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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
ARMY AT PEAK NOV. II
WAR DEPARTMENT SAYS FORCE
ToTALED s,7os,27s.
On Nov. I, When German Reserves
Were Exhausted, Allies outnum-
bered Foe Two to One.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE total
strength of the United States army on
November IL, when the armistice was
signed and when the American war
effort was at Its peak, was 3,703,273
officers and men, including the ma
rine corps on duty with the army in
Europe. A statistical table made pub
lie by the war department gives this
figure.
In rifle strength, which means men,
standing In the trenches ready to go
over the top with the bayonet," the
allies total on July /, was 1885, 900.
compared with 1,412,OO0 for the Ger
mans.
Included In the table is a compare
tive statement Of the strength Of the
forces of the allies and the Germans
on the western front by months, be-
ginning April 1. 1918, showing that
on July / for the first time the allies
rifle strength" exceeded that Of the
Germans.
On November / when the enemy's
reserves had been exhausted and his
front line strength reduced by about
half, the allies had rifle strength OF
1,4S5,0O0, representing odds of upward
Of two to one.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
YANKS ROUT "REDS"
U. S. TROOPS lNFLIcT HEAVY
LOSSES ON BOLSHEVIKl.
lated by Siberian Force Under
General Gaida.

Archangel, Feb. Heavy losses
were inflicted on the bolsheviki by the
American forces and enemy was driven
back in disorder from the village Of
Vistavka, on the Vaga.
The American casualties were five
killed and several wounded. Many boil
shevik soldiers were taken prisoner
by the Americans.
The enemy early in the morning be-
gan a bombardment with field guns
and howitzers, and under cover Of a
shrapnel and pompom barrage essayed
frontal attack with infantry in the
afternoon.
The American troops, who were
rested after their retirement from
Shenkursk and were now established
in a good position, poured heavy fire
from artillery and machine guns into
the charging bofsheviki, whose ranks
broke and fled into the woods.
Omsk, Feb. 1.-Two divisions Of
bolshevists have been virtually ami
hilated by Siberian troops under Gen
eral Gaida at Kungur, 80 miles south
east of Perm, according to an official
statement issued here.
The city Of Perm is now declared
to be safe from bolshevist attack.
People who had fed from Perm to
Ekaterirburg and other towns are re-
turning. The losses of the Siberian
troops in the battle at Kungur are not
given.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14

very attractive-looking woman, though
she would have to own up to thirty
two years on her next birthday.
AS these thoughts ran through her
mind she said:
''Well, Billy, IL I had a valentine I
might be tempted to return the COM
pliment"
Then the wise Billy thought that a
good idea; if he should send Mr.. Hall
a valentine from his mother, then he
would feel still safer about his dog.
The next day just as Billy saw the
bachelor approaching his home he
dropped the valentine at the front door
and ran, making sure that Mr.. Hall
should recognize him.
In few days Mr.. Hall asked one
of the neighbors to introduce him to
the widow, and finally an interested
party asked permission to bring him
to call upon her.
Each believing the other had sent a
valentine, they felt somewhat fiattered
by the attention, and they proceeded
to be very agreeable to each other.
Mr.. Hall called frequently after that.
He made much of Billy, and even spoke
a good word for the dog. Billy felt
very proud of himself and his plans
for his dog, but one day his mother
said:
"Billy, Mr.. Hall is going to be your
new father"
Billy felt crushed, for as he told one
Of his boy friends: 81 didn't want
any stepfather; gee, I was only plan
ming to keep Bob"
But poor Billy not only gained a
! stepfather whom he did not want, but
lost his dog. Bob had not been
trained in any way and his barking at
strangers continued and increased.
One day he tore the dress of a lady
who was passing; she complained to
the city authorities, and a notice was
served that Bob should be sent where
he would tear no more dresses. The
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14

