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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, JUNE 26, 1919 SIGHT UNS MISS PRISONERS TURKS A CLEMENGEAU TO QUIT Of the 3,000 prisoners in the camp we lition. Suddenly we saw & huge conflagration GUSTAVE NESKE found here only 66 in bed, chiefly with near the wireless station. influenza. Flames leaped skyward hundreds of IN GERMAN CAMP The Russian doctor and the Russian Minister of National Defense in feet. Loud explosions sounded from German Cabinet. nurse attached to the hospital were time to time, sending myriads of sparks French Premier Declares Hie evidently proud and happy to show us into the air. It provided a gorgeous Work Is Done. through the thoroughly neat and clean pyrotechnic display of gargantuan wards and the kitchen. proportions. Ammunition, benzine Problem Both to the Allies and American Red Cross. and stores all fed the fire. It lighted The organization of the American Their Captors. up the city like moonlight. "We've Waited Forty-nine Years for Red Cross at Ruhleben is typical of "Then we knew that the Germans This," Exclaims Tiger as the organization at some seventy-five Australian Teiis of Victory Gained had decided to surrender. From the Foe Accept. other camps scattered throughout the east the victorious Arabs swarmed into length and breadth of Germany, in Over Superior Force. the city, yelling with triumph, and Paris, June 26. Premier Clemenceau which are interned about four hundred mm lorn blazing a veritable feu de joie into the has expressed his intention to thousand Russian prisoners. We maintain air. Turks and Germans fought,in the resign from office as soon as the treaty in Ruhleben a Red Cross medical American Red Cross Worker Gives a streets, then fled to the shelter of the is promulgated, feeling that he has accomplished officer who is also the official inspector Description of the Camp at Ruhleben—No gardens and surrendered at dawn. the task for which he assumed and representative. It is his duty, in in "Back to the Barada Gorge, the Stable Government the premiership, says Marcel co-operation with the local German Fifth brigade held the road, and a Russia to Which the 'Captives Can Hutin in the Echtf de Paris. commander and possibly with the Interesting Account of Capture of An. small proportion was able to snatch an Be Turned Over—American Red It is expected Parliament will ratify prisoners' committee, if there is one, hour's sleep—the first since leaving cient City by Australian Forces the treaty late in' July. Cross Cares for Needs of Men. to report on the general condition and Kuneitra 42 hours before. But the —Could Have Sustained "We have waited 49 years for this the needs of the prisoners and the rest had to guard prisoners and hold Russian prisoners of war in Germany Siege for Months. moment," exclaimed Premier Clemenceau camp. Food, clothing and medical the road, and incidentally help themselves as he opened the fateful dispatch constitute a problem. To repatriate supplies are forwarded upon requisition to the tons of cigars, liquor, Sydney, N. S. W.—An interesting if announcing that Germany would sign other prisoners is comparatively from the Red Cross warehouses in food and other things with which the helated account of the capture of Damn simple, but there is no stable government the treaty, at the meeting of the Berlin. enemy had littered the road to Beyrut. scus by Australian forces last fall Council of Three. to which the 400,000 Russians As regards the food it is in the nature is given by a returned Australian solrlier can safely be intrusted, none competent "For 19 years," he continued, "the of a ration of bread and meat, "So fell the ancient city, and as our in the Sydney Morning Herald. mailed fist of the eitre' (German to undertake caring for them. The supplementary to the regular ration casualties were very small we called The narrative starts with the Australians' trooper) who has governed Germany revolt at home makes possible a revolt furnished to the prisoners by the German it a bloodless victory, but within a advance from Tiberias and has menaced the world. Whether the among the prisoners, and the advance government. Each prisoner is fortnight the Desert Mounted corps the subsequent encircling operations man's name was Bismarck or William of spring has given rise to fear of a now receiving 300 additional grams had thousands of men down with malaria, TEXT OF GERMAN NOTE which resulted in the fall of Damascus II, it was still the same reite of the general exodus toward their border. of bread a day, which, with the regular and hundreds died—right on the itself. Middle Ages surrounded by soldiery Both the allies and Germany find the German allowance, gives him 600 eve of peace. That's the pity of it." "Leaving Tiberias behind the Australian and drunk with pride. situation disquieting. This description grams daily. At the present moment division pushed on northward "Be careful keep your powder dry. of a Russian prison camp iri Germany the German civilian allowance is 375 to Lake Huleh, where they tried to TILLMAN'S SUCCESSOR Be careful remind the world that it was written