Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-12-09

lighters into regular army units, and
he recently added to his equipment a 7
quantity Of artillery obtained from
the soviet Russians.
From Geneva came d story that the
league committee on Armenia, Of
which Lord Robert Cecil is chairman,
probably would appoint Gen. Leonard
Wood commander Of the Armenian ex-
peditionary force with the title Of
high commissioner. The choice, Il
was added. was on the recomlhenda.
tion of Sir Frederick Morris and
Gen. Weygand. Officials In Washing.
ton did not take this report seriously.
but 1t may turn out to be true.
BY unanimous vote the league COM
mission on new members decided that
Austria should be admitted. and there
was no doubt that the assembly would
ratify the action. Bulgaria also wants
to get In at once, but Greece, Serbia
and Roumania all are opposed to her
admission and mny prevent 1t. There
was reason to believe they would be
supported in this by France. which
seeks to gain strength In central Eu-
ropean Friendships For the present,
at least, France has her way In bar
ring Germany from immediate mem
bership in the league. The commits
sion has decided asai s: the admits
sion Of Lichtenstein4an Azerbaijan,
but recommert cod tlllt Costa Rica he
made member.
Gustav Ador Of Switzerland, backed
by the delegates o several other ma
lions. tried to haze the economic COM
mission instructed to study means Of
preventing m6nopclics of raw mate
rials and measures to insure their
distribution throug' out tile world the
argument being that raw materials
belong not to the nation In which they
are produced but 10 the world This
was blocked by ST. George e. Foster
of Canada. who said his country and
the United States never would sub
scribe to that principle. A futile ef-
fort to have Spanish adopted as the
third official language Of the league
brought out the statement by the for
eign minister Of Panama that the Is
states Of Central and South America
are united around Spain as their
leader.
the throne. they will forfeit the good
will and support Of Grent Britain.
France and italy. Thes" three powers.
It was decided at n conference in Lon
don, should so warn the new Greek
government and note TO that effect
was drafted The restoration Of the
former king. says the warning. "could
only he rprrr1ed nc -at'f'cat'c" NJ his
hostile acts" during the war. This de-
cision nv the entente is victory for
the French point Of view.
D'Annn-ziO having rernsed to ace
cept the agreement between Italy and
Jugo- S'avin the rtn'ian government
sent General Cnv'~'a TO invest Fiume.
This he did, and sent TO the poet war
rior hv a'rp'ane a proclar,at'on an
nOuncing tte 'nto-+'or o. the govern
ment TO errorce the conditions of the
Rnnallo t"pnty r.thout delay and
cal'fng on the regency Of Fiume to
Withdraw aH its forces heh'r.' the
frontiers. TIe next invited r mum
xio's troOps to lerve him and re-
errOll. In. their ald 'ir'+s and threat.
ened q severe hlcc'-nde Of the city.
D'Annnnzio seemingly undaunted. re-
sp0nded in dec'""n+'on Of state
Of war with italy e~ective December
3. General Cavi~Ha is doing all he
can to avoid bloc '~hed and his troops
would h"te to fire on their brother
italians. hut if II comes to actual war.
fare the result cannot be in doubt
D'Annurzio would soon be crushed.
The warning issued by the British
government. that tire Irieh were about
to carry the war" TO England. wa,
justified. To date the chief weapon
used IN this new development Of tbs
conflict IS arson. large number o.
incendiary fires were started stimuli
taneously along the Liverpool water
front and several big cotton ware
houses were destroyed. The incen.
diaries worked In small groups and
( some Of them,r being interrupted BY
the police, killed one officer and .
civilian. About the same time the
London police said they had fotIet
q plot t6 start hres In the metropolis
on a,slarge SCALE Elaborate precau
lions were taken in all the largl
{. cities Of England b,. ...,.a.-.s
L, Sunday night two Wotortrucks fnl
rs black aad - sDgH, II 1l