, 1919-11-13

many and such nations as have rati-
fed the pact will take place. Ger
many has not yet fulfilled a number
of the provisions of the armistice and
was instructed by the supreme coun-
Gil to send a delegation to Paris on
November 10 to sign a protocol guar
anteeing to carry them out, and also
to surrender certain vessels and float
ing docks as a penalty for the sink
ing of the warships in Scapa Flow.
Germany is excited over the revela-
tions in a leading Berlin paper of a
big communist plot for an uprising
this winter which. beginning with
strikes to cripple industry, shall end
In the establishment of a soviet form
of government in close association
with the present bolshevik govern
ment Of Russia. The conspiracy, 1t is
said. is led and financed by Russians.
The. outbreak is to have its beginning
In the Ruhr coal-mining district. al
ready full of Spartacnns. and Munich
and Brunswick viii be among the
main centers of uprising. The com
munists believe a large part of the
national defense army will desert md
join their red army.
The pendulum of civil war swings
back and forth with considerable
regularity in Russia. At this writing
1t is the bolsheviki that are winning.
General Yudenitch and his white
army of the northwest not only failed
to reach Petrograd but are now said
to be in a O precarious situation.
The reds assert they are surrounding
him. thai they are receiving heavy re-
endorsements n that bolshevik
troops are attacking him In the rear
from Luga. This, however. came d.
rect from Trotzky. and he Is a notori-
Gus liar. Consideration must be given
a report from Helsingfors that 20.OOO
Firms have secretly volunteered to
join Yudenitch and are well equipped.
Denikine's artillery has destroyed
Derbent on the Caspian sea. and he
claims the Don Cossacks in the latter
part of October captured 5000 boil
sheviki. But he oes not seem to he
getting much nearer to Moscow. Adj
miral Kolchak's Siberian armies,
which were defeated on the Tobol
river. have retired far to the east and
likely are still on the move.
The bOlshevik government leaders
have reiterated their willingness to
max peace and to pay the old Rus
sian debt If they are let alone.
Congress had peer dawdling along
in the matter of railroad legislation,
but was aroused to action last week
when Director General Hines in
formed Senator Cummlns that Presi-
ent Wilson had determined to return
the roads to their owners on January
1 whether or not congress had passed
any bill for their regulation. It was
recognized as impossible to pass the
Cummins bill or anything like 1t at
this session, so work was begun at
once on n temporary measure to meet
the emergency and to avert a threat
ened financial catastrophe. 1t will
provide for the restoration of the
roads to their former owners and for
continuation of the government guar
anty, but all controversial matters,
IKE tue Hutl-Strlke PROVISIONS or the
Cummins bill. will be omitted.
General Pershing. appearing before
the senate and house military commit
tees. opposed the creation of an indie
pendent department of aviation as pro-
posed in the New bill. but urged the
concentration of authority for the pro-
curement of airplanes for the army,
navy and post office departments.
A special army board has just made
a report recommending that congress
enact an aviation policy based either
on a ten-year program with large an
nual appropriations guaranteed to
stimulate commercial a~eronautics. or
make appropriations for mir Develop
ment by the post office. war and navy
departments. If the former policy is
adopted the board recommended that
n separate department of a%eronautics
he, created II the latter, that q com
mission under the director of aeronau-
tics reporting directly TO The president
be formed To coordinate the work.
Secretary Baker transmitted The re-
port TO the senate committee. Stating
that he disagreed with both the pro.
posals. He said n II single agency
were to he created. II shonld be MP
pointed and controlled by the cabinet
members whose departments would
be directly affected.