by an American Red grams daily. Clathing, underwear, Foreign Writes Acceptance Minister cross the Jordan, but the enemy had is living on a barrel of that powder. Cross worker: socks, shoes, medical and surgical supplies l.lown up the big stone bridge, and "This reitre's dogma that might is of Terms. Peace The buildings at Ruhleben now used and dressings and hospital diet nests of German machine gunners lined only right, that a state's obligation is for prisoners consist of old stables foods are the chief contributions, precipitous river banks. Up and 'he its own interest, that treaties do not and pavilions, which have been supplemented however, of the American Red Cross. r'own the river the patrols reconnoii-iva. exist when they clash with the interest Teutons Yielding to Superior Force, by barracks similar to those The actual distribution of these supplies of but always they were met with a state and get rich by any Declare They Are Ready to used by American soldiers in France. -is" in the hands of the American rur.'t of fire from the eastern bank. means. We know from witnesses who The situation is excellent, well drained Sign Conditions. army detachments at each camp, Hue the old Jordan had to be crossed, at of William were the side II. that and with any amount of open space. This problem of finding work and the Tenth Li^ht Horse, under cover when he learned of the Sarajevo tragedy, One can trace in the center of the Paris, June 25.—In declaring its intention occupation for the prisoners is one of darkness forced a passage near the he who posed as a keeper of the race course the faded white lines of to accept the peace terms the the most difficult with which we have lake, while the Fourteenth Light Horse peace cried: "The hour has struck. former cricket and football grounds— government of the German republic to contend. At Ruhleben the difficulty did t'iie s.nviii? further south. In the Now we shall see what an army is.'" has sent the following note to Premier always an indication of occupancy by is increased by the fact that, unlike morning they converged on the enemy Clemenceau, president of the Peace English soldiers. most of the other camps where perhaps from either Hank, capturing a numbo" WILL TRY TO KEEP TREATY conference, through Dr. Haniel von Upon our arrival at the camp we one-half of the prisoners are at prisoners. a few guns, and many Haimhausen. were ushered into the American army work on the farms in the vicinity, here i-mr-lrne gnus. The bulk of the enemy The minister of foreign affairs has headquarters, where the lieutenant in New Chancellor Says Germany Will Do the men have no regular occupation. rear guard bolted. So once r-ore vn? instructed me to communicatesto your Ker Best. command was holding a conference We are mooting this problem by providing continued ti.:j grc."t race toward Da Basle, June 25.—Cchancellor Gusta'v excellency the following message: with the Russian prisoners' committee. athletic supplies and organizing niascus. Bauer in an interview with the Europe It appears to the government of the Qv.z:-d The subject under discussion was the games. The Russians are not an athletic Enemy Rear Routed. press, was quoted as saying that Germany German republic in consternation of preparation of plans for an entertainment people, however they are much "At Knnoitra tho roar gnp*'d nTtohine will endeavor to carry out the the action of the Allied and associated to be given by prisoners themselves. more interested in our efforts to supply gunners were nr.-un encountered. provisions of the peace treaty "in order government, that the governments We were told that they were them with musical instruments. •1n1 once more at »vsa. At the If:tire? have decided to wrest from Germany to wipe out the hate in the world just arguing the relative merits of olnce there was st:'-' fi-Thti'Rg. and ws by force acceptance of the peace conditions, and create friendly relations withitlie banjos and guitars when we came in. RAISING RATTLESNAKES workers of all countries." even those, which, without !'nd some casualties!,• but the Ins Inspection of Camp. «iiic!e was removfti. md we pnI:• presenting any material significance The subject was postponed while we a RED .GOVERNMENT AROUSED on to the great city. aim at divesting the German people of Find There Is a Good Living in formed in groups 5or an inspection of ''Away to the eastward we rnv'd their honor. Farm for That Purpose. the camp. We had come at an auspicious The queerest farm in the Ozarks is see cloud? of dn rising from iie "No act of violence can touch the Russia Demands Release of Envoy Arrested moment, for the men were just honor of the German people alter that of Miss Rose Ahern and her Ilt' l.iaz mad. It the remnant of in New York. assembling for the midday meal in brother, Henry. Several miles up Indian the Fourth Turkish army from Aman. frightful suffering in these last 5rear3 London, June 25.