U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [352]
Mort aux vaches
at the place de la Concorde the Republican Guards in christmastree helmets were riding among the crowd
whacking the Parisians with the flat of their swords scraps of the International worriedlooking soldiers in their helmets lounging with grounded arms al along the Grands Boulevards
-400-Vive les poilus
at the Republique à bas la guerre MORT AUX
VACHES à bas la Paix des Assassins they've torn up
the gratings from around the trees and are throwing stones and bits of cast iron at the fancydressed republican guards hissing whistling poking at the horses with umbrel-las scraps of the International at the Gare de l'Est they're singing the International entire the gendarmerie nationale is making its way
slowly down Magenta into stones whistles bits of iron the International Mort Aux Vaches Barricades we must build barricades young kids are trying to break down the shutters of an arms shop revolver shots an old woman in a window was hit (Whose blood is that on the cobbles?) we)re al running down a side street dodging into court-yards concièrges trying to close the outside doors on cav-alry charging twelve abreast firecracker faces scared and mean behind their big moustaches under their Christmas-tree helmets ata corner I run into a friend running too Look
out They're shooting to kil and its begun to rain hard so we dive in together just before a shutter slams down on the door of the little café dark and quiet inside a few working men past middle age are grumblingly drinking at the bar Ah les salops There are no papers Some-body said the revolution had triumphed in Marseil es and Lil e Ça va taper dure We drink grog americain our
-401-feet are wet at the next table two elderly men are play-ing chess over a bottle of white wine later we peep out from under the sliding shutter
that's down over the door into the hard rain on the empty streets only a smashed umbrel a and an old checked cap side by side in the clean stone gutter and a torn handbil
L'UNION DES TRAVAILLEURS FERA
NEWSREEL XXXVIII
C'est la lutte finale
Groupons-nous et demain
L'internationale
Sera le genre humain
FUSILLADE IN THE DIET
Y.M.C.A. WORKERS ARRESTED FOR STEALING FUNDS
declares wisdom of people alone can guide the nation in such an enterprise SAYS U.S.
MUST HAVE WORLD'S
GREATEST FLEET when I was in Italy a little limping group of wounded Italian soldiers sought an interview with me. I could not conjecture what they were going to say to me, and with the greatest simplicity, with a touching sim- plicity they presented me with a petition in favor of the League of Nations. Soldiers Rebel at German Opera ORDERED TO ALLOW ALL GREEKS TO DIE
CANADIANS RIOT IN BRITISH CAMP
Arise ye pris'ners of starvation
Arise ye wretched of the earth
For justice thunders condemnation
-402-A qui la Faute si le Beurre est Cher?
GAINS RUN HIGH IN WALL
STREET
MANY NEW RECORDS
NE SOYONS PAS LES DUPES DU TRAVESTI BOLCHEVISTE
the opinion prevails in Washington that while it might be irksome to the American public to send troops to Asia Minor people would be more wil ing to use an army to establish order south of the Rio Grande. Strikers menace complete tieup of New York City. Order restored in Lahore. Lil e under-takes on strike THREAT OF MUTINY BY U. S. TROOPS
CALIFORNIA JURY QUICKLY RENDERS
VERDICT AGAINST
SACRAMENTO WORKERS
'Tis the final conflict
Let each stand in his place
The international party
Shall be the human race
BOLSHEVISM READY TO COLLAPSE SAYS
ESCAPED GENERAL
the French Censor wil not al ow the Herald to say what the Chinese Delegation has done but that there is serious un-rest it would be idle to deny. Men who have been deprived of the opportunity to earn a living, who see their children crying for food, who face an indefinite shutdown of indus-tries and a possible cessation of railway traffic with al the disorganization of national life therein implied, can hardly be expected to view the situation calmly and with equanimity