Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-12-19

This will be done by a preliminary
which will maintain permanent head.
quarters in Washington.
Although the country, already short
of sugar, is confronted with an actual
famine in that necessity, the sena-
tors from Louisiana, Ransdell and
Gay, last week undertook a filibuster
to defeat the McNary bill which is de-
signed to relieve the situation and
check eXorbitant prices. The measure
would enable the sugar equalization
board to buy the Cuban crop, esti-
mated at 100000 tons, and to place
it on the market at a flair and rea-
sonable price" This naturally does
not suit the sugar planters of Louis
lana and their senators were, as al
ways, quick to come to their rescue.
Last summer seven of the eight men,
bers of the equalization board urged
the president to buy the Cuban crop,
but the other member, Professor Taus-
sig, dissented and persuaded the adj
ministration to let the law of supply
and demand take it's course. Taussig
is a member of the new industrial
conference named by the president.
Having slightly Softened the terms
| of the protocol submitted to Germany,
| the supreme council at Paris told the
| Germans they must sign 1t, and at last
reports was sitting back waiting for
the signature. Meanwhile various
rather disturbing reports came out OF
Germany. The most serious Of these
| told how four trainloads of the Iron
division troops that were being re.
moved from the Baltic states, having
arrived at Tilsit, refused to obey the
allied commissions order and returned
to Memel, where they continued te
threaten Courland. The German army
headquarters at Koenigsberg assumed
responsibility for this action, saying il
was according to its orders. The Ger
mans in the Baltic region are becom
ing more truculent daily and a number
of allied officers have been attacked.
Negotiations at Dorpat between the
bolsheviki and the Esthonians con
tinued, with indications that the.
would result in an armistice though i
was considered improbable that /,
peace treaty would be signed. Th'
terms which the bolsheviki seek to i'm
pose are rather severe and the Esthon
ians baked especially at the deman'
for guarantees, feeling it incompati
BILE with their dignity. During thes
negotiations the armies of the sovie
government and of Esthonia are fight
ing f1ereely on the Narva front, wher
the bolsheviki were repulsed afte
making ten assaults.
Under Secretary Poi,ik and the othe
American delegates to the peace cor
ference departed from Paris, and eel
tain French newspaper writers too
occasion to express the belief that thi
closed the League Of Nations stage g
the conference. 'The hollow shell G
the league may perhaps remain" sal
they, "but the era of alliances has n
turned" And they pointed to the col
ference in London between Clemel
] ceau and Lloyd George as confirmi
ton. It was believed the French pr
] mier went to tighten up the entent
cordiale. Dispatches from Lendo
8 said the two statesmen were largel
. concerned with the Turkish situatio
and with the British request that tl
8 peace conference with the Turks /
> held in London.
= The efforts Of Emma Goldman an
J, Alexander Berkman to prevent the
8 deportation to Russia having faile
J, everywhere else, the two anarchfs
d asked the Supreme court OF the Unite
l. States to take up the matter. Fl
t federal officials announced that Ber
g man and Miss Goldman, together wi
" other aliens, would be shipped out
n the country within two weeks.
s. A notable achievement Of the we,
in aeronautics was the completion
y his airplane flight from England
IS Australia by Capt. Ross Smith, 1
II Australian aviator. By finishing t
b. trip in thirty days he won prize
y $4,000, as well as other money prize
o. In making the journey of 1850 mil
I'd from Houndslow, near London, to Pc
D. Darwin, on the northern coast of Al
e. tralia, Captain Smith passed throu
t. Paris, Rome Saloniki, Cairo Dams
Ks Gus, Bagdad, Bushire, Delhi, RangoC
b. Bangkok. Singapore and Kalidai
e. West Java.