The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-02-07
BY EDWARD W. PIckARD.

py GO"Nrc W. FISNNNO.
Washington correspondents were
permitted to say last Friday that the
United States and the entente allies
are maturing plans of supreme imp"r-
lance which, II Is hoped and believed,
will bring the war to an end before
the close uf this year. What IA" pro.
i"ct Is cannot be- stated. but 1t is
known that this country j. about to
uS. its men and resources uu II far
greater seal" than has been considered
possible. aud that there will be close
corporation by all the opponents OF
he central powers.
In mcsSug" 10 American farmers.
President Wilson declared the cul-
minating crisis of the struggle has
come. and that we must and shall
win. He added that victory or defeat
would be decided this year
-Ba-
Industrial Germany ~ last seems Ia
hr rising in It's strength. demanding
that the war be- ended without lnd"in-
ultieS and anncXatiOnS and that IN"
condition Of the proletnriat be- lmprOv-
ed. This Is really the big news of the
past week. for II the hundreds of thou
sands of striking wOrkmen, backed by
the women of the country, can gain
the support Of II considerable part of
the German army the autocruts and
mliiarists may he driven from power
or forced to recede greatly from their
pan. German program In order 10 re-
tain their hold on the reins of gov
ernment. In Berlin, Hamburg Kiel
and the Chemnitz Industrial district ot
Snxony work has come TO n standStill
and all over the empire there are
strikes. According 10 the mengor dis
pntches from Germany. the soldiers
and strikers fought in the suburbs OF
igrin and some deaths resulted,
though In several Instances the sol
diers refused To fire on the people. The
two socialist factions are conducting
the great demonstration. and many OF
their leaders are said To have been ar
rested. Three important newspapers
Of Berlin were suppressed. Minister
~ the Interior Walrnr refused 10 hold
conference with the delegates OF the
workmcn.
Such was the condition OF affairs,
II surface Indications meant anything.
But the foreign correspondents IN Hol-
land and elsewhere were dubious.
They more than half believed the i'm
perial government had stirred up the
strike movement I'm the hope that II
would affect the entente countries and
bring about peace, or that il intended
to use the movement to break or nego-
'iatlons with the Russian holShcvlki.
There was much uncertainty aS 10
what was going On In Austria. ms the
censorship was very active. Reports
from Vienna were that the state gran
aries there were destroyed by n con
fagration which the rcvolutonnrles
were accused of having started.
From Petrngrud came the statement
that the workmen ~ Warsaw had
struck In protest against Won Kuchl.
mann's demand that Russia recognize
Polish government protected by Ger
many
II Is Interesting 20 learn that VII
liam II. Thompson. formerly head Of
the American Red Cross mission 10
Russia, contributed II million dnln-s
or more to promote the spread of hol-
shcvtki propaganda In Germany md
Austrin. believing II would hc the
greatest instrument I'm the uudcrmiu-
Ing of the militnrlSt regimes In the
central powers. This Idea seems 10 be
aviHtors have carried vast quantities
fully Justified ny results. The Russian
OF bolshcvikl literature across the
lines, and this together with the gen
eral publication of President Wilson's
war aims address, has had immense
influence.
The conflict In Finland between the
government Of that new republic aud
the revoluiionSts. who seek Ia follow
the example of their brethren In Rus
sia, has resulted In some sharp fight
Ing, The so.callcd white guard. sup
porting the government In northern
Finland, defeated the red guard de-
spite the help given the latter by Rus
Sian soldiers, and then began Il march
on the southern part of III" country,
where the red guards were in control.
A report that Sweden had interviewed
In behalf OF the government wns de-
uled.
The Roumanians Joined forces with