St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 18, 1919

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ay A a: whe a iployers, Attention! 74 * you bave a job open tor o faturnsd woldter, g gee the officia) list of applications for jobs i. By printed at the head of the Employment r ‘Wanted Column of today’s Post-Dispatch. or gonsult the Demobilization Bureau for the Placement of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 110 N. 9th street. Telephone Olive 7240. 2c a eR yoy tet TR an Se The Only -POST-DISPATCH Evening inesd in St. Louis With the Haracioied Press News Service SR re ne ti te enaeadliee eid ae ee incall [aneestieeesnesieee euineelintateneeeemntieten — SA I et eR tent te IGHT EDITION Ne ee ———~ ~_ — TON, Aug opinion Kastern bby 1s it was of Armerican affairs at unaninious . far the oxperts on Versailles that war must result from, provision giving Chinese Prov- Senate Foreign told today American the the treaty Japan ince of Shi: Relations c by Thomas IF writer, who was , Chinese ilegation. Recause the United States (jotern- intirnates it would inex- China refrained rals- questions’ at the Millard teetified. eaid he got his informa subject from the Chinese he advised “unoffi- not go details hina might peace control in the intung, the yymmiittee Was Millard, an . ached ta } ue peace ment be pedient, ing ‘certain conference, Millard tion on the delegates clally " He «lid the raised lie said. howeve Chinese officia'’s Wal tect te wo American advisers, but the United would not favo! from peut a whont into about questions have ; ternational did not 4o States indl- such a employ t lawyers as so, because cated it plan. While his the Chinese, expenses were paid by Millard said he had no salary, but simply gave unofficial ad- asked for by the Chinese dele- gates because of his familiarity with far Kastern affairs. Millard he h twenty Chit the origina! saecquis rights, in Shantu sponslWe fo: the icy and Was one © of the man with Russian Czar In the event of Ch ture of relations with German: China tried to get guar- lilies that the integ territory would be protected at the peace table. Unabie 'o get more than a “negative” reply, witness said, the Chinese foreign office appealed to American Minister Reinech Peki At @that time howe Pacific conimunica- tier interfupted days Dr. ReM«ch could not get word te Washington. - 4 “e Vice id spent about hie of ng largely Hiay open-door pol- ' causes said dec\a red (;erTman re- vears iv) ‘tien wis f the indirec The (rer- said, forme! Russo-Japanese war rights were acquired, assent of the he the secret ina’s rup diplomat Miliard said. antes from of Chinese the . ity . 7 sine cable “AS ' were ' Was _urday death | some uncertainty United | called for immediate ade- |, | however, that he did not care to go ‘into any more details than those al- | ready published. of the department | and for eovernt: it is said, and any injury) or affront to them is regarded as a breach of international law. | Reports to Washington. It was learned today that the first intimation that Davis and Peterson: missing reached Washington | the middle of last week in dispatches from the border which said a peon had reported that two aviators were! in a canyon South of the border. It understood that the aviators had been compelled to land in Mexico and were in trouble. Ameri- can army officials on the border were then reported to be planning to send rellef to the two men and were given to understand that the Mexican authorities had no objection. The next word received was on Sat- when the capture of the two men by bandits was reported. Baker Talks to Senators. Secretary Baker told a- Senate committee today that there was aviators had Mexico, or, as they landed on the were captured landed by mistake claimed, Amertean side there. He and added, jut it is just another evidence of the inability of the Mexican Govern- ment to preserve order in that coun- trv, isn’t it?” asked Senator Suther- land, Republican, West Virginia. The Secretary replied that the men had been captured in the Big bend country, which, he explained, was “wild and sparsely settled.” taker appeared before the com- mittee to testify regarding the War Department's plans for a permanent military policy for the country. RUMANIAN KING SAID TO HAVE VISITED BUDAPEST INCOGNITO lHlungarian Monitors Manned by British at Capital; Archduke Denies Getting Letter From Chartcs. A aso ate d P reese BU DAP EST. Aug nd of Rumania, reports visited incognito our monitors, mounted by t irrived here ‘five-inch guns and under com- rt wt of Vice Admiral Ernest Trovu- ifthe > Archduke Joseph, head of the Jiungarian State, denies that he had recetved a letter from Former Em- (haries, ordering hivn to take power in Hungary and thank ing him for services to the Hapsabure uynastys Brigadier holtz, American 18.