The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-08
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LEAGUE HAS FAILED
TO FUNCTION

III The issue before the American
people in the present campaign II
without question the league Of ma
lions, and their decision must soor
be registered at the polls. Two years
ago November II the armistice wa.
signed, then followed q long period
of treaty making at the Versailles
conference which finally ended in the
formation Of the league Of nations
as part Of the peace covenant. The
league has been functioning some
thing over year and the question
OF what has been accomplished in the
way Of disarmament and the realiza
ton Of the founders of the league to
wards permanent peace is important
in determining the decision the
American people are about to make
A startling summary Of the pres.
ent state Of the peace-or rather
war-of the world has Just beer
published by the New York Herald
from the reports Of experts connected
. with the different departments of the
government where the latest in
formation is available. This sum
mary discloses the fact that there
are at the present time nine active
wars in progress between the nation.
ais Of more than eighteen different
countries. There are nineteen in.
ternational fronts more !, or less
strongly held as we'll as four other
areas, where the situation is de.
scribed as ''acutely sensitive" Civil
war impends in seven different
countries. namely Ireland, Italy
Mexico, Germany, Egypt, Morocco
and Tripoli.
Describing the active wars now
in progress the summary says:
The Bolsheviki are fighting the
Poles on a front extending from
Lithuania to the Ukraine, the Poles
having total of more thar $4,000
men engaged, and the Bolshevists
Will. ait army valiousIy estimated at
from 100000 to 100000 ny con-
sentative counts. Popular reports
place the number of Red forces at
much higher levels.
Greeks and Tarks are in deadly
combat on the so-called Nationalist
front, northeast and east of SMYRNA.
In all 100000 men are involved, of
which the Grecian army is Ito, 900
and the Turks 10000, with large
reserves behind both armies.
* On the British Turkish Nationalist
front at Ismid and the Sea of Mar
mora the British have had as high
as $4,000 men, exclusive of those
in Constantinople. These are now
being withdrawn for service in
Mesopotamia, but there is still
vicious fighting in this territory. The
Greeks are expected to come in to re-
lieve the departing British forces.
In southern China war is in FRO
gress bewteen the provinces of Yu-
Nan and Kwang-Tung, where it is
estimated that about 5000 fight
ing men are struggling for mastery.
General Wrangel has about 1000
loyal Russians fighting the Bolshe-
Wiki in his front north of Crimea,
with as many more electives in re-
serve. The Bolsheviki are opposing
him with an army conservatfvely
estimated at $4,000.
The Lithuanians and the Poles are
defying each other with prospects of
much larger engagements. There
are $4,000 Lithuanians now in act
ual fighting against about $4,000.
Poles, the Poles standing ready to
divert larger army from their Boil
sheviki front whenever it seems
necessary.
The British in Mesopotamia are
engaged in war more expensive and
more exhausting than the South
African war. Fighting is said to be
general thruout the country, and the
number of tribesmen in arms has
been officially estimated at some 3D.
900 men. The British, it is said, are
sending in their troops from Turkey
and now have about 10000 white
soldiers and 10000 Indian colonials
on the fighting line.
The French have their hands full
in Asia Minor with the Turks and
Arabs. The French army OF the
Levant numbers about $4,000 men,
the minimum strength of their OPP
ponents being 10000 with large
number Of reserves to draw upon.
n The Italians are fighting the Turks
IN Asia Minor also, holding line
that runs from Adalia along the
southern and eastern shore of the
Mediterranean to Sokia, with an
army of 5000 electives. The Turks
oppose them with large force and
also have the assistance of the Arabs.
4 Nor does this include the fronts
held by armed forces of various ma
lions, some nineteen in number, in
cluding the allied occupation of ter
ritory along the Rhine, the Jugo-
Slav front, the activities of D'Annun-
zio. not to mention the disturbances
OF more or less serious nature in the
near and far east. and British COM
plications in central Asia. Interna-
tional areas affected are the Czecho-
l. DoIfab ko,,s&o,xx A.