The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-01-25

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 neal Kalmar. 1t was re-
ported that Hindenburg himself would
lead the German army against Poland.
The worldwide activities of the boil
sheviki took in Argentina, Uruguay
and Peru, where there we're desperate
strikes accompanied by bloody fight
ing, engineered by bolshevik agents.
They also sent from Russia 100000
gulden to Holland for a coup d'etat
and riotous demonstrations planned
for January 20. In this plot the Ger
man radicals were cooperating with
Wyncoop, the Dutch socialist leader.
A.
Because of ~dissension ovel italv's
territorial claims the cabinet resigned
and Premier Orlando was commission
ed to form a new one. Several mem
bers were bitterly opposed to Foreign
Minister Sonnino In his demands that
Italy be given the whole of the Dalma-
tan coast, holding with President Will
son thai part of that territory should
justly be given to the Jugo-Slav
state.
Little Luxembourg also had her crisis
last week. After a republic had been
proclaimed, and suppressed within a
few hours by the French military au-
thorities, Grand Duchess Marie abdi-
Gated and was succeeded by the eldest
OF her sisters, Princess Charlotte.
Marie had lost the favor of her people
because, though she protested against
the passage Of the German armies
through the principality, she after
ward entertained high German per-
sonages.
Speaking of high p~ersonages, there
are some queer reports coming from
the refuge of the former kaiser in
Holland. 1t is declared he is border.
Ing on insanity, talking almost inces.
sanity and incoherently and wandering
about at night. 1t is also said that
his heath is failing rapidly. The
Germans, who supported Wilhelm
heartily until he turned out to be a
loser, are now heaping abuse on him
J and the German commission appoint.
ed to determine his responsibility for
the war has recommended that he be
brought to trial, declaring that mar.
glnal notes In the kaiser's handwriting
on papers In the foreign Office prove
hin to have been one of the chief wal
makers. This venomous course of the
Germans certainly is superfluous, for
the allied governments will see to IL
that Wilhelm and others get the pun.
lshment they so richly deserve.
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The desperate need Of the liberated
peoples Of central Europe for food will
be relieved as soon as possible. Urged
by President Wilson, the American
house of representatives appropriated
$1OO,OOO,O0O for this purpose, and it is
understood the other allied nations will
do their part. The money is not to
be spent for food for the Germans, but
much of the relief will go to the PEG.
pies formerly under the rule of the
Emperor Of Austria. The British army
in Italy did a graceful thing the other
day when they sent several trainloads
of food to starving Vienna in recogni.
ton Of the decent way in which the
Austrians had treated British prison.
ers of wal. Hungary, which has been
made a republic under the presidency
of Count narolyi, is appealing to the
allies for its share Of help, as well az
against being deprived of any of its
territory by the surrounding new ma.
tons.