The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-09-12

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Shantung affair has caused hra.ch
between the president and Colonel
Rouse. 1t is said Mr.. Wilson took the
advlce of House in the matter. reject.
ing mat of the other members of the
American delegation, and that now tho
IeAah is In disfavor and is resting in
LONDON preparatory to coming home.
Naturally, those close to the president
denied the tale. saying House was in
London helping the British officials in
the organization of the League of Nh
tions.
The near East does not surrender its
supremacy among trouble-making re-
gi0ns. The Turks continue to mas
sacre the Armenans; the Bulgarians
and Greeks are at swords points over
Thrace; the Jugo-Slavs and Italians
are getting ready to fight over the pos
session of Fiume, and now the whole
OF Montenegro has broken out in re-
volt against the rule of the Serbians.
The latter are using strong measures
to suppress the revolt, but the ma
tional spirit of the MOntenegrins has
reawakened and fighting is general
throughout the country. Just how the
forced inclusion of Montenegro In the
new state of JugO-Slavia, against its
will, is squared with the principle of
self-determinatiOn never has been ex-
planned to the world.
Rear Admiral Bristol, commander of
the American naval forces in Turkey,
warned the Porte not long ago that
the massacres of Armenians must
cease. This action aroused some crit.
cism in the supreme peace council, be-
cause the United States has not yet
accepted the mandate over any parts
of the Turkish empire; but the vexa.
ton of the French and British was al.
layed when Mr.. Polk explained that
the warning. though it came from
President Wilson, was unofficial and
was transmitted in an informal way by
are being withdrawn from Armenia
and it is predicted that unless the
country is strongly policed by foreign
troops several hundred thousands of
slaughtered by the Turks, Kurds. Tar
tars and Georgians. Even now these
peoples are greatly hindering the work
of the American relief commission.
A new government in Hungary has
not vet been formed and though
Archduke Joseph was forced to relin-
quish his control, his premier, Fried
rich, asserts he is still favored by a
majority of the people and will retain
the leadership.
In Upper Silesia conditions are re-
ported much improved. Most of the
miners have resumed work and the
fighting between the Poles and Ger
mans has grown less. The Fifth and
Fiftieth regiments Of American infan-
try, now in the United States. have
been ordered to Silesia 10 help in po-
Icing that country during the pleb-
iscite provided for by the peace treaty.
A resolution protesting against this
was introduced In congress by WOOD
of Indiana, who said the work should
be done by European troops.
Russian bolshevists last week claim
ed two considerable victories-the cap
ture of Pskov. southwest of Petrograd.
and of Kamishin. on the Nolga. zen
eral Denikine, the anti-boisheVik
leader in southern Russia, who occu-
pied Odessa. reported steady progress
into the central part of the country,
and the Kolehak forces denied That
they had evacuated Omsk. Represen-
tatiyes of the people of north Russia
assembled at Archangel, have sent 10
President Wilson cable urging ina,
the allied armed support be not With
drawn lest they fall prey to the Dol
sheyiki. However. the president mas
said that the American troops would
be brought home as soon as possibie'
The peace conference has been trying
to devise means to protect the north
Russians. but has not arrived al an!
definite plan.
After killing several bandits. includ-
90 ranort the leader OF