for money in order to purchase his
love messages.
"I guess I'll send mamma a valen-
tine from Mr.. Hall this year." Billy
said.
Billy was anxious to have a friendly
feeling in the minds of each for the
other, for he thought it might be a
help to him in the keeping of his dog.
He asked the man of whom he
bought the valentine to address it to
his mother. Then on st. Valentines
day he left it at the front door, rams
the bell and while his mother wa:
opening the door, he ran in at the back
door and up to his room.
Soon he heard his mother calling:
.Billy have a valentine. Who do
you suppose sent it to me?"
st know who sent it; do you really
want me to tell your
"Yes, but don't see how you know
unless you sent it yourself"
''Of course I know. Didn't 1 see
that gentleman who lives next door
come through the hedge, go round the
house with something, then go quietly
back to his house?"
For some time the widow was in
clined to disbelieve Billy's version of
the valentine, then she acknowledged
70 herself that she had fancied that
the bachelor was quite often observ-
ing her and almost seemed at times
inclined to speak. Her mirror could
not but tell her that she was still a
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
CHINA.

China wants a guarantee against
foreign Imperialism or aggression,
abolition of consular rights" and for
the return of Kiau-Chau.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
GERMANY SOUGHT WAR IN ~
Bavarian Leader Biames Ex-Kaiser
for Plan, Including Annexing Bel
aium-HoIds Mass of Evidence.

Berne, Feb. 10.-There is still a vast
amount Of material to be examined in
German quarters regarding respon-
sibility for the outbreak of the war.
said Kurt Eisner. the Bavarian pre-
mier, in discussing this subject With
the correspondent.
"The entire archives are as yet un-
examined" Herr Eisner said. "but
already much material has been found
in the secret archives of the Munich
diplomatic correspondence proving
Germany's guilt. her responsibility for
beginning the war. For instance,
there is a record of conversation
between King Ludwig of Bavaria and
Count Won Schoen, the former German
ambassador at Paris, which was
foNnd among Count Won Hertling's pa
pers, which shows that Germany de-
sired the war.
The conversation took place in Au-
gust, 1914, the king telling the am
bassador that this war must have a
different result from that of the war
of 1870 and that Belgium must be an
nexed to Germany.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
personal exemption. $1,000.

personal exemption. 5000.
Beverage taxes, contingent on prohi-
bition, as adopted are:
Distilled spirits for nonbeverage pur
poses, $2.20 per proof gallon, the pres
ent rate; distilled spirits manufactur-
ed, imported or withdrawn for bever-
age purposes, $6.40 per gallon, double
existing law, but with a 'relief'' provi-
sion suspending certain charges on
spirits held in bond by prohibition !;
beer and other fermented beverages.
Sc per barrel, double present law 4;
wines, double existing rates based on
alcoholic content, also with a prohibit
ton ''relief" provision permitting dis
tillation of wines for industrial pur-
poses; cereal beverages, or near
beeT" 15 per cent on sales, new tax |;
grape juice. ginger ale, root beer, pop.
artificial mineral and carbonated wa
ters and beverages and similar soft
drinks, 10 per cent on manufacturers
sales, instead of the present rate Of
1 cent per gallon; natural mineral wa
ters, 2 cents per gallon, double pres
ent law.
A new tax, effective May i next, is 1
cent on each 10 cents or fraction of
retailers sales of ice cream, soda
water, sundaes and similar confections
or drinks to be paid by consumers.
Cigar rates fixed by the conferees
range from $1.50 per thousand, instead
of 81 on cigars weighing three pounds
or less per thousand, to SIS per thou
sand, 90 per cent increase on cigars
sold in excess of 20 cents each.
Cigarettes are taxed So per thou
sand instead of $2.O5 on those weigh
ing not more than three pounds per
thousand, and $7.2O per thousand in
stead of $3.50, on cigarettes weighing
more.
Tobacco and snuff are taxed 1S
cents a pound, an increase of cents.
Stringent provisions were adopted by
the conferees to regulate dealers in
leaf tobacco.
Amusement admission taxes in the
bill, effective April 1. were increased
only in a few instances, the general
rate of cent on each 10 cents or frac-
ton paid being retained after petit
tons bearing thousands of names were
received protesting against an earlier
agreement to double the rate
Club dues are taxed 10 per cent, the
present rate upon members of organ
izations charging more than $40 an
nually.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
JOB FOR EVERY SOLDIER
secretary Baker Says Every Man Who
Put on Uniform Will Have Work
" He Wants Il.

