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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
MUST KEEP HUN
ACROSS Rhine
Speaker in French Chamber of
Deputies Declares Right Bank
Must Not be Prussian.

Paris. Tuesday, March 25.-"The
right bank of the Rhine must never
belong to Prussia said Henry
Franklin-Bouillon, former minister
of missions abroad, IN a bitter
speech against what he charged was
the dilatoriness of the allies and
the silence of the government, de-
livered in the chamber of deputies
this afternoon.
THE right. bank of the Rhine, :"
continued the deputy, must serve
no more as a base of Prussian ag-
gressions against France. We ask
this Indispensable minimum and it
is our right to exact it.
THE silence of the government
and its other methods have culm1n-
ated in the maximum of unrest IN
the country and the maximum of
anarchy outside of it. Germany be-
gins to raise her head. 1t was with
anguish that we learned that France
had not exacted the disarmament of
Germany and that it was England
who was Obliged to seek to disarm
Germany for the benefit of France. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
FOREIGN TONGUE
PAPERS EDITORS
HOLDING CONFAB

New York, March 26.-A two
days national conference of edi-
tors and publishers of foreign lam
guage newspapers in America was
opened here under the auspices of
the Inter-Racial council. for the
purpose of forming a permanent
association and developing a
sound business and editorial pol
icy that will add to its influence
with the public and the business
world"
The need of a get-together pol
icy between the American and for
eign elements in the United States
for both patriotic ~and business
reasons was discussed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
LATE BULLETINS

Washington, March 26-Dis-
charges from the army air SER
vice to March 13, tOtaIled f09,-
247 officers, cadets and enlist
ed men. The total strength Of
the service at the end of hos
tilities was 190,527.
London. March 26-C0nSti-
tutiOnal guarantees have been
suspended throughout Spain,
according to a Madrid dispatch.
Washington, March 26.-The
United States government has
sold to the CzechO-Sl0vak mil
itary authorities airplanes and
airpIane equipment TO the value
of $1.00O,000, is was learned to-
day.
Lisbon. March 26.-(By the
Associated Press.)-An Amer
lean feet of 80 warships from
Brest anchored in the Tagus
today. This makes a total of 81
units of the American navy now
in the Tagus.
Washington, March 26.-Cas-
uaIties among American med
icaI officers in France from the
time of the arrival OF the first
units to March -, numbered
442.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
PLANT OAK TREE
TO HONOR THOSE
WHO GAVE LIVES

Washington, March 26.-An oak
tree dedicated to the soldier dead of
the department of agriculture, was
planted on the department grounds
today by Secretary Houston.
The planting of the tree was in
keeping with the suggestion made
recently by Mr.. Houston that the
memory of American soldiers, who
fell during the war could best be
perpetnated by the nationwide
planting of trees in their honor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
JOINT TREATY
FOR ALL FOES
is CONSIDERED
Effort Being Made to
Unite Pacts With
Enemy Nations.

Paris. Tuesday, March 25.-(By
the Associated Press. 1T became
known tonight that a serious effort
was being made in the highest
quarters to joint together all the
peace treaties with Germany, Aus
tria, Turkey and Bulgaria, thus
making one comprehensive treaty
in which Germany would be linked
with the other central powers as
their responsible head.
While such step would cause
some delay, the American and
British leaders here feel that It
would save time in the end in com
pleting the work on all the peace
treaties. The inclusion of Austria
in a comprehensive treaty would be
particularly acceptable to Italy.
which has resented the conclusion
of terms with Germany in a docu-
Italy'S interests in Austria
OutgrOwth of Italy's Stand.
The movement for a single treaty
with all the four powers probably
grows out of Premier Orlando's
strong opposition to such omission
in the first treaty of caluses dealing
with Italy's interests. The plan has
not yet been finally determined
upon and it may meet with objec-
tions, but the tendency is toward
its acceptance. 1t is stated that the
fact that the United States is not at
war with Turkey or Bulgaria has
raised no objection to the plan.
Should the plan be adopted it is
expected that the four treaties Id
be linked together and completed
by MAY l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
SENATOR CLARK
IMPROVES; TAKES
OATH OF OFFICE

Springfield. Ill. March 2s.-
State Senator Albert c. Clark OF
Chicago, seriously i'll with pneu
monia at a hotel here. passed a
good night, according to his nurse,
who said there were signs of slight
improvement in his condition.
When told last night that he
might not live, Senator Clark took
the oath of Office as a senator ad-
ministered by Circuit Judge Bur
ton of Carlinville. who was holding
court here. Senator Clark had
been delayed in California on ac-
count of i'll health and did not
reach the capital until Monday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
RUSSIAN REDS
HARD PRESSED;
LOSSES HEAVY
Three Bolshevik Regi-
ments Wiped Out
Allies Attack.

