Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-01-09
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Treaty CompromiserS Still Are
Hopeful but Wilson Shows
No Signs Of Yielding.
PROGRESS OF The BOLSHEvlKI
Sign Armistice With Esthonia and
Worry Japan by Siberian Advance
Congress Gets Lots of Ad-
vice on Railway Legislation.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

BY EDWARD w. PICKARD.
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
a conference with Senator Lodge,
said: Il 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
w."
The signs that 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 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 com
promise" He added that nothing Mr..
Tumuty 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
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
prone 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 removel
them at once. 1t was also planned tol
send 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 og the year the Fs-
thaaians and soviet Russians in con
,ferehce at Dorpat signed a seven days
armistice the protodol including q
temporary adjustment of boundaries,
military guarantees Ina recognition
of the independent Aof Esthonia. 1t
was assumed tina this agreement
would soon be fol he'd by the con
cluSion of a definite eace between the
two countries.
In a New Years Sgreeting to the
world, sent from Mos3ow by wireless,
the soviet governmert promises that
IN 1920 it viii Vi. ously end the
crvn war in ny bat soviets win
be estahlishsx In Washington.
Paris. and I.S that soviet au-
thority win Ime throughout
ne world
~.
Genera -SeSsJ the dorni-
nant figure amonS [d-bolshevists
of Siberia. FonoSy Whis disastrous
defeats aud the Stvift, advance east
ward of the sovikt arpies, Admiral
Kolchak went into sclipssI His forces
melted away rapidiS, and in the Irk-
utsk region mutinyIand anarchy pre-
vailed. The entenhe allies and the
United States seem quite disinclined
TO intervene further " the affairs Of
Russia by force, Of arlnt in which they
probably are wise, Ind 1t appears to
be up to Japan to stop the onward
sweep of bolshevism IN the Tar East,
If it can he done at AL. The impress
sion prevails that the japanese will
be given free hand on their assur-
ance that they have no intention OF
annexing any additional territory