—The Russian soviet long lines outside the mess kitchen. creek, in the heart of the rockiest So. in spite of their long start, we and they have no means of defending government has demanded the release We had an excellent opportunity to themselves by external action. and roughest part of the hills and iiad made a dead-heat of it. Their of L. C. A. K. Martens, the Bolshevik inspect their clothing and general appearance. "Yielding to superior force, and bluffs, this brother and sister operate fate was already sealed. We had representative arrested in New All of them were warmly been in the saddle all the previous afternoon. without renunciating in the meantime what they call their "diamond rattlesnake York, a wireless message from Petrograd clad, and shod either with leather its own view of the peace condition, all night, and all the morning. farm." And, being in a neighborhood declares. Reprisals are threat shoes or sabots. The condition of the but there was no chance of a the government of the German republic where snakes are plentiful, ened against Americans in Russia. clothing seemed to vary with the industry declares that it is ready to accept they are doing a thriving business. halt. General Hodgson—commanding and ingenuity of the wearer. and sign the peace conditions imposed. For three years the Aherns have the Australian division—pushed the DAILY MARKET REPORT. Patches and seams made a medley of Third Light Horse brigade toward the been following this business, and they color, while the variety of headgear, "Please accept, Mr. President, assurances south of the city, while he sent General will probably have 300 or 400 snakes Minneapolis Grain. varying from a Cossack's fur turban of my high consideration. Onslow's Fifth brigade on a wide this season. They expect to do far N. B. Dial of Laurens, S. C., is the Minneapolis, June 24. Oat's, July, to an English Tommy's discarded cap, (Signed) VON HAIMHAUSIN." encircling sweep to the west and better than ever before, now that the senator elected to serve the long term 67 ^4c September, 68 %c. Rye, July, lent a strange, even comical, appearance north of Dumar, with a view to blocking war has ended. The principal profits succeeding the late Senator Tillman. $1.43% September, $1.46%. Barley, SEPARATE TRIALS REFUSED to the long mess line. the escape. come from the extracting of poison He is, of course, a Democrat and is July, $1.10% September, $1.10%. The men themselves were apparently "The battle of Damascus, which followed from the rattlesnakes, which is sold at a lawyer, banker and manufacturer. in a good physical condition, but will be studied in years to come A. C. Townley and J. Gilbert Must high prices to doctors, chemists and Closing Cash Prices. they were for the most part silent and as the perfect example of the influence Face Jury Together. others. Physicians tise this poison, Minneapolis, June 24. Following SHE'S REAL "KISS BURGLAR" somewhat morose. Here was none of of morale. Napoleon said that Jackson, Minn., June 25.—Motion for after it has been prepared in a scientific are yesterday's closing cash prices: the animation and liveliness of the morale to material is as three to one. Beparate trials was denied by Judge E. manner, for the treatment of epilepsy Corn, No. 3 white, $1.71 @1.72 No. 3 usual mess lines. Here one found it a hundred to one. A C. Dean in the case of A. C. Townley, Says Mrs. Orr of Gertrude Harrison in and other diseases. It is known yellow, $1.73 @1.74 No. 3 mixed, $1.71 We went into one of the kitchens president of the National Nonpartisan few thousand exultant horsemen hemmed Divorce Suit Brought in New as crotalin. @1.72. Oats, No. 2 white, 67%@ and saw the men being served with the league, and Joseph Gilbert, business in and captured an army. The York Court. They also get a good revenue from 67%c No. 3 white, 66%@67%c. Barley, thick potato soup, in which *vas floating city was surrounded. The roads to manager, charged with conspiracy to the, sale of live reptiles to museums choice to fancy, $1.10 @1.12. Rye, a surprising quantity of meat. One northward were held. Having abundance violate the state disloyalty law. New York.—Both on the stage and and traveling shows. The established No. 2, $1.44%@1.45%. Flax, No. of the cooks obligingly came forward Counsel for Townley argued that of arms and munitions, food and in real life Gertrude Harrison, an A rate is 2 cents a pound. large, fat $4.90 @4.92. with a plateful and a spoon, and we Gilbert's unpopularity in this section water, and being in such overwhelming actress playing in "The Kiss Burglar," serpent usually brings several dollars. Chicago Grain. went through the ritual of tasting it. would prejudice his own case. Judge numbers, they could have sustained a is accused of pilfering kisses from her The smaller, poorer specimens are Chicago, June 24. Corn, July, It was really very good. This soup siege for months, even if they feared Dean held that the indictment brought co-star, William P. Orr, by the latter's killed and rendered into oil, which $1.81% September, $1.77%. Oats, is cooked in large caldrons, dexterously both cases into close relation and refused to risk battle in the open. But their wife, Mrs. Lillian Carleton Orr. has a steady sale at $1 an ounce. July, 71c. stirred with long wooden shovels, the motion. morale was shattered. Recently Mrs. Orr returned from and as fast as one caldron is emptied "There was little fight left in them. overseas, where she served as hostess SAW A MOVIE ONCE South St. Paul Live Stock. TEUTONS THREATEN IN EAST it is scrubbed and cleaned and a A fringe of machine guns and a few in a Red Cross hut, to prosecute South St. Paul, June 24.