Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-28

nd came for it with all sorts of vehicle
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 it is needless to rehearSe 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.
AS for the navy, the first day of the
house committees inquiry showed that
it was in full fighting trim and that in
the matter of supplies little attention
was being paid to red tape After Ad-
miraI MCGOWAN had been heard, Rep
resentative Britten remarked: Il
ifrhf soft
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 centered 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 bOlsheviki govern
ment went forward and it was evident
the kaiser was hurrying matters so
as to have a peace treaty signed be-
fore the Lenine crowd should fall.
Trotzky still insisted that they sought
a 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 were 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
| powers. where the Socialists have de-
clared their opposition to it, fearing
| that it will strengthen German imper-
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 it intended to make.
peace proposals to all the allies.
Civil War Continues.
Fighting between the bOlshevikf
and the Cossacks continued through
| the week and the most reliable adj
! vices indicate the latter generally
were victors. Ensign KreylenkO, the
| bolsheviki commander in chief, was
enabled by the armistice to withdraw
| large forces from the front but his eff
! forts to send them after the COssacks
were blocked by the UkrainianS. The
| Ukraine rada refused to permit max
| imaliSt troops to cross its territory ana
| when bOlsheviki troops attacked the
| rada as it was sitting in Odessa they
were defeated by Ukrainian forces.
/ The Orenburg COssackS occupied
/ Tcheliabinsk, junction point on the
Trans-Sfberian railway, and the Don
/ COssacks under Kaledines were re-
ported to have taken RostOv. EXas-
nerated by the persistence Of their OPP
p0nents. the bolsheviH are adopting
! drastic methods against them, includ-
! inc the reinstatement of the death
penalty. The disorders in Petrograd
were so serious that a state of siege
was proclaimed.
The latest Information concerning
| Kprensky was a dispatch from Hapa-
randa saving 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
oIas had gathered a great army Of roy
aHsts in the Caucasus. One Petrograd
CORRESPONDENT says there are signs Of
an attempt inspired by Germany to re-
place the former car on the throne;
another thinks the bolsheviki have
such a plan, and the Siberians have
been said to favor Nicholas. 1t may
we'll be the widespread belief that the
Russian monarchy viii be restored
will be justified.
The. expected great offensive by the