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Mil n Air oc Hies Continue in : Poland GRAVE DMA IS NOV CONFRONTING PARIS CONFERENCE Problems That Confront Are Too Complicated to Be Solved in ii- Month,1 or Even Year, Perhaps. MUST QUIET PEACE THIRST Great Anxiety at Present Is to Satisfy Demand of People; Americans Propose Scheme, m By Pill So(t Howrer Special Cabl to Tne Journal and Tha Cbican Daily Na (Cnnrriebt. 1019. by Chiraco Dally Nrwi Co.) Paris; March 29. The peace confer ence is struggling' in tne . midst of a grave dilemma. On the one hand the peoples of the world are demanding im mediate peace; on the other it has be come clearer every day that the prob " lems -involved are too complicated, nu merous and momentous to be solved In a day, a month or perhaps even in a year. Hasty conclusions are almost certain to be Inadequate solutions fruit ful only In future trouble. Under the grinding pressure of this - dilemma the negotiations have followed a strange course, apparently . without any order whatsoever. In reality this course has been dictated by a watch ful opportunism. When Germany was quiet and Russia threatening, Russia was discussed and the troubles between the Jugo Slavs and the Italians or be tween the ; Csecha-Slovaks' and the Poles became subjects of deliberation by the big ten. Moreover the arrival of new delegations In Paris has generally - been sufficient to obtain them a hear ing. There is at the present time appar ently great anxiety to do something which will quiet the peace thirst of the . peoples. AS an agreement has been reached on the League of Nations and on naval, military and aerial condi tolns to be Imposed on the Germans, the Americans now propose to combine these things and call them the , pre liminaries of peace instead of final armistice- terms. ' The conference would then continue leisurely to wrestle with the rest of the world's problems in the name of the League of Nations instead of as a body of allied negotiators.'. Obviously this is a mere verbal quib ble. .Final peace can only -come with a fair ahd Just settlement of all the is sues which have: been raised by the mightiest convulsion the world has ever' -Seen. Such a settlement ' cannot and should not be railroaded through in the YANKEE FINDS GERMAN PLATE g b g Ar i Of ' M?. Picture made from photographic ' plate found by Sergeant Raymond Ingling or second battalion company A. E. F. of army of occupation. The yun, Ingling says, is a trench gun and the men German machine gun crew whose position was taken b y American soldiers. The picture was sent to Miss Beryl Brackett, 15 E ast Twenty-second street. name of speeding up peace. As a matter of fact the return to normal conditions of peace may ,' take many months de spite anything the peace conference can do. . , ' Greatest Sanger Passed Danger of the resumption of hostilities on any large scale has already been def initely passed. Demobilization In nearly every country is progressing rapidly and practically- without suddenly throwing large numbers of unemployed men back into civil life. Measures have been taken for revictualing central Europe, rattle by .little business is being resumed but the 'world's economic and financial situ ation is such that no edict of the peace conference can untangle It in a day. The cost of living, which took yeaj-a ta reach the present height, may take years to fall to the normal level. The peace con ference Is probably doing the . best it can under the tremendous difficulties which overburden It. Return; to peace depends not alone on the decisions reached -in the Paris conference, but on the Initiative, energy and sense of duty of private citizens in every-' country. Those 1 who despite difficulties endeavor resolutely to find work and resume busi ness are themselves delegates of peace. Those, on the other hand, who sit Btlll waiting: for some magic script known as a peace treaty to make things easier for them are not only laying themselves open to bitter disappointment but help ing to retard the very thing for which they pretend, to be sighing, namely, the peace of the world. Soldier Celebrates On Two Foot Ledge St. Louis. Mo, March 29. I N. S.) A, two-foot ledge extending around the tenth floor of Hotel Jefferson here was selected by Ralph M. Harrison of Hlg glnsville. Ark., a discharged soldier, as the place to celebrate his return to civ ilian life. It took the house detectives, the services of several volunteers and the coaxing of anxious spectators to per suade the former soldier that he'd bet ter come down to earth for his celebra tion. . i ' Home! Family! and New Clothes! . . Home is the soldier! Home is the sailor! : Home with new hopes- . new Tdeals that now will be ful ' filled! Lay away the loved uniform, that,. through the din and smoke of battle - and of. far adventure, marched with you to glory! It will be something for, your children to revere when you wear it on Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and all those other great days dear to f the American heart! It has doubly -. earned the right to march with the boys - of '61 and '65 the boys of '98 ! ' ,.',vDon now, the apparel of the peaceful days. This store, with its great stocks of clothing, is able and eager to furnish your civilian attire. ' Here ou will find brpad assortments of fabrics and styles that have been devel- ; . oped in anticipation of our home-coming. ; - , We are ready to serve yon. ? $20 to $55 0 n l "ill - J : I 1 . i i i ii''ii,i '' I. . I . 