Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-12-19

This will be done by a preliminary
platform committee of 80 members
which will maintain permanent head
quarters in Washington.
Although the country, already short
of sugar, is confronted with an actuai
famine In that necessity, the sena-
tors from Louisiana. Ransdell ana
Gay, last week undertook a filibuster
to defeat the McNary bill which is de-
signed to relieve the situation and
check exorbitant prices. The measure
would enable the sugar equalization
board to buy the Cuban crop, esti-
mated at 100000 tons, and to place
it on the market at fair and rea-
sonable price," This naturally does
not suit the sugar planters of Louis
lana and their senators were, as AL
ways, quick to come to their rescue
Last summer seven of the eight men,
bers of the equalization board urged
the president to buy the Cuban crop
but the other member. Professor Taus-
sig, dissented and persuaded the ad-
ministration to let the law of supply
and demand take its course. TausSiS
is a member of the new industrial
conference named by the president.
Having slightly softened the terms
of the protocol submitted to Germany.
the supreme council at Paris told the
Germans they must sign 1t, and at last
reports was sitting back waiting for
the signature. Meanwhile various
rather disturbing reports came out OF
Germany. The most serious of these
told how four trainloads of the Iron
division troops that were being re-
moved from the Baltic states, having
arrived at Tilsit, refused to obey the
allied commissions order and returned
to Memel, where they continued to
threaten Courland. The German army
headquarters at Koenigsberg assumed
responsibility for this action, saying it
was according to its orders. The Ger
mans in the Baltic region are becom-
ing more truculent daily and number
of allied officers have been attacked.
Negotiations at Dorpat between the
bolsheyiki and the EsthonianS con-
tinued, with indications that they
would result in an armistice though 1t
was considered improbable that a
peace treaty would be signed. Ihe
terms which the bolsheviki seek to i'm
nose are rather severe and the Esthon'
ians baked especially at the demand
for guarantees, feeling it incompati'
BILE with their dignity. During these
negotiations the armies of the soviet
government and of Esthonia are tight
ing fiercely on the Narva front, where
the bolsheviki were repulsed aftel
making ten assaults.
Under Secretary Polk and the othel
| American delegates to the peace con
ference departed from Paris, and Ger
tain French newspaper writer's tool
occasion to express the belief that thi
closed the League of Nations stage O
! the conference. 1.-THE hollow shell o
the league may perhaps remain" salt
they, 'but the era of alliances has re
turned" And they pointed to the con
ference in London between Clemen
ceau and Lloyd George as confirma
ton. It was believed the French pre-
mier went to tighten up the entent
cordiale. Dispatches from Londo
10
concerned with the Turkish situation
and with the British request that tn
peace conference with the Turks b
held in London.
The efforts of Emma Goldman an
Alexander Berkman to prevent thei
deportation to Russia having faile
everywhere else, the two anarchist
asked the Supreme court of the Unite
States to take up the matter. Th
federal officials announced that Berl
, man and Miss Goldman, together wit
! other aliens, would be shipped out {
! the country within two weeks.
: A notable achievement of the wee
in aeronautics was the completion {
, his airplane flight from England t
) Australia by Capt. Ross Smith. a
Australian aviator. BY finishing tt
: trip in thirty days he won prize {
= $4,000, as well as other money prize
: In making the journey of 1850 mile
4 from Houndslow, near London. to Pc
: Darwin, on the northern coast of Au
:. tralia, Captain Smith passed throue
: Paris, Rome, Saloniki. Cairo, Dana
$ Gus, Bagdad. Bushire, Delhi. Rangoo
= Bangkok, Singapore and Kalidai
). West Java.