Villers Carbonnel, France. Formerly a village of 500 souls. April 12, 1919.
Scenes like the one above may explain French discontent with the Peace, as reported by the Casper Daily News.
Bolshevik sympathy was reported as the cause of the recent mutiny or near mutiny in the 339th Infantry's Company I, fighting in northern Russia. That may seem extreme but in fact there was some truth to it. The Michigan contingent to the unit had been drawn from National Guardsmen who included a fair number of immigrants from Finland who held fairly left wing views going into service and who were, in fact, becoming somewhat confused over their role in Russia, and loosing sympathy with it. Of course, simply wondering why they were fighting and dying in a cause that they hadn't really signed on for had something to do with that as well.
Speaking of Bolsheviks, plenty was going on in Bavaria, as the paper noted. On this day the German Communist Party seized control of the Bavarian government, displacing the anarchist who had taken over a couple of days prior.
A little closer to home, tragedy struck in Fremont County when Harry Kynes from Shoshoni, only recently returned to the United States, died of what was undoubtedly the Spanish Flu.
Also closer to home, the news had now broken that Col. Cavendar's death was a suicide, as we earlier related, and was in the news again.
We discussed the sad tale of Col. Cavendar here earlier. His death was first reported as a heroic sacrifice, and then it was discussed as a scandalous example of mistreatment of National Guard officers.
The weekly The Judge was looking at baseball.
The magazine The Judge used a play on words on its cover, relating labor strikes, which had been much in the news, with striking out in baseball.
The Saturday Evening post was looking at Spring.
Tacoma Washing, April 12, 1919.
And Tacoma was photographed.
And so one really eventful week drew to a close. Communist revolution in Bavaria, a mutiny in the American Army in Russia, the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, Japanese troops firing on Korean civilians. .. it must of been frightening to pick up the paper.
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