The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1919-11-20

many and such nations as have ratj
lied the pact will take place. Ger
| many has not yet fulfilled a number
or the provisions of the armistice an,
was instructed by the supreme conn
Gil to send delegation to Paris or
November 10 to sign protocol guar
ahteeing to carry them out, and also
10 surrender certain vessels and float
ing DOCKS as penalty for the sink.
ing or the warships In Scapa Flow.
Germany is excited over the reye,a.
tons In lending Berlin paper of a
Dig communist plot for an uprising
this winter which, beginning with
strikes to cripple industry, shall end
IN the establishment of a soviet form
or government In close association
with the present bolshevik govern
ment OF Russia. The conspiracy, II Is
said. Is led and financed by Russians.
Inc outbreak Is to have its beginning
IN the Ruhr coal-minIng district. nj.
ready full Of Spartacans. and Munich
ana brunswick will be among the
main centers Of uprising. The com.
munists believe large part OF the
national defense army will desert and
join their red army.
The pendulum Of civil war sw,nps
pack and forth with considerable
regularity In Russia. At this writing
II Is the bOlsheviki that are winning.
General Yudenitch and his white
army Of the northwest not only failed
TO reach PetrOgrad hut are now said
to be In q most precarious situation.
The reds assert they are surrounding
him, that they are receiving heavy re.
endorsements and that bolsheyik
troops ore attacking him In the rear
from Luga. This. however. came ~.
rect from TrOtzky. and he Is a notori.
Gus liar. Consideration must be given
a report from Helsingfors that 10000
Firms have secretly volunteered to
join Yudenitch and are well eauipped.
Denlkine's artillery has DESTROYED
Derbent on the Caspian sea, and he
claims the Don COssacks I'm the latter
part Of October captured $4,000 boI.
shevlki. But he does not seem to he
getting much nearer to Moscow. Ad.
miraI kOlchak's Siberian armies.
which were defeated on the Tobol
river. have retired far to the east and
likely are still on the move.
The bolshevik government leaders
nave reiterated their willingness to
make peace and to pay the old Rus.
sian debt II they are let alone.
congress had been dawdling along
n the matter of railroad legislation.
mt was aroused to action last week
when Director General Hines In.
'ormed Senator Cummins that Presi.
lent Wilson had determined to return
ne roads to their owners on January
whether or not congress had passed
my bill for their regulation. II was
recognized as impossible to pass the
;ummlns bill or anything like II at
MS session. so work was begun Mt
nee on temporary measure to meet
he emergency and to avert a threat
med financial catastrophe. II will
'rovide for the restoration of the
Dads to their former owners and for
continuation Of the government guar-
nty, but all controversial matters.
Ike the anti-strike provisions of the
bill. will be omitted.
General Pershing. appearing before
he senate and house military commit
ees. opposed the creation Of an indie
endent department OF aviation as pro.
osed in the New bin, but urged the
concentration Of authority for the pro-
urement Of airplanes for the army.
avy and post office departments.
special army board has Just made
report recommending that congress
nact an aviation policy based either
n a ten-year program with large an
uai appropriations guaranteed to
Emulate commercial aeronautics. or
lake appropriations for air develop-
tent by the post office. war and navy
II the former policy Is
dopted the board recommended that
separate department of aeronautics
created; II the latter. that a com.
'ission under the director OF aeronau.
cs reporting directly to the president
formed to coordinate the work.
secretary Baker transmitted the re-
ort to the senate committee, stating
'at he disagreed with both the pro-
Dsals. He said II single agency
ere to be created, II should be ap-
'lnted and controlled by the cabinet {
embers whose departments would
, directly affected.