Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-12-29


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charge of the ordnance bureau. The
energy and ability of these two men
lead to the confident belief that here
after war supplies will come forward
more rapidly. The soldiers they have
temporarily replaced, Generals Sharpe
and CrOzier, have been Ousted upward
into the superior war council.
Much of the testimony of red tape
delays and mistaken judgments Of
war department officials heard by the
senate committee is not pleasant read
ing and ii is needless to rehearse it,.
The remedy for the conditions revealed
is being applied, though rather late.
Surgeon General G"rgas added to the
uncomfortable feeling by Il frank re-
port showing health conditions in
some of the training camps are very
bad, due in part to shortage of warm
clothing and tents, and to poor heat
ing plants. For the delay In supply
ing winter clothing the war depart
ment said the national council of de-
Tense must be blamed
AS for the navy, the first day Of the
house committees inquiry showed that
1t was in full fighting trim and that in
the matter Of supplies little attention
was being paid to red tape After Ad-
miral MCGOWAN had been heard, Rep
resentative Britten remarked: II
thought We might find some soft spots
in this bureau Of supplies and accounts,
but We don't seem to get at them"
Secretary Daniels told the committee
he was rather proud of the way the
navy has met the actual test of war.
Russo German Peace Plans.
The spotlight was conferred on Rus
STA again last week and every develop
ment of the complicated situation
there was watched with the greatest
interest The negotiations between
Germany and the bolsheyiki govern
! trent went forward and it was evident
the kaiser was hurryng matters so
as to have peace trenty signed be
fore the Lenine crowd should fall
/ TrotZky still insisted that they sought
general and not a separate peace
and in pursuance of that he invited
+ the entente allies to take part in the
negotiations Meanwhile trade rela-
/ TONS between the Germans and the
| Russians We're reopened and the for
mer began getting fats, vegetables and
other things for which they have been
/ suffering.
/ one obstacle to the separate peace
/ plan has sprung up in the central
{ pow, where the Socialists have de.
clared their opposition to it, fearing
that il will strengthen German inper-
ialiSts aud forcibly wipe out German
socialism. The Hungarian socialists
at great meeting declared the plan
/ presented the greatest possible danger
/ to democracy The Russian govern
ment was said to have been notified
/ by Germany that it intended TO make
/ peace proposals to all the allies.
Civil War Continues.
/ Fighting between the bolShevih
/ and the CossackS continued through
/ the week and the most reliable adj
/ dces indicate the latter generally
were vlctors Ensign Kreyleoko. the
/ bojSheyik commander in CHER was
enabled by the armjStice to withdraw
/ large forces from the front but his ef-
forts to send them after the Cossac ks
/ We're blocked 10y the Ckrainiaus. The
/ Ukraine rGda refused to permit max
/ jmahSt troops 10 cross its territOr and
/ when hol@hevikt troops attacked the
rada as il was sitting In Odessa they
were defeated by Ukrainian forces
The orenburg CosSacks occupied
TgheHaeinSk. 4 junction point on the
TranS-Siberian railway. and the Don
CcSSacks under KaledineS were re
ported 80 have taken Rostov. Fxas-
perated by the persistence Of their op-
pouents, the bol~hevki arc adopting
Drastic methods against them. includ-
ns the reinstatement Of the death
penalty, The disorders in retrograd
were SO serious that a state Of siege
+ was proclaimed
The latest Information concerning
/ kerenSky was a dispatch from Hama
~ansa saving thar he was marching
a-a'n>t Moscow mt the head Of an ar
nN anl from The same source came
che settlement thar Grand Duke Mich
. ".a~ had -athered "a great army of roy
a.f~t~ n The Caucasus one Petrograd
''rrt~ranl SAYS there are signs Of
+ 1922 attempt inspired ny Germany to re-
/ place The former ear on the throne