Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-15

President Wilson has granted elem
ency to fifty violators of the espionage
act.
1t is expected that the United States
will be asked to become mandatory
for Armenia.
The public debt of the United States
government is $24S24,345, 900, accord
ing to a U. S. treasury report.
-Four hundred persons we're killed in
Moscow last week when the Red
Guard was called upon to dispense
rioters.
vittoria Orlando, the Italian pre-
mier, and Baron Sonnino, the foreign
minister, have arrived in Paris from
Rome.
1t is generally believed in official
circles in Berlin that Germany will
sign the peace treaty, according to re.
ports.
The trial of Congressman-elect Ber-
ger of Milwaukee on charges of having
violated the espionage act, has been
postponed.
Elaborate preparations are being
made at London to entertain General
Pershing when he visits the British
capital May %.
Tosephus Daniels, secretary of the
United States navy, declared at Lon
don, that he is in favor of sinking the
entire German fleet.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, known as
the Americas Ace of Aces" has been
selected to referee the Indianapolis
500 mile auto race, May 81.
The peace terms. while receiving
considerable approval from almost the
entire London press, did not escape.
from sharp criticism on certain points.
Representatives of twenty-one allied
nations are expected to take part in
the interalliea athletic games to be
held in Paris from June % to July 6.
So
Starving refugees in the southern
Caucasus are resorting to cannibalism,
a number of cases having been report
ed OF mothers killing, and eating their
| children.
The American Red Cross announced
San Salvador to house sufferers from
the recent earthquakes in that re.
public.
Berlin reports state that former
Emperor William has requested the
German government to be allowed to
return to Germany and reside on mis-
| estate at Kadinen.
| Seven persons We're burned to deatlf
and dozen We're injured, several
| probably fatally, when fire destroy
ed six-story apartment house at Co.
| lumbus, Ohio.
! Prompt withdrawal of the United
| States army of occupation from Ger.
many has been provided for in the
Paris treaty in the opinion of Amer
lean army officials.
Intimation hat special session of
congress will be called by President
| Wilson early in June was contained in
confidential dispatches received in
Washington from Paris.
Serious disorders are reported to
have broken out in Peking as a pro
! test over the action of the council OF
three in awarding to Japan the rights
and concessions at Shantung.
Washington officials appear to be
greatly satisfied with the terms of the
peace treaty. Some officials have said
it embodies the most severe sentence
ever passed upon great nation.
| German plenipotentiaries were pre-
sented with the peace treaty on the
| fourth anniversary of the sinking OF
the Lusitania, with the loss of more
than LOCO lives, many Of whom were
Americans.
Governor Carey of Wyoming has re
quested Secretary of War Baker to re-
turn the One Hundred and Forty.
eighth field artillery, which contains
many Wyoming men and now is at
Coblenz. Germany.
Wladek Zbyszko, claimant Of the
worlds heavyweight wrestling cham
| pionship, and Stranger Lewis, are
to meet in contest to an absolute.
finish, best two out Of three falls, at
Chicago, May 10.
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