Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-01-24


of what the allies shall do In the
case Of Russia. The American and
delegates were said to have
agreed that, while none Of their own
troops should be sent to help the
Poles, the two Polish divisions recruit
ed in the United States should be sent
from France through Germany to as
sist the government set up by the Po-
lish national committee. These troops
would cooperate in stemming the tide
of bolshevism that Is flowing west
from Russia, making the new Po'and
a strong bulwark against that hood OF
anarchy. The plan Is a concession TO
the ideas of the French, who are con-
vinced that bolshevism cannot or
should not be dealt with militarily In
Russia by the allies. 1t also is likely
to compel General Pilsudski to come
to an agreement with the Polish ma
tional committee as represented In
Poland by Paderewski.
The Spartacan revolution In Ger
many-or at least In Berlin-has hZzled
out. Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg
were captured and, according to report,
killed. The other leaders are under ar
rest or dispersed and some hundreds OF
their followers are dead. After a week
of terror the police were reinstated and
armed, order was restored and Dusi-
ness was resumed. In some other
cities the "Reds' are still in control,
but their chance for ultimate success
seems to have gone glimmering. For
one thing, Hindenburg still has under
his command an efficient army-5f nor
than a million men, and most OF these
troops he is holding true to the Ebert
government.
This fact about the German army
leads to the warning issued by the
Central News of London, that a situa-
ton exists in Europe under which wal
may break out again at any time and
that the British scheme of ~demobiliza-
ton will have to be radically changed
which may also apply-to American
rehabilitation. An 'unimpeachable
authority is quoted as saying that
Great Britain will have to keep an
army Of occupation on the Rhine for
many months, which accords with the
opinion of others concerning all the
armies of occupation. 1t may be this
note of alarm was caused by the dis
covery that the Germans were trying
to evade some of the terms Of the
armistice and by the more drastic
conditions imposed by Marshal Foch
in granting an extension of the armi-
stice. II was reported the marshal even
threatened to march directly on Berlin
if the Huns didn't fulfill their pledges.
1t was stated unoficially that the new
terms included the following:
First-Retribution upon the Ger
mans for the murder and ill-treatment
Of allied prisoners.
Second-The machinery and goods
stolen by Germany from France and
Belgium to be at once given up.
Third-German gold, amounting to
more than $500, 1000, to be moved
from Berlin to a safe place, probably
Frankfort, and protected from bolshe-
vism in Germany en- route. Certain
other property to be surrendered.
Fourth-Germany to give over her
shipping, of which she is believed to
have 1900, 900 tons, to carry food sup
plies to countries in Europe in need Of
them.
Fifth-Any U-boats on the stocks to
be handed to the lilies for their dis
posal, or to be destroyed, and no more
submarines should be built.
Germany is fully justifying all those
who refused to believe in her good
faith under any circumstances. She
is determined not to permit the estab-
lishment of an Independent Poland be-
cause she still proposes to grab
enough In the east to make up for her
losses on the west, and a Polish state
would prevent this. The Germans are
said to be supplying arms to the boil
sheviki who are ravaging parts of
Poland, and there was heavy fighting
last week between the German troops
and the Poles near Kalmar. 1t was re-
ported that Hindenburg himself would
lead the German army against Poland.
Ia
The worldwide activities of the boil
sheviki took in Argentina, Uruguay
and Peru, where there were desperate
strikes accompanied by bloody fight
ing, engineered by bolshevik agents.
They also SEN from Russia 100000
gulden to Holland for a coup d'etat
and riotous demonstrations planned
for January 20. In this plot the Ger
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