Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-03-01

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FOREIGN NEWS.
Sixty thousand workmen are on
strike in Petrograd, Russia, demand
ing the end of civil war and the estab-
lishment of free trade.
In Derbyshire, England, where early
in the month oil was struck near Brim-
ington by American drillers working
for the government, important dis
coveries of fuel oil have been made
on the estate of the duke of Devon
shire at Chesterfield. The supply is
said to be vast.
DR.. Friedrich Adler, who assassi-
mated Premier Sturerkh of Vienna in
1915, has been proclaimed president
of the German-Austrian Republic by
the defense troops outside the town
hall, according to reports from Vienna
Austrian.
The Berlin Deutsche Allgemeine
Zeitung says it learns the German min
istry of defense has drafted bill pro-
viding for a standing army of from
10000 to 175,O00 men. The army will
be formed on the voluntary basis
General Baron Yasumasa FukR-
shima died Thursday at Toxic, Japan
Death was due to apoplexy.+
Matthias Erzberger, head of the Ger
man armistice commission, has been
informed by the allied war council that
at present there can be no discussion
of the repatriation of German prison
ers of war, except of wounded men or
men who are seriously i'll.
Members of the peace delegations Of
all the powers interested in the pro-
posed league of nations and ambasSa-
dors and ministers from various c0un-
tries, together with several hundred
newspaper representatives from allied
and, neutral countries, at dinner in
Paris, France, Friday heard H p.
Dawson of the American Red Cross
announce in detail international Red
Cross plans for world welfare. Mr.
Dawson has been named chairman of
a committee of Red Cross societies
representing the organizations in the
United States, Great Britain, Italy,
France and Japan "to formulate and
propose to the Red Cross societies of
the world a program of extended Red
Cross activities in the interest of hU-
manity."
The Belgian commission investigat-
ing the damage done by the Germans
to railroads in occupied territory says
that nearly $50 miles of railroad tracks
were destroyed completely and nearly
260 miles virtually destroyed and rem
dered useless out OF total mileage
of approximately 1900 in Belgium.
The final armistice conditions which
the supreme council at Paris is consid
6TluS Will US udAS puUAlC USIOIC 1AO
end of the month, according to various
newspapers, and they will include
among the naval conditions the de-
melition of the forts on Helgoland and
the Kiel Canal, the surrender for pur-
poses of destruction of the German
warships now interned and the open
ing of the Kiel Canal for civil trans
ports 1t is stated that Germany will
be left with fleet large enough for
defensive purposes.
Premier Georges Clemenceau, char
acterized by Lloyd George as Frances
Grand Young Man." was attacked
Wednesday in Paris by an anarchist,
Emile Coffin, known as Milou- Seven
shots were fired, three of which struck
the premier. One bullet lodged in the
muscles of the shoulder The injury
is not considered serious.
Three American steamers laden
with foodstuffs for Poland arrived this
week at Neufahrwasser, on the Gulf Of
Danzig.