—Estimated new mess of pottage begun. Some of pieces of artillery held off the attackers her action for divorce. She asserted receipts at the Union Stock Yards: But Then a Church Elder Opposed the men ate their soup in the kitchens, for an hour or so. Then the horsemen her actor husband displayed too Troops Say They Will Defend Territory Cattle, 1,400 calves, 1,600 hogs, 7,* Plan for Showing Films. but the majority preferred to carry it broke through. The Third Light great a fondness for his partner of From Annexation. 100 sheep, 100 cars, 193. Steers, Woodchoppers have come down from to their barracks. Presently we went Horse brigade captured some thousands the stage and had continued the drama Berlin, June 25.—General von Below $7@12 cows, $7@10.75 calves, $6.50 the north country of New Hampshire into one of these and found it very of the Fourth Turkish army from has notified President Frederick Ebert behind the scenes. @16 hogs, $20.05@20.10 sheep and and expressed surprise that this country A.man. warm, very close and a bit smelly. he is receiving hundreds of telegrams Mrs. Orr's story at first mystified the lambs, $6.50@16.50. was at war with Germany, or that But to a people accustomed in Russia Turks Refused to Fight. from troops, expressing their determination court and spectators. Her attorney Chicago Live Stock. the war was over, but it remained for to sleeping on tops of stoves this condition to defend Germany's eastern asked if she knew the co-respondent. "The Fourth regiment entered the Chicago, June 25.—Hogs—Receipts. Arthur Shirley, elder of the Church of seemed not unnatural and even territory from foreign annexation. Except "Of course—it was the Kiss Burglar," outskirts of the city, found the big barracks 40,000 lower bulk, $20 @21 heavy God at Manchester, to come forth with agreeable. for the Freiheit (independent socialist) replied Mrs. Orr. swarming with Turks and Germans. weight, $20.40@20.90 medium weight, a surprise. Disinfecting Process. no Berlin newspaper appeared But they wouldn't fight and "Was her regular business that of a $20 @21 light weight, $20.25 @21.10. At a meeting held to decide whether satisfied with Germany's unreserved Here were groups of men sitting on kiss burglar?" the Victorians rounded up 10,000 of Cattle—Receipts, 18,000 slow beef it was proper for Manchester to see a acceptance of the peace treaty. their bunks, consuming their soup in them and led them away. Another "Well, she was an actress—but steers, medium and heavy weight, certain film production, Elder Shirley a stolid and ruminative way, or playing column, several thousand strong, fleeing played both parts equally successfully," choice and prime, $14.85@16 medium after the picture was shown and upon WILL AWAIT TREATY SIGNING a silent game of cards which from the Arabs, tried to escape by answered the wife. "You see, and good, $12.40 @14.85 common, being invited to speak on its merits pr seemed to me to resemble pinochle. the northern road to Honin. But the my husband and she were playing in $10.85@12.65 light weight, good and demerits said: All of the bunks had blankets and Wilson Won't Leave France Until Third Light Horse brigade started in 'The Kiss Burglar.' It would have choice, $14.25 @15.25 common and "I have never seen a motion picture bedding, obviously in need of renovation, Signatures Are Attached. pursuit, charged the rear guard of been all right if they had stopped at medium, $10 @13.25. in my life before, and I have lived in and we were glad to hear that Paris, June 25.—President Y/ilson German machine gunners and captured that, but they carried their parts into Manchester a good many years. I want this was being carried out very rapidly. has ordered the transport George •the whole column. real life." Minneapolis Butter, Eggs and Poultry. to go on record as opposed to moving In one corner we came upon a Washington to be held in readiness for "Meanwhile the Fifth Light Horse Minneapolis, June 24. BUTTER— pictures, and will not approve this lively little Jewish prisoner, once a his departure for home. He has brigade—which used to be the camel Lxtra, 49c extra firsts, 46c firsts, one." tailor, now busy making ia suit of agreed, it is said, to remain until the corps—broke through the cordon of 45c seconds, 44c dairies, 40c packing Blind Girl Reads Raised clothes out df a blanket. The trousers, machine guns, hiding in the northern treaty has been signed. Final arrangements stock, lb, 39c. INSECTS TAKE BIG TOLL which he was just finishing, were for the ceremony are being gardens, and reached the Barada Print With Her Lips. EGGS Fresh, prime firsts, new made by Premier Clemenceau. all beautifully and carefully hand Gorge 6,000 strong, streaming out cases, free from rots, small, dirties sewn. He was working the border design Yearly Loss to Crops Totals One Billion along the road to Beyrut. In one place and checks out, per doz, 37c current Boston.