The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-11-30

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American engineers and infantry
citing an American Handley Page
ours.
The creation OF q league Of nations
to enforce peace.
An agreement to reduce military
ornaments.
An agreement making freedom Of
the e in war az in peace subject to
regulation by the league Of nations.
A square deal for the German peo-
pie.
Aid for Russia.
Four Of these the people probably
will willingly leave to Mr.. Wilson and
the other diplomats to settle, but the
fifth, "a square deal for the German
people," is calculated to arouse the
apprehension of many millions Of peo-
pie in America and the countries Of
the entente. Even If they are not de-
handing revenge, they do demand that
a square deal be given America, Great
Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and
the other nations that fought the CEN
trail powers and whipped them, and
that Germany and her fellow conspira-
tors get only what is left, If anything.
The governments Of the allied nations
have kept from tie knowledge u the
people many facts concerning the war,
and doubtless this has been wise, but
they could not If they would conceal
the part the German people as a whole
have played. Every one Of us knows
that the latter, whatever their status
or their politics, supported their gov
eminent as long as it appeared to be
winning, gloatingly approved all the
crimes and outrages committed, and
repudiated the leaders of the criminal
conspiracy only when their failure
was assured and it became necessary
for them to look for some way of
crawling out from under the wreck
age. .
Why, then, should the president of
the United States or any other repre-
sentative of the powers that defeated
Germany, feel it necessary to make a
special plea for a square deal for the
vanquished? Paraphrasing the old
saying, what we demand for the
Germans Is plain justice, and id
little of that.
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Mr. Wilson is said to be especially
concerned in the problem Of estab.
fishing a stable government in Russia,
and there is reason for his concern.
That distracted country has bobbed
up again in the news columns and the
situation there is, If possible, more COM
pllcated than ever. The new all-Rus-
sian government that was established
at Omsk and recognized by most Of
the anti-bOlshevik elements Is now In
control of Admiral Alexander Kolchak.
The council of ministers executed q
coup d'etat and made Kolchak the vir-
tual dictator and commander Of the
all-Russian army and navy. He is
called supreme governor" Several
opposing ministers were imprisoned.
What the course of the commissioners
Of the allied governments will be Ii
not known.
Along the Dvina the bolsheviki at
tackled the allied forces and were re-
pulsed with heavy losses. Since then
they have contented themselves with
Smelling the Russo-allied positions
from the gunboats, with which they
are better supplied than their adver.
saries.
An event that was very gratifying
to Washington and the entente cap
itals was the overthrow of the Ukrain-
ian government and the capture Of
Kiev by anti-bolshevik troops from
Astrakhan under General Denikine.
This opens the way for the allies d.
rectly into the heart Of Russia. While
they were being ousted at home, the
Ukrainians were engaged in ~continu-
GUS fighting with the Poles in Galicia,
where they had taken. Lemberg, and
in Bukowina, where they held Czerno-
WITT. There, as in the Ukraine, the
Ukrainians were helped by German
officers.
No news has come from eastern ST.
IBERIA, nor Is much to be expected,
since its dissemination is under the
control Of the Japanese. The recent
lifting Of the censorship does not
seem to apply to that region.