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AMERICANS TO BE WITHDRAWN
 BY SPR|N 6
Two Companies of Railway Troops Sent to Aid. BAKER GETS NEWS
 FROM GEN. BLISS
British Have Sent 2stO0 Additional Troops to North
 Russia.

Washington, Feb. 17.-American and allied troops operating in North i Russia will be withdrawn lat the earliest possible moment that wealth
 CT conditions in the spring will per- init" To facilitate this movement and i to improve Ines of communication for the supplying of the forces that have penetrated into the country, President Wilson has approved the sending of i two additional companies of Ameri-
 can railway troops to Archangel. This information cabled to the war department by General Tasker H. Bliss, at Paris, by direction of the president, was transmitted today to Chairman Chamberlain and Dent, of the Senate and House military com- mittees, by Secretary Baker. The an-
 nouncement brought expressions of approval from several Senators, in-
 cluding Senator Johnson of California,
 republican, who has been pressing his
 resolution providing for for declara- ton by the Senate in favor of with drawal of the American forces.
 Send More Troops.
 General Bliss also informed Secre- tary Baker that Great Britain had de- cided to send 2,40O additional soldiers
 to Archangel to reinforce the army in North Russia. In this connection
 General Bliss said the British mili-
 tary authorities felt no apprehension over the military situation in North Russia.
 Secretary Bakers letters to the com mittee chairmen were identical. They said: ...s.-...... -s....-.- q have just received cablegram
 from General Bliss, sent by the presi- dents direction, in which l am told that the president has approved the
 sending of two American railway
 companies to Murmansk for the fol-
 lowing objects: first to. assure great
 CT safety, during this winter of the
 allied force along Murrfansk and at Archangel and south of Archangel: second, the much better supplying and if necessary, the reinforcement from Murmansk, of the advance detach-
 ments south of Murmansk and Ar changel; third. to facilitate the prompt
 withdrawal of American and allied
 troops in North Russia at the earliest possible moment that weather condi- tions in the spring will permit. The president has directed me to com
 municate the foregoing to the heads of the allied governments, which l have done. The president desires that
 his action and reasons for it be com
 municated to the military committees of the Senate and House for their in-
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GERMAN PRISON
 CAMP RELEASES

Washington, Feb. 17.-The war de- artment tonight made public informa- ton regarding Americans released from German prison camps at foP. lows: =
 Lieutenant William H. Batemen, Fl Paso, Texas, repatriated. a
 Private Jesse A. Lynch, Mountain View, Okla., released from German prison camp.
 Private Adolph F. Amacher, Hohcn- wald, Tenn, released and now at Dart ford hospital.
 Reported released from German prison camps and returned to rFance; Enlisted men:
 John Poindexter, Picher, Okla.
 Joe D. Meadows, Greenvile, Texas
 Sylvanus Parks, Silver Point, Tenn Allen M. Mcintyre, Cherry, Tenn.
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ALLIED TROOPS
 oNtYPREVENT
 RUSSIAN MASSACRE
Witness Says Bolsheviki Would Engage in Bloody
 Uprising if Allowed.

Washington. M. l7.-Roger D. Simmons. who recently returned from a mission to Russia. for the bureau of commerce, today, told the senate committee Investigating lawless asi tation in this country that if the American and allied forces were with drawn from northern Russia the ,Bolsheviki would ,ehigage in one of the bloodiest massacres the world has ever seen.
 The witness said he was surprised at the demands being made for the withdrawal of the American forces and told the committee that every time the American and allied soldirs had found it necessary to give up ground in northern Russia the Bol- sheviH had swept in and inaugural ed an orgy of murder of peaceful cit izens. He said that before leaving Archangel last November 3, he had found that the American troops were we'll supplied and had performed great acts of heroism which yet remain to be told. All the Russians in the northern district lwere sympathetic with. the allied forces, he said, and were praying that they would not be removed.
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HURLEY SEEKS RELEASE
 OF ARMY CARGO TONNAGE
export Products Are Causing Congest- ion at American Ports.

