The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-01-23


protocol. Certain concessions were
made to them, but these were not
enough, for they insist they are unable
to turn over the 100000 tons Of harbor
and dock material demanded in repa-
ration for the sinking of the interned
warships in Scapa Flow. Late reports
sold their proofs Of this inability were
80 strong that experts Of the allies
were disposed to consider an offer to
reduce the amount 10. 100000 tons.
Gerlnany's chief internal trouble
just now Is financial. The premium
loan, by which it was hoped to raise
five billion marks, was q failure, and
some Of the papers assert that open
bankruptcy is not far distant.
Austria is starving. That grim fact
has been established by the testimony
Of numerous persons, and it appears
to be up to the United States to supply
the food for that unfortunate nation.
All the other nations Of central Europe
are suffering only in less degree, and
Herbert Hoover. who knows more
about the foreign food situation than
anyone else, proposes that the great
surplus Of wheat and -four held by the
grain corporation be sold to them on
credit.
The Russian bolsheviki and the Es-
thOnians in conference at Dorpat are
not arriving very rapidly at an AMIGA
BILE understanding. The Esthonians
suspect the Russians of treacherous
designs. and in addition there are ru-
mOrs that France Is intervening in
the Baltic against the soviet govern
| ment. In the field the bolsheviki had
more victories to report, including the
capture of Kiev, capital of the
| Ukraine. from General Denikine's
troops. They also occupied Kupiansk,
southeast Of Kharkov.
The United States and Great Britain
have become involved in an unpleas-
ant controversy over the treaty by
which virtually British protectorate
Teheran paper accused the United
States of having abandoned Persia,
whereupon our legation there issued a
statement this country had done its
utmost to befriend Persia but that the
act Of some Persian authorities in con-
Guiding the treaty with England had
indicated that they did not desire the
friendship Of the United States in the
future.
British Foreign Minister Curzon has
taken extreme exception to this state.
ment as being nndiplomatic. unfriend.
~ and even hostile, and asks that the
impression made by it he corrected In
Persia by our state department. In
the reply from Washington it is plain.
~ stated that the United States will
not, ut the present time. approve Of
the Anglo-Persian treaty.
According to what is called anthem
tic information from the highest
sources. the government will not re
turn the railroads to private owner.
ship on January l. but will continue tc
operate them until March l. or per
haps for month longer. This was
good news for everybody and served
to remove the apprehension that the
return would be made before congress
had passed the needed legislation
which certainly would result in thu
paralysis of transportation and bust
ness and in great general tinancia
loss. There is no immediate prospec
of the passage of the Cummns bill
which the senate is considering. or an,
other railroad bill. and Director Gen
eral Hines is said to have recommend
ed t" the president that the govern
ment retain control until legislation il
effected.
MeNico'S reply to Secretary Ian
sings latest note on the case Of Con,
sular Agent Jenkins was received il
Washington Thursday, and doubles.
gave the state department little salts
faction. In it Carran2a said he took i
for granted that the release of Jen
kinS on bail had removed the cause o.
complaint. and then declined to hay,
the proceedings against the consula
agent dropped. He asserted that tn,
American governments belief in tn,
innocence of jenkins was not sutticien
cause for removing that official from
the jurisdiction Of the Mexican tri
bunals. So once more it is up to Wash
ington to make the next move. an,
what that will be there is no intima
ton. Senator Fall thinks that our gov
eminent will not depart from its time
honored policy of permitting Carranz,
to insult and defy it with impunity.