The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1918-10-17

o1 the Greeks In Serbia.
ignation of Chancellor Won Hertllng
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
1t 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 mod
crates and opposed to the schemes OF
the pan-Gcrmans, and II is presumed
he will make great efforts to bring
about 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 Ibis knees
and forced to accept dictated peace,
all their sacrifices viii 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.
-R-
News from Russia and especially
from Serbia Is scanty and belated
these days. The most important COM
ing lately concerns the antl-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 It.
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 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 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.
The state department at Washington
was informed of a big uprising Of the
Ukrainlans against the Germans, In
the course Of which the Huns lost 1,6O(
men and were forced to evacuate two
cities. This news, together with the
knowledge that Roumania was about
ready to re-enter the war on the side
Of the allies, was considered OF grea
military importance. A large part o.
the population Of Roumania. led by thu
, queen, has consistently refused to rec
, ognizc the treaty of Bucharest b!
, which their country was robbed by thu
Huns. If they get into action again
the plight of Austria will be indeed
, most dislressing-to Austria.
-E-
The apparent determination OF thu
, Germans 10 destroy utterly every cit.
in France and Belgium that they arr
> compelled to relinqulsh has given ris'
to q general demand that the allied
, governments shall warn the Huns tina
! Y1nna 1nctrnpnH ,
, city or town In Germany will be lait
I in ruins by them later on. That Is thu
= only kind of argument the German cal
? understand, Secretary Lansing recog
/ nized this when, in response to thu
, threat of the Germans to treat as ,
, murderer every American captured
with a shotgun In his possession, h
told them that reprisals for such &C
ton would be thorough and effective
I The British air bombers, by their re
I prisal raids on German cities, hav
5 nearly put a stop TO the air raids o
Q the Huns on undefended places. The
r still attack Red Cross hospitals, ant
: for such brutality the allies can max
no reprisal in kind.
: Ma
n On Monday the master numbers I
3 the new draft were drawn, Presiden
/ Wilson taking the first from the bow
4 The classification of the men Is pre-
gressing 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
4 ures are being adopted to check tn
D disease with prospects of success
/. Considering its nature, the number o
+ | deaths is not extraordinary.