The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-01-22
Foreign

Premier Georges Clemenceau went
down to defeat at the hands Of his
! countrymen in caucus of the French
senate and chamber of deputies to
, choose candidate for the presidency
OF the republic. Clemenceau then an
nounced his withdrawal and asked his
supporters to cast their votes for the
reelection of President Poincaire
In an official communication issued
in Paris, the supreme council APPROX
ed of recomm endations to relieve the
, population in the interior of Russia
by giving them medicine, agricultural
machinery and other commodities, of
which the people are in sore need, in
exchange for grain and flax.
The supreme council, at Paris, has
! drafted note to the Dutch govern
ment asking for the extradition of the
former German emperor
The note refers to article 227 of the
treaty of Versailles and invites Hol-
, land to join the allied powers in the
accomplishment of this act.
It is rumored in London that be-
fore peace with Germany is week
old the British public has been
brought up sharply against the pos
sibility Of another war.
The estimates of the Berlin papers
of the casualties in the riOting places
the dead in excess of thirty and the
wounded at one hundred. Quiet has
been restored.
i The German Social Democratic par
ty has issued an appeal to it's mem
bers not to allow themselves to be pro-
voked by Independent and Commun-
lst wire pullers" TO play an unscrupu-
lous game with human lives.
Many persons were killed Or wound
ed in Berlin when the troops fired
upon or bayonetted demonstrators who
tried to rush the reichstag in Berlin
in protest against the exploitation law.
Crowds have paraded the streets of
Berlin following an appeal from the
radical Socialist organ for wOrkmen
to demonstrate in protest against the
law. The demonstrators bore flags
inscribed 1--WE Demand an Unrestrlct-
ed Workers Council Bill" The street
caySservice was partly suspended, the
men being on strike. Ten dead were
taken into the court of the reichstag
building, and order was finally restor-
ed by the police.
The so-called German exploitation
law is an outgrowth of resolutions by
the Social Democrats endorsing a sys-
TENT Of workers and economic coun-
ellis as the first step towards social
cation. The Soviet system is strong
Ixy
Democrats.
The Russian Bolsheviks have cap
tured seventeen columns of Polish le-
gionnaires, sixteen guns and 10000 RI
files in the Krasnoyarsk region. The
BOlsheviks have also occupied the Ba-
lai station, fifty miles east of KraS-
noyarsk.
London newspapers state that the
only two countries in the world now
at peace are United States and Ger
many.
In the supreme council at Parts,
the United States ambassador raised
the question whether the council in
tended to maintain the percentage pre-
viously adopted for distribution among
the allied and associated powers of
the warship tonnage to be given up
j Der German. Receiving an answer
i nthe affirmative, the United States
ambassador stated that, in that case,
the United States waived it's claim
to any part of this tonnage
Immediately after the peace proto-
col was signed the allied leaders hand
ed memorandum to the German dele
gates, including the delivery of 5000
locomotives, 10000 cars, Germany's
failure to. evacuate all parts of Russia.
the sinking of certain submarines
which were to have been turned over
to the allies, failure to deliver stolen
works Of art taken from Belgium and
France, the delivery of agricultural ma.
chinery and expectation of certain
aeronautical materials in cOntraven-
tion of the agreement with the allies
A Korean national army has crossed
the Siberian frontier into Korea and
has captured En- Chin from the Japan
csc provisional government forces, &C.
cording to cablegram received in
Honolulu from Shanghai tn The Kor-
can Hawaiian association
Germany is now at peace with the
allies. The treaty of Versailles, com.
pleted after months of labor last June.
has been declared formally in effect,
operative January 10. 1920.
Consideration is being given by the
supreme council to plan TOR the ap-
pointment of a committee of ambas-
sailors to complete the details for the
presentation and signing of the Hun
garian peace treaty and to carry on
other unfinished business of the peace
conference. The decision will be left
to the heads of the governments of
the principal powers.
Thirty-five members of the crew of
the British steamer Treveal were