The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-02
PEACE SIGNED I
BUT SCORE OF
WARS RACING
Poland, Rumania, Russia,
Centers of New Outbreak in
Strife-Torn Europe.
Copyright, 1919. by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate1
BY FRANK SIMONOS.

BY FRANK SlMONOS.
Speaking in the House Of Commons
last week Bonar Law warned the
British public that peace was still in
the future and that at the precise mo.
ment in which he was speaking not
less than twenty wars were in pro.
gress. When l left Paris three weeks
ago, one of the American officials
connected with the Peace mission had
calculated that the number of wars
then going on was eighteen. But If
one calculates the number of wars
either in progress or at the point OF
breaking out, the total will be nearer
thirty than twenty.
In the present article, am going
to try to make, not a complete list,
this is next to impossible, but a par
tial computation of the contemporary
conflicts, indicating, where 1t is pos
sible. the occasion of the fighting.
Such list may serve the useful pur.
pose of demonstrating how long and
difficult is the task before the respon-
sible statesmen of the world, before
anything approximating the peaceful
conditions of five years ago can be
restored
To begin at the beginning, the ma
ton richest in wars at the present
hour would seem to be the new Polish
country. Polish troops at the moment
are actively engaged in fighting the
Ukranians in Galicia, the Bolshevists
in white Russia; they are facing Ger
man armies actually in line. if not
actively engaged, from the Niemen to
the Oder, ond they have acute disputes
with the Lithuanians and the Czecho-
Slovaks. With the Ukranians the
Poles are fighting to preserve their
eastern frontiers, still unfixed, from
invasion by the Reds. With the Ger
mans they are contesting the posses
sion Of Prussian districts which the
Paris conference had decided shall
be Polish, including West Prussia
With the Lithunaians they are dis
putting title to wilma and practically all
Of the territory of this race, which was
once united with Poland With the
CZecho-Slovaks they are quarreling
over the district of Teschen.
Rumania Rich In Wars
Rumania is only little less affluent
in wars than Poland. 1t has not yet
concluded its campaign against the
Hungarians, it is daily fighting the Boil
shevists on the Dniester it Is threaten
ed with a new fight with the Bulgars
over the Dobrudja. The occasion of
Rumania's wars Is without exception
territorial. The Bolsheviki are fight
ing to regain Bessarabia, an old Rus
sian province populated by Rumanians
which has voluntarily united itself
with Rumania. The Hungarians are
resisting Rumanian occupation of the
Transylvanian and Banat regions, peo-
pied by Rumanians, which are to go
to the latter under the terms of the
Paris treaty. The Serbs are determ-
ined to hold the Torontal county in
the Banat, which has a majority Of
Serb inhabitants and has been assign
ed to the Serbs by the Paris confer
euce. AS for the Bulgars, they are
planning a new effort to recover the
Southern Dobrudja, theirs before the
second Balkan war and theirs again
after Rumania joined the enemies OF
the Central Powers three years ago.
Nor is Serbia poor in wars, for she
finds herself embroiled at the present
moment with Rumania, with Italy
with Bulgaria, with Austria. with Hun
gary and she is carrying on an active
little campaign of her own against the
Albanians. With Rumania, Serbia
that is, Jugo-Slavia disputes the title
to the Western Banat, with Austria
she Is actually fighting for Klagenfur1
ana certain QlStrlcrS nOrtn or the
brave river. with Italy the dispute is
over Fiume, Dalmatia, and the terri
tories at the head Of the Adriatic, an6
this dispute has already made a pro
found impression in Paris, provoking
the presidents appeal to the Italians
and, at least indirectly, the fall Of the
Orlando ministry. With Hungary the
Serbs are disputing regions between
the brave and the Danube, and acros:
the Thesis from the Torontal. Witt
the Bulgarians there is the old con
test over Macedonia and with the Al
banians the fight at least 700 years ole
for Prisrend, Jacova and Ipek.
Czechs Have Conflicts
The Czecho-Slovaks on their par
are today actually fighting the Hun
garians, they are at odds with thu
Poles, as I have said, over Teschen