in Russia, so far as cir
cumstances permit, his wishes WILL
be met
Regarding the forces in Italy.
while no recent advices have come
to the war department, General
March said indications were that
preparations were being made to
withdraw the 332nd infantry from
that country
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
u. S. SCOUTS WILL
JOIN WORLD PLAN
FOR PEACE FIRES

New York, March 29.-The sug-
gestion of Sir Robert Baden-Pow-
ell. head of the British Boy Scouts,
that the millions of boy scouts
throughout the world celebrate the
signing of peace by world round
chain of bonfires has been adopted
by the Boy Scouts of America, it
was announced here today by the
national headquarters of the or
ganization. The 367, 7,093 boy scouts
in the United States will light great
fires in all sections of the country
on the night the treaty is signed
and hold appropriate ceremonies.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
FRANCEASkS
BOUNDARYAS
FIXED IN 1874
Makes Rhine Frontier and
Returns Alsace and
Lorraine to Her.

Paris. Friday. March 2S.-(Ha-
vasI-In laying her claims before
the council of four today. France
asked. first of all, that her bound
aries, as fixed by the treaty of
Paris. May 80, 1914, be restored to
her together with the Saar basin.
In the Rhine province on the left
bank of the Rhine. it was stipulat-
ed. the Germans should have po-
litical autonomy but should not be
permitted to establish fortifica-
tiOns, occupy the territory with
armed forces nor control the rail-
ways. Thus the Rhine would
serve France as d natural frontier.
Returns Alsaee- Lorraine.
The treaty of Paris in 1914 pro-
vided that France renounce her
claims on Belgium and the left
bank of the Rhine and return to
the boundaries as they existed in
1892 before the revolution. This
compelled France to confine herself
to the provinces of Alsace and Lor-
raine. west of the Rhine. those ter
ritories having been under French
control since 1889. 1t was erron-
eously reported from Paris last
night that France had demanded
her 1914 frontiers, which would
have excluded Alsace and Lor-
raine from her claims before the
peace conference
VIII Be "Clean Peace"
London, March 80. - british
Wireless Service.l The effects
which the British delegates at the
peace conference are making to
procure for the world the cleanest
possible peace will bear fruit in
the peace treaty shortly to be
made public, the Paris correspond
ent of the Westminster Gazette de-
cIares. He states on the authority
"of a highly placed parsonage" ,"
the conference does not mean to
violate territorial rights and that
the fears on this point felt by in
terested peoples in Europe are
quite unfOunded.
Stern Terms for Foe.
Certainly the peace will be a
stern one for Germany" the cor
respondent said. but the greatest
care is being taken that it shall be
just to the eyes of moderate and
well-informed Germans. The prin-
ciples of self-determination are
vigorously kept in mind with re-
gard to the ALLEGATION of terri
tories"
The correspondent quotes his in
formant as follows:
There must be no cacus belli
left to Germany otherwise you will
have blocks of people clamoring
for an alliance with the father
land"
The correspondent points out
that. however. Germany had delib-
erateIy created a German -populat-
ed wedge in essentially Polish ter
ritory and that Germany will have
only herself to blame if she finds
her nationals under Polish admin
iStratiOn.
British influence. the correspond
ent aserts. is nevertheless definite
ly arrayed against inflated pre-
tentions."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
UNITS FAMOUS
IN WAR ARE TO
BE PERMANENT
Retain Names Of Noted
Divisions-42nd to
Be Cavalry.