—"We have a girl at RESIGNS RATHER THAN SIGN of the blanket into a sort of a Dollars in United States. a house on the hill overlooks the gorge, receipts, rots out, $10.35 checks and our school now with scarcely decoration for the front of the coat. Insects in the ^United States eat where the rail, the road and the river seconds, doz, 28c dirties, candled, any sense of feeling left in her We next went to the disinfecting $1,000,000,000 worth of. food annually, run within a few yards of each other, Von Haimhausen Quits Before He Will doz, 28c. Quotations on eggs include fingers who reads raised print and bath house, which we found according to department of agriculture and here a party of 13 men of the cases. Sign Treaty. with her lips," Director Edward equipped with ster.m pressure clothing figures. This amount is lost each year Fourteenth regiment, N. S. W., with Weimar, June 25.—Dr. Haniel von LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, fat, 10 E. Allen of the Perkins Institution disinfectors and hot water shower because of insect depredations on various two officers, opened fire on the big column. Haimhausen, who was designated as lbs and over, 28c thin, small, cripples and Massachusetts School baths. The whole camp was being piV farm crops and fruits. Turks and Germans fled in all the German representative to sign the and culls,.unsalable stags and cocks, for the Blind is telling the service through the dclousing and disinfecting In addition to crop losses, there is a directions. treaty of peace, has telegraphed his 14c ducks, 24c geese, lb, 12c hens, men who have lost their process, and in one of the rooms we large loss of live stock from such pests "Several were killed and the horsemen resignation from Versailles rather 4 lbs and over, 26c under 4 lbs, 20c sight in the war. came upon a striking evidence of as biting flies! parasite flies, ticks, then killed the horses and mules than attach his name to the instrument. guineas, doz, $9 broilers, all sizes, Director Allen is endeavoring American Red Cross activity. Here mites and other insects. in the gun teams and blocked the road, 40c 1919 chickens, lb, 35c. to raise the depressed morale was a group of men, newly scrubbed The column was cut in two and more of, these wounded heroes and with good American soap and hot water, than 3,000 surrendered. A mile further Disbarment Is Recommended. Found Toads Deep Down. Estimate of Canadian Pensions. makes it plain to them that clad in fresh white flannel underclothing, along the road others of the Fifth brigade Seattle, Wash., June 25.—Disbarment While mating an excavation on his there is much hope for their futures. undergoing a general physical of John C. Arctander, Seattle attorney, farm in Bald Eagle township, near opened with machine, guns and Calgary, Alta. June 25.—Federal and medical examination. From was recommended by the state Lock Haven, Pa., and after digging rifles on the leading portion of the column. statistics made public here by Lieut. "Your life is not spoiled," he here they passed into an adjoining board of law examiners. Arctander through hard red clay to a depth of The enemy was absolutely at Col. George R. Philp, indicate that continues. "The lessons of overcoming room, where they donned again their their mercy, and after a futile halfhearted was tried on charges of. haying collected eight feet, Harry Eldred came upon when all Canadian soldiers have returned obstacles are that it is clothing newly cleaned and disinfected. resistance surrendered. fees from draft .registrants for two good-sized toads in a small pocket from Europe, the government's not what we see in another, that They grinned with delight when, helping them fill out their questionnaires. in the clay. On being exposed to the pension roll will total between $30,• Hun Starts Destruction. counts, but what we do not see. touching the new underwear, I displayed air the "hoppers" became quite lively. 000,000 and $40,000,000 annually., "It was nightfall. More than 20,000 Every handicapped man, boy the only Russian expression No one ever heard of toads wintering enemy had been captured, and still or girl can transform the Semi-pro Team Trims Braves. that I knew—a sort of an equivalent under the ground to such a depth and Search and Seizure Law. they came. The town had not yet surrendered—probably stumbling block into a stepping Massillon, Ohio, June 25.—The Boston of "tres bien, ne e'est pas?" Farmer Eldred is greatly puzzled to Springfield, 111., June 25.—A search there was noone stone, and that's what we've National league team was defeated The camp hospital is a solid looking and seizure bill will become a law in know how the toads got there and there But in authority to capitulate. proved at our institution.*' 8 to 5, by the Agathons, a semi'professional Illinois... July. 1. Its approval by Governor brick building, somewhat removed how they managed to live. The facts demo* the Hun started on his work of team. Out Lowden was announced here. from the main part of the camp. are vouched for by Parmer Eldred* if-.- V,1- -S V" ts .-v US: