Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-22

police, patiently resisting for 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 reichSlam
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 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 the German
appeals for leniency and to the in
Sldious, 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
cessfully stand bcf@een the bolshev-
lists of RUSSIA and western Europe If
the German press represents the Ger
man nation. what ii would do with rs
regained strength is made very clear
by the articles published after the ex-
change of ratiiicationS 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 tie real
bulwark against the holsllcvis. flood
and Poland 50 considers herself.
Last week Secretary of War Baker
recommended to the state department
that the United States furnish sur
plus military supplies to Poland to
help her in repnlIiny the boslievisfs
General Bliss appeared before the
house ways and means committee to
discuss Il proposed loan of S15O.0No.-
000 for food relief for Europe, and de
clared that If the lonn were made
this country should call on the allied
governments 10 contribute Il cir sur
plus military supplies to Poland be-
cause that na.ion alone could prevent
the bolshcviki from swamping west
ern Europe The i'oles. he added are
poorly equipped as TO everything
while the soviet armies are well
trained, we'll equipped and well led
and outnlmher the Poles.
The Imminent return of the 5000
Americans in Siheria is again PRONE
iscd. and apparently II is high time
\ correspondent at lIai'bin SAYS an
American detachment in n'ans-Baika-
lia recently fought With troops Of
General Senenol, commander OF the
all-Russian army. and took an ar
mored main from them Two of the
Americans we're killed. The CHecho-
Slovaks. to aid whom the Yanl5s went
TO Siberia. have had frequent clashes
with Semeno'I'" men.
The bolshnviki have continued their
forward movement in the Caucasus
and along tllp Black sea. and now
comes news Of Il new movement In
that part of The world which thcY are
said to be supporting. E,nvcr PaSha.
who formerly Was minister of war of
Turkey and was elected king Of Kurtli-
stan, has started what is called boil
shevist revolt in Turkestan. Afghan
istan and BaIuchistan and for which
the government at Moscow has CON
tributed large sums Of money. En-
ver's ultimate aim. it is said. il. India.
Those who understand conditions in
the countries mentioned assert this Is
not genuine boishevist 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 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
rangemcnt. Fiume is to he governed
by a municipal council under the AL
vice of AN italian high commissioner
and a small independent state will
surround the city. Italy is given CON
troll over the city of cara bus aban-
dons her demand for the neutraliza-
tton of the Dalmatian coast. She Is
granted a mandate over Albania, but