Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1919 — Page 4

WESTERN HEROES ARE BACK HOME

Illinois and lowa Men Arrive in i. Rew. York With War Crosses. NEGRO TROOPS ARE HONORED ■ ..—.—l I Rmirl 1 ManffinDeoorat—Crick ChlMOO Un'* Which Shattered Pru»Mm Guard*, Kaiser’* Crack „ —Organisation. i IMr Tort. Jan. 20—More than 400 nnaola man. many of them wounded, wo among the 5,150 soldier* to arrtoo on the hospital ship Comfort and the transports Lapbind, Wilhelmina Man from nearly every Ulinols nnft ta rta field were among the returning Mia—. They IbU! atnrioe of- the figMtag on every sector of the westFive officers of the old Eighth Tlliand many of the enlisted men of ttnt crack negro regiment debarked fr—i the Lapland. Two of the officers l—d bean decorated. From them something of the remarkable fighting record at lUtootr negro br*tlera was gleaned. Two officers and ffr men—the re- ■ Binder of the skeleton Blackhawk divlgtao—were aboard the Wilhelmina. AM officers and 72 men. Three Hundred and Eleventh sanitary train, Osa—* alflo were aboard. / lowa Men Back. Forty-nine officers and I Jdl men of the Three Hundred and Thirty-seventh artillery, a National army organisation. Camp Dodge. la., made np mainly of men from that state und from IBnnaootm - returned ~ the Sierra. The regiment had not been to the front, but had 40 deaths from Influanna while trailing near the French coast. - ■ -- ■ • The soldiers arriving on the three nthar ships were sent to Camp Mills and Merritt, and the wounded were dlvldod among three of the big debarkattas hospitalfl. Glory of Negro Unit. Ont to the Champagne sector of Franco— one of the most bloodstainad cornier* of that land —the 1111fighters gained Imperishable fam* For more than two months the IBghHO»now the Three Hundred and gevehtloCh Infantry—wns the on I y American regiment fighting In the Tenth Trench army. ronmflM- by Gan. Mangin. UenL Hervey J. Taylor of Chicago, wta—r of the Croix de Guerre and two stare fee special citations, was the first mghHi minoifl man to leave the ship. HU body had been riddled by machinegun bullets and shrapnel. bring*ng up supplies to his regiment over land deluged with German shells and machine-gun bullets. Lieu tenant Taylor was decorated by the French. - His heroic deed was performed Oc tober 24, near Boissons, at a time when the Eighth was fighting shoulder to shoulder with the French to check a counter-attack at the Prussian guard. The Illinois negroes stopped the advance of the flower of the kaiser’s fighting forces and made them ret rent, preventing a flanking movement which would have had dire results for the allies. ■ ■ -

EX-KAISER FOUND GUILTY

French Jurist* Declare He I* Respon- --- gtefwCrtatt- ; Paris, Jan- 20.—-Some points. in the report to which Premier Clemenceau referred when he said he bad consulted two eminent jurists on the penal respomdbillty of the former German emperor were made public. The report was drawn up by Ferdinand Larnaude, dean of the Parts faculty, and Dr. A. O. De Lapradelle, professor of rights of nations In the same faculty. ' The two French jurists prove that the extradition of the former German ruler cannot be refused, as he Is not a political refugee. The j report says: “It is anti-juridical to assimilate war with conspiracy. Crimes of war are crime* of public law and international law, not political crimes.” The emperor In the first place.” ’ say* the report, ‘‘as king of Prussia, is president of the confederation by virtue of a special law, in which human will does not enter. The German sovereign depends only on God and the sword. "With, such a conception of power it would be unjnridical to the highest degree to allow the emperor to escape responsibility for his actions —-his rereaponsibllity for war for which, un' der the constitution. The decision belonged to him alone."

FILIPINOS WANT TO BE FREE

Representative Mission on Way to : 7s Washington Now. ~ Seattle, Wash., Jan. 20.—Within the aear future a Philippine Islands mission of 25 legislators, business add professional men will come to the United States to promote business and trade relations with the islands. - They probably will take up with the government the matter of securing independence for the islands, Manuel fywwrnn, nrealdent of the senate of the Islands and leader of the independence party, made announcement here. He said he had been named chairman of the mission. He is here on hi* honeymoon. - I

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