Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-08
news review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Treaty Compromisers Still Are
Hopeful but Wilson Shows
No Signs Of Yielding.
PROGRESS OF THE BOlSHEvIgl
Sign Armistice With Esthonia and
Worry Japan by Siberian Advance
Congress Gets Lots of Ad-
vice on Railway Legislation.
By EDwARp w. pJcKARD


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: Il believe we will get together.
None Of the reservations which the
faajcrft,z of 9the SEM tie Asu1fed IS ac7
bad as defeat Of the treaty The coun-
try wants the treaty ratified prompt
ly.'
The signs thht good many Demo-
ministration's policy of ratification
without reservation caused Secretary
Tumulty to visit the capitol and study
the situation for the president. He
had 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 vet before we reach a COM
promise" He added that nothing Mr..
Tunulty 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 u
srag. 1t had fixed 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 SUI
preme council learned that there were
still some $4,000 German troops in up
per Silesa, where a plebiseite 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 mission of allied officers to SUI
peryise 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 Fs-
thonians and soviet Russians in cor
ference at Dorpat signed seven days
armistice, the protocol including 81
temporary adjustment of boundaries.
military guarantees and recognition
of the independence of Esthonia. 1t
was assumed that this agreement
ho r.,
clusion of a definite peace between the
two countries.
In New Years greeting to the
world, sent from Moscow by wireless
: the soviet government promises that
in 1920 1t will victoriously end the
civil war in Russia, that soviets viii
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 Irls
utsk region mutiny and anarchy pre-
vailed. The entente allies and the
United States seem quite disinclinet
to intervene further in the affairs o.
Russia by force of arms, in which the,
probably are wise, and it appears II
I be up to Japan to stop the onward
sweep Of bolshevism in the far East
II it can be done at all. The impress
sion prevails that the Japanese vii
be given free hand on their assur
ancc that they have no Intention o
annexing any additional territory