The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-17

LII Cne financial section of the reply,
1t is stipulated that reparation must
be made prior to the settlement of all
other German public debts with such
exceptions as the commission may ap-
prove. Payment for food may also be
first charge, and gold may be ex-
ported on approval.
Germany must pay the expenses of
military occupation as an essential
guarantee of peace, and war materials
surrendered after the armistice can
not be credited as reparation. Liber-
ated territory will bear their portion
OF the pre-war debts but will not as
sumo any part of the war debts them
selves.
MEET TURKS
The council of ten of the peace con-
ference received the Turkish peace
mission in the cloak room of the Quai
D. Orsay this morning. The Turkish
delegation headed by Denad Freid
Pas Ia, The grand viz1cr, mot torcd frcrn
Vaucreson, accompanied by French
officers.
The Turkish Grand Vizer pleaded
that the Turkish people were not to
blame for the war. He urged that the
empire be permitted to remain intact
in both Europe and Asia.
Premier Clemenceau stated that
upon receipt of a memorandum the
council would make reply.
The council of five this afternoon
took up the remaining clauses CT the
treaty with Austria. The council also
took up other matters requiring at
tention tefore the departure of Presi-
dent Wilson tonight for his trip 70
Belgium.
Counter Offensive
Geneva (Monday), June 16.-Czech
forces under command of General
Henocque of the French army have
begun counter offensive against the
Hungarian soviets troops and have
captured several villages, according to
a Prague dispatch. Two cannons, sew
eral Maxim guns and quantity OF
ammunition are said to have fallen
into the hands of the Czechs.
The war minister of Czecho- Slova-
kia has decided to increase the army
of $4,000 officers and 100000 men.
X. C. HUT COLLAPSES
Brest, June 17-One American SOL
der was killed, two are dying, and
more than 100 others were injured as
the result of the collapse of a K, c.
hut at Pontanesen last night, while a
boxing match was in progress.
ENDORSE BGLSHEvlK FEATURES
Stockholm, June 1.-THE congress
of independent socialists voted yester-
day to join the third internationale OF
Moscow and adopted resolutions fav-
oring Bolshevik measures such as
placing production control in the
hands of labor, and to effect resolu-
tion that the proletariat be armed and
the bourgeoisie be unarmed. 1t is ex-
pected that the humanitarian wing OF
the party representing all the inde-
pendent members of the Swedish par
lament will secede from the organlza-
ton.
KRoNsTADT ON FIRE.
London June 1.-THE North Rus
sian general staff, directing opera
lions against Petrograd report the
fortress of Kronstadt to be on fire,
according to a Helsingfors dispatch
which was filed on Sunday. Seven
Bolsheviki warships have hoisted the
white flag, the dispatch states, and
will surrender to the British squadron
operating in the Gulf of Finland. Sew
eral forts near the fortress OF Kron-
stadt have also raised the white flag
it is said.
The important Donetz coal basin in
southern Russia has been cleared OF
the Bolsheviki by the forces Of Cen
eral Denekine, which continue to push
their offensive successfully, according
to advices received here. The Bolshe-
Wiki no longer will be able to get their
coal supply from the Donetz region.
HOuse Committee