Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1920 — LAST OF BREST SOLDIERS HOME [ARTICLE]

LAST OF BREST SOLDIERS HOME

Final Contingent Reaches New York on George Washington. New York, Jan. 13. —The last contingent of troops quartered at the military camp at Brest arrived here yesterday on the transport George Washington./ She brought 237 officers, war workers and civilians and 615 troops. The George Washington will be turned over to the United States shipping board and will be allocated soon to some steamship company. The publication in Germany of formerly suppressed diplomatic pa-' pers has frightened the ex-kaiser Into the preparation of a defense, in which he says England was responsible for the war “because she refused to offer counsel of wisdom to Franceoand Russia.” Of course it was long since established that counsel of wisdom was needed only by Germany and Austria; also that they received but rejected it when the British premier begged that the Teutonic armies ready to spring be held in leash until the nations could meet In pacific conference. The Bolshevist idea that the way to stop crime is to destroy all the jails seems to be even more. unpromising as to results tham the prohibitionist idea that the way to stop crime is to destroy all the liquor.