roi washington, Feb. 17.-Relinquish- csra "... or 100000 deadweight tons of s;;sso s;a shipping from the army ser- Hurlsw''a s was sought today by Chairman tod td'sy' S of the shipping board. He w sSm secretary Daniels and General wa.ta ,aaren' chief of staff, that $10O, ,O00, ,0OO nor4 Mvrtn of commercial products for ex- at's at was blocking terminal facilities wos american ports and that the board mos;s unable to supply the ships for Ma"sesSaretary Daniels and General won,i ,ln were told that if the army n;rn nTa'u release portion of cargo ship sh;nn;w ;wltnln the next sixty days, the pran! pSRing board would undertake to sd.oe iesds i 1t with cargo space for all csn eseos, after the congestion at Ameri- ;ports had been relieved.
 HurIss.u Isures were presented by Mir. ha. h'ey showing that the army now sh;nn1;,o 1,ooS 1000 deadweight tons of 4s9 4s9snS,ng nong in it's service, of which total spaco svoo tons is classed as transport ms unsuited for cargo carrying. ereas. epresents a considerable de- He since cessation of hostilities activ;t'.o 'o at the period of greatest 9OooNE the army service has B. t. o ueadweight tons assigned to
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YANKEE GUNNERs # s+.ss-,-,. c. ..-.iil.1s ,..J4 WILL PROBABLY 1.
 HAVE "HAREMS"
One "Youngster'" of Sixty Six Takes Beautiful
 Bride of Twenty.

New York, Feb. 17.-Eighteen of the fifty six members of the crew of the U. s. Gunboat Scorpion, interned at Constantinople from April 11th, 1917 until last November, married Turkish women and have been left behind there, according to Lieutenant Commander Herbert s. Babbitt, of Houghton, N. Y.oformer commander of the Scropion, who arrived here to- day, with forty other members of the gunboat's crew on the Italian steamer Dante Alighieri. A crew was sent to relieve the interned men soon after the armistice was signed.
 One of the benedicts was Joseph Darley, commanders yoeman, aged sixty-six, who requested permission to remain in Turkey because he wanted to marry "a beautiful Turkish girl, about 20 years old"
 His request was granted and an ef- fort will be made to obtain his dis | charge and a pension.
 Had Many Liberties,
 During the three months of their internment, the men were allowed many liberties, including frequent shore leaves but later an armed Turk ish guard was placed on board. The officers were then restricted to one visit ashore every two weeks and the men one visit every two months, al ways accompanied by Turkish guards
 Prices of necessities were excessive. 1 ly high in Constantinople the officers said. Men reported being charged $12( for pair of shoes and $320 for a suit of clothes while beer retailed at $3 g bottle. The average daily cost ot feeding each member of the gunboat's crew just prior to the signing of the rarmistice was estimated at SIP.
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GERMANS CLAIM THEY GAVE UNITED STATES
 SUCCOR IN 1862-65
Now Seek Retaliation by U. s. Do' nations of Food and
 Loan.

Paris. Feb. 17.-4lmong the declara- tion of Matthias Erzberger at Treves, according to Berlin dispatch pub fisher in the Temps, was one to the American representatives on the arm istice commission that Germany went to the aid of the United tSates from 1862 to 1865 during the great econo- mic crisis, furnishing money, clothes; shoes, and machinery. If the Unlted States came to the aid of Germany to- day. more than fifty years afterwards, Erzberger said she could g1ve ter. many food and raw materials against 9 German loan, and at the same tune would be doing good stroke ot Dusl'
 Frzeberger said Germany was sui, far;no from hunger. The doctors had made known the number of victims of the blockade. More than a half ,n;,,;on men. women and children had died from exhaustion or the results of lossaned capacity to resist diseaser he so;d He declared that Bismarck im- mediately gave succor to faris m 1oIl' after the Franco-Prussion dar. Erz- berger gave warning that Botshevlsm would result from hunger in Ger i He protested against what he term ed the oppression against everythlng
 Carn,an in ace-Lorraine, and
 auainst the encouragement given by ;. .the entente "to the Polish appetite fo' ] Germany, Erzberge rdeclared, had ! accented President Wilson's IA points for peace, and the allies also had ac. Lcented M them. Article II, he said, die
 mt give Che allies the right to forbie
 the German people from dstsndina themselves against such encroach
 ment as the Poles are making.
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Council Promises Improve ments for Annexed
 Territory.
SEEK TO REGULATE
 TRANSFER RATES
Alderman Fights Proposed High Tax On Cleaning ,EStab.
 liShments.