—-King Fer- according to re- Budapest last Hungarian British They dina lkable week sem- nen, nave carr’ are per it over General Harry H. Band- member of the Ai- lied Military Miesion here, is urging his colleagues to ask the peace con- ference to act quickly in regard to the presence of Rumanians in Hun-' gary Capt. Thomas €. (;regor Allied Food Adminstrator in ¢ Jurope vill permit no food tu ente! Ilungary as long as the Rumanitans continue their selzures. Herbert lioover, chairman of the Allied Ne- lief organization, who now is in Warsaw. has bee asked exert pressure the peace conference for irmmediate action. BOLSHEVIKI DRIVEN FROM ODESSA BY.THE POPULACE. -_——- Report mecstved at British War of- fice Says Soviet Army Is Fvacuat- ing Ukraine. “ated eet lriven (“hief ‘entral tes at) Ry the Aree LONDON, Aug viki have by the populace of the city, as ing to reports received by the ish War Office. It Is reporied that the Soviet forces Kiev and the entire Ukral: PALMER NOMINATION APPROVED Committee Orders Name lavorably Reported to Senaic. fie the Aweoctated Pree WASHINGTON, Senate Judiciary today ordered favorably the Senate the nomination of A. Mitehell Pairner as ner: Genera! Colah - rhs been froca (deren eord Frit nao are evacuating ittee reported to (“omm oF . see Page i Are you ouieiin to the Theaetr Movies tonight’ If so | delaria, . terd AY ings in the Big Rend district, ON PATROL DUTY | Outlaws Demand Payment in Gold; Threaten Death of Two Airmen if U. S. Military Force Prepares to Pursue Band. By the Associated Press MARFA, Tex., Aug. 18.—Authorte zation of the $15,000 ransom asked the Mexican bandits for the re- of Lieuts. Paul H. Davis and Harold G. was received here today and the money will prob- ably be delivered late today to af agent of the bandits at or near Can- Tex., it Is announced here, The authorization for the payment of the ransom was received from Mae« jor-Genera] Joseph T. Dickman, come mander of the Southern Department, by lease Peterson, |The American aviators are being held as to whether the | somewhere in Mexico south of Can- in | delaria had | ' the ' Marfa Bank, left here early to- 'day for Candelaria with ‘anmoni, : money raised here. He was = panied by 4 military@ guard com- ~ H. M. Fennell, vice president of manded by Maj. C, C. Smith. It is ‘not known here when the American aviators are expected to recross the border to the United States. Avia- tors on detached servi at the Big Rend headquarters also Wft here to- day for the Candelaria border pre- sumably to watch from the air for the return of the aviators. Wealthy eattlemen of the Big Bend district had authorized Fennell to draw $13.- / 900 in cash and to deliver it to Dar- kins Kilpatrick for the ransom of the ‘aviators. Subseribed in 15 stienten: This sum was subscribed in 15 minutes yesterday at the Bloys’ cow- hoy camp meeting in progress near Fort Davie, Tex. The ransom was demanded by today on threat of kill- two aviators, according to & neesage sent to the border by a Mex- ican courter yesterday and signed with tbe name of the aviators. This message was delivered to Capt. Leon- ard F. Matilack, commander of the Eighth Cavairy Troop, stationed at Candelaria, and wae at once sent to Col. George T. Langhorne, district commander, by fleld wtreless A courter was dispatched to the bandit canjp late last night with an appeal from Kilpatriek to extend the limit for the payment of the unti] Wednesday arrival of the messenger yes- and the inability to obtain. the cath demanded on Sunday, according” to announcements made here. . According to reports brought from there seems to be little that the bandit band is Cano, who has been rany raids and kilj- includ~- ing the killing of Texas Ranger Niue lan and Joe Sitters, a line rider, sev- eral years ago Cano has been ate tached toe the Carranza garrison in Ojinaga and has also operated with Villa, but has been acting indepnd- entiy as a bandit for more than a vear. Feeling against the bandits & high in the Big Bend district today. ing the time rite the late the coulbt led charged river, there Chico with by Associated Preas PASO. Tex... Aug. 15.-~Byvery ie being made today to ezpe- of Lieuts. Paul Ww ind Harold G. Peterson, avi- ators of the Ul. & A.. who are held for a ransom of $15,000 by Mexzicap handits somewhere in Mexico south * of of Wet Te imu After eight days of suspense since the aviators, patrolling the berder, disappeared, messages were received by military authorities at Marfe, Tex... yesterday, demanding paymen: ef the in gold to Dawkins Kilpatrick of Candelaria, Tex... De- fore tonight or the Americans woul@ be killed, according to the m . Another message, signed by the avi- aceompanied the demand for the in whieh they steted precticaliy the same facts a8 On ‘alnmed in the message from the bag: ait By the EL, effort the rescue lite Davis the Bie Hend district raneom ators, ra h*eig lewstes Meesnges te Retati ves. sont messages to ther ‘al. 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