Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-08-01

ten Island who were unable to get frol
the New York ferry boats.
whether we shall actually have rati-
fed or not, because peace will then be
a fact"
The president may go ahead any
how and name the member of h repa-
rations commission, and it was report
ed that Bernard Baruch is to be his Sc
lection.
Some Of the senators, and perhaps
a great many other people, do not
agree with Mr.. Taft that the Shantung
affair has been exaggerated. Mr. VIII
son is said to have explained to GER
tain of his callers that the other peace
makers, entangled in secret treaties,
left to him the settlement of that an
noying matter and that it was neces-'
a r to yield so much to Japan in or
der to assure her joining the League
of Nations. 1t was believed he might
now bring some pressure to bear to
persuade Japan to declare formally
her intention to return the province.
to China within a short period Of time,
That, of course, would do much to 81
lence the criticism against the clause.
The Japanese, however, are not dis
playing a very compliant spirit lately.
They have vigorously denied the story
that the %Shantung settlement was in
exchange for the Japanese withdrawal
of the racial equality clause from the
league covenant, and the intimation is
demand for the inclusion of such a
clause. Also there is open opposition
in Japan to participating In the inter-
national tribunal to try the former
kaiser, based on the assertion that
such action would have a bad effect
on the Japanese people.
The British parliament has ratified
the peace treaty with Germany
imously, and also has adopted the,
Anglo-French alliance bill.
Austria has been handed the peace
treaty she must sign and of curse is
protesting hopelessly against the
terms imposed. The reparation terms
are similar to those in the German
treaty, and the financial terms pro-
vide that the prewar debt shall be
apportioned among the various former
parts of the Austrian empire and the.
coinage and war bonds taken up by
the new governments and redeemed
as they see fit. The Austrian army is
to be reduced to 10000 men and she is
to give up all her merchant shipping
and fishing boats and 20 per cent of
her river fleet. Large numbers of cat
tie also must be surrendered, as well
as quantities of stuff stolen by the
Hapsburgs. In the revised territorial
terms is seer a possibility of future
trouble, for Austria is to receive the
Oderberg region of Hungary. The
Hungarians are not likely to submit
tamely to this and Bella Kun, if he is
still in power there, may find in it a
chance to keep his army from disinte-
grating by appealing to the national
feeling.
Conflicting stories concerning Bella
Kun have been coming from Vienna.
One had it that the communist leader
had been deposed by a triumvirate and
that terror troops were in control Of
Budapest. Another and later dispatch
showed he was still in the saddle.
The tangled mess known as the Rus
sian situation has no very promising
ASPECTS of late. The British command
der in North Russia reports that thd|
Russian volunteer troops that have
been cooperating with him have multi
MED and Joined the b~olshevists; GEM
eral Denikine has been suffering re-
verses at the hands of Trotzky's ARMY
and Admiral Kolchak, head of theI
Omsk government. does not seem to|
be getting anywhere. Lenine has of
fered to cede Bessarabia to Roumania|
If the latter country will prohibit Kohl
chak's supporters from crossing its
frontier. This may amount to nothing
as Roumania already holds possession
Of B~essarabia. In eastern Galicia,
where the Ukrainians and Poles are
fighting for the territory, the Poles
have captured the important city of
Tarnopol. Delayed dispatches from
:Fladivostok tell of a successful excur-
sion in the Suchan valley district by
an American military column which
cleared out bands of bolsheviki at a
cost Of two men killed and eleven
wounded. The bolsheviH In Siberia
have released all their American pris-
oners, i've in number.
The peace conference is now attend
Ing to Bulgaria The delegates from
that country arrived In Paris from
Sofia Friday and were quartered at the