Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — $5,000,000 GIVEN TO CZECHS [ARTICLE]

$5,000,000 GIVEN TO CZECHS

Wilson Aids New Republic With Part of Emergency Fund. Washington, May 30. —During dlscuscusslon of retention of American soldiers in Siberia, General March, chief of staff, told the house military committee that President Wilson had given $5,000,000 from his $100,000,000 fund to the Czecho-Slovaks for their fight against the bolshevikl, and “later gave them another sum." The money was “virtually a loan,”' he said. ,