, 1920-01-08
news review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Treaty Compromises Still Are
Hopeful but Wilson Shows
No Signs OF Yielding.
PROGRESS OF The BOLSHEV|KI
Sign Armistice With Estnonia and
Worry Japan by Siberian Advance
Congress Gets Lots Of Ad- y
vice on Railway Legislation.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARp.

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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-
uniting in their efforts, however, and
one of them, Senator Pomerene, after
a conference with Senator Lodge,
said: II believe we will get together.
None of the reservations which the
majority of the senate adopted is as
a as defeat of the treaty. The coun-
try wants the treaty ratified prompt
ly."
The signs that a good many Demo-
Gratis were ready to abandon the adj
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 a long
row to hoe yet before we reach a COM
promise" He added that nothing Mr..
Tumu,ty 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 a made up its mind to
go ahead without waiting longer for
the United States, raj up against a
snag. 1t had fixed January 6 as the
day on which the protocol should be
signed and notifications 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 SUI
preme council learned that there were
still some $4,000 German troops in up
per Silesia, where a plebiscite is to be
held, and it was decided Germany
should be told 1t had better remove
them at once. 1t was also planned to
send a mission of allied officers to su-
pervise the withdrawal of Hungarian
troops that are in that part of west
ern Hungary hat was given to Aus
tria.
On the last day of the year the Es-
thonians and soviet Russians in con-
ference at DOrpat signed a seven days
armistice, the protocol including a
temporary adjustment of boundaries,
military guarantees and recognition
of the independence of Esthonia. 1t
was assumed that this agreement
would soon be followed by the con-
clusion of a definite peace between the
two countries.
In a New Years greeting to the
world, sent from Moscow by wireless.
the soviet government promises that
in 1920 1t will VIGOROUSLY end the
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-bolshevists
of Siberia. Following his disastrous
defeats and the swift advance east
ward of the soviet armies, Admiral
Kolchak went into eclipse. His forces
melted away rapidly, and in the Irk-
utsk region mutiny n anarchy pre-
vailed. The entente allies and the
United States seem quite disinclined
to intervene further in the affairs OF
Russia by force of arms, in which they
probably are wise, and it appears to
be up to Japan to stop the onward
sweep of bolshevism In the far East,
If II can be done at all. The impress
sion prevails that the Japanese will
be given n free hand on their assur-
ance that they have no intention of
annexing any additional territory.