The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-02-21
FOREIGN.

President Wilson WIS the central
figure Of the plenary peace conference
NJ Paris on February "A, when he read
the covenant establishing a league of
natlons. There was added interest In
the session us Il was the last gather
ing OF the delegates prior 10 the presr-
dents departure as well as being the
occasion Of presenting the document
with which HIS name was identified.
Troops took possession Of the gas
works and electric power station in
Belfast on February IA. The mayor in
proclamation. says Il Is now assured
that military support viii 9e given the
! authorities, and asks for volunteers to
carry on municipal sert ices.
Lava IA the greatest quantity OBJ
served In forty years Is flowing from
lSllauea, the largest active volcano in
the world. The lava Is pouring over
FAN sides Of the central flre-pit walls
onto the old crater floor Scientists
sald they expected the lake of lava 70
subside within a month,
In the Tower OF London, where SOW
erelgns have been beheaded, famous
characters In English history imprls.
oned and imperishahle incidents en-
acted. number OF German spies were
lexecuted during The world war, thus
keeping up the towers reputation for
historical narrative ana adventure.
Or. II. Bey, former vail OF Dlabekr,
accused Of completely IN Armenian
Imassaeres, who recently escaped from
custody, was run 20 earth by the Turk
ish police aud shot himself through the
head to avoid arrest, II II reported
The bourgeois proposition for an In
terallied military force 20 enforce
peace WINS defeated by an oyerwhelm'
Ing vote NJ the meeting Of the so
Eeiety az nations commission at Paris,
THE French and echo-Sloyeks We're
the only representatives voting In the
affirmative.
. The U. S. 8. George Washington ar
rived al Brest on the 18th, 70 carry
! President Wilson back 20 the United
I states. Twenty destroyers viii joit
1.-THE George Washington ON her return
. trip az the Azores.
! Karl Rndek, the Russian Bolshevii
: emlssary, who has been accused by th'
4 German authorities Of being an insti
/. gator az numerous radical outbreaks y
/. Qermany. has been discovered and az
!. rested by the Berlin police,
: The new terms for the armistic
y which will be presented TO German
Impose two new conditions, one tina
I Germany suspend all military actixit
4 Ia Posen against the Poles; the othe
4. thar Germany demobliine her milltar
e forces under arms down TO twenty
h, twenty-five divisions.
A tralnload Of German officers hein
.. brought back from Palestine arrive
n. nj Geneva, February iS. All of thel
~ we're ignorant Of recent events
in Germany and did not know OF the re
u. olution or the former kalser's hlgl
81. into Holland,
~ From the signing OF the armisti'
=. 10 February &, 2ST.312 American trool
"a In France aud Great Britain had 81
!. barked for the United States, viii
=. np 10 February 10. 87,404 officers al
80 | .O69 rs men had been demobllized
M this country. Total arrivals OF ov'
at. seas troops up 70 February we
in 2i5.T49.
AS result OF anarchistic outbrea
no. and disorders on both sides OF
ore Chile-Argentina frontier the Chile
10 foreign office Is proposing a conv'
-. ..t.a A ..,.,,,tff,o fot. the extraditl