Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-01-23

The reichStag In Berlin, scene OF the
/ police, patiently resisting for a time,
finally opened fire with machine guns
and rifles. About forty of the rioters
were killed and scores wounded The
government openly accused the indie
pendent members of the reichstag
with aiding in the attack, asserting
some of them went to the windows of
the building and motioned the mob on.
Next day it was officially announced
that the demonstration was the begin
ming of an attempt to start a general
revolution which was to be led by
radical government officials.
Ever since the signing of the armis-
tice Germany has fostered the idea
that the reds were likely to get con-
troll of that country unless it were
given milder terms by the allies, and
some correspondents have insisted
that such reports could not be be-
lieved. This latest apparent revolt
will give some support to he German
appeals for leniency and to the in
sidiOus, cleverly worded editorials Of
certain American metropolitan papers
which argue that the reparations COM
mission must treat Germany gently
and permit her to regain her old
strength in order that she may sue
c~essfully stand between the bolshev-
lists of Russia and western Europe. If
the German press represents the Ger
man nation, what it would do with its
regained strength is made very clear
by the articles published after the ex-
change of notifications of the treaty.
The burden of them was recovery of
all the nation had lost, and Revenge
with a big r.
The allied nations have been dis
posed to regard Poland as the real
bulwark against the bolshevist flood,
and Poland so considers herself.
Last week Secretary of War Baker
recommended to the state department
plus military supplies to Poland to
help her in repelling the bolshevists.
General Bliss appeared before the
house ways and means committee to
discuss a proposed loan of $150,000,-
600 for food relief for Europe, and de-
clared that if the loan were made
this country should call on the allied
governments to contribute their sur
plus military supplies to Poland be-
that nation alone could prevent
the bolsheviki from swapping west
ern Europe. The Poles, he added, are
poorly equipped as to everything,
while the soviet armies are well
trained, well equipped and well led,
and outnumber the Poles.
The imminent return Of the 5000
Americans in Siberia is again prom
ised, and apparently it is high time.
A correspondent at Hardin says an
American detachment in trans-Baika-
liza recently fought with troops of
General Semenoff, commander of the
all-Russian army, and took an ar
mored train from them. Two of the
Americans were killed. The Czecho-
Slovaks, to aid whom the YaSks went
to Siberia, have had frequent clashes
with Semenoff's men.
The bolsheviki have continued their
forward movement in the Caucasus
and along the Black sea, and now
comes news of a new movement in
that part of the world which they are
said to be supporting. Enver Pasha,
who formerly was minister of war Of
Turkey and was elected king of Kurdi-
stan, has started what is called a boil
shevist revolt in Turkestan, Afghan
istan and Baluchistan and for which
the government at Moscow has con-
tributed large sums of money. En-
ver's ultimate aim, it is said, is India.
Those who understand conditions in
the countries mentioned assert this is
not a genuine bolshevist movement,
but is directed against Great Britain.
However that may be, it is likely to
cause the British considerable trouble.
The Adriatic problem seems about to
be solved, and in a way quite opposite
to that on which President Wilson in.
sisted. Mutual concessions have been
agreed upon, and though neither Italy
nor Jugo-Slavia is wholly satisfied,
probably both will yield. By the ar
rangement, Fiume is to be governed
by a municipal council under the ad.
vice of an Italian high commissioner
and a small Independent state will
surround the city. Italy is given con
troll over the city of lara but aban.
dons her demand for the n~eutraliza.
ton of the Dalmatian coast. She is
granted a mandate over Albania, but