Washington, Feb. 6.-"Every soldier
who put on the uniform of the United
States, who fought. or trained to fight,
will have Job If he wants one" Sec
retary Baker declared In delivering the
opening address at the fourteenth
annual convention of the national
rivers and harbors congress. The Sec
retnry emphasized the duty Of Ameri-
lean business men to cooperate In
what the government was doing In this
direction, and said that every chamber
OF commerce, board Of trade or other
similar organization should realize
the need for its participation. Urging
the house rules committee to give the
right OF way for passage of legislation
prohibiting immigration for four years,
Frank Morrison. secretary OF the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, said that
100000 men now in the United States
are without employment.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
BIG NAVY ASKED BY WILSON
Cable to Daniels Insists That Great
Construction Program Be
Continued.

Washington, Feb. 6.-Insistence by
President Wilson upon the admins
tration's policy of naval expansion led
to the unanimous approval given by
the house naval committee to another
three-year construction program.
This was disclosed by Chairman
Padgett of the committee when the
house began consideration of the $780,
100000 annual naval appropriation
bill. I
Mr.. Padgett told Of cablegram sent
by the president from Paris to Secre-
tary Daniels, saying nothing had oc-
Cured over there to change the rec
concentrations he made in his annual
message to congress.
The message was brought to the at
tention of the committee by Daniels.
The president was very earnest"
Representative Padgett 1 said, "and
very insistent that the three-year pro-
gram be carried out"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
GENERAL STRIKE
4 ON IN SEATTLE
Fitty-Five Thousand Workers
Walk Out in Sympathy With
"a Shipyard Men.
U. S. TROOPS CALLED OUT
Eight Hundred Soldiers From Camp
Lewis Are Chartered In City Ready
for Any Expedleney-Busi-
ness Is Suspended.

, Seattle. Wash, Feb. S.-Seattle's
general strike was called at the sched-
uled time. First reports from the
downtown section said union street
car men started their cars for the
barns. union elevator operators in all
the large buildings abandoned their
lcars and restaurants closed their doors
when their union cooks and walters
left.
Eight hundred United States troops
from Camp Lewis are quartered in
Seattle to "stand ready for any
emergency" as army officers said.
resulting from the general strike
Thursday Of 5000 union men In
sympathy with 25,0OO shipyard WORK
iers who walked out January 21 to en-
force demands for increased pay.
! Union labor leaders declared that
Virtually 5000 union members are on
strike In Seattle. This number in
lciudes the 25,00O who walked out Of
the shipyards January 21. The gener-
al strike, they said, was the first ever
called In the United States.
Mayor Ole o. Hanson issued a state
ment declaring that law and order will
prevail. Business as usual" viii be
the sign at the city hall and the city
plants. he asserted.
Most Of the city stores announced
they would remain open as long as
their stocks last. When their shelves
lare empty they win be unable to re-
lplenish them, as the truck drivers were
among the strikers.
Telephone operators remained at
their posts, according to reports. Sc
attle expects to have lights, as the
strike committee of the Central La
Dor council voted to exempt from the
strike the engineers In the municipal
lighting plants
Schools may be forced to close by
the strike OF janitors and engineers.
the Office OF superintendent of schools
lstnted. Moving-picture houses may
mot open. It was believed, as they will
be crippled by the strike of operators
and musicians.
The general walkout was called by
the Seattle Central Labor council as a
sympathetic move to help shipyard
workers, who. numbering about $4,000,
closed the big Seattle shlpyards by
striking January 81 for higher pay.
Olympia, Wash, Feb. 9.--Should the
need arise. protection for life and
property in Seattle and Tacoma during
the general strike there will be "im-
mediate and ample" said statement
issued by Gov. Ernest Lister.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
People cIuna to Old Custom.

