Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-02-21

get up independent repuDllcS ana are
NJ longer parts of Russia. The admis-
sion of representatives of the soviet
government is conditional on its cessa-
ton of fiostilities. Up to the time of
writing the anarchists had continued
their operations in many regions, with
varying success. In the Archangel sec
tor they were forced to retreat by the
advance of the Americans, and 1t was
reported they had been entirely driven
out of Esthonia. Against the Poles
they scored some victories.
According to reports from Omsk, the
government there has accepted an Of
fer from Japan of men, arms and
money to combat the soviet forces,
giving in return iron and coal con
cessions in the Priamur district.
An attempt to put the skids under
another king, which may be success
full, was started last week in Rou-
mania. Inspired by anarchist propa-
ganda, a general insurrection broke
out, with demands for a republic.
King Ferdinand, while fleeing from the
palace with his family, was shot at
and slightly wounded. The anarchists
also became very active in Vienna,
planning a revolt against the present
government unless all power is trans
ferred to the communist leaders.
In the United States the anarchists,
whose Vaccinations were largely re-
sponsible for the strikes on the Pa
cifc coast and in Montana and Ari-
IONA, sustained a hard blow from the
|. government. 1t developed that the
agents of the bureau of immigration
had been gathering up a lot of the
most undesirable aliens and was pre-
pared to deport them, awaiting only
the necessary shipping. A big bunch
of these scamps were taken, under
guard, to New York, where lawyers in
sympathy with their doctrines under
took to obtain their release under
writs of habeas corpus. The anarch-
lists make war on organized labor as
much as on capitalism, and the par
~liamentary committee of the British
trades union congress has declared
that the unauthorized strikes which
they cause cannot be tolerated. Down
on the Argentine-C Chile border the dis
turbers have caused so much trouble
that those two countries are preparing
to take joint action against them.
They are fast becoming the Ishmaels
of the entire world, but they seem to
glory in having the hands of all decent
folk against them.
The administrators big navy bill,
bolstered by a semi-secret cablegram
from President Wilson to the house
naval committee, had a stormy time In
the house last week. The minority de-
nounced it as a bluff measure de-
signed to enable Mr.. Wilson to force
on the peace congress certain of his
ideas for the league of nations, and
for a day it was blocked by the point
of order that it authorized the presi-
dent to construct the navy without
making any appropriation. The Re
p%ublicans laughed with Scorn at an
amendment proposed by Chairman
Padgett appropriating 100000 with
which to build battleships costing
$4,000, 900, and the Democrats hast
lily adjourned. Next day, however, the
administration leaders had their way
and the bill for the ~three-year build
ing program, carrying 1921, 100000 for
the naval establishment during the
next fiscal year, was adopted by the
house.
Secretary Baker and Chairman Dent
have drawn up an army bill, now be-
fore the house, providing for a tempo
rary army of something over half a
million, to be raised by voluntary en-
listments and designed only to carry
the country over the period of occupa-
ton and reorganization. After that
the nation is to be left virtually with
out an army, as it was before the great
war. The bill takes the war depart
ment organization away from the gen.
eral staff and returns it to the bureau
chiefs. These features of the measure
have subjected it to bitter attacks by
the advocates of preparedness.
Once more the suffragists put their
cause to the test in the senate, and
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