The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-01-23
Foreign.


Two thousand persons have been
killed by the JkrainianS at Irzemysl
in the bOmlmrdnlept of that city by
land and air.
Reports from Russia say that I4e-,
nine, the R0lshfyik premier, has pro-
posed to his government that they sur
render rather than continue hopeless
fight.
Ukraine has Jewish capital" the
Jews there being very numerous and
having crowded together for self-pro-
sively by Jews.
The radical Irish home rule organi-
zations have proclaimed republic i'm
Ireland and the Irish radical members
lately elected to the British parliament
will assemble as an Irish parliament.
Great disorder and rioting have oc-
Cured throughout Germany during the
elections The conservative elements,
however. seem to he getting the better
of tire radical socialists. both in the
elections aud in the fighting.
Italian troops in the occupied terri
tories inhabited by Serbians and ether
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| daily clashes with the people, who fear
permanent annexation to Italy instead
of being allowed to join the Greater
Serbia naturalization Of all the South
ern Slavs.
China Is beginning to resent the DOM
ination Of Japan In her affairs. and the
dispatches quote leading Chinese busi-
ness men as predicting an upriSin. in
some parts of the empire to emphasize
the opposition to japan and bring that
sentiment to the attention of the Yer
S;iIleS Conference.
Thirty Bolsheviki having been i'm
priSOned In Switzerland. the Russian
BOlShevik government has wired an
untilmatum to the Swiss government
| threatening to execute thirty Swiss
citizens without trial unless the Boil
Shevik agitatorS were Immediately re-
| leased.
French jurists have concluded that
they have right to try the ex-kaiser
of Germany under n provision of the
Hague Tribunal agreement between
| the nations. The charge. they say. will
be murder. and the evidence will lie /,
number Of the defendants letters
which are said to drip blood in their
general purport.
\ runOr was widespread in the
French Chamber of Deputies last week
to the effect that President Wilson had
threatened to withdraw all American
troops from the war zone, break off ne
gotiatiOns and return home because his
views OH the freedom of the seas clause
were not acceptable to the English and
French delegates. The President de.
nounced the report as false
Martial law IL to he supplemented by
civil law i'm Northern Mexico accord
ing to an announcement Of the military
commander Of the Mexican forces In
that district The seizure of private
property belonging to Americans and
other foreigners. which has so long
prevailed. is to be stopped, and the de
velOpment Of the country by outside
capital is to be encouraged as under
the Diaz regime.
The billions Of dollars worth Of ships
and cargOeS sunk during the submarine
campaign are now to lie Salvaged, a.
far as possible. and the German nava
officers who sunk the ships claim that
they know best where to find the
s,lnken property. and will get most OF
it for that reason. The Allied govern
ments are being urged to demand thai
the former submarine commanders bt
required to surrender their records.
\ Paris dispatch recites the draw
ing together Of the delegates Of the va
| riouS nations on plans for Il league o1
nations and these developments have
been facilitated by the British, Frencl
and other national leaders calling ii
the Paris White House residence o.
President Wilson. As the plans become
well defined it is seen that the radica
feature Of world police force to en-
force decisions il abandoned and thu
general scheme is libcralized.