The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1919-05-22
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Maj. Henry D. Lindsey of Dallas,
/. Tex, was elected chairman OF the
American legion over Sergt. Jack j.
4 Sullivan of Seattle. Wash, at the st.
Louis convention.
Peace Notes
A Berlin dispatch says Emil Barth,
German radical leader, said: II will
sign any peace treaty even without
reading it. Why not Illustrate the al
lied demands by destroying German
capitalism and sociali1ing all indus
tries?"
Germany's reply to the terms OF
peace presented at Versailles Will be
a proposal "for peace Of right on the
basis Of a lasting peace Of the nations"
according to a proclamation to the
. German people issued at Berlin oy
President Ebert.
The German government mas tele-
graphed to the delegates at versailles
ordering them to present to the allied
and associate powers within the 10
days allowed a proposition demanding
verbal discussions on the peace terms
dispatches from Berlin say.
The Chinese delegation ut Paris has
received instructions from Pekin not
to sign the treaty of peace because or
the Kiaouchau-Shantu settlement.
A Paris dispatch says the italian dlf-
f1culty is as far from settlement as
ever, according to the French press
which asserts that President Wilson 4
maintains his position and it Is not
believed he will depart from it In the
slightest. He has not adhered. 1t Is
said, to the proposed compromise by
which Italy would administer Fiume
as mandatory of the league Of nations
until 1923.
The German delegates to the peace
congress at Versailles complained bit
terly to one of the French liaison Of
ficers Of the unexpected harshness OF
the conditions Of peace.
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Foreign
A Rome dispatch says that, by min
isterial decree, workers on the Italian
railways are to have an eight-hOur
day. with one day off duty weekly.
- A Berlin dispatch says big demon
STATIONS against the signing Of the
peace treaty by Germany were held In
Berlin, Breslau, Danzig. Koenigsberg,
,Cassel, Bochum and other places.
President Wilson, in his address to
the French Academy of Moral and Po-
litical Science at Paris. vigorously de-
MED that the American people were
largely materialists or dollar wor-
shippers.
The second chamber of parliament
at The Hague adopted the woman SUI
frage bill by a large majority.
With a view to preventing possible
acts of sabotage, the maritime authori-
ties at Madrid have taken charge OF
the German ships interned in Spanish
ports. Six Of these ships have been
provided with French crews.
A Berlin dispatch says President
Ebert has issued a request to the Ger.
man nation that all amusements be
auspended for n week. The manifesto
virtually amounts to 'sackcloth-and-
ashes" proclamation. The exchange
has been ordered closed for three days.
IS When the Irish-American delegates,
Messrs. Walsh. Dunno and Ryan, tried
4 ito enter Westport they encountered a
Gordon of armored cars and armed
. soldiers. refusing to allow them to en-
ter. says q Dublin dispatch.
Josephus Daniels, the American sec.
rotary Of the navy, arrived ut Brest
Friday from England. He embarked
shortly afterwGrd on the transport
Mount Vernon to sail with the Thirty
third division.
A London dispatch says more than
q million men and women In Britain
are seeking work and cannot find 1t.
They receive, instead, government
dole amounting to $7,5OO,OOO a week,
or $50, 100000 a month.
The United States government, &C.
ccrding to the Paris Journal Des De-
bats, has undertaken to float loan
for the benefit of the French and Brit
fish governments Immediately after the
signing Of peace.
A Brussels dispatch says the Bel
gian government has decided to ask
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