Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-11-14

many and such nations as have ratl-
fed the pact will take place. Ger
MANY has not yet fulfilled a number
of the provisions of the armistice ana
was instructed by the supreme coun-
ell 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 hoat-
ing docks as a penalty for the sink
ing of the warships in Scapa Flow.
Germany is excited I'VE the reveIa-
lions in q leading Berlin paper of a
big communist plot for an uprising
this winter which. beginning with
strikes to cripple industry, shall n
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 S%partacans, and Munich
anu Ith VIII NC oIi'A6 ~
main centers of uprising. The com
munists believe a large part of the
national defense army will desert and
join their red army.
The pendulum of civil var 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 most precarious situation.
The reds assert they are surrounding
him, that they are receiving heavy re-
endorsements and 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 10000
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 he latter
part of October captured $4,000 boil
sheviki. But he does not seem to be
getting much nearer to Moscow. Ad-
miral Kolchak's Siberian armies.
which were defeated IN 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
make peace and to pay the old Rus
sian debt if they are let alone.
Congress had been dawdling along
in the matter of railroad legislation,
but was aroused to action last week
when Director General Hines in
formed Senator Cummins that Presi-
dent Wilson had determined to return
the roads to their owners on January
1 whether or not congress had passed
any bill for their regulation. 1t was
recognized as impossible to pass the
Cummins bill or anything like it al
this session, so work was begun Al
! once on a temporary measure to meeI
the emergency and to avert a threat
ened financial catastrophe. 1t will
provide for the restoration Of the
roads to their former owner and fol
continuation of the government guar
anty, but all controversial matters
like the anti-strike provisions of thu
Cummins bill. will be omitted.
General PerShing. appearing befOr,
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 tn
concentration of authority for the pro
curement of airplanes for the army
navy and post Office departments.
A special army board has just mad,
a report recommending that congress
enact an aviation policy based eithe
on a ten-year program with large an
nual appropriations guaranteed +
; stimulate commercial aeronautics. 0
/, make appropriations for air develop
ment by the post office, war and nav
: departments. If the former policy /
) adopted the board recommended tina
: a separate department of %aeronautic
> be created if the latter. that a CON
: mission under the director of aeronau
, tics reporting directly to the presiden
be formed to coordinate the work.
t Secretary Baker transmitted the re
: port to the senate committee. Stain
: that he disagreed with both the pre-
posals. He said if a single agenc
e were to be created. 1T should be ar
: pointed and controlled by the cabine
members whose departments woul
be directly affected.