Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-17

Gals tt washington that il the press
repor are correct the Germans were
well within their rights and that Gen
eral iiarries acted injudiciously. The
war is not yet formally ended and the
allies have no more right to raise one
of their flags in an enemy city than
would the Germans to fly their colors
within the allied lines.
1t begins to look as if Russia is to be
left TO her fate and to be called on to
work out her own salvation or relapse
into barbarism under the semblance of
rule of the bolsheviki. Japan has an
nOunced that most of her troops will
be withdrawn from Siberia, Great
Britain declares that she will send no
more men to Russian territory and
that those now there are being re-
called, and there is no reason to be-
lieve that the United States will in
crease her forces there. Indeed, some
of our senators and congressman are
openly demanding that the Yanks be
brought back from Russia at once in
stead of being left to fight the bolshe-
vik armies in the SHOWS of the Arch
angel region and along the Siberian
railway.
Although they are still making con-
siderable progress in the Baltic prov
inces and have captured Riga, from
which the allied and German troops
withdrew, the bolsheviki have not been
doing so well toward the east. The
Omsk government of loyal Russians
grows stronger and asks recognition
by the allied nations, with the right of
representation at the peace confer
ence. The Siberian and other factions
have Joined with it, asking Admiral
Kolchak to accept their support for
the salvation of Russia. The bolshe-
vik government is having internal
troubles, and a story came from Co
penhagen to the effect that Trotzky
his arrest, declaring himself dictator.
Lenine, it is said, sought to effect a
coalition with the moderates.
The conflict between Germany and
| Poland over the province of Posen
may be settled without further fight
ing, for the two governments have
opened negotiations for a peaceful un-
derstanding. But the Ruthenians, at
latest reports, We're determined to re-
cover Lemberg and had surrounded
that city, which was defended by a
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sion made up of women.
The Poles were driven out of Wilma
by the bolsheviki, the defenders be-
ing without cannon and short of car
tridges. The bolshevik troops at once
began a massacre of the civilians
The Polish soldiers retreated to Lana
varova, where they were disarmed by
the Germans and sent to Bialystok
There they were robbed by Germans
and started for Polish territory.
Paderewski and Pilsudski are still
trying to get together to form a gov
sension must end before the allies viii
help.
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President Wilson returned to Pari
from Italy, where he probably accom-
plished much in clearing up the stu
alton concerning the disputed territOr,
on the east coast of the Adriatic. 1t il
said that opinion in Italy on this mat
ter is divided, many of the people pre-
ferring to have peace rather than t.
insist on possession of the land tha
the Jugo-Slavs claim. It is likely
compromise can be reached in tn
peace congress without great difficulty
Premier Lloyd George being de
tanned in London, the preliminary cor
ferences of the premiers and foreig
ministers of the four great powers il
Paris went over to this week, but MI
Wilson had an important informal cor
ference with Premier Orlando of Ital
and the representatives of Japan.
President Poincare named the fo
lowing as the French delegates to tn
peace conference: Premier ClemeI
ceau, Foreign Minister Pichon, Financ
Minister Klotz, Jules Cambon and Al
Dire Tardieu, high commissioner to th
/ United States. The French have sui
. mitted to other delegations a progral
/ for procedure by which the peace col
gress would take up matters in TIL
T. order: A general agreement for til
: creation of a league of nations; ii
2 setting up of new Independent state
} growing out of the war; the asses
t ment of damages and indemnities an
: manner of payment; the conclusion {
: peace treaties with the central power
: The treaties, it is plain, must wait Ill