Pope Galesius stopped the last OF
the pagan orgies still associated with
st. Valentines day in 496 A. D. To-
ward the end of the sixteenth century
st. Francis de Sales set himself stern.
ly to purge the saints day, even of its
lovemaking notes, valentines and friv.
olities. For the names of the opposite
sex drawn as "sweethearts ordained
by fate for the coming year" he sub
stituted the name of the martyr him.
self and others, and pious notices re,
placed the amorous doggerel. But, as
in the past, he found the populace re-
fused to give up their mate choosing
and merrymaking. So, after almost
fifteen centuries, st. Valentine still
presides as the patron saint of spring
time and mating, as did Juno and Pan
for centuries before him.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
U. s. CASUALTIES IN RUSSIA
ArehanoeI Region Losses Include 1eo
Americans Killed or Missing
in Action.

Washington, Feb. 10-Total casual
ties in the American forces in the
Archangel region of Russia up to and
including January 81 were $50 killed,
died of wounds, sickness or from other
causes, or missing in action, and 220
wounded or injured, making a total
casualty list of 400 out of force num-
bering 4,925.
This information was contained in a
cablegram from Archangel dated Feb
ruary 4. The casualties were listed as
follows
Killed in action, 8 officers and 5S
men; died Of disease, 2 officers and "a
men; died of wounds, officer, II men !;
accidentally killed, men; drowned, /
officer, 2 men; missing in action, "a
men. Wounded in action, all ranks.
1913; accidentally wounded, %; wound
ed. other causes, 6.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14

ner's, where, having the last night
been called by her that she had drawn
me for valentine, I did this day call
at the new exchange, and bought her
a pair of silk stockings and ga~ters
and shoestrings and two pair OF jes-
simy gloves, all coming to about 28s.,
and did give them to her this noon"
The English seem to have taken this
custom Of sending s-sSer valentines
more seriously than the people Of
other countries. All the valentines
used in this country, were imported
from England up to 1S4Q.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
Iona an Annual Festival.

The history of good st. Valentine is
of interest, and while in the year 1919
his devotees content themselves with
sending postcard greetings or lace
paper concoctions decorated with
scantily clothed cupids, armed with
bows and arrows, for time immemorial
the middle of February has been the
date of a similar annual festival, a
fete connected with the feasts of Juno
Februarta and Pan, the coming OF
spring, and the time of the year in
which the birds and men are supposed
to choose mates.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
FRENCH CLAIMS.

France wants, first of all, AlSace-Lor-
faine Internationally, and the right to
discuss and ultimately to fix the French
frontiers in their relation to the Rhine,
which may require the creation of buff
fer states. One of these would be the
Palatinate and another Rhenish Prus-
sia. France desires also to annex the
basin of the Sarre river, which might
be called a remuneration.
France will insist that. so far as the
left bank of the Rhine farther to the
north is concerned, the conference
should forbid military works of any
kind-barracks, bridgeheads, forts and
tortresses-in that zone The feeling
Is that the people inhabiting that zone
should be free to decide for them
selves whether they wish to join
France, form an independent state, or
return to Germany.
The French bill for reparation is not
complete, but it has been announced in
the chamber of deputies that it will
be about 66OOO,OOO,OoO francs ($13,-
2OO,OOO,OOO).
The French government does not
ask for protectorate in Syria in the
ordinary sense because 1t considers
that the population there is too ad-
vanced to make a protectorate neees-
sary, but France, on account of her
traditional interests in that country,
feels that she should be called upon to
exercise some sort of guardianship or
guidance until Syria should be fully
able to govern herself.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
SCANDINAVIA.

Denmark wishes to annex that part
of northern Schleswig inhabited pre-
dominantly by Danes.
Norway has certain aspirations to
Spitzbergen or part of it, but is not
pressing these claims.
Sweden wants the union with Swe-
den of the Aland islands held by Fin
land since the fall of the Russian i'm
perial government.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
Had One Coming.
to choose mate

It was Valentine day at school, and
after all the valentines had been taken
from the box and distributed a young
ster raised his hand and said:
81 didn't get all my valentines"
"How do you know you haven'tf
the teacher asked.
WELL" said the youngster, 81 sent
myself three, and only got two back"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
MANY YANKs WERE NAUGHTY
Three Hundred and Seventy Thousand
American Soldiers Were Court
Martialed During War.

