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LOCUST PLAGUE. PARIS, May 16
The French captured" seventy thousand flame-throwers in the war. iej ar e now used to repel the clouds f locusts which came from Algiers. W itliin a few hours thousands of bushels o locusts were lying on the ground. FRENCH APPOINTMENT. PARIS, May 17. M. Jonnart has been appointed Ambassador to the Vatican. OBITUARY. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m l NEW YORK, May 18. The death of Franklin K. bane, a former Secretary for the Interior, is reported from Rochester, Minnesota. POLISH INSURGENTS.
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(Received this day at 1.30 p.raJ U LONDON, May 18. The Times Warsaw correspondent advises that Korfantz ,had a long discussion with other Polish leaders and informed the Inter-Allied Control Commission that it was Mended to disarm the majority of the Polish msurgen s and concentrate the others in the Pless
86< He urged) the Allies to distribute troops along the present Polish line, so L to guarantee that the Germans would not invade any industrial di.
TKe Polish Chief, Rosank, commanding the Rimnik sector refuses to accept Korfantz’s arrangements. Korfantz previously replied to Hon Lloyd George’s castigation, stating that the Poles had only taken up arms in defence of justice and were willing to accept the Supreme Council’s just verdict, but they would never submit to arbitratory interpretation of the plebiscite figures.
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