The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-10-19

1gnatlOn OF CnancellOT Won I1erllluB,
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 OF Baden
for the post of chancellor. He has been
known as head of the Delbrueck mod
crates and opposed to the schemes OF
the pan-Germans, and 1t 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 the
press already are at work to show the
people that unless the war is carried
ON until the Hun is beaten to his knees
and forced to accept dictated peace,
all their sacrifices will have been in
vain. The time is ripe for the silly SEN
timentalists, secretly urged on by the
friends of Germany, to spring 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.
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News from Russia and especially
from Serbia is scanty and belated
these days. The most important com
ing lately concerns the anti-bolshevik
government set up in Omsk. Minister
Of War 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 Dvlna river, and Amer
leans are holding the point farthest
south, only forty miles from Bielsk,
the bolshevik base.
A British expedition has landed In
Spitzbergen and seized the German
mining property and other plants
there, and the immensely rich iron and
coal deposits already are being de-
veloped rapidly.
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The state department at Washington
was informed Of big uprising OF the
| Ukrainians against the Germans, in
| the course of which the Huns lost 1,50C
| men and were forced to evacuate two
| cities. This news, together with the
| knowledge that R0umania was about
ready to re-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.
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The apparent determination Of the
| Germans to destroy utterly every city
in France and Belgium that they are
compelled to relinquish has given rise
| to a general demand that the allied
governments shall warn the Huns thai
for every place wantonly destroyed {
| city or town in Germany will be laii
In ruins by them later on. That is the
only kind of argument the German car
4 understand. Secretary Lansing recog
4 nized this when, In response to the
1 threat Of the Germans to treat as 8
| murderer every American captured
with shotgun In his possession, hi
told them that reprisals for such &C
4 ton would be thorough and effective
The British air bombers, by their re
| prisal raids on German cities, have
nearly put stop to the air raids O.
the Huns on undefended places The.
still attack Red Cross hospitals, ant
for such brutality the allies can mak'
no reprisal in kind
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4 On Monday the master numbers Ii
the new draft were drawn, Presiden
| Wilson taking the first from the bowl
The classification Of the men Is pro
| crossing well, but the sending of thos'
selected to the training camps may b,
| delayed by the serious spread Of tn
| epidemic Of influenza. Rigorous meas
| ures are being adopted to check thu
disease with prospects Of success
i Considering its nature, the number D
deaths Is not extraordinary.