Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-10-05
questions should be exempt from the
jurisdiction OF the league.


jurisdiction OF the league.
japanese leaders have almost ceased
to hope for q settlement OF the I'M
migration dispute while the present
administration is In power. and their
chances for favorable action under the
next administration are slim. Fol-
lowing up the declarations made by
Senator Harding. Governor Cox has
been telling the Pacific coast people
that he believes they are right IN
wishing to exclude the japanese. 1t
seems certain that the next admins
tration, whether Republican or Demo
cratic, will be pressed to terminate the
present treaty with Japan, so that ex-
clusion may be legal. With Califor-
MAS apparent determination to adopt
additional restrictive legislation, the
race question Gu the coast becomes
more serious daily; but wise and well
informed persons, in both America and
Japan, have little fear that 1t will
result In war.
In accordance with an agreement
made last July between Japan and
Asjatic Russia, the japanese war Of
fee has evacuated Khabarovsk and
the only Japanese garrisons left in
Siberia are at Vladiyostok and along
the Usuri railway. Asiatic Russia, It
is said, has agreed to preserve the
peace. to maintain friendly relations
with Japan and to abolish communism.
The Polish-Russian peace confer
ence opened in Riga, but it was sur
rounded by an atmosphere of gloom
and the prediction was made freely
that the results will be nil. Each side
dstrusts the other, and on certain
questions it seems impossible for them
to get together. One of these is Ukrai-
MIA. which the Reds assert is already
self-determined In favor of soviet rule.
The Ukrainians who follow Petlura
deny this and say their soviet rulers
are foreigners. They have sent rep
resentatives to the Riga meet, but
these are not admitted by the reds.
Disarmament by both Poland and Rus
sia was declared by Adolph Joffe, head
Of the red delegation, to be the only
guarantee of stable peace.
Military operations against the So
Wet forces went rigfft along, and
their enemies scored several decided
victories. The united Polish Ukrainian
front east of Lemberg was moving
forward at the rate of fifteen miles
day and had reached Rovno and
Kamenets Podolsk, and the Ukrainian
cavalry had occupied the latter i'm
portant city. In the Grodno region
the soviet government claimed to have
defeated the Poles and to have taken
a number of towns. But the Moscow
war reports have been almost uni
formly false since the collapse of the
invasion OF Poland.
Following the plan which was out
lined last week, General Wrangel has
been pushing his way northward along
the Dnieper river and, at last reports,
after several smashing victories, he
had captured Alexandrovsk, together
with about 10000 prisoners. five ar
mored trains. many guns and large
stores of supplies.
Turkish nationalists In southern Asia
Minor have been displaying renewed
activity and dispatches from Constan-
tinople say they are besieging the
the French in Adana, bombarding
Tarsus and making frequent attacks
on Mersina. These Turks are assisted
by disaffected Arabs and also by Ger
man officers who have been stranded
in the country since the armistice.
These latter are handling the artil-
lery. The French at Adana and Tar
sus have got supplies in and are pre-
pared for winters siege. The Ar
menian city of Hadjin has sent out
word that it is facing starvation and
massacre and must have help.
The immediate situation in Ireland
has resolved itself into a guerrilla war
of the most vicious description, which
so far the British authorities have not
been able to control. The Sim Fem
ers ambush and Stay the police, and
the police in reprisal kill the Sim
Feiners ike rats and ravage their
towns. The most startling of these
occurrences was the raid last week on
| Balbriggan, the center of the weaving
| industry of south Ireland. Inspector
Burke Of the British police in Ireland
| was shot down as he was leaving a
restaurant, and his brother was badly
wounded. When the news reached
Germantown, where the police were