Washington. March %. Re.
tention of the names OF II ma.
tiOnal guard and national army
divisions with brilliant war
records in the permanent mill
tary establishment in order to
preserve their traditions was
announced today by General
March.
For this purpose, of the 81 diyis-
ions proposed to be organized in
the new army, Ia will receive the
following des gnations:
First division, Camp Pike, Ark. +;
Second, Camp Dodge, Iowa; Third,
/ Camp Lee; Fourth, Camp kearney,
Cal; Fifth, Panama canal zone;
Sixth. Honolulu; Seventh, divided
between Philippines, Alaska and
Mexican border; Twenty-sixth, to
! be based on Camp Devens; Twen-
ty-seventh. Camp Upton. n ";
Twenty-eighth, Camp Dix. n. j.;
Twenty-ninth. Camp Meade. Md. /;
Thirtieth, Camp Jackson, S, c.;
/ Thirty-second, Camp Custer,
Mich; Thirty-third. Camp Grant.
Ill; Thirty-siXth, Camp Travis,
Texas; Thirty-seventh, Camp Sher-
man. Ohio, Eighty-frst, Camp
I Taylor, Ky; Eighty-second, Camp
GOrGon, Ga Eighty-ninth, Camp
Funston, Kan; Ninety-first, Camp
Lewis, Wash.
Rainbow 10 Be Cavalry.
/ The Forty-second (Rainbow) di-
vision will be the cavalry division
in the new organization 1t will be
organized in the southern depart
ment and its men will be drawn
from all the state, maintaining in
/ this respect the all-American char
acter, which was obtained in the
original organization.
In the reorganization OF the army
lot only the divisional designations
will be retained, but also the desig-
Iaations of the brigades, regimen S.
companies and other units in each
division. The special insignia au-
thOrized for each division during
the war will be continued.
Recruited From Camp Area.
The First to Seventh divisions
will retain the designations of the
seven regular divisions now in
France, comprising the First and
Second army corps. In each case
where a division has been given
ne designation of a national guard
and national army division, it will
lie recruited from the district sur
rounding the camp named as its
base and from which the original
division of that designation was
drawn.
In making this announcement
General March said that the war
department was proceeding with
the organization of the army on the
basis of a peace strength of 500, 900
men. The tactical organization will
comprise five army corps of 20 in
fantry divisions and one cavalry di-
vision. Whether this organization
VIII become permanent, he said, de
pended entirely on future legisla-
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
HOUSTON DENIES
HE WILL HANDLE
WHEAT PRICE JOB

Washington. March 29-Secre-
tary Houston, in a statement say
ing the attitude of the department
of agriculture had been misrepre-
sented by published reports that
the department desired to take
charge of carrying out the govern
ment's wheat guarantee, announc-
ed that he recently sent a cable
gram to President Wilson pointing
out the necessity for immediate
action in view of the short time in
tervening before the 1919 crop
movement and urging that the
food administration grain corpor-
alton be utilized for the work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
SALVATION ARMY
MEMBERS HAVING
MEET IN CHICAGO

Chicago. March %. - Salvation
army members of the middle west
are here today for a three-day con-
ference. the high point of which
will be held tomorrow with two
public meetings. Commissioner
Thomas H. Howard, chief of staff
and second in command or all ac-
tivities of the army throughout the
world. will tell of the war work OF
the organization and explain
changes in its policy OF raising
money, with plans for extension of
the work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
The Weather

Partly cloudy tonight and Sun.
day. possibly becoming unsettled;
slightly warmer tonight.
Temperature at a. m, 43: high
est yesterday. 81; lowest last night.
AZ
Velocity of wind at Z a. m. s
miles ger hour
Relative humidity at o. m, so:
a. a. M. 7S
j. NJ. Sherier, Meterologist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
ENGLAND BARS RUBLE.

London, Friday. March 2S. - A
proclamation was issued tonight
prohibiting. except under license
issued by the treasury. the impor-
tatiOn into the United Kingdom of
all ruble notes other than those is
sued by the financial department
of the provisional government of
North Russia at Archangel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
WAR HEROES JOIN
RUSH TO ANSWER
CALL FOR $4,000

New York, March 29.-American
veterans of Chateau Thierry. the
Champagne, the Lorraine front and
the Argonne. who only a few weeks
ago accepted their army discharges,
are daily reenlisting here and in
increasing number. at the United
States recruiting offices, it was an
nCunced today. The headquarters
is enrolling men responding to the
war departments call for 50.OO0
volunteers for service in France to
relieve an equal number of men
with the American expeditionary
force.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
BRITAIN TO HAVE
HOME FLEET AND
z SEA SQUADRONS?

London. March 90. -(Via Mont
real. )-Reuters is authoritatively
informed that the postwar dis
tribution of the British navy will
be a home feet and seven foreign
squadrons stationed in the At
Tantic, West Atlantic. China, South
Africa. South America, East In
dies and the Mediterranean.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
HUN GUNS TURNED
DOWN BY YANKEES
MADE INTO TOOLS

Coblenz, March Il CORES
pondence of the Associated Press
Eighty big caliber German guns
refused by the United States COM
mission because they did not meet
certain standards have been sent
TO CoblenZ foundry, and are
soon to be made into farm imple-
ments and other peace time ma
Chinery.
Virtually ali the material which
the Germans we're to turn over to
the Americans according to the
terms of the arnistice, has been
delivered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
AMERICAN CRAFT
CRIPPLED AT SEA;
TOWED INTO PORT

London, March 29.-The Ameri-
can steamer Sapinero was towed
into Plymouth on Friday evening
after having been disabled at sea
in a hurricane. a part of her
cargo was jettisoned to save her
from laundering
(The Sapinero is a United States
shipping board steamer completed
at Hog Island this year She is a
vessel of 5,697 tons gross. She
sailed from Philadelphia March IA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
AUGUST BELMONT. JR. DIES.

