Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-22
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ington and in Other Sections
of the Country.

ington and in Other sections
of the Country.
A campaign to raise fund of 3d.
100000 for work in France is under
way by the Salvation army.
Belgium appears to be greatly dis
appointed with the terms of the peace
treaty so far as guarantees or repara-
ton go.
Representative John L. Burnett Of
Alabama, for several years leading
member of congress, died suddenly at
Gadsden, Ala.
The allies are said to have all ar
rangements perfected for the INVASION
of Germany in case the enemy refuses
to sign the peace treaty
The German peace delegates, it is
reported, are bitterly opposed to sign
ing that article of the treaty providing
for trial of the former kaiser.
Belgium is planning to build me-
mortal hospital at Brussels to bear the
names of Edith Cavell, the martyred
English nurse, and Marie DePage.
The government is in favor of the
Reorganization of the national guard
along the same lines as before the war,
according to Secretary of War Baker.
It is understood in Paris that the
allied blockade will be entirely lifted
Immediately if the German delegates
affix their signatures to the peace
treaty.
Fifteen thousand German Socialists
made demonstration in front of the
Hotel Adlon at Berlin, crying Down
with Wilson! Down with the Amer
icans!"
Repeal of the wartime prohibition
law that is to become effective July
1. will be proposed in bill to be in
troduced by Representative Gillivan of
Massachusetts,, democrat.
Two crop diseases, ''take-all," or
"white head,'' and flag smut" that
have devastated Australian and Euro
pean wheat fields, have been discov-
cred in Illinois wheat.
Poland has filed request with the
peace conference for part of the Ger
man ef1et, "for defensive purposes. .
Granting of this request would give
Poland the first navy in her history.
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Monday, May IL, was a day of trag-
edies at Fort Des Moines, Ia. Three
soldiers committed suicide, one by
shooting himself, one by drowning and
the other took his own life by stabbing
himself
-Four men are under arrest at Des
Moines for alleged completely in the
looting of the Iowa State bank at Des
Moines of $4,000, March 25 one of
whom was assistant cashier in the
bank.
Americas efforts, to cross the Allan
tic through the air received a serious
jolt when the big navy dirigible C-5,
escaped from its moorings at st.
Johns, N. f., and dropped into. the sea
eighty-five miles off shore.
War department records show that
the 16Sth infantry, Iowa's contingent
of the 42d division, lost 637 men in
the war, 437 of whom were killed in
action, 191 died of wounds, forty were
missing in action and five made pris-
oners.
Casualties of combat divisions in
France, announced by the War depart
ment, show the Second regular army
division suffered the heaviest losses
with 25,O76 killed and wounded The
lightest casualties were those of the
Eighty-eighth national army division
(Camp Dodge, ninety.
The 168th infantry, Iowa's unit OF
the Rainbow division, was given 4
tremendous reception when it paradet
at Des Moines last week. There were
3,5OS Iowans in the 1GSth infantry
when it left Des Moines in September
1917, and less than 1000 when it re
turned.
The. chief president and central
council of Silesia have issued pro
clamation renouncing the peace treaty
and declaring that the transference OF
the greater part of upper Silesia can
not produce lasting peace, but "only
a peace of desperation for Silesia.'
The proclamation calls on the Silesians
''to let the world know we will not
submit to such a peace"
Portugal delegates to the peace con
ference are complaining bitterly ovel
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