Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-01-09
NEWS REVIEW OF
| CURRENT EVENTS
Treaty Compromises Still Are
Hopeful but Wilson Shows
No Signs of Yielding.
PROGRESS OF THE BOLSHEWN
Siun ArmIstice With Esthonia and
Worry Japan by Siberian Advance
Congress Gets Lots Of Ad-
vice on Railway Legislation.
BY EDWARD W. PIckARp.

BY EDWAhO W.
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-
hitting In their efforts, however, and
one of them. Senator Pomerene, after
q 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
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..
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 It's mind to
go ahead without waiting longer for
the United States, ran up against a
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day on which the protocol should be
signed and Publications 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 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 a seven days
armistice, the protocol including a
military guarantees and recognition
of the independence of Esthonia. 1t
was assumed that this agreement
iToald soon be followed by the con-
uonaf a definite peace between the
wv 'etrfes.
d n.y. Years greeting to the
world, sent frO1 Moscow hv viro,ess
the soviet governn-ent nror,isas 10,
in 1920 it will victortouslv 80 49,
civil war in Russia, that ~sayiets viii
be established in Berlin, Wasnsrr4or.
Paris and London, and that soviet
thority will be supreme Throughout
the world.
General Semenoff is now the domi
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 the
United States seem quite disinclinet
to intervene further in the affairs o.
Russia by force of arms, in which they
probably are wise, and it appears t.
be up TO Japan to stop the onward
sweep of bolshevism in the far East
if it can be done at all. The impress
sion prevails that the Japanese will
be given a free hand on their assur
ance that they have no intention Of
annexing any additional territory