The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-02-13

emily Great Britain, France and Japar
are not entirely sure of the full eff
cacy Of the league and would have
their offensive and defensive alliances
to fall back upon in case of need. Mr.
BalfOur's statement also gave rise tt
the opinion that the allied nations
might decline to abrOgate the secret
treaties they entered into for the di
vision among them Of certain terri
tories of the central powers. France
is perhaps especially interested In
this, as the secret treaties not only
gave her ,Alsace-Lorraine, but also the
] entire coal district of the Saar valley
and provided that the German ter
ritories on the left bank of the Rhine
| should be freed from all political and
economic dependence ON Germany.
| Lenine'S foreign minister, Tchit-
cherin, has sent out a wireless message
saying the soviet government is willing
to participate in the proposed confer
ence on the Princes islands. He also
intimates that his government will
! cease its propaganda in other countries
If the entente powers will undertake
| not to interfere with Russia's internal
affairs. The other Russian factions as
| represented at Paris were rather sur
| prised by Tchitcherin's action and were
not at all pleased. They are strongly
opposed to the conference and had
hoped a refusal by the soviet govern
ment would relieve them of the neces-
sity of rejecting the plan. The boil
shevists, Or, to give them the more
fitting appellation, the anarchists, in
northern Russia, after a series of sue
cesses against the American and al
lied troops which were due to the diff
ficulty the latter experienced in get
ting supplies. went a bit too far and
were given singing defeat by the
YankS at Vistavka on the Vaga river.
About the same time the Siberian
troops under General GaiCla practically
annihilated two divisions of the an
archiStS at Knngur, so miles southeast
of Perm, relieving the latter city from
the danger of attack. General Gaida
then advanced ON Ufa, which the an
archiSts took some time ago. The cen
trail soviet of Moscow has called to the
colOrs all men between the ages of
Twenty-Five and fOrty-five years, say
ing they will be thrown into the war If
the conference on Prinkipo island is a
failure.
In some directions the successes Of
the anarchists of Russia were cOntin-
ned. They were reported to have cap
tured Windau, Courland's port, and to
have gained control of virtually the
whole of the Ukraine.
The Polish and CzechO-S lovak troops
that had been fighting on the Silesian
front signed an armistice which, it is
presumed, will permit the emissaries
of the peace conference to settle the
quarrel between the two nations.
In the athens of Germany" Weimar,
the capital of the duchy of Sake
Weimar, the German national assem-
bly, began it's sessions last Thursday.
Chancellor Friedrich Ebert called the
body to order and then surrendered the !
chair to Herr Pfankuch. the oldest of
the members. After the preliminaries
were over the assembly got down to the |
work OF formulating a government for
Germany. The Ebert or Majority So |
cialiSt government was transferred |
temporarily to Weimar, but it consid-
cred that it's mandates expired with
the converting of the assembly so it at !
once proceeded to organize a new cab !
met made up of Majority Socialists, |
Democrats and Csericals.
The Spartacans, who die hard. made |
their latest big play at Bremen, gain |
ing control of that city and holding It |
for time. Then government troops |
from Berlin bOmbarded the place, bat
tering some Of it's historic buildings. |
and drove the Spartacans to Groepsin-
gen. Threats of the reds to attack |
Weimar when the assembly met were
forestalled when the loyal garrison was
REINFORCED by a large body of govern
ment troops.
The authorities of the allied nations
maintain their aloof attitude toward
the German revolution" never per
hitting themselves to be quoted con-
corning it nor paying the slightest at.
tention to the. lucubrations of hypo-
critics such as BernStorff. But they
are watching with interest the inter-
national conferences Of Socialists
and trades unions that are In session
in Berne. Switzerland. The former
seems to be virtually dominated by
the pro-Teuton elements. The Trades