Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS

Washington, D. C. May 9. In a telegram to Oregon democrats President Wilson called upon the Democratic party to endorse the league of nations covenant without change and to condemn the Lodge- reservations as “inconsistent with the nation’s honor.” Reports that Mexico City has been taken by the revolutionists without bloodshed and that Caranza is in'flight were confirmed by official dispatches to the state department. All Chinese restaurants and shops were closed here today in observance of the fifth anniversary of China’s acceptance of Japan’s itwen-ty-one demands, China’s national humiliation day.” Representative Britten of Chicago will introduce in the house tomorrow a resolution for the investigation of Dr. Charles W. Elliot’s assertion that the West Point military academy is inefficient. Reports by bolshevik leaders on economic conditions within soviet Russia, contained in bolshevik official documents received here from Helsingfors, comment oxi the steady decline of industrial .'production in Russia under soviet rule.