The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-01-04


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charge Of the ordnance bureau. The
energy and ability Of these two men
lead TO the confident belief that here
after war supplies will come forward
more rapidly. The soldiers thg have
temporarily replaced, Generals Sharpe
and CrOZier, have been Ousted upward
into the superior war council.
Much of the testimony of red tape
delays and mistaken judgments Of
war department officials heard by the
senate committee is not pleasant read
ing and 1t is needless to rehearSe 1t.
The remedy for the conditions revealed
is being applied, though rather late.
Surgeon General Gorgas added to the
uncomfortable feeling by frank re-
port showing health conditions in
some OF the training camps are very
bad, due in part to shortage of warm
clothing and tents and to poor heat
ing plants. For the delay in supply
| ing winter clothing the war depart
ment said the national council of de-
! Tense must be blamed.
/ AS 1OT TIE navy llle HISI uiN Vi lllc
house committees inquiry showed that
! 1t was In full fighting trim and that in
the matter of supplies little attention
was being paid to red tape. After Ad-
mlral MCGOWAN had been heard, Rep
resentative Britten remarked: II
thought we might find some soft spots
In this bureau of supplies and accounts,
but we don't seem to get at them"
Secretary Daniels told the committee
he was rather proud of the way the
navy has met the actual test of war.
Russo German Peace Plans.
The spotlight was centered on Rus
STA again last week and every develop
ment of the complicated situation
there was watched with the greatest
interest. The negotiations between
Germany and the bolshevik govern
ment went forward and 1t was evident
the kaiser was hurrying matters so
as to have peace treaty signed be-
fore the Lenine crowd should fall
Trotzky still insisted that they sought
general and not a separate peace,
and in pursuance of that he invited
the entente allies to take part In the
negotiations. Meanwhile trade rela-
tons between the Germans and the
Russians were reopened and the for
mer began getting fats, vegetables and
other things for which they have been
suffering
One obstacle to the separate peace
plan has sprung up in the central
powers, where the Socialists have de-
clared their opposition to 1t, fearing
that II will strengthen German imper-
iallsts and forcibly wipe out German
socialism. The Hungarian socialists
at great meeting declared the plan
presented the greatest possible danger
to democracy. The Russian govern.
ment was snid to have been notified
by Germany that It intended TO make
peace proposals to all the allies.
Civil War Continues.
Fighting between the bolsheviki
and the CoSsaCks continued through
the week and the most reliable adj
vices Indicate the latter generally
were viCtorS. Ensign Kreylenko. the
holsheviA commander In chief. was
enabled by the armistice Ia withdraw
Wv ~ A'ANNN b'At NAiF lAttll OUT his 81
forts 10 send them after the CoSSacks
were blocked by the Ullraininns. The
Ukraine rada refused To permit max.
tmaliSt troops 10 cross its territory and
when holshevik troops attacked the
r0da aS II was sitting In Odessa they
were defeated by Ukralniun forces
The OrCuhurg CoSSuclS ocrrpief
TchcliahinSk, a junction point on the
Trans siberian railway. and the Don
toSSacks under KalodiuoS were ~,
ported 10 have taken RoStov. Ems
pcrntrd by the persistence Of their op
pournts. tho hol~hcyiN are adop'Ioc
drastic methods against them. Iur'ud
iuE the reinstatement ~ the death
. penalty The disorders I'm Petrnrrof
were 81 serious that a state of siege
was proclaimed
The latest Information eoncer0i.fr
kercnsky was = dispatch from Hama
randa >ayinE that h. was marchfn.
against Moscow at the head OF an A.
my, aud from the same source came
/ the statement that Grand Duke Mich
o3aS had gathered a great army az roy
alStS In the Caucasus One Perrorra.
u correspondent says there are SIGNS d,
i an attempt inspired by Germany IN r.
place the former CEar on the throne
> another thInkS the holSheviki hov,
such a plan. and the SiherianS hay,
D been said 10 favor Nicholas. II ma,
[ well be the widespread belief that IN,
Russian monarchy will be restore,
: will be justified
The expected great offensive by IN