Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-08-13

sion would be given Russia to send a |
number of bOlshevist commissioners |
into that country to control the export |
of Polish supplies of all kinds.
Russia would then undertake to
evacuate Poland completely in favor
of Germany, which would hold the
country as guaranty against future
credits to Russia in return for Ger
man goods and German labor.
There has been a lot of sarcastic
criticism of the League of Nations be-
cause it has not taken cognizance of
the Russo-Polish war. In a letter to
Lord Robert Cecil, Viscount Grey, for
mer foreign minister, has this to say:
''The league had nothing to do with
the Russian-Polish war and it is
crime against the league and it's men,
bers to charge it with responsibility
when the responsibility clearly did not
rest with the league, but with indi-
vidual governments.
1.-The league was not invoked to re-
strain Poland, one of its own men,
bers, from aggression or, as the prime
minister calls it, reckless and foolish
action, as it should have been. To in
woke the league now to support Poland
by arms against the consequences of
her action is not merely illogical; it is
in fact, great misuse of the league"
The council of the League of Ma
tions, in session at San Sebastian,
Spain, is busy with plans for the pre-
vention of future wars, and during the
week it took several important steps.
First it adopted the French plan for
an international general staff of mill
tary experts to devise plans Of oper-
ations in event any state makes war
or violates an agreement. This action,
which was opposed by the United
States last year, is thought to be pre-
liminary to combined action against
bolshevik Russia and against Germany
if she unites with the bolshevistS. An
other French plan, though presented
by Italy, also was adopted, for the es-
tablishment of an international block
ade committee and justifying the
blockade principle. The plan of the
advisory jurists' committee for an in
terantional court of justice was adopt
ed as submitted. This was almost en-
tirely the work of Elihu Root.
AS had been expected, the Greeks
pretty much cleared Thrace of Turk
| ish nationaIists, but Kemal Pasha
| was not beaten and opened a strong
| offensive against the Greek forces in
Asia Minor along the Bagdad railroad
| At Simav, northeast of Smyrna, which
is outside their area of occupation, the
| Greeks were defeated in 24-hour bat
tie and forced to retreat. In order to
prevent Greek occupation of Constan.
tinople the Turkish cabinet was hur.
riedly reorganized, practically all the
new members being friendly to Great
Britain, and preparations were made
for the signing of the peace treaty
| But Constantinople is threatened
from another direction, according tC
reports from Sofia. 1t is said strong
| Communist party is being organized
in Bulgaria by Madjaroff, Russo
phile; that all its men members from
twenty to forty-fve years of age, are
being given arms and trained secretly
and that the purpose is to cooperate
with the Russian soviet troops in 6
! drive on Constantinop1e.
The strike of bituminous coal min
ers in the middle Western states, be
ing unauthorized and disapproved by
the union. is petering out and the feal
of a fuel famine is decreasing. Presi
dent Wilson asked the men to return
to work pending adjustment of theil
complaints, and President Lewis O.
the United Mine Workers of America
gave the same advice, making it a
nearly mandatory as he could. TIL,
strikers in Illinois and Indiana slow
" returned to the mines. Those o
Kansas were more stubborn and A NJ
Howat, president of the state union
bitterly attacked Lewis and refused
to abide by his instructions.
So far as Illinois and the Chicag
region are concerned, the Illinois pub
lie utilities commission took actiol
that should relieve the situation ther
very markedly. This was an orde
forbidding the reconsignment of car
of fuel after they have reached thei
destination and providing that en- al
carload shipments of coal, lumber, o
other shipments in open top cars th
railroads shall make a charge of 81
a day for each day or fraction there
of that a car is held beyond the fire
time" allowed by the roads. In thi
way, it is believed, the evil of gam