Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-11

NO
ignation Of Chancellor Won Hertling,l
Vice Chancellor Won Payer and For
eign Minister Won Hintze, and the in
.yitation of the kaiser and Of Emperor
Charles to their people to participate
in the government. Late in the week,
1t was announced that the kaiser had
selected Prince Macmillan OF Baden
for the post of chancellor. He has been
known as head of the Delbrueck mod
crates and opposed to the schemes Of
the pan-Germans, and it is presumed
he will make great efforts to bring
about a negotiated peace. That, how
ever, is just what the allied nations
arc determined shall not be accom-
plishcd, and their leaders and the
press already are at work to show the
people that unless the var is carried
on until the, Hun is beaten TO his knees
and forced to accept a dictated peace,
all their sacrifices will have been in
vain. The time is ripe for the silly SEN
timentalists, secretly urged on by the
friends Of Germany, to spring their
pleas of pity for the defeated and Of
the benefits to be gained by ending
the war at once by negotiation. But all
this foolish and actually reasonable
talk viii have no effect on those who
believe in justice and patriotism.
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News from Russia and especially
from Serbia is scanty and belated
these days. The most important COM
ing lately concerns the anti-boIShevik
government set up in Omsk. Minister
of War Michaelov attempted TO make
himself dictator by forcing the resig-l
nation of the cabinet and organizing an
administrative council to succeed it,
The council declared the duma dist
missed, but that body refused to dis
solve, released the imprisoned min.
listers and put Michaelov under arrest.
The Czecho-Slovak authorities there
promptly put a strong military force
in the city and ended the attempted
coup.
In northern Russia the allies are
making progress southwark from Arch
angel along the Dvina river, and Amer
leans are holding the point farthest
south, only forty miles from Bielsk,
the bolshevik base.
A British expedition has landed In
%Spitzbergen and seized the German
mining property and other plants
there, and the immensely rich iron and
coal deposits already are being de-
veloped rapidly.
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The state department at Washington
was informed of a big uprising Of the
Ukrainians against the Germans. in
the course of which the Huns lost 1900
men and were forced to evacuate two
cities. This news, together with the
knowledge that Roumania was about
ready to re-enter the war on the side
Of the allies, was considered of great
military Importance. A large part or
the population of Roumania, led by the
queen, has consistently refused to rec
ognize the treaty of Bucharest by
which their country was robbed by the
Huns. If they get into action again.
the plight Of Austria viii be indeed.
most distressing-to Austria.
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The apparent determination of the
Germans to destroy utterly every city.
in France and Belgium that they are
compelled to relinquish has given rise.
to q general demand that the allied
government shall warn the Huns that.
for every place wantonly destroyed a
city or town in Germany will be laid
in ruins by them later on. That Is the.
only kind of argument the German can
understand. Secretary Lansing recog-
nized this when, In response to the
| threat of the Germans to treat as a
murderer every American captured
with a shotgun in his possession, he
told them that reprisals for such ac-
ton would be thorough and effective.
The British air bombers, by their re-
prisal raids on German cities, have
| nearly put a stop to the air raids of
the Huns on undefended places. They
still attack Red Cross hospitals, and
for such brutality the allies can make
no reprisal in kind.
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On Monday the master numbers in
the new draft were drawn. President
Wilson taking the first from the bowl
The classification Of the men is pro
crossing well, but the sending Of those
selected TO the training camps may be
delayed by the serious spread OF the
epidemic of influenza. Rigorous meas
ures are being adopted to check the
disease, with prospects Of success.
Considering its nature. the number Of
: deaths is not extraordinary.