The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-09-11
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and the aSsaulting band left the seen
in automobiles.


and the assaulting band left the scene
in automobiles
President CarranZa has made some
changes favorable to foreign interests
in his proposed reclamation laws.
1t was officially announced in London
Monday that the evacuatioI.of Archan-
gel. Northern Russia, by the British
troops was then in progress.
Mexico City newspapers reaching El
Taso. Texas. last Saturday all contain
ed front page articles of the discovery
| of a plot to aSs;lSsinate President Car
rama which has been discovered In
that city.
kink Albert and Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium will sail on the I'D for.Amer-
lea. They will be accompanied by
Crown Prince Leopold, and an Anleri-
can warship will bring them to these
shores for their tour Of the United
States.
According to Rertillion's calculation.
quoted in Paris dispatch, the war
has reduced the population of France
from about 40,OOO,OOO i'll 1914 to 3D.
100000 in 1919. The same authority
SOB OOO. 100000.
\ NogaIes. Ariz. dispatch of last
Thursday records the killing by Yaqui
Indians in Sonora, MexicV, of A l..
I'ensy, an American truck driver for a
| mining company, and four Mexican
| escort soldiers. The truck was loaded
with powder and supplies for the min
ing company.
Siberia, according to Il Paris dis
patch. is assuming an attitude hostile
to the ratification of the lseace treaty
because of the clause guaranteeing
| the protection Of racial minOrities in
all countries. Serbia considers the
guarantee Of support to the non-Slavic
elements in her territory rs an inter
| ferance with her sovereignty.
The Austrian peace terms have been
received in Vienna with the utmost
Geneva dispatches and it is believed
that the present Austrian Government
| will fall in consequence of the treaty. s
| terms. Former Emperor Charles is
| said to have decided to leave Switzer-
land-possibly for return to Austria.
| Canada is experiencing great diff
ficulty i'll reOrganizing her regular
standing army. the men all being anX-
ious to retire to civil life as fast as they
arrive from the scenes of the late war.
| In consequence it is planned to give
Canada the highest paid standing army
in the world-the proposition being to
raise the pay of the private soldier
from S1.1o per day to So fsse-day.
Taderewski, the Polish statesman
and world pianist. says that Germany
is endeavoring to gain in the East OF
Europe what she has failed to gain in
the West. He says that the Bolshe-
wiki are being encouraged and aided
by the Germans to overthrow the New
Poland: that his government is short
of arms: clothing and other necessities
for the army and he wants help from
the Allies.
\ Paris dispatch Of Monday says
that siNty-two French girls, who had
married American officers or private
soldiers. have just returned to France
on the same steamer that brought them
over. after having obtained divorces in
the United States. Most of them re-
turned not because of personal diff
ferences with their husbands, but be
cause of their Inability to adapt them
selves to the American way Of living,
they claim.
The Russian Soviet Government was
claiming late last week that Admiral
Kolcllak and his All-Russian Govern
ment had evacuated ODlsk. the Sibe-
rian capital Of the All-Russian move
ment to reunite the old empire. 4 Lon
don dispatch Of the 4th denies any con
firination of the reported evacuation
though such an event has been fore
casted for several weeks-ever since II
became known that Kolcllak's arm.
had been driven back several hundred
miles and out of Southern Russia.
The greatest trade union congress.
ever held i'll Great Britain is on thi.
week in Glasgow, Scotland. Five ant
a quarter million workers are repre-
sented by $50 delegates, who have ;
number of questions to decide which
will have an important bearing on th'
future of British industry. The mos
significant subject Of debate refers t
direct action by the workers in order
to obtain naturalization of the mines
which is strongly demanded by power
full group of underground workers.