A petition signed by H. I. Holder ness and Dr. Clark, to include the Ed en Park addition in the territory to be annexed to the city was read to the council last night, and resulted in an amendment of the original resolution in order to include the Eden Park addition.
 MT. Holderness appeared before the council, and stated that he and Dr. Clark wished to bring that prop erty into the city limits because the property enjoyed benefits from being contagious to the city, and that they were willing to pay the tax which annexation would impose in order to enjoy benefits which would accrue from annexation. w
 Considering further the question of annexation the, council went on rec ord with resolution stating that in the event the proposed annexation was voted in the election in April, the council would do it's best to pay back in improvements, the taxes paid in by the annexed territory.
 To Regulate Rates.
 Several ordinances were read before the council and adopted. The most inn portant probably was an ordinance for the regulation of transportation of property in automobiles, cabs, wagons carts, coaches, etc., with the following scale of prices: one trunk, 25 cents and one grip, 10 cents, for 16 blocks or less; one trunk 40, and each addi- tional trunk 25 cents, and suit case 10 cents, for 16 blocks to 32 blocks and one trunk 50 cents, and each addi tional trunk 25 cents, and suit case 1( cents, for 32e blocks or over.
 An ordinance giving lease to the Fort Scott Syrup Factory to that par of Fir street between the right o1 way of the Missouri Pacific railroad and Fourth avenue for period of 2! years was adopted. To the Missour J Pacific railroad, permission was grant ed to build and operate spur tracl across Orange street. Amend Digest.
 1 A amendment to paragraph 7l, sec tion 1000 Woods Digest which fixed | tax of $50 year for each dry clean ling shop and $25 year for each cloth
 es cleaning shop, was adopted.
 1 This ordinance was fought bitterl, by Alderman McGibbony. "The pur Continued on page eighD
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GIANT AIRPLANE GERMAN
 PLAN 10 SURPRISE WORLD
Machine Is 165 Feet From Tip to Tip And Has Six Huge
 Motors,
(Bv The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated Press.)
 Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 16.-f the war had lasted a few months longer. Germany was prepared to surprise the world with an enormous airplane. The new giant of the air, which was planned by Harold Wolff, an engineer, will have it's first trial at Doberite, within few days.
 The new machine is nearly 165 feet from wing tip to wing tip and stands more than 23 feet high. It has six mo- tors with total of 1900 horsepower driven by four propellers, two of which are forward and two aft. Each of the propellers has four blades. Two of the motors, it is said. can stop sim ultanenously without affecting any of the propellers or having any result ex- cept to reduce the speed of the air plane,
 Apart from it's dimensions and pow CT, the new airplane is not only equip ped with devices enabling the pilots to know at all times their altitude and angle of elevation, but also with de- vices to tell the absolute as we'll as relative direction which, it is believed will make flying possible on the dark est night and in the thickest fog. The device for determining the absolute direction consists of sn instrument adapted to receiving messages from various wireless stations and capable of such adjustment that mesSe&e k from any particular station can v heard only when the device is turned in that direction. sss \. s.s
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SAMMIES FOUGHT HUN ARTILLERY
 WITH RIFLES
Kansas Governor Presents Evidence To
 Committee.
SAMMIES LACKED
 HORSES FOR GUNS
Lack of tircraitS Caused Amer iPahs
 To Shell Their Own Lines.

