Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
PLAN ARMED.
dixie TO HALT
REDONRUSH?.
Take Step to Save Victory
and Curb Menace Of
Bol5heviki.

Paris. March 27.-(HaVas.l
-GeneraI Mangin. one of the
leading officers of the French
army, will be recalled from
his command mt Mayence, the
newspapers announce, TO Un-
dertake a mission. the charae-
ter and scope OF which "is in
dicated plainly by the events
in Hungary
According 10 the GauiOis he
would receive n very import
ant command in Eastern Eu-
rope, undoubtedly the Balkans,
with a view to possible opera
tiOns on the Hungarian 'front.'
ier and southwestern Russia
General J. NJ. Malletterre, the
military critic, in an article in the
Matin apparently rejecting mill
tary opinion, suggests that as a
means of checking the bolsheviki
and rendering definite the victory
of the allies, allied armies should
march through Germany and ef-
feet a junction with Poland
General Malletterre adds that
the allies must finish the job by a
thunderstroke and declares that .
the sword of Marshal Foch is not
yet sheathed.
A great military campaign, ,
against Poland is TO be opened BY
the Russian soviet government this
spring. M-Was declared 81. -Jof-
fe, the former bolsheYik embassa-'
dor at Berlin, at a recent meeting
in Wilma, toward the Polish nation
al committee in Paris
Italians Occupy Town.
London, Wednesday,. March 26.-'
Italian troops have occupied the
town o. PJressburg. 35 miles
southeast OF Vienna on the Hun
garian side OF the border, accord /,
ing to q dispatch from Budapest /
forwarded by the Central News
correspondent at Berlin
republic has been proclaimed .
in Bessarabia and its directorate
has ordered military operations /
against the Rumanian army. a part
of which has been forced to fan
back, according to a Warsaw dis
patch to the Telegraph. II is stat
ed that the movement Is evidently
engineered by bolsheviki, support
ed by Ukrainians who seek to
break through Rumania to estab-
lish contact between Moscow and
Budapest.
(Bessarabia was under the old
regime in Russia, "A province lying
along the northeastern frontier OF (
Rumania. It is bounded on the
west by the Pruth river and on the
hzyt ho
the southeast it is washed by tire {
Black sea. II has an area of IT, /
bl4 square miles and had a popu- +,
lation in 1906 of 2.262. 400. Ru- (
mania laid claim TO Bessarabia .
after the collapse of the imperial {
regime in Russia and Rumanian I
troops have been occupying parts
of the country.)
Galacia in Revolt.
Vienna. Wednesday, March 26-.
Nia Copenhagen.D A wireless !
dispatch received from the soviet .
government at Moscow declares
that all of Galicia is in a state Of .
revolution. The movement is de-
scribci as having begun in the oil
districts near DrobhObyos, whore
the workers and soviet government
have spread TO adjoining districts.
Troops dispatched by the Polish
government, the message asserts,
Joined the movement. The Lem
berg soviet. it is added, has de-
clared a general strike.
Appeal for L. s. Aid.
Washington. March 27.-An ap-
peal 10 the United States and tho
entente powers for arms, ammunf-
tion and equipment for soldiers 70
be sent against the Red armies OF
Russia and Hungary by Rumania,
CZecho-Sloyakia and the provision
al governments Of recently liberat-
I'd European peoples was addressed
by officials of the mid European
union today to President Wilson,
Secretarys Baker and Daniels. the
American peace delegation and the
foreign relations committee. The .
expressed the opin- Z
ion that with proper material and .
moral support the existing govern /
ments could be depended upon 20
deal with the bolsheyist menace.