The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-11-13

/ many and such nations as have rati
fed the pact will take place. Ger
many has not yet fulfilled n number
of the provisions Of the armlstice an'
was instructed by the supreme cOun
ell to send delegation to Paris OIL
November 10 TO sign protocol guar
anteeing TO carry them out and ats
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 q leading Berlin paper OF
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 boshevik govern
ment OF Russia. The conspiracy, 1t is
said, is led and financed by Russians.
The outbreak is 10 have its beginning
ready full Of SpartacanS. and Munich
and Brunswick will he among the
main centers OF uprising. The com
munistS believe large part Of the
national defense army will desert and
Join their red army.
The pendulum Of civil Nar swings
back and forth with considerable
regularity in Russia. At this writing
II is the holshevki that are winning.
General Yudenitch and his white
army of the northwest not only failed
TO reach Petrograd but are now said
10 be in most precarious situation.
The reds assert they are surrounding
endorsements and that bolshevlk
troops are attacking him in the rear
from Luga. This. however. came a.
rect from Trntzky. and he is a nOtOri-
Gus liar. Consideration must be given
report from HeSngfors that 10000
Firms have secretly volunteered 10
| Join Yudentch and are well equipped.
| Denfkine's artillery has destroyed
Derbent on the Caspian sea. and he
claims The Don COssacks In the latter
part OF October captured $1,000 boil
sheviki. But he does not seem to he
| getting much nearer TO Moscow. Adj
mlral Kolchak's Siberian armies.
which we're 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 10
make peace and 10 pay the old Rus
sian debt II 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 Cummlns that Presi-
dent Wilson had determined to return
the roads to their owners on January
i whether or not congress had passed
any bill for their regulation. II was
recognized as impossible TO pass the
Cummins bill or anything like 1t Mt
this session. so work was begun ut
once on temporary measure to meet
the emergency and 10 avert a threat
ened financial catastrophe II will
provide for the restoration of the
roads 10 their former owners and for
continuation OF the government guar.
anty, but all controversial matters,
like the antl-strike provisions of 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 hill. but urged the
concentration OF authority for the pro-
curement OF alrplaues for the army,
navy aud post Office departments.
A special army board has just made
report recommending that congress
enact nm aviation policy bnsed either
on ten-year program with large an.
nual appropriations guaranteed to
stimulate commercial aeronautlcs. or
make appropriations for air develop
ment by the post office, war and navy
departments. II the former policy IL
adopted the board recommended that
a separate department Of aeronautlcs
be created; II the latter, that com.
mission under the director Of aeronau-
ties reporting directly 10 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 II single agency
were TO be created, It should be M.
= pointed and controlled by the cabinet
: members whose departments would
: be directly affected.