Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 17. Official and unofficial Washington greeted Gen. Pershing and the Ist division of the American expeditionary force with enthusiasm as they marched in a victory parade which marks the passing of the A. E. F. Such a martial parade Washington never before witnessed. Gen. Pershing was given a great ovation and narrowly escaped injury at the end of the parade line when his famous horse “Jeff” slipped on some flowers in the street, hurling his distinguished rider to the pavement. The general, luckily, was unhurt and proceeded to the reviewing stand none the worse for the accident. —o— There has been cabled to Washington an outline of a settlement of the Fiume controversy, representing a compromise between Italy and Jugo-iSlavia, which has been reached by the powers at Paris. Under the terms of the agreement Fiume will be a separate state, the harbor to be a free port. £ . —o —- Washington has received no reply from Japan to President Wilson's appeal for a definite promise to restore Shantung to China on a (fixed date. The assumption, here is that Japan is not pleased at the suggestion and the president may not prevail on the mikado’s government to help him out in the bitter controversy in the senate over the Shantung agreement in the peace treaty.