The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-08-01

en- Island who We're unable to get from
he New York ferry boats.
whether we shall actually have rati.
fled or not. because peace will then be
fact"
The president may go ahead any.
how and name the member Of the repa.
rations commission. and it was report.
ell that Bernard Baruch is to be his St.
lection.
Some Of the senators, and perhaps
great many other people. do not
agree with Mr.. Taft that the Shantuns
affair has been exaggerated. Mr. Will
son is said to have explained to Ger.
tain of his callers that the other peace
makers. entangled in secret treaties
left to him the settlement of that an
nOying matter and that it was neceS
sary to yield so much to Japan in or.
der to assure her Joining the League
of Nations. 1t was believed he might
now bring some pressure to bear to
persuade Japan to declare formally
her intention to return the province
to China within short period of time.
That, of course. would do much to 81.
lence the criticism against the clause.
The japanese. however. are not dis.
playing very compliant spirit lately.
They have vigorously denied the story
that the Shantung settlement was in
exchange for the japanese withdrawal
OF the racial equality clause from the
league covenant, and the intimatiOn is
plain that they will renew later their
demand for the inclusion of such u
clause. Also there is open opposition
in Japan to participating in the inter.
national tribunal TO try the former
kaiser. based on the assertion that
such action would have bad effect
| on the Japanese people.
The British parliament has ratified
the peace treaty with Germany unan.
imously, and also has adopted the
Anglo-French alliance bill.
Austria has been handed the peace
treaty she must sign and of course is
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terms imposed. The PREPARATION terms
are similar to those in the German
treaty. and the financial terms pro-
vide that the preWar debt shall be
apportiOned among thu various former
parts OF the Austrian empire and the
coinage and war bonds taken up by
| the new governments and redeemed
as they see fit. The Austrian army is
to be reduced to 10000 men and she is
to give up all her merchant shipping
and fishing boats and 20 per cent of
her river fleet. Large numbers of cat
tie also must be surrendered. as we'll
as quantities Of stuff stolen by the
HapSburgS. In the revised territorial
terms is seen a possibility of future
trouble for Austria is to receive the
Oderberg region of Hungary. The
llungarianS are not likely to submit,
tamely to this and Bella Kun, if he is
! still in power there, may tind in it 4
chance To keep his army from diSinte
grating by appealing to the national
feeling.
Conflicting stories concerning Bel;
Kun have been coming from Vienna
One had it that the communist leader
had been depoSed by Il ,riumvirate ant
that terror troops" We're in control OF
Budapest. Another and later dispatch
showed he was still in the saddle.
The tangled mess known as the Rus
sian situation has no very promiSin:
aspects of late. The British comnan
der i'm North Russia reports that tn,
Russian volunteer troops that hav'
! been cooperating with him have mutt
MED and joined the bol>hevi>t>: Gen
elsl Denikine has been suffering re
verses at the hands of TrotZky'S arm.
and Admiral Kolchak. head of tn
OmSk government, does not seem t,
he getting anywhere. Lenine has of
fered to cede ReSSnrahia To k"umani:
if the latter country will prohibit Kol
chak'S supporters from crossing it
frontier. This may amount to nothin.
as Roumania already holds possession
of Bessarabia. In eastern Galici:
where the UkrainianS and Poles ar
fighting for the territory. the Pole
have captured the important city O
) Tarnopol. Delayed dispatches trol
Vlaiivostok tell of Il successful eNcul
sion in the Suchan valley district b
an American military column whic
cleared out bands Of holsheviki at
cost of two men killed and eleve
wounded. The holsheviki in Siberi
. have released all their American pri
oners, Ave in number.
The peace conference is now atten,
/ ing to Bulgaria: The delegates fro
, that country arrived in Paris fro
. Sofia Friday and were quartered at Il