Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-12-27


a measure to prevent a reign Of bar
barism there that would menace all
Europe.
The government of the recreated
Polish nation is going ahead rapidly
and with determination. Having come
to the conclusion that Germany was In
alliance with the bolsheviki, 1t sew
cred diplomatic relations with Berlin
and drove Count Harry Kessler, the
German minister, out of the country,
He was accused Of having taken to
Warsaw a corruption fund of 10000
600 marks to organize a bolshevik coup
there. The government also has or
dered elections to the Polish parlia-
ment In the districts of Allenstein, Po-
sen, Oppeln, Beuthen, Kattowitz. Fla
tow and Danzig, and this is denounced
by the German press as the implied an
nexation of large parts of German east
ern provinces. The Poles have ordered
the mobilization of about 100000
men.
On Friday came the news that a
Polish army numbering $4,000 was be-
ing landed at Danzig, the seaport of
West Prussia, which the Poles seek as
an outlet to the Baltic sea.
Another anti-German leader of the
Ukrainians has come to the front,
General Petlura, and he has occupied
Odessa. He has the support of the
working and middle classes, and has
declared war against the Ukrainian
government, the capitalists and the
land owners. He advocates the extern
sion of the Ukraine into the R%uthenian
portions of Galicia, and consequently
will find himself opposed by the Poles.
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Having marched up to and across
the Rhine, the allied armies of occupa-
ton now hold the three bridgeheads
on the east bank of that river; as stip-
ulated in the armistice. The British
have the Cologne b~ridgehead, the
French that at Mainz, and the Ameri-
cans and French together hold the
bridgehead of Coblenz. Forty-two per
cent of this, the southern part, is occu-
pied by the Poilus. The American Third
army, under General Dickman, was in
it's final position at the expiration of
the original period Of the armistice,
exactly according to the plans made a
month before, despite changes therein
and the difficulties of moving a large
army so far, with all its supplies.
The people Of Cologne are not en-
joying the restrictions on their move
ments instituted by the British, and
hundreds of them have been arrested
for being out in the streets in the eve
ming. The French, also are very strict
with the inhabitants of the territory
they are occupying. There is no dan
ger of any sympathy for the Huns be-
ing stirred up by this.
Practically every day sees the ar,
rival of one or more transports laden
with returning American soldiers,
many of them wounded, and arrange.
ments for their release from the serv.
ice are being perfected. That their alb.
sorption into the civil life of the coun.
try will be accomplished without trou,
Bile is assured by leaders in Industrial
affairs. The casualty lists just now
are longer than ever, for we are get,
ting the names of the boys who fell
in the great fight in the Argonne, the
~severest conflict in which the Ameri-
can troops were engaged.
Our navy also is coming home, piece,
meal. Many of the vessels will be kept
abroad for some time, and American
naval stations will be maintained at
Brest, Gibraltar and the Azores for a
year at least, the consent of France,
Great Britain and Portugal having
been obtained. These stations, with
their seaplanes and radios, will render
aid to the merchant marine. Our
other naval establishments in Europe
are being dismantled as rapidly as pos
sible.
Swift work on the finance bill has
been done by the senate. Among the
many important committee amend
ment adopted was one imposing a tax
of 10 per cent on profits from child la
Dor products entering interstate COM
merce. Twelve Southern senator's,
and they alone. voted against this
amendment, which is designed to re-
place the child labor law declared un-
constitutional by the Supreme court.
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Admiral Castro was elected presi-
dent of Portugal to succeed Doctor
Paes, who was assassinated as the re-
suit of a conspiracy alleged to have
been-formed by the League of Repub-
lican Youths.