Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-01

le 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 the repa-
rations commission, and it was report
ed that Bernard Baruch is to be his Sc
lection.
Some of the senators, and perhaps
great many other people, do not
agree with Mr.. Taft that the Shantung
affair has been exaggerated. Mr.. Will
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-
sary 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 short period of time.
That, of course, would do much to si-
lence the criticism against the clause.
The japanese, however, are not dis
playing 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
plain that they will renew later their
demand for the inclusion of such
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 unan-
imously, and also has adopted the
Anglo-French alliance bill.
Austria has been handed the peace
treaty she must sign and of course 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
+ho now oovornpooptc ond rodoono od
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 seen 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 q
chance to keep his army from disinte
grating by appealing to the nationa
feeling
Conflicting stories concerning Bels
Kun have been coming from Vienna
One had it that the communist leader
had been deposed by a triumvirate ant
that terror troops" were in control OF
| Budapest. Another and later diSpatcl
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 comman
der in North Russia reports that th'
| Russian volunteer troops that hav'
been cooperating with him have mutt
MED and joined the bolshevists; Gen
| eral Denikine has been suffering re
verses at the hands of Trotzky's arm.
/ and Admiral Kolchak, head of th'
! Omsk government, does not seem t.
be getting anywhere. Lenine has of
fered to cede Bessarabia to Roumanis
| if the latter country will prohibit Kol
chak's supporters from crossing it!
frontier. This may amount to nothing
as Roumania already holds possession
where the Ukrainians and Poles ar
| fighting for the territory, the Pole
have captured the important city o
Tarnopol. Delayed dispatches from
Vladivostok tell of successful eXcur
sion in the Suchan valley district b,
an American military column whicl
cleared out bands of bolsheviki at
cost of two men killed and clever
wounded The bolsheviki in Siberi
have released all their American pris
oners, five in number.
The peace conference is new attend
ing to Bulgaria. The delegates fror
that country arrived in Paris fror
Sofia Friday and were quartered at tn