Washington, Feb. Ex-Governor AL len, of Kansas, presented to the House rules committee today evidence of of fcers and men of the Thirty Fifth sKansas and Missouri National Guardi division which he declared showed that at times during the great battle Of the Argonne, American troops fought the German artillery with infantry arms" because there were not enough horses to move up the artillery as fast as the infantry advanced.
 There also were times, the Cover nor said, when shells from the Ameri- can artillery fell into the American lines, killing and wounding men, due to the fact that there was Hack of aircraft to signal change" He added that everything over there fell down except the raw manpower, the Americans fighting with less mechan- ical assistance than if they were troops from Indo- China.
 Governor Allen submitted mass of documents, some of them copies Of of official reports, in support of his charges that men were needlessly sacrificed in driving the Germans be- yond the Mouse, and tomorrow nc will appear before the Senate mili- tary committee. He explained that his purpose was to give the committees evidence so they could determine the wisdom of conducting ansinvestigatiprl. /, Chairman Pou interrupted the gov ernor to say that be believed the evil dence was but "the forerunnor of . comprehensive inquiry" and later the committee decided to hear tomorrow Brigadier General C. l. Martin, an of ficer of the 35th division, who was re- lieved of duty the day before the opcn- 1 ing of the battle of the ArgOnre. Governor Allen told the committee Y, the war departments announcement that Major Casualties of the Bath div f. ision were 1,733 was misleading. He declared all casualties of the division exceeded 5000. including about zoo dead. Governor Allen said much of his information was gatnered first hanc- ed in France while he was engaged in Red Cross and Y M. C. A. work but added that after making public char ges of the losses of the division sev- eral weeks ago, he had received let ters from many who were in the battle declaring his statement were accurate.
 Have you received any that took issue with you?" asked Representative Harrison of Mississippi.
 "None, whatever" declared the governor.
 l Names of witnesses for the commit tee to call before it were given by the governor, some of them in confidence, awaiting progress of the inquiry. In- cluded in the multitude of reports and statements given today was report of Captain Harry R. Hoffman. a sur
 eeon who had charge of the triage, or field station, who listed casualties of
 thirty-fifth passing, through this sta tion at 4,623 and also report of an 4 dirspection O. the division, which said
 the division was short 2,700 Aorses for moving artillery.
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FIX MINIMUM WAGE
 FOR TEXAS WOMEN

Austin, Tex, Feb. 17.-A minimum minors, was passed to engrossment by the house of the Texas legislature to- day.
 This measure provides for the or ganization of commission composed of two men and woman to investi- gate the various industries and fix a minimum wage adequate to supply women and minors the necessary cost of proper living and make hours of work consistent with health and well fare of workers.
 The governor today. signed bill providing for the incorporation of airplane manufacturing companies ill Texas.
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Has Been Asked To De- scribe Conditions
 At Port.
DEPARTMENT COMBS
 COUNTRY FOR SHIPS
Haker Thinks Tnsanitary Conditions Are Attributed
 To Mud.

