The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-01-09
AMERICANS WILL
RETURN At ONCE
Soldiers Overseas Are Going to
Come Home as Fast as Ships
Can Garry Them--Will Not
Go to Russia.
BY RAYMOND g. CARROLL.

London Times cable service [copyright 1913. hy
Public Ledger Col to The Sioux City Tribune.
With the American Commission to
troops are not going to be sent into
Negotiate Peace, Jan. -rAmerican
Russia. as militant pacifiers, nor are
they going to be rushed into Russia
camoufiaged as food distributors. IL
Russia is to be policed because of boil
shevism, other nations must UNDER
take the job. This Is the settled policy
Of the American government. Ameri-
can troops are going to be sent home
with the greaest possible rapidity and
DO per ent OF our first 1000, 900 In
Europe" either will have landed upon
Yankee soil or be on the high seas
steaming thither before the end OF next
October.
You mothers, wives, and relatives
can bank upon the foregoing as the
arranged plan and purpose of President
Wilson. Russia is wholly and entirely
out Of the zone Of future, American
army operations and unless all signs
fail there will be nc possibility Of our
troops going to Berlin. which seems to
be the favorite prediction of agents or
European bill collectors.
The handful Of soldiers we had sent
into Russia before the armistice with
Germany was signed, will be withdrawn.
/ have talked with virtually every
official OF the transplanted Washing
ton government and hen pieced my
knowledge into "a whole.
No Doubt About Home Coming.
am authorized to make an an
nouncement which ought to end
further loose chatter about our SPLEEN
did American soldiers, who came 1000
miles for the distinct purpose of end
ing the a being used In another
European conflagation or called to DO
lice duty In darkest Russia. our men
are surely going home. This Is good
news n big news, considering all the
pressure and effort that has been made
to project them into the Russian cal
dron.
Can we move the troops overseas
and how will 1t be done? For this In
formation / went to Edward N. Hurley,
chairman OF the shipping board, who
has just startled the business mind OF
France by offering space in our west
bound army cargo ships. thus provid-
ing freight carriers for French mer-
chandise. He also has prepared and
presented a plan to French exporters
under which they a get busy and
place fat orders in America before
Germany q recovered from the eff
fects OF the great war. Said Mr..
Hurley:
Where Ships Will Come From.
Between December % and January
10, $4,000 American soldiers will have
passed from French soil in our troop
ship fleet. Commencing March, i, we
have an assured monthly troop ship
capacity for 100, 600 men in 81 Ameri-
can owned and chartered boats. There
are now 20 passenger ships in German
ports including the huge lmperator,an
Bismarck, which IL we get the use OF
as we expect, in exchange for. food
will give us monthly carrying room for
10000 soldiers additional. Provided
we get these German ships and OF
good friends. the British, with occas<
ional loans OF passenger ships, con-
tinue to be as helpful and considerate
in the future as they have been in
the past. we can move more soldiers
home than our ports can take care
Of" vi