El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-07
MOTOR CONVOY
To CROSS j. s.
So Trucks Comprise Train
to Blaze Gross Country
Transport Route.

to attempt transcontinental journey
left Washington today for San Fran
cisco Col \. Owen Seaman, Of the
motor transport corps, was in charge.
1t was expected that the trip would
be completed within 90 days.
Sixty-three trucks. including am
balances. repair shops and kitchens,
comprised the train. Before its de-
parture. the train was reviewed by
secretary Baker and q number of
army officers
The purpose Of the trip is TO de-
velop a through route from coast TO
coast for motor transport and to DEM
onstrate the practicability OF long dis
lance commercial transportation by
motor trucks Recruits for the motor
transport corps Will be enlisted during
the journey.
most Of these claims she has found
opposition among the great powers
she has. in addition. found a lack Of
sympathy which has hurt her deeply.
Itnly's Pride Is Hurt.
One must recognize that pride Is
a vital Circumstance in the Italian
calculation. Italy has never yet been
treated quite as an equal by the great
powers; she feels that her neutrality
saved France in 1914, that her en-
trance into the war in 1915 saved
4AAcclGr ana llidt ncI d5O4llES III 1871
and her successes in 1918 entitle her
to the same consideration as France
And in Paris Italy has not found the |
welcome she expected The result is
not 10 be mistaken; when 1 was in I
Paris Italians talked quite openly OF I
a return to the old German alliance,
and French and British statesmen |
spoke Of this as one Of the certain |
ties, provided only Germany were |
able 10 get together herself and thus ]
offer a solid Ia - . for-
An alliance between Italy. Austria /
and Hungary on the one hand, with l
Bulgaria as a fourth participant. and /
Germany on the other, would mean /
claims. which effect all four. Italy /
would gain Fiume. Austria recover |
territories allotted to the SlaTs at /
Versailles, Hungary get back much, 4
II not AL. OF Slavonia and Croatia, /
while Bulgaria would get Macedonia
Moreover. Rumania. with quarrel on
foot over the Banat- IS already report
ed to have made her bargain with Il
Italy at the expense Of her old allies. /
Berlin Sees Hope in Italy.
France and America particularly,
the British TO . certain degree. have
sympathized with the southern Siavs
and with the Greeks in their just
claims for territories inhabited BY
people Of their races, but claimed by
the Italians. There has been at all
times In Paris q marked and growing !
GOODNESS between the Italians and
their associates. Now Italy has had
plain that in any event she will
emerge from the peace conference far
less rewarded than she hoped and I'M
mistakably angry and disappointed.
the Jugo-Slav question pro-
vided bond Of sympathy with each
Of the races which were until 4 few
months ago united In a German Nit
teleuropa- At the very least. then.
Germany has ground for hoping for
a new arrangement with Italy
And what Of Russian The allies
have recognized Polish claims to in I
dependence mainly at Russian ex-
pense. they have encouraged the Lith- Z
uanians. the Esthouians and even the {
and they have recognized the inde- ]
penoence OF Finland But II a strong {
Russian government energies from :
the chaos Of the Lenine-Trotslzy {
regime, viii not this government !
promptly seek TO restore the old Rus
sian frontiers. viii 1t not seek in {
agreement with the Germans q rev
partition Of Poland7 Above al. II the
new government in Russia has any
percentage Of the old Romanoff Rus
sia in its composition. will it not be
mbued with an undying hatred of
ne western powers, which openly and
secretly negotiated with the Bolshey-
Ists. and from the Russian point OF
revolution and then recognized the
of component parts Of
RUSSIAN I can say for my own part
hat eminent Russians with whom
-alked in Paris expressed far more
bitterness toward Great Britain and
France than toward Germany
Japs Hostile Toward West.
Nor can any American mistake the
latent hostility Of the japanese to
he western powers. which was hardly
ilddeR at Paris. The Japanese felt
quite Justly that Britain. with her
colonies, although stiA an ally Of g
Japan, was rapidly marching toward !
IN alignment with the United States. :
which would mean a common policy :
N the Pacific. designed in the end to :
China and curb japanese :
ambitions Americas policies in the
.ar east. the association Of America.
opposition TO Japanese colonization. :
in common insistence upon the
stigma of the yellow race" as evil
fenced in the discussion OF the emil
grafton problem in the league Of na- ;
Ions debates all combined to arouse i
4 japanese resentment which no one !
IN Paris misunderstood
Such. then, are the materials
ont of which Germany VIII seek
to construct n new world alliance
10 cOunterbnlance the association
between the United States. Great
Hrifein ard France. COncomltnnt ,
with this strninlng to erect a new
combinations Of powers viii be the !
effort to undermine the solidarity
OF the existing alliance between
the three nations which combined i
TO defeat Germany in the last war.
nor can anyone mistake the fact .
that Germany has at least a fair
chance Of success, growing out Of the
peculiar circumstances that / have ,
narrated II Germany desires her
Polish provinces back, Russia will
some day ask for hers and seek to
regain Finland, the Ukraine. Lithu- .
inia- EsthOnia. Austria and Hungary .
to bemoan their surrenders
10 the JugO-Slavs. Bulgaria still clam :
prs for Macedonia and Italy VIII never ,
patiently consent to see a strong Slav i
power grow up along the east coast !
IF the Adriatic.
Now, in this situation. what of the !
league OF natioas2 The answer is
clear. The league Of nations. from i
he German standpoint. is that asso-
,iation Of Great Britain. France and !
he United States which. dominating :
he Paris conference. has dictated and :
viii now undertake to impose the ,
.reaty Of Versailles upon Germany. :
L is the guerantor Of the treaty which ;
10 German accepts; il is the organi- ;
;ation which has undertaken to be- .
stow Posen and east Prussia upon \
Poland and deprive Germany OF Dam =
liz and the Saar basin.
For Austria II is the alliance which .