Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-03-14

In theh murderous warfare, and why
any criminal court In America, Great
Britain France or Belgium Is not COM
petent to try the accused individuals,
whatever may have been their rank.
tries have reached conclusions at total
variance with the reported finding of
the commission over which Lansing
presides. The Pan-German league also
is taking steps to protect the ex-kaiser
from justice, having issued a procla-
nation declaring the national assembly
or the Ebert government is In honor
bound to furnish him a safe retreat on
German soil.
That Ebert government, by the way.
Is becoming rather cocky in its attitude
toward the allies. The cabinet held a
meeting the other day with party lead
ers and others and all agreed that
Germany could not submit, to coercion
from the entente powers in the ar
mistice negotiations or in the peace
pourparlers. It was declared that the
government would decline responsible
ity for possible consequences IF the
entente tries to speculate on German
patience" The demands of the allies
for the immediate surrender Of mer-
chant shipping were held to be mac
ceptable because they would ~"paralyze
the country's economic future" and the
dismissal of German crews from the
ships requisitioned was also OBJ
jected to.
In many parts Of Germany the disor-
ders created by the Spartacans con-
tinue undated, and there has been fire.
quent and bloody fighting, in Berlin as
well as other places. The Reds keep
up their method of starting strikes, and
in addition are said to be trying to
open up the way through K%oenigsberg.
East Prussia, for the entry of their
bolshevik brothers from Russia. This
move was temporarily checked by the
sending Of strong forces of troops.
Government soldiers also operated eff
fectively in Berlin, where the Sparta
cans were trying to get possession Of
the police stations but were routed
by artillery fire. The government press
predicted that the w~orkingmen and the
government would reach an agreement
and that the general strike would fail,
leaving the most radical Reds as the
only m~alcontents. The government
has proposed that the soldiers and
workingmen's council be made an or
ganic part of the governmental sys-
TEN under the new constitution that is
being constructed at Weimar.
Most of the present German leaders
are still against any concessions to
the demands Of the Poles as to the
eastern frontier, and the allies com
mission now in session at Kreuz on the
Brandenburg-Posen border, has a diff
cult question to settle. Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg is quoted as saying
hat the territory in dispute never will
be held by the Poles, but will belong
to either the Germans or the bolshe-
Wiki. He declares the anarchist hordes
cannot be beaten off unless the people
there rally to the defense of their
homes and their families.
The allied forces in northern Russia
have retired somewhat before the at
ltacks of the soviet troops, but have
inflicted great losses on them. Trotsky
is getting his big army more organized
and is reported to be planning to drive
through Bessarabia and into Roumania
and Hungary, with the expectation of
capturing Budapest. The most amaz-
ing story coming from Russia recently
lis that the soviet government hopes to
arrange a big loan in America in re,
turn for mining and railroad conces
sions. And, at that, 1t might be done.
The Irish question pestered the
president almost to the hour of his de-
parture. The house before a%djourning
adopted a resolution asking the peace
conference to recognize the right OF
Ireland to self determination; and a
big delegation of Americans OF Irish
blood waited on Mr.. Wilson In New
York tn urge that he support that
proposition. He refused to meet them
until justice Cohalan of New York had
withdrawn, that individual having been
accused of taking part in Sim Fein
conspiracies and having been a defend
or of Jeremiah OLeary who was