The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-03-06
Foreign.

Foreign.
Premier Clemenceau. of France. was !
so far recovered from the effects Of his
wound by last Thursday as to be able
to resume his official duties.
Princess Patricia. of the British
Royal Family. and Commander Ram
Sey. of the British Royal Navy, We're
married at Westminster Thursday of
last week.
The losses to France by reason of
the war tapart from war cost are
stated by !, member Of the Chamber of
| Deputies. for the benefit Of the budget
committee. to he $2O.OOOOOO.GOO.
| Two German wholesale liquor deal
ers have been fined 100000 marks each
by an American military court in the
occupied Rhineland territory for bring
ing liquor within the American lines
contrary to regulations. Six months
imprisonment was also added to the
fine in each case.
\ London dispatch recites the turn
ing over to Englands War Department
CT the captured plan of military opera
tons III Northern Russia of the Boil
shevik Army now operating against
the Allies. The SovietS. it is shown.
have been concentrating large forces
and expect to attack in overwhelming
numbers.
The renewed threat of anarchy in
Germany. arising from the latest at
tempt to overturA the new German
Government by the extreme radicals.
has greatly disturbed the French and
British delegates to the Peace Confer
ence, who wish to see il stable govern
ment i'll Germany with which peace
can lie made.
The French delegates to the Peace
conference have been moving for a re-
apportl ,nment of the great war debts
Of the nations that fought Germany for
four years. to the end that America
and the neutral nations may shoulder
. Il proportionzte share of the debt as
well as soNe older allies that have in
: Cured ,4ess debt than France and are
rSfCrtionately more able to pay.
British and American government
opinion seems to agree that the war
ships taken from Germany shall not
form Il part in future of the naval
armament of any nation. As there is
almost universal sentiment against
! the waste of taking them out to sea
{ and sinking them. it seems generally
l agreed that the ships will be stripped
< of all their armments and sold as
junk.
i Gen. Ludendortf. who il credited
: with having been the guiding mind IL
/ the great German offensive in North
a ern France. beginning last March ant
/ ending in Allied victory last fall. has
addressed Il memorandum to the Ger
e man Government asking for al inves
n ti-ation to the end that he may b'
d given an opportunity Of vindicatin:
t, himself He has written Il book upol
l. his military career since he has beel
: Il refugee in Denmark and offers it t
e the German people through the govern
l. ment He says it will Justify his acts
It Rene Viviani. former French Pre-
i the Peace Conference to visit the dc
l. vastated area Of France. said i'll con
20 cluSion: Paris is too near the frol
tier. 1t is impossible to remove Tari
n from the frontier. Therefore it Is nee
,e eSSary that the frontier he remove
e from the front of Paris" France wisl
o. eS to annex all the German province
$. on the left bank of the Rhine. maxim
ss the river the frontier: or, If this Is OI
H. posed, to erect the Rhineland province
T. into Il buffer state between her Ow
20 frontier and Germany.
ly Arthur Henderson offered the rest
&c luton. ut the joint conference calle
Il by the government. providing for
I'd committee of emplorers and employee
ne to fix the hours of labor and the wage
Of men and women throughout Gre;
e. Britain The conference between ell
'e- ployers and employees was called
es avoid threatened conflict amounting
ar civil war between labor and capita
rs iStic interests. Lloyd George 0ffert
Nv an amendment (Which was adopted
e. that the committee also investigate Il
Is causes of unrest in the United Kin
rs donls.
al Frank II. Sin,onds, the well-kn0W
on writer on International relations. WI
be has been reporting the Peace Confe
ed ence since its sittings began in We
ry sailles. in dispatch from Paris, dat
III February 9TH. asserts that Preside
Wilson's utterances in America sin
ell his return to this country have &C
gn rectly gagged the situation at the 20
lse ference: that it is true, as the Pre-
list dent says. that a failure OH the ia
he of America to join in the League
ta- Nations would mean an old-fasEion
nd treaty Of peace in Europe that mig
ult lead to Bolshevism. because it wOu
to leave no grounds for hope to the pt
tes pie Of Western Europe Of relief fr'
The the consequences of the late war
lie the dread of wars to come. MIR.
lll monds declares Il League of Nations
He Ec the only hope Of Europc's cscil