Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-15
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
INTELLIGENCE GATHERED HERE.
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What Is Going on at Wash
ington and in Other Sections
Of the Country.

Of the Country.
Alexander Kerensky, the former
Russian premier is in Paris.
Fifteen persons were killed when $
series of tornadoes swept southwest
Texas.
During the past six month the Unit
ed States has had but two national
bank failures.
All possible precautions against the
bolshevik menace have been taken by
the government of Denmark.
The British government has recog-
nized the independence of Finland and
the de facto Finnish government.
T The United States grain corporation
does not expect to import any great
amount of wheat from Canada.
Delegates from twenty-seven nations
were present at the handing OF the
peace treaty to the Germans at Yer
sailles.
The Germans are given fifteen days
from the receipt of the peace treaty
to make known their intentions to re-
ject or accept it.
Terms of the peace treaty now in
the hands of the Germans are embod-
led in document containing some
eighty thousand words.
The War department is laying
plans for the return Of the entire
American expeditionary forces from
Europe by September.
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The German delegates to the peace
congress declare that they will sign
the peace treaty, but that Germany
will not pay an indemnity.
Orders have been issued by the War
department for the recruiting of 5000
men to serve as replacement troops for
American soldiers now in Siberia.
Relatives and friends of Chicago
soldiers in northern Russia telegraph
ed demand for Immediate withdraw
al of the troops to President Wilson.
Serious concern is felt in official cir
.cles over the agitation in Picking and
Toxic in opposition to ratification in
Washington by China of the peace
treaty.
Hasty preparations are being made
at Washington for the extra session
of congress, which convenes Monday,
May 10, at the call of President Will
son.
"the German quarter" of Versailles to
prevent any of the Germans from
straying off the section assigned to
them.
The Hungarian communist govern
ment has refused the armistice terms
offered by Rumania and has decided
to fight to the utmost, a dispatch from
Budapest says.
Irene Castle, widow of Vernon
Castle, who was killed in an airplane
accident in the south, was married at
New York to Capt. Robert e. fireman,
of Ithaca, N. Y.
One hundred and fifty persons were
killed or executed during the fighting
at Munich according to an account Of
the fall of that city printed in the
Berlin Lokal Anzeiger.
Charles P. Bruch, general manager
of the Postal Telegraph system, an
nounced that effective June the eight
hour day and time and half for over
time had been adopted for all the
systems employees.
National sentiment has been arous.
ed in Picking and throughout China
over the peace conference decision re-
garding Stantung and Kiao Chau. The
press is united in demanding that tho
territory be returned unfettered to
China.
The anti-American- campaign in the
Japanese press continues with re-
newed force. One newspaper referred
to President Wilson as "Hypocrite,"
"Despot," transformed KAISER and
''Man with the voice Of an angel.
but with deeds of the devil" Belief is
expressed that the basis for the agita-
ton is fear of the growing influence
of the United States in International
affairs.
Pope Benedict has appointed Mon
signor Dennis O'Connor of New York,
the Rev. James A. Griffin of Salix, Ia,
and the Rev. George ]. Warning,
chan callor nf tho army hichonc &c I;S