Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — REDSMENACE GERMANY [ARTICLE]

REDSMENACE GERMANY

Marching Toward Central Europe. German Soldiers Are Joining Bolsheviki, Who Are Destroying Every- , thing in Their Path. Paris. Dec. 16. —Bolshevik troops, comprising 11 Infantry divisions and cavalry and artillery, are marching to ward central Europe on a front of 400 miles from the Gulf of Finland to the Dnieper, river, according to dispatches from Berne. The advance began No vember 11, the day the German armistice was signed. German soldiers, the advices add. are joining the bolshevik!, who are reported to be destroying everything in their path and capturing material left behind by the Germans in their withdrawal westward.

and freedom in its life as can be cured only by the constant association and co-operation of friends. Toasts Mme. Poincare. “I greet you. not only -jrith deeppersonal respect, hut as the representative of the great people of France, and beg to bring you the greetings or another great people to whom the fortunes of France are of profound and lasting interest. “I raise my glass to the health of the president of the French republic and to Mme. Poincare and the prosperity of France.” \ President Poincare welcomed President Wilson warmly as the latter stepped from the train, the French executive firmly grasping him by the hand. William Martin, who is attached to the foreign office as introducer of ambassadors, presented Premier Clemenceau, who welcomed President Wilson in English, saying he was extremely glad to meet him. By a unanimous vote the municipal council of Paris Friday decided to confer upon President Wilson the title of a citizen of Paris. Medal for Wilson. When President Wilson was presented with the grand gold medal of the city of Paris. Mrs. Wilson was presented with a gold brooch set in diamonds,' with doves in bas relief bearing an olive branch. The front pages of the newspapers are devoted to details of the reception to be accorded President Wilson by Paris today. Pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are printed by all the newspapers. Long editorials recounting characteristics of the president, outlining his policies and describing his work during the war fill the journals. In addition, considerable attention is paid to the part that Americans hare played in the war, the battles of Chateau Thierry. St. Mihiel and the Argonne being described.