, 1918-10-10

percy. the French commander OF the
commander of the Greeks in Serbia.
ignation of Chancellor Won Hertling,
Vice Chancellor Won Payer and For
eign Minister Won Hintze, and the in
vitation of the kaiser and of Emperor
Charles to their people to participate
in the government. Late in the week
it was announced that the kaiser had
selected Prince Macmillan o: Baden
for the post of chancellor. He has been
known as head of the Delbrueck mol
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
are determined shall not be accom-
plished, and their leaders and h
press already are at work to show h
people that unless the war is carried
on until the Hun is beaten TO his knees
and forced to accept a dictated peace,
all their sacrifices will have beer in
vain. The time Is ripe for the silly SEN
timentalists, secretly urged on by the
friends of Germany, to aprlng 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 will have no effect on those who
believe in justice and patriotism.
Ia
News from Russia and especially
from Serbia is scanty and belateI
these days. The most important com
ing lately concerns the anti-bOishevik
government set up in Omsk. Minister
of Wal Michaelov attempted to make
himself dictator by forcing the resig-
nation of the cabinet and organizing an
administrative council to succeed 1t.
The council declared the duma dis
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 Bieisk,
the bolshevik base.
A British expedition has landed in
S~pitzbergen and seized the German
mining property and other plants
there, and the immensely rich iron and
Goa deposits already are being de-
veloped rapidly.
The state department at Washington
UNI informed of n hfu trnrICtn0 Of f1a
U%krainians against the Germans, in
the course of which the Huns lost 1,50O
men n were forced to evacuate two
cities. This news, together with the
knowledge that Roumania was about
ready to e-enter the war on the side
of the allies, was considered of great
military Importance. A large part of
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 will be indeed
most distressing-to Austria.
The apparent determination of the
Germans to destroy utterly every city
"a tNhNS INV oCi6Auht tt6t bhty "
compelled to %relinquish has given rise
to a general demand that the allied
governments 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 n
murderer every American captured
with a shotgun In his possession, he
told them that reprisals for such nc
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.
IA
On Monday the master numbers in
the new draft were drawn. President
Wilson taking the first from the howl.
The classification of the men is pro-
crossing well, but the sending of those
selected to the training camps may he
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.