London, March 26. via Mont
real.-The troops of the Kol.
chak government forces, which
pierced the bOlsheviki front on
a 30-mile sector on March IL.
continued their progress and
the position of the bOIsheViki
is precariOus, according TO
Reuter- dispatch from Omsk.
The KOlchak army has COM
pleted the capture OF 0sa-
southwest of Perm, and is
driving the bolsheViki army
westward in three directions.
The bolsheviki are abandoning
large quantities of stores, while
the Kolchak troops have taken a
large number of prisoners and an
initiated three bolshevik regi-
ments.
Allied Forces Attack.
With the Allied Forces in North
ern Russia, Monday, March "a
(By the Associated Press. 1.-The
bolsheviki are entrenching and re-
inforcing both their infantry and
artillery at Bolshoia- Ozera, and
are endeavoring to hold this i'm
portant point in the line of the
allied communications between
Obozerskaia and Omega. Yester-
day the Americans and British at
tackled from the west side of the
village and the Russians, support
ed by Americans and British, at
tackled from the east along the
road. Fighting under the utmost
difficulties, the allied troops were
unable to advance beyond the line
of enemy machine guns, while the
Bolshevik artillery maintained a
certain sweep of the winding high
road through the woods.
Wade Snow Waist-Deep.
Struggling waist-deep in the soft
drifting snow of the forests, the
forces striking from the east found
a fianking movement impracticable
and tAsX-Xere able to progress
only at the rate of two-thirds of
a mile an hour. Today the allied
troops were bivouacked along the
road on both sides of the village
within good artillery range.
The weather during the last few
days has again been extremely
cold and the Americans and others
who are living in Igloo-like arctic
tents, are finding their first oppor-
tunity to test these shelters. They
are holding the line 10 Omega and
Obozerskaia. Their big guns are
moving, up, drawn by American
mules, which are steadily plod-
ding ahead and conquering the
steep, icy hills and the deep drifts.
The airplanes, equipped with
runners instead of wheels for
alighting on the snow, have bomb
ed BolshoiaOz
Y. NJ. c. A. Man Captured.
Malcolm V. Arnold. Lincoln,
Neb.. Y. NJ. C. A. worker. is miss
ing and believed to have been cap
tured by the bolsheviki. He last
was reported at BolshoiaOsera,
which was raided and then taken
by the bolshevik forces.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
President and Premiers Rushing Peace Wo1
HUNGARY LAYS
UNREST BLAME
TOPARIS MEET
Report Count Karolyi
Slain-Yanks Es-
cape Country.