Washington, Feb. 17.-Senator Rob- ert |. Owen, of Oklahoma, will be in- yited to tell the senate military com mittee of conditions at the American embarkation point at Brest, which he sharply criticised in a statement today after his arrival in New York from France. Secretary Baker also expects Senator Owen to call at the war department soon to inform off, cials there of what he saw at this much discussed center of the Ameri- can army's homeward movement.
 Secretary Baker said today he was delighted that Senator Owen had been at the camp and after reading what the senator had to say. declared that the war department was combing ev- cry source where additional shipping t0bring the troops home might be found. ~~~
 "As, to the crowding at Brest," the secretary continued. T have not the means of knowing what the answer to that is. I have been told-and l do not like to say I have been told-be- cause it sounds so unauthoritative- but have been told that the French railroad congestion is such that it is necessary for us 10 use the French railroads when we can get them. They are using their own demobiliz- ton and for the British, and as a con- sequence we have to use them when wa.can get them.
 Blames Railroads.
 That might mean sending more people into Brest and keeping them longer than we would desire them to ! be there in anticipation of the known capacity of the transport fleet in or der to make sure to have enough men there when the transports come in. That is. the answer have heard from officers who have returned to this country, but whether any error mas been made about that and the French railroad difficulty has been over-estimated I cannot say, because do not know
 When tha senator says 'unsanitary' | do not think that he means unsan- llary in the sense that it is unclean. S'C dlc SlIlply OCCduS OI Hluu there. know that. because I was at Brest substantially at this time last year. It rains there 33O out of s,ta days and sometimes four times a aay, The mud seems to be our big trouble there."
 The secretary added that returning uTlcers and others who had passed through Brest recently had told him mat food conditions were very good ana that outside of the weather and ..e mud, they saw little to complain m., He said he could we'll imagine the leeilng of the men waiting in that camp for returning ships. however, ana fully sympathize with all the dis content and unhappiness. that this waltine under unpleasant conditions
 When you think of mass cookins .or soldiers" he said. "cooking flap Moss I,r,s. :, for them is going about the
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Germans Responsible.

Evidence which he said showed that Germany was responsible for the out break of Bolshevism in Russia was presented to the committee by MT
 Simmons. It included sworn state nrent of Russian that just before the cZar's government was overthrown he was sent by the German imperial chancellor to Switzerland to deter mine which of the Russian Socialist schools was the most radical and to offer to the leader 5,000,000 marks if he would send his men into Russia to spread their propaganda.
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Copenhagen, Feb 1.-The rerewal of the armistice was signed at 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening in Marshal Foch's pri- vate car, according to dis patch received here from Trcves.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-18

August Thailheimer of the Thal- heimers Horse and Mule Market, 119 West Fourth, has returned from Mis- souri where he purchased several car leads of army mules.
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Renewed Indefinitely.
Consent to Blockade.

Paris. Feb. 1.-The Germans have accepted the new armistice terms which, it is understood, provide for the continuation of the blockade dur ing the armistice.
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EOch Informs Council.

Paris, Feb. l7.- Marshal Foch this afternoon informed the supreme coun- cil of the acceptance by the Germans of the conditions for renewal of the armistice.
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Germans Must Control Troops.

Treves. Feb. 17.--l'nder the new terms for the renewal of the armis- tic as presntd to the Germans by Mar shal Foch, Germany must abandon all offensive movements against the Poles and also must prohftit her troops from crossing the Russian frontier at certain line The lines of demarcaticn between Germany and Poland is outlined as follows: East of Grossar Neudorf (southeast of Bromberg), south of Labischin. south of SchodZiene north of k.xin, (south- west of Bromberg); couth of Saih. north of Czarnikan. least of Kreukl, west of Birnlhaum and Bentschen, west of Pozan), Wollstein, Lissa and north of Wiernzow and thence along the frontier between Silesia and po- land. (This line of demarcation gives to Poland considerable part of German Posen.)
 Renewed Indefinitely.
 It was provided by the earlier terms that the armistice must be renewed for an indeterminat period with a fix" ed delay of three days for the de- nunciation of it. The old terms of the armistice are to be carried out completely by Germany.
 The German delegates srached Trves Friday morning and Marshal Foch arrived at noon. The first dis cussion was at o'clock Friday after noon and was begun by Marshal FOch Mathiais Erzberger spoke first for the Germans.
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THE WEATHER

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GERMANY SIGNS
 RENEWAL 0F
 AR MIS- TICE
Papers Drawn Up In Marsh
 al Foch's Private Car.
MUST ABANDON HER
 ATTACKS ON POLES
Also Agrees to keep Her Troops Prom Crossing Russian
 Frontier.
SIGNED IN CAR.

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Cotton Sweaters 81, $1.25, 81 so, 81
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