Washington, Feb. 10.-The fact that
there we're more than $4,000 court
martial trials Of American soldiers
during the war was disclosed by Sec
retary Of War Baker In a letter to the
senate. OF this number, 22,000 cases
were heard by general courts-martial,
while about $4,000 were tried by. spe-
cial or summary courts, the offenses
being OF minor nature.
Secretary Bakers letter giving the
figures was sent in response to Senator
Borah's resolution, adopted last week.
directing the war department to send
the court-martial records to the SEN
ate. tI sl
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
ROUMANIA.

Roumania wants that portion of
Russian Bessarabia given her by the
central powers under the Cancelled
treaty of Bucharest; southern Do
brudja as ceded to her by Bulgaria
after the second war, thus command
Ing the Danube; the Hapsburg prov
lnces of Bukowina and Pennsylvania
md part of Banat, which Serbia
claims.
Both Roumania and Serbia have
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
NATIONS PEACE
CLAIMS SHOWN
First Complete Summary of Pow
ers' Aspirations in Worlds
New Map.
CAN NOT ALL Be SATISFIED
ashes Over Conflicting Demands Are
lnevitable-outIine of What the
Great and Small Countries Re-
gard as Their Rights.

The representatives of the five
great powers may now be said to
be in a position to compare clearly
their own aspirations and those of all
their allied friends and to see the diff
ferences that must be reconciled. The
Hesires of the several countries may be
rompreSSed thus.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
POLAN D.

The Poles are endeavoring to seize
disputed regions on three sides OF
Russian Poland and Galicia, including
Lemberg, which is in the Ukraine;
'Cholm, in Little Russia, and Wilma.
Both the Lithuanians and bolshevikl
claim Wilma.
The Poles are contending against
the Germans not only for German 81.
lesia and Posen and West Prussia, but
also for the port of Danzig.
Should the Poles have Danzig, East
Prussia would be cut off from the rest
of Germany.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14

Pichon said tnat the conference had
not considered what steps would be
taken.
The news from the Archangel sec
ton was not sufficiently definite as We
to justify any conclusion. Undoubted.
ly, he added, the bolsheviki had
stronger forces there now than they
had before; so it had been considered
safer to bring the allied troops closer
together. Pichon held that the armis-
tice authorized the entente govern.
nents to stop hostilities between Pc
land and Germany.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14

On the heels of President Wilson's
triumph In swinging the allies to a
government of the German colonies by
a mandatory system under the league
of nations, liberal Turks now have put
in plea to save Constantinople for
the Ottoman empire under the doc
trine of self determination of peoples,
The Ottoman liberal party. which
has remained pro-ally and anti-Ger-
man throughout the war, has sent a
memorial to President Wilson asking
that Constantinople be given a refer
endum.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
JAPAN.

Japan offers to return Tsing-Tau to
China, retaining certain former Ger
man concessions on the Shantung
peninsula.
She desires to retain Germany's Pa
cific islands north of the equator.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14

noe approve the concrete application
LIE Matin this morning has long
article by Stephen Lausanne on the
fight made by Premier Hughes of Aus
tralia against the Wilsonian idea, the
printing of which is regarded as sig
niflcant as protest against the Amer
ican attitude in this phase of peace
making.
1--WE have no objection in Australia
to the mandate principle, but let the
mandate define Immediately what it
gives and requires" Hughes is quoted
as saying.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-14
TURKISH PARTY PROTESTS
AGAINST LOSS OF CAPITAL.

Claims That to Take Constantinople
From the Sultan Would Mean De-
struction of the Empire.
Official Turkey has just let out
noise like the day before Thanksgiv-
ing. 1t shrieks that to put Constan-
tinople under an international regime
not only would slice the white meat of
Turkeys breast, but carve out her
heart. II would not leave even enough
for dish of giblet stew theday after.