New York, March %. = August
Belmont, Jr., partner in the bank
ing firm of August Belmont and
company. American representa-
tives of the European banking
firms of the RothchiIds. died here
today after being operated on for
Intestinal trouble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
HOLDING PAIR IN
CONNECTION WITH
ROBBERY OF BANK

Joplin. Mo, March 29.-Two men
were under arrest here today for
investigation in connection with the
robbery of a bank at Lone Elm,
Kansas. Monday night. The men
were arrested at hotel and the po-
lice have $21.S05 worth of Liberty
bonds and thrift stamps. which they
said they found in the room oc-
cIpied by the two men. The police
say that one of the men has admit
ted that they robbed the bank, and
eluded the posse by means of a
wood near Lone Elm.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
FAIR WEATHER FORECAST.

Washington, March 2S.-Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday. issued by the weather
bureau today are: Upper Mississ-
ippi and lower Missouri valleys:
Except for rains middle of the week.
fair. Temperature near or above
normal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
ARE SENDING
YANKS HOME
ON SCHEDULE.
Situation Causes No Halt
in Movement General
March Announces.

Washington, March %. Re-
cent events in Hungary, Cen
eral March announced today,
have resulted in no change in
he military policy Of the Unit
Cd States so far as the war de-
partment has been advised. Re-
turn of troops from France is
proceeding even faster than
scheduled originally, he saiG,
and nothing had occurred to in
A. terfere with this movement.
Groop movements homeward dur
IND the month of March, General
March said. aggregated 244,lS6
against an estimate previously made
for the month of 100000.
General March announced TO-DAY
that he had ordered soldiers dis
charged within As hours after ar
rival at Rehabilitation camps un-
less special conditions made it i'm
possible. He said the demobilizatiOn
total now had passed the million
and half mark.
Many men object, General March
explained. to being held for parades
or for any other purposes. At some
camps, he said, it had taken from
five to six days to discharge the
men. but these were now approach
ing the 4S-hour rate.
The chief of staff made it plain
that the war department was not
oposing the holding up of return
N e Urh ri fn
remain in the service for that pur-
pose. He said, however, that no
men would be kept against their
will to await the arrival OF other
units of their division hereafter.
Over Million and Half Out.
Demobilization statistics today
show 1,460.461 men and SS,649 of
htes discharged Reserve commits
slkpns have been given to 27,237 Of
hekers including 30 Colonels and
I2sz3S10 officers have applied for
&egular service commissions.
Referring to the payment being
made to Great Britain for trans
porting American troops to France
General March said the figures
agreed upon were fair to both
9AuN9 anu AAAu MT iliNltA'IE al VI
the indirect costs Of operating the
British ships.
Engineers Reach Russia
Arriva. of the One Hundred Six
t--eighth engineering company at
Murmansk ArChangel front, on
March %. was announced today by
the war department. 1t consists OF
10 officers and 133 men. The One
Hundred Sixty-seventh engineering
company. also ordered to that sec
tor is enToute.
The engineers we're ordered to
Northern Russia to reinforce the
little American force now there CO
operating with Russians and the
allies, Their special task will be
to improve the lines of communi-
cation to the coast and pave the
49, for the ultimate safe with
dr3wal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
LATE BULLETINS

Buenos Aires. Friday, March
2S.-A general Indian uprising
has occurred in FOrmOsa prov
ince is reported and II is said
that one tribe sacked the fort
at Yunka, killing the garrison
of two nOn-cOmmiSsiOned OFF,
GERS and Is soldiers. The In
dians escaped, taking horses.
munitions and supplies from the
fort.
Copenhagen. March 29.-The
strike in Austria extended on
Friday to the Nor hern railway
and as a consequence traffic
between Vienna and the outside
world Is almost a. a standstilL
according 10 Vienna adVices re-
ceiVed here.
Washington, March 29.-MaiOr
General Charles :. FarnsWOrth
has been assigned TO cCS mand
Camp Bowie. Texas, the war
department announced today.
General FarnSwOTth was in
command Of the Thirty-seyenth
division in France.