The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-30
FRENCH AND
YANKS RIOT:
TWO SLAIN
Trouble Said to Have Started
When Drunken Soldier
Insults Flag
HUNDRED ARE WOUNDED
U. S. Marines Finally Restore
Order at Brest Among
Rival Factions

Rival Factions
Brest, June 3O.-Two French civil.
ians were killed and five American
solydiers and sailors were injured Sc
verely, and more than 100 wounded in
riots here last night. Two of the Amer
ican soldiers are expected to die The
casualties resulted from an exchange
Vt shots between American military
and naval police and French soldiers.
The trouble began, according to
available accounts when an American
naval officer, who is said to have been
drinking, tore down French ag and
trampled on it. Frenchmen, it is said,
kicked and beat the officer, until he
was unconscious. Americanse went to
the aid of the naval officer, and the
fight became general.
A mob of French civilians aud SOL
diers and sailors attempted to rush
hotel where the American officers were
quartered. They burned a sentry box
and threw stones at Americans in uni-
form. hTe Americans. it Is said, re-
taliated. A company Of marines, With
fixed bayonets, was hurled to the scene,
and the Americans soon restored order.
Admiral Salaun, the French naval
commander at Brest, ordered the ma
rines to return to their barracks. As
the marines marched back to their
quarters, it is alleged, they were pur-
sued by a mob throwing stones and
bricks.
CAPTURE 1000 BoLsHEvlki.
Econdor, Friday, June 27.-The
army Of Kuban Cossack, operating in
the bend of the Don river, has cap
tured 1000 Bolsheviki and ten guns.
The Don Cossacks, who also are ad-
vancing northward, have captured l.:
500 prisoners and three armored
trains. II.
The Don Cossacks have occupied
Millerovo and broken the Bolshevtk
front north Of Millerovo.
In their successful advance the Ku-
ban Cossacks have put to rout four
infantry and two cavalry regiments Of
the Bolshevik forces. West Of here
the Bolsheviki have been defeated In
the Kurtsch peninsula in the eastern
end Of the Crimea. el.
=,,....;:ss i, 1loc KILLED. ..3.s,.s
Rome, June 30.-One hundred and
twenty persons are estimated to have
been killed in and near Vicchio, the
center of the earth movement Sun
day in the Florence ditrict according
to the emps. The town of Wcchio
was reduced to heap of ruins, and
a number Of villages were destroyed.
EIGHTEEN AMERICANS KILLED
Washington, June 80 Eighteen
soldiers were killed, one officer and
eight men severely wounded, and six
teen slightly wounded in an engage
nent with anti-Cossack forces near
Romanovska on June 25th.
Major General Graves, commanding
the American expedition in Siberia,
Informed the war department today
that the engagement followed an at
tack by the B0lsheviki on railroad
guards.
CHINA TO CONTINUE DEL1BER-
ATIONS.
Paris, June 3O.-In spite of their re-
fusal to sign the peace treaty Saturday
the Chinese delegation will continue to
take part in the proceedings.
If the Chinese government is dispos-
ed to sign it is said in conference
circles it is still possible for it's dele
gates to do so.
COMMENTS ON TREATY.
Paris, June 3O.-In presenting the
text of the peace treaty to the chamber
ofedeputies today, Premier Clemenceau
made a brief speech in which he recall
led the French national assembly
which met at Bordeaux in 1871, and
added:
"We make peace as we made war,
without weakness. Internal peace Is
q necessity for external peace"
The center and rights cheered the
premier.
EvACUATE PETROGRAD..
Helsingors, June 3O.-The evacua-
tion of Petrograd by the Bolsheviki Is
rapidly. War minister
Trotsky has ordered that the fortress
OF Kronstadt be blown up before its
surrender. and that the bridges and
railroad stations in Petrograd be de-
stroyed before the last troops With
draw.
TO COMPLETE TREATY.
Paris, June 30.-The allied govern
ments will hand to the Austrian dele
sation at st. Germans at the end of
the present week the clauses covering
the financial and economic conditions
Of the peace terms. These were omit
ted from the original peace treaty pre-
sented.
YOUTH OF SOUTH
HAS MOBILIZED
Camp Zachary Taylor Made Jun
ior Training School
Louisville, KY, June 2s.-Eight hun
dred youths, students at colleges and
high schools in nine states, have been
mobilized at Camp Zachary Taylor for
six weeks training in the reserve Of
licers' training corps infantry school.
They came from Alabama, Kentucky,
Tennessee Missouri, Arkan-
sas Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.
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