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Show YANKEE LEAVES ' ALLIEOCOUNCIL PARIS. Feb. if.. Roland w k... ' den, whose withdrawal as unotficlal I representative of the United states from the allied reparations commission was announce. l yesterday, when thoj 'text of his statement ..i withdrawal lUlso was made public, deliver.-. I his I farewell statement to the reparations j commission at its session here today. I He was the recipient of formal ex p res- ' ialons of regret frQm all the delegates i "Your withdrawal." s,'ild 1aiiIs Dubois, Du-bois, the president of tho commission, '"leaves not only a void In our hearl j but In our work. Let us believe, how-lever, how-lever, that the withdrawal Is only tom-i tom-i pornry that It is not gdpd-bye but simply au revolr." Sir John Bradbury, the only one ot the delega f) with the commission since its creation and other members of the commission. Joined in ompllmentlng Mr. Boydenla work nnl hoping for the return of the United States to representation on the commission. com-mission. The newspapers this evening com-' ment regretfully upon Mr. Boyden'c leaving. N( n M I I Withdrawal of Roland W. Boyden and his associates from th allied rep-: aratlonu commission reduces American j activities in Kurope In connection with (the settlement of war problems to re-I lief work and the exercise of special functions, such a those of Walker D ' Mines, appointed arbitrator in the die-1 kribution of river shipping and thoj Work of the shipping board and army services. Mr Hlnes will continue his work. The shipping board's office here also jwlll be continued and the graves registration reg-istration service exp. ti t nplete it work by December 31. In addition. the I arm) Still has an office here for the! adjustment of claims. WEU Kl WORKERS. I American welfare organisations are; still doing ltniltc.1 welfare work, j which Is directed from Paris by the Kod Cross, the Young Men's Christian association, the Knights of 0lu minis, th.- Salvation Army, tin American Committee for Devastated France and other organizations The Hoover relief administration' still Is active la central Kurope and; tho Near East relief through the American commission for relief for the Near East Withdrawal of the American Ameri-can representatives from the reparations repara-tions commission places two Important: American reparations question direct -i j in the hands of tbe Washington! government. On is tho unkocp of the ! i rii- i lean forces on tho Rhino. Latest; 'figures romplb-d by tho reparations j I commission show the United states has! fp. nt 1 . 1 00,000,00'J gold marks, for: (none Of which has It yet been rclm-, burs-d b Germany. MI Kl VNs Rl Y DYES. I Under the peace treaty, payment by j I Germany for tho cost of the armies of i 'occupation has priority over all other; reparations and the question now must j ' be handled separately by the Amerl-.an Amerl-.an government Through special arrangement in..de ' by the American reparations repr sentatlves. American textile industries have obtained most of their highest grade German dyes through the COm-1 mission. Mr. Boyden and Colonel J. I A. IX)gan, Jr.. have been getting fori American textile companies 26 DOT cant of ail th.- .Ives delivered bj ;m-many ;m-many as part of tha reparations These have been paid for by the American companies, thoir purchase totalling over $2,000,000. FIVE PERSONS BURNED j IN OIL STOVE BLAST SHREVEPORT. La.. Feb. 19 Five persons were perhaps fatally burned early today by the explosion of an oil ptove In a hotebat Bldorado, tha newi Arkansas oil town- 1 |