Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-09
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Treaty Compromisers StiIl Are
Hopeful but Wilson Shows
No Signs of Yielding.
PROGRESS OF THE BOLsHEvIN
Siqn Armistice With Esthonia and
Worry Japan by Siberian Advance
Congress Gets Lots Of Ad-
vice on Railway Legislation.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD


Prospects Of a satisfactory compro-
mise in the treaty situation in the
United States senate were not much
frightened by the developments of last
week. The compromisers were unre-
mitting in their efforts, however, and
one Of them, Senator Pomerene, after
conference with Senator Lodge,
said: 'I believe we will, get together.
None Of the reservations which the
majority Of the senate adopted is as
bad as defeat Of the treaty. The coun-
try wants the treaty ratified prompt
w."
The signs that a good many Demo
Gratis were ready to abandon the ad
ministration's policy of ratification
without reservation caused Secretary
Tumulty to visit the capitol and study
the situation for the president. He
had a long talk with Senator Hitch
cock, and while neither would give
the details of the conference, Mr..
Hitchcock said: "We've got long
row to hoe yet before we reach COM
promise" He added that nothing Mr..
Tumulty said indicated the slightest
sign that the president would yield in
his refusal to compromise in the fight.
Meanwhile the supreme council in
Paris, which had made up its mind to
go ahead without waiting longer for
the United States, ran up against a
snag. It had f1xed January as the
day on which the protocol should be
signed and ratifications Of the Ger
man treaty be exchanged, and then
discovered that the German delegates
did not have full power to act. Steps
to rectify this were taken. The su-
preme council learned that there were
still some $4,000 German troops in up
per Silesia, where plebiscite is to be
held, and it was decided Germany
should be told it had better remove
them at once. 1t was also planned to
send a mission Of allied officers to SUI
pervise the withdrawal of Hungarian
| troops that are in that part of west
ern Hungary that was given to Aus
| tria.
On the last day Of the year the rs
thonians and soviet Russians In con-
ference at Dorpat signed seven days
temporary adjustment Of boundaries
military guarantees and recognition
| of the independence of Esthonia. II
| was assumed that this agreement
would soon be followed by the con
clusion Of definite peace between the
| two countries.
In New Years greeting to the
world, sent from Moscow by wireless
the soviet government promises thai
in 1920 it will VIGOROUSLY end tht
civil war in Russia, that soviets will
be established in Berlin, Washington
Paris and London, and that soviet au
thority will be supreme Throughout
the world.
General Semenoff is now the domi
nant figure among the anti-bolshevist
of Siberia. Following his disastrou
defeats and the swift advance east
ward Of the soviet armies, Admira
Kolchak went into eclipse. His force
melted away rapidly, and in the Irk
utsk region mutiny and anarchy pre-
vailed. The entente allies and tn
United States seem quite disincline,
to intervene further in the affairs o
Russia by force of arms, in which the
probably are wise, and it appears t
be up to Japan to stop the onwar
sweep of bolshevism in the far Eas
If it can be done at all. The impres
sion prevails that the Japanese wi
be given a free hand on their assul
ance that they have no intention O
annexing any additional territory