The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-12-27
NEWS REVIEW OF PAST WEEK
shskeuo In War oeo.rtm.n,.

than of the army department. Revcla
lions made concerning the delays In
procuring and distributing supplies and
arms for the army, together with the
presidents talks with Colonel House
whose influence v great-probabi,
Justly so-may be- said ~ have led ID
the changes IN tho wnr depss tmen,
which put General Cncthals at the
head Of the Quart "mustcr general,
bureau and Cow o. = Wheeler ir
charge OF the ordnance b7reau. IN
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 wal council.
Much of the testimony of red tape
delays and mistaken judgi.,nts Of
wal department officials heard by the
senate committee Is not pleasant read
ing and II 10 needless 10 rehe1rse It.
The remedy for the conditions revealed
Is being applied. though rather late.
Surgeon General Gorgas added to the
uncomfortable feeling by a 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.
Az for the navy. the first day OF the
house committees inquiry showed that
Il vas In full fighting trim and that In
the matter of supplies little attention
was being paid to red tape. After AID.
miral MCGOWAN had been heard. Rep.
resentatlve Britten remarked: 81
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 II 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 sae complicated situation
there was watched with the greatest
interest. The negotiations between
Germany and. the bolsheviki govern.
ment went forward and II was evident
the kaiser was hurrying matters so
as to have a peace treaty signed be.
for the Lenine crowd should fall.
Trotzky still insisted that they sought
q general and not a separate peace.
aat In ,rre,.aaaa 80 tIat ha tzyItal
the entente allies to take part In the
negotiations. Meanwhile trade rela.
tons between the Germans and the
Russians were %reopened and the for
mer began getting fats. vegetables and
other things for which they have iSeep
suffering.
One obstacle TO the separate peace
plan has sprung up in the central
powers, where the Socialists have de
clared their opposition TO 1t. fearing
hat II will strengthen German lmper.
ialists and forcibly wipe out German
socialism. The Hungarian socialists
at a 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 II intended to make
peace proposals 10 all the allies.
Civil War Continues.
Fighting between the b~olsheviki
and the Cossacks continued through
the week and the most reliable ad.
vices indicate the latter generally
were victors. Ensign Kreylenko, the
bolsheyiki commander In chief, was
enabled by the arm!stIce Ia withdraw
large forces from the front but his ef.
forts TO send them after the Cossacks
were blocked by the Ukralnlans. The
Ukraine rada refused to permit max.
imallst troops Ia cross It's territory and
when bolshevIki troops attacked the
rada rs II was sitting In Odessa they
were defeated by Ukralnian forces.
The Orenburg Cossacks occupied
Tchellabinsk. a Junction point OIL the
Trans-Siberlan railway, and the Don
Cossacks under Kaledines were re-
ported TO have taken Rostov. Exas.
perated by the persistence Of their op.
ponents, the bolshevlki are adopting
drastic methods against them. includ.
ing the reinstatement Of the death
penalty. The disorders in Petrog. ad
were 20 serious that a state Of siege
was proclaimed.
The latest information concerning
Kerensky was n dispatch from Hapa-
rsnda saying that he was marching
against Moscow at the head OF an ar.
my. and from the same source came
the statement that Grand Duke Mich
ola had gathered n great army OF roy.
afsts in the Caucasus. One Petrograd
correspondent says there are signs of
an attempt inspired by Germany to re-
place the former cZar on the throne /;
another thinks the bolshevikl hive
such n plan, and the SIberians have
been said TO favor Nicholas. II NAV
well be the widespread belief that the
Russian monarchy will be restored
will be justified.
The exssctsA great offensive by ths
on the west front did not o.
veiop, but Won u~ludenburx's coneen.