Paris, March 26.-The proclama
ton of the Hungarian revolution
lists declares that the action of the
peace conference is one of the chic.
causes of unrest.
The French foreign office has
been advised that one of the frs
acts of the new Hungarian govern
ment was to release the Russian
Red Cross delegation that had beer
imprisoned in Budapest because il
had been circulating bolshevil
propagandist matter.
karOlyi Assassinated.
Berne, March 26.-According tc
an unconfirmed rumor reaching
Prague from Budapest, Former
Premier Karolyi of Hungary has
been assassinated.
Colonel Vix, head of the French
Mission in Budapest, has been
wounded and taken prisoner by
forces of the new Hungarian gov
ernment, according to a report re-
ceiyed in Prague and transmitted
here. Major Freeman of the British
army, it is added. succeeded in
making his escape from Budapest.
Copenhagen, March 26-The COM
mander of the French troops in
Budapest, according to a wireless
dispatch denies the report that his
soldiers have been disarmed by the
communists.
Americans Escape.
All the members of the allied
missions except one American of
ficer, have left Budapest, a Vienna
dispatch to the Abendpost of Berlin
says.
The Reichs Post of Vienna, prints
a dispatch from Budapest that al
lied troops occupying Arad and
Szegedin. on the Maros and Thesis
rivers respectively. have been with
drawn.
Pressburg report received in
Berlin says that martial law has
been declared throughout Czecho-
Slovakia as a result of events in
-Hupgary:
Count Michael KaroIyi, former
president of Hungary. has been ar
rested and Will be brought before
a revolutionary tribunal for trial, a
' tCHHd ulSpdiCu u Tue NdLlOndl
ldende of Copenhagen says.
The Hungarian national council
has been dissolved on motion of it's
president, a Budapest dispatch to-
day states.
Czechs Cut Communication.
Berlin, Tuesday, March 25.-(Via
Copenhagenl.-It is reported here
from Vienna that communication
between Vienna and Budapest has
been interrupted through the cap
ture by the Czecho-Slovaks of the
town of Raab on the Danube about
midway between the two cities.
Large Hungarian cannon foundries
are situated at Raab.
London, March 26.-According to
Budapest dispatch to the Vienna
Deutsche Volksblatt, former Pre-
nlier Alexander Wekerle (who has
been reported under arrest at Buda-
pest) is charged with introducing
measures for the specialization OF
landed estates in a form enabling
him to dispose on favorable terms
of his own heavily mortgaged es-
tdtes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
LABOR TO APPEAL
TO WORKERS AND
PUBLIC OPINION

Paris. Tuesday, March 25.--The
national committee of the general
federation of labor has decided TO
placard the walls of France with an
appeal to workers and TO publl-
opinion generally. A protest viii
be made against armed Intervention
in Russia, the incomplete character
of the international labor charter
and the obsence of guarantees IN
the league of nations covenant
which does not fulfill the condi-
tions set forth by President viii
sons fourteen points it is said
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
FREDERICK HALL,
TRIBUNE EDITOR,
DIES IN CHICAGO

Chicago, March 26-Frederick H.
Hall, pioneer newspaper man. died
at his residence here last night
With him at the time of his death
was his only child, Mrs. Gibson
Gardner of Washington. Mrs. Hall
died several years ago.
Mr.. Hall came to Chicago after
the Civil war with Charles A
Dana, and for % years was city
editor of the Chicago Tribune
Thereafter he became an editorial
writer on the paper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26

and success of the league depends
on cooperation between its mem
bers. There is no snap judgment.
no majority rule, no surrender of
national sovereignty. The league
will make future wars difficult if
not actually impossible. And when
l think of the scenes in the streets
of every city in the United States
when news came that the armis-
tice had been signed-I knew the
answer to the question-'do the
people want league of nations to
put stop to war;"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
The Weather

Fair tonight and Thursday, cold
er tonight with the lowest temper
ature about 80 degrees.
Temperature at a. M, AZ. High
est yesterday, 81. Lowest last night,
AZ.
Velocity of wind at a. m, 10
miles per hour.
Precipitation, % inch.
Relative humidity at p. m, SO /;
at a. m, 95.
Stage of water, 1915, fall OF L
in last "a hours.
]. NJ Sherier. Meteorologist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
GERMANY NOT TO
GIVE UP AN INCH
OF SOIL HE SAYS

Berlin, Tuesday. March 25.-"I
take a most solemn oath that the
government will not surrender to
the enemy one inch of German ter
ritory, either east or west" said
Dr. Chiffer. minister of finance in
the new cabinet, in addressing \
great crowd in front of the chan
cellor's palace on Sunday, accord
ing to the Tages zeitung.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
WILL, SELL COPPER
GOVERNMENT OWNS

Washington, March 26. An
agreement was announced today
by the war department whereby
the United States Metal Selling
company, representing the copper
producers will sell for the depart
ment approximately 100,OOO,OOO
pounds of copper and whatever
other copper scraps the depart
ment may have to dispose of.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
MANY DIE IN
FIRSTFIGHTS
OF UPRISING
Official Reports From
Cairo Tell of Rebellion
by the Natives.

