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Show IaLUES SEND FORCES INTO SOUTHERN RUSSIA I ENTENTE FLEET I TAKE HUN SHIPS I IN BLACK SEA I STOCKHOLM, Dec. 4. The Bolsheviki government has arrested Ml and imprisoned the Persian minister to Russia. According to advices III from Petrograd, they evidently intend to hold the minister until the fll soviet representatives in Turkestan who were reported arrested by fill order of the British authorities in Persia, are released. if H LONDON, Dec. 4. In reviewing the question of whether Ger- In I many is able to -pay war damages and the war -expenditures incurred ili III (by the allies, the Daily Mail declares that the estimated allied ex- lil II penditures of 25,000,000,000 pounds are less than one-seventh of the m III main German assets in sight. 1 1 I The railway systems in the German states are the property of I ! H the various governments which, in addition, own forests, mines and vvM large areas of land. The newspaper says that a moderate estimate of IpM German mineral deposits is 191,000,000,000 pounds. ili III LONDON, Dec. 4. The abdication of the German crown prince Hil l was expected to be published today, says the North' German Gazette, ijljlll , the former semi-official organ, according to advices received here. ill I ON THE BRITISH DESTROYER TILBURY, SEBASTOPOL, HI Wednesday, Nov. 27. The Allied fleet lias taken from the Germans fillj ten. warships in the harbor here,. The. Russian dea.dufVDgJLWVolia: is fflml now under the British flag. Five British destroyers were appor- gnjjl tioned among the allies, the British taking two, the French two and ffljjl the Italians one. Four submarines, all German, were divided be- tween the French and British. All the remaining warships and mer- I (ml chant vessels of the German Black sea fleet will be held here. lni There are about 11,000 German troops in Crimea. They have re- quested permission to procesd to Germany by way of Triest HI Sebastopol is governed by a coalition committee of workingmen, B ffl merchants and professors. The people want to establish Crimea as l a self-governing state, with its capital at Simferopol under the fed- fflml eral republic of Russia. Armed workingmen maintain order in the Hwl city at present, but the committee in charge fears disorders after the WmM departure of the German troops and the allied fleet. nl PARIS, Dec. 4. The government has taken all necessary meas- , tires to insure the demobilization of all classes of the territorial re- Sffll (5erve before the end of February, according to L'Oeuvre. BjSjl COPENHAGEN, Dec. 4. The soldiers and workers council at 111 Lerpsic has decided that German general headquarters shall be dis- 1 I , solved and Field Marshal von Hindenburg arrested, according to the R II Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin. Iffl I PARIS, Dec. 4. King Albert of Belgium intends to create a new Hi II military order to be known as the Order of the Yser, the Echo fj Paris says. The first man to be decorated with the new order will be Hi I Marshal Foch. GENEVA, Dec. 4. (Havas) The Polish Pol-ish government has cent an ultima-turn ultima-turn to Germany asking for the immediate im-mediate evacuation of Polish territory by German soldiers who are said to have been committing atrocities, ac-coVding ac-coVding to the- Geneva Journal. If the German answer is not satisfactory, it is added, "most energetic measures" will be taken by the Poles. , BERLIN, Tuesday, Dec. 3. (By the j Associated Press) Soldiers returning from the front have torn down the flags at the postoffice and railway sta-tions sta-tions at Eessen, according to reports iTeceTved here, and exchanged shots with delegates of the soldiers' council. coun-cil. The soldiers had been disbanded at Verson because they sold to civil -! ians hundreds of thousands of marks worth of wine and cigars from the army stores. LONDON, Dec. A No confirmation has reached official Rumanian quar-ters quar-ters jn London of the recent German report that Bucharest was burning and t that the peasants had revolted in Rumania. The latest official news shows that Rumania is quiet and that the German evacuation is proceeding regularly, 1 PARIS, Tuesday, Dec. 3 When the German revolution broke out on November No-vember 7, many Gorman officers vis-J ited the prison camps to ascertain the attitude of Allied prisoners toward the) revolution. Each prisoner was asked if he intended to join the revolution- Ists and those who replied in the nega-' nega-' tive, saying that they wished only to i rejoin their regiments, were asked to i give their parole not to try to escape. Captain James Norman Hall of Col. , fax, la.; Lieutenant Henry C. Lewis of Gcrmantown, Pa.; Lieutenant Rob-ert Rob-ert J. Browning of Minneapolis, Minn.; and Lieutenant Charles R. Codman of ' Boston, Mass., refused to give their 'parole but agreed not to join the revolutionaries. revo-lutionaries. A camp inspector then gave a strong hint that no great difficulties diffi-culties would be placed In the way of their escape. The four Americans finally reached Berne where they received outfits from the American Red Cross. ffiB AMSTERDAM, Dec. A Mathias Erz- Hill berger opened the first sitting of the Hjj German commission to investigate the Ejjjj treatment of war prisoners on Monday, Kju according to Berlin advices. The meet- ttjl ings are open to the public. Ml "The task of the commission," Err- berger is quoted as having said, "will Mm be to prove the new government of republican Germany is resolved to pro- ifijll cecd ruthlessly against any one treat- - BHjn ing prisoners contrary to the orders of Mm those in authority or in violation of tho j! laws of humanity." uHj I LONDON, Dec. A The Express (j claims to be able to deny the report from Berlin yesterday that a new ul- IfflU timatum has been sent to the German Rn II government because the locomotives Kj to be handed over under the terms of the armistice can be delivered at once. Sj: I The newspaper says that it is true that Jj j Germany is not keeping up to the stlp- la ulated schedule and that Marshal ftj Foch has given warning that Germany llil will be responsible for further delays, WW but he has not fixed a time limit for jEn the carrying out of thee clause re'a- WJj tive to railroad equipment. ami |
