The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-26

From Vienna comes the news that
the bolshevist regime In Hungary il
nearing its end. The communist cabi
net has been replaced by one headed
by Herr German, one of Count Karol.
Wis followers, and it was said he had
been invited to Versailles to confer
with the entente representatives. In
the Ukraine the troops of General
Petlura captured several railway cen.
tiers from the bolsheviki. A premature
report from Vardoe said the Esthoni-
ans and Firms had captured Petrograd
Later the bolshevists claimed to have
driven the Esthonians back west of
Gatchina. The American troops in the
Archangel region began embarking for
home. An interesting but unlikely
story coming by bolshevist wire from
Moscow said General Semenoff had
called congress in eastern Siberia,
which had declared the autonomy of
Mongolia and named Semenoff as
grand duke of that country.
Two events have stirred the Sparta
cans of Germany to renewed activity
that leads to the prediction that they
will soon make another organized at
tempt to overthrow the government.
One was the finding in the Landwehr
canal of body declared to be that of
"Red Rosa" Luxembourg, their MUIR
dered woman leader. The other was
the discovery that Capt. Won Pfug-Har-
tung and Lieutenant Lehman. who
were convicted of the murder of Lieb-
knecht, had been allowed to escape
from prison on false release orders
and get to Holland on false passports.
1t. had been known that Lieut.. Kurt
Vogel, convicted of the same crime,
had escaped in the same way. All this
has aroused great bitterness against
the government in the minds of many
people.
Another "leak" sensation enlivened
the proceedings of the United States
senate last week when Senators Lodge
and Borah declared that to their GER
tain knowledge copies of the peace
treaty, denied to the senate, had been
in the hands. of New York financiers
for some days. Their statement was
not doubted and Senator Hitchcock,
after conferences at the White House
and the state department, asserted
that the copies in question had been
stolen. He introduced a resolution
calling for an investigation by the
committee on foreign relations.
The senate on Wednesday adopted
the resolution for submitting to the
states the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment to the Constitution granting the
franchise to women. The vote was Sc
to %. The house already had adopted
the resolution and as the women Of %
states now exercise, presidential suf-
frage there is little doubt that the
amendment will be ratified by suffi-
cient number Of states.
The springing of another big bomb
plot by terrorists early in the week
has aroused the national government
to the necessity Of rounding up and
disposing of the anarchists who are
running amuck in this country. Will
liam J. Flynn, new chief Of the bureau
Of investigation of the department Of
justice, has been given a free hand,
with orders to end anarchy in the Uni
ted States, and his record warrants the
prediction that he will go far toward
doing that very thing. This time the
"Reds" sought to kill Attorney Gen
eral Palmer and other law-enforcement
officials in eight cities Of the East.
Cordite bombs were exploded at their
residences, but they all escaped death.
One of the conspirators was blown to
pieces by his own bomb in Washing
ton and a Waterman was killed in New
York. The attorney general says extra
legislation Is not needed to take care
of these bomb throwers and he wishes
the authorities to treat them like other
criminals and not to give the radicals
the chance to say the government Is
prosecuting them.
The strike situation In Canada Inn
proved considerably. In Winnipeg
most Of the returned soldiers threat
ened action against the strikers and
the leaders Of the latter appealed for
protection" 1t was believed the strike
might soon be called off. This action
already had been taken by the workers
of Toronto. In Toledo, where automo-
bile plant workers are on strike, there
were riots in which two men were
killed by guards.
was backed by the presence of q Brit