Cairo. Egypt, March %
(Via Montreal The Official
reports OF the riots in Egypt
show that 1000 houses in VII
lagos were sacked. On March
ii, several British soldiers were
murdered and a mob sacked
and burned the stations at FL
Rekkah and El-Wasta. On
March Is, the express from
Cairo was pillaged and several
trains were sacked. An emplOyP
of the state railway was muir
dered.
On March 16 the mob raided the
police station at Miniet camp and
released prisoners. 1t then at
tackled the station and the military
picket was obliged to fire Thirty
natives were killed and 19 wounded.
Several thousand natives attacked
the station tank and the troops and
police were Obliged to fire. Twenty
two natives were killed and 80
wounded.
The disorders in Cairo were
checked with the least possible EN-
ployment of force. Altogether, 81
natives were killed and eight
wounded here. The behavior of tho
Cairo police was excellent.
All Egypt in Rebellion.
London, March 26.-CBy the As
sociated Press.) - Defending the
military service bill in the house
of commons yesterday, Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary OF
war. declared that the whole Of
Egypt was in virtual state of In
surrection.
The position was so dangerous.
he added. that the government had
to appeal to men on the point of de
mobilization to return and save
their comrades from being muir
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The recent manifestations in
Egypt were predatory rather than
political, and the latest news from
Egypt gives cause for less anxiety.
Earl Curzon. lord president of the
council, said in a speech in the
house of lords last night. A graf
flying feature of the troubles, he
added, had been the behavior of
the Egyptian officials, the army
and the police.
Earl Curzon said that the govern
ment had never opposed the desire
of the Egyptian ministers. Rushdi
Pasha and Adiy Pasha, to come to
England to discuss with the British
government the future government
of Egypt.
With regard to Said Zagloul
Pasha and the other Egyptian na-
tionalists who had organized the
present movement, the H7ger7H7e7L
spokesman EeiG there WRC Dn com
mon gro0p,i for discuedihn. Ths
presence OF these men in England
would be interpreted a. evidences
that Great Britain vaS willing to
consider the completes abandon
ment OF its responsibilities
Conditions Improving.
Washington, March 2f.-Interna-
tional conditions in Egypt have
been greatly improved, according
IL dispatches today to the state de-
partment. QuieA has heeC restored
i'll Cairo and Alexandria and the
lines of communication DpTth Of
Cairo which had been interrupted
have been reopened An adequate
system of patrol is said to have
been placed
The departments zdvfocs said
practically al Ge tie -HNE2E sta
tions in the Mipufia district had
been destrUyei. The Bed0uins mat
been very active, especially in the
Beheral province and near Kona-
nada. Disorderly mobs under the
instigation of agitators systemati-
cally carried on a campaign Of de-
Sfrnctfnn and lnniinp
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
{. NJ. C. A. Man Captured.

Malcolm V. Arnold. Lincoln,
Neb.. a Y. NJ. C. A. worker. is miss
ing and believed to have been cap
tured by the bolsheviki. He last
was reported at Bolshoia-Osera,
which was raided and then taken
by the bolshevik forces.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-31
HINT TO KEOKUK
RETAILERS HERE
Next. Week, We are to Have Com.
pany, and it Might be Well
to Clean up the House
Little.

Keokuk hotels are swamped with
reservations for next week when the
southeastern Iowa lumbermen hold
their annual convention here.
Hundreds of people from out Of
town-and rhat is more important
FROM points not too far out of town
will be here next week.
Here is a hint that 1t might be well
for Keokuk retail stores to remember
that company is coming and to clean
up the front porch little and have
the maid wash the windows. Presi-
dent Durrett Of the Commercial club,
asks The Gate City to mention this,
and suggest that the merchants make
their windows as attractive as pos
sible all next week.
Besides their own windows" he
said this morning, they should, if
possible, make some display in any
vacant windows near their stores.
Also, we would like to have all mer-
camille establishments in as attrac-
tive copdition as possible for Mr..
Stockdale and his merchants insti-
tute week"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-31
CITY NEWS.
Special tomorrow:

special tomorrow: PruneS, LUG
pound. Fred De Yong.
City employees are being paid to-
day for their labor in the last month.
Anybody who sees pair OF blue
birds building q nest is requested to
telephone the fact to The Gate City
Immediately.
at the coolest minute Of last night In
eral building.
Dance at Cameron hall Saturday
night. Agnes fiye,piece orchestra
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Sturgeon
and son. Herold, Of Wayand, MO-.
spent Thursday in the city with Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Holiday.
Mrs. James Hubbart. who has
been visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. J.
w. Collier. returned today to her
home in Chicago.
Dance at Cameron hall Saturday
night. Agnes fivepiece orchestra
Among the recently returned sol
diers from American camps are Lieut.
Louis Rovane, Sergeant Edward
Schmidt, Lieutenant Harold Pond and
Lieutenant Merrill Majors.
The river has risen to stage of
four and a half feet above low water
mark and is stationary there, after
flirting around the zero on the gauge
for aeyeral weeks earlier in this
month.
The ice men are still keeping UP a
brave front and talking of that year,
quarter of a century ago. when leo
was harvested here the middle of
March.
Dance at Woodman hall Monday
night, Feb. 3. Agnes 6-piece orchestra
The people who carefully put up
air tight storm doors some weeks ago
wish now that the pesky things were
down and out of the way. Many Of
them are propped open permanently.
The final report of the executor
of the estate of Mary Newell deceased
has been approved as was also the n
nal report in the estate Of Sarah E..
Bailey and the executor discharged.
Mrs. Grace C. Brownell attended
the new era missionary conference at
Fort Madison yesterday. being one Of
the representatives of the Westminis-
ter Presbyterian church.
Dance at Woodman hall Monday
night Feb. 8. Agnes 6-piece orchestra
Elmer Bierman, the young son
of William A. Bierman, of 1902 Bank
street, who was operated on for ap-
pendicitis, is getting along well at
ST. Joseph's hospital.
j. A. K. Van Hassett, an electri-
cal engineer of Java, who is the
engineer Of the Dutch Indian govern
ment service of water power and
electricity, left Keokuk last evening
after spending day here seeing the
big engineering project in the Mis-
sissippi river.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-31
MRS. A. WEBER'S
MOTHER is DEAD
She Had Many Friends in keokuk
Where She Visited Her.
Daughter for Some
Time.

Friends in the city have received
hews of the death of Mrs. Bridget
Hennebery German which occurred
from heart failure at her home in
Peoria.
Mrs. German was Mrs. Alois
Weber's mother and for some time
made her home here during Mrs.
|Weber's residence in Keokuk.
She was seyenty-eight years of
Rge. She was born in Kilkenny, Ire
(and, November IA, 1841, and with
per parents came to America in 1S49.
6he was married in Peoria to John
kiorman, December 13, 1860. She was
! devout Catholic. parishioner of
et. Marks church, where requiem
qish mass was celebrated. Burial
Eas In ST. Mary's cemetery.
She was survived by six children,
{nree of whom are well known in
keokuk, Mrs. Alois Weber, Miss
bertha German and Miss Cecile Cor
man.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-31
THIS MAN is
HARD TO BEAT
Bert Robinson is Recovering In a
keokuk Hospital After Expert
ences That Make Front
Trenches Tame.

Reports from his physician indicate
that Bert Robinson will be in st.
Joseph's hospital for at least month
yet. although he is improving as
rapidly as could be expected, consid-
ering his injuries.
Robinson lives over this side Of
Bowen, Hancock county, and was
fearfuily burned ten days ago when
he tried to start fire in his home
stove with coal oil. His clothing
ignited, and in his efforts to smother
the flames, the rugs and some other
articles in the room were burned
completely up.
Then Robinson ran from the house
and threw himself in a snow drift
This extinguished the fire in his
clothing which, however, was prac-
tically all burned off his body ex-
cept his Shoes He then ran into
the house and threw three buckets
of water on the burning room which
threatened to destroy the entire
house.
His wife, v alarmed by his cries,
jumped out of bed and hurried to his
assistance while he was in the yard
While Robinson was fighting the fire
in the house, Mrs. Robinson ran to
the home of Cecil James, neighbor
who got to the Robinson home after
the burned man had the fire extin-
guished. Robinson was taken to the
railroad station in an automobile and
brought to the Keokuk hospital.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-31
THREE KILLED
IN EXPLOSION
Several Others are Missing and Many
Injured When Chemical
Plant Blew up With
Roar.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
NYACK, N. Y, Jan. 31.-Three
persons are known to have been
killed and twenty-five injured in an
explosion today in the plant of the
Anytime Products company here. Sew
eral other persons are missing.
The cause of the explosion is I'M
known, but 1t was stated by officials
of the company that a new chemi-
cal composition blew up. A Japa-
nese, who was fixing some colors,
was torn to bits.
The factory was destroyed. OFF,
Gals estimated the loss at one mil
lion dollars.