'i ij. ass .r r -i. n . . i.a ; www r a a . III"! It "H" A ' J ' . . - ' - '" ---- -- t - . - - .'. - - --ft J . " : 0.000 CHILDREN GARRY ALLY FLAGS IN POSEN PARADE Great Demonstration Made on Occasion of Visit of General Kernan of Allied Mission. HUN OPPRESSION KEEPS UP Germans Make Desperate Effort to Prevent Outbreak in Order to Influence Peace Conference. Br Aathony Ciarnerk! Special Cabla to Tb Jonrnal and the Chicago DaUy New. (Copyright, 1919. by Chicago Iaily Neva Co.) Posen, Poland, by Courier to Paris. March 29. -General Francis J. Keman, TJ. S. A., head of the American group of the American allied mission for Po land, accompanied by a number of as sistants and the French. Italian and British members of tne same mission, is at work here to assist in terminating the bloody conflict which has been going on for weeks between the Germans and Poles on the line between the territory in Posen whence the Grmans were driven out and that portion still in their hands. Through the kindness of General Ker nan it was my privilege to be the only American newspaper correspondent to be present on an occasion which promises to be most Important in connection with the future history of Poland, as well as of Germany, and which will have an Important bearing on the peace confer ence. In preparation for the reception of the interallied commission, Posen and the places around it had been' decked with the Stars and Stripes and the flags of Britain, France, Italy and Poland. Fighting has been going on, despite the armistice, ' for . weeks, with dead and wounded victims daily. German Oatrages Coatlnae In addition to the fighting between the German and Polish soldiers, there have been continuous reports from Po lish civilians that the territory in the province of Posen, in which the Poles are In the majority, but which the Ger mans still control, and also In the terri tory of upper Silesia, populated by Poles, as well as Polish cities, towns and -villages in East Prussia, have been the scenes of reigns of terror. - Most terrible outrages, executions and Imprisonments have, it is alleged, been resorted to by the- Germans to- keep the Polish people subdued. They are charged with sys tematically refusing food rations to Polish children and women In those por tions of old Poland wherein the Poles still predominate? . but which i the Ger mans hope to, keep even after the peace conference) and which the-Polish soldiers do not yet occupy, It is openly charged by Polish refu gees, from these places fchStf a system atic effort is being made to idll off as many Polish people by starvation as possible and make all Poles groan under the heel of oppression, which, under the purposes of President Wilson and tne allies at the peace conference, would have been made impossible and ended. By public demonstrations In honor of the allies and by the display of the allied and Polish colors wherever the Polish government has supplanted the German rule, It is hoped to give physical and visible proof that they" are still Polish, that they have not been Germanised and that they are an -inseparable part of Poland. The attention of President Wil son and also of the other allied leaders is .asked In order that they may learn the full facts regarding the present fate of the Polish population In the territory of old Poland still under German rule, which the , Germans claim to be Ger manized. Bothless Exeentlons Kept TJp Poles here claim that In some sec tions a state of siege has been main tained for weeks by the German gov ernment, with ruthless executions and martial" law, to compel the Polish peo ple to remain quiet in the hope that the peace conference will permit those parts of Poland to remain separated from Poland and be retained by Germany. In other parts ' of ' old Poland under German rule,, at recent local and other, elections the : Polish can81dates were barred, while the population was com pelled under . severe" regulations to go. to the polls. This, it is claimed, was done for the purpose of : making the; claim before the peace conference that; the Poles are satisfied . with German : rule. This , is for the purpose of pre- j venting the relinquishing f these parts by Germany - and also, f or preventing their rejoining "a free and Independent j Poland. ' y. S : While the allies are urging the Polish people in the . territory of Poland still heldTiy the Germans to remain patient and even suffer for a few more months until the alliea at the peace conference have fully settled . the . boundaries, the Poles In some sections have .been restive under the restraint Imposed upon them,, which has prevented them from getting rid of the German rule, which for more than a century has been oppressive and repulsive. To remain quiet under such circumstances has been difficult. ; (By & procession of 30,000 children car? rylng Polish and allied flags in this jCity in honor of the interallied commis sion's visit here, and by other public demonstrations In which thousands have participated, the city of Posen has been giving'an effective denial to the German i claim that the majority of its popula tion la anything else j than ""Polish. , In the public square in which to impress the German rule upon the Poles a mon ument to the old German emperor, Wil liam I, was erected, one of the largest demonstrations in honor of the allies took place. ; ; : ' ; ' f Iowa After I. W. W. ., ; Des Moines, Iowa. March 291. "(L K. S.) I. W. W., BolshevlkV radicals, ter rorists, beware ! Iowa is after them all. 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