The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-25
YEAR OF WARS
ALL OVER WORLD
Despite Treaties and the
League Of Nations,
Fighting Goes On.

| hailed lp'u %. 'pcu.c .cai. ." hl,
! the timIunt souud ut battle ruu,d
increasingly through many parts nI
| Europe aud Asia. An ur the his
powers with tho notable execution ui
/ the United States aud Russia had
! signed treaties or Joined tn league
| at nations. but IA, whuIv' wear WA.
| marked hN wars revolutions Hud
attempted military ,uup-. Fightiug
] was continuous iu Russia aud Tur.
! Key. t1Nil war bruk, uut in thiua.
| tcr many had 90 narrow escape from
ciNil war when small clique of
German militirists under won knttp
attempted to seize th, Bcrlm gov
crumcnt on March l3. Violent strife
has RACED and continues tu rage lu
Ireland, The year ends with the
virtual collapse of the ttupinu rp, ,.
crnmcnt iur universal disarmament
The United States Is maintaining
nearly quarter uf million men
under arms aud is executing naval
program that WIN make hrr the first
sea power IN the world unless Great
Britain culargcs her program And
japan has served notice upon tho
league OF uatpus that she WIN not
diSarm 40 long AZ IN" United states
continues to ln,rcasc her llnd and
s,o forces.
Tho biggest war of 1870 was
. Fought between soviet Russia and
/ Poland Enragcd at the territorial
ou'roachmcnts of Poland aud puss-
bly, seeing an opportunity to push
holshcvism westward the soviet
masscd great army against tho
! Poles. Fighting broke out In March
and soon Il terrific struggle was rag-
ing over "a battlefront approximately
500 miles long Tho Poles were sue
c"Sstul In the initial stage OF the
fighting, but the Russians rallied
smashed the Polish front and were
on the point of taking Warsaw
when with French and British
help, the Poles beat Oft the invaders
Alter siN months OF violent fight
ing peace negotiations were opcnCd
at Minsk. but were later transferred
10 riga where they are still in prog
rcss
Reds" Armies Win.
Except FOR the Polish war 1870
VAS . successful military year for
i"d l.uss!a. Three extensive cam
rniEns were conducted against the
soviet with allied assistance, but all
collapsed. They were led by hd-
miral koltchak, who was executed
in siberia, following his defeat by
General Denckin, who fled to Eng
land after his army was defeated
and scattered in south Russia, aud
by General Baron Wrangcl w,lo fled
to Turkey after his army was
crushed In crimoa,
During 1920 red Russia entered
INTO an alliance with the Turkish
Lationalists under Mustapha kcmal
Iasha and together they suVthcrcd
Arlnohia into submission. The pres
cnt state OF Armenia. about AS hig in
extent as an American county. lies
~ tho Caucasus mountains outside
of the borders of the old Ottoman
empire.
Protect Persia.
Til" military ambitions OF the So
Wet were reaching into Persia, even
while red armies we're Contcnding
against the Poles and General Wran-
gel, but the British put an army
into Persia and compelled tho Rus
SANS to Withdraw. Red troops were
landed at Enzoli, Persia. from Is
transports In May and threatened
to march upon Tchcran aud convert |
Persia into "A soviet republic. The |
British army which drove out tho
RUSSIANS Is still maintained In Per- |
S.a as a bilwark for the protection |
OF India
Fighting In Turkey.
Fhc thunder OF battle has roarcd |
almost without paus. throughout the |
old Turkish empire with four allied |
armies arraycd against tho Arabs |
aud the Turkish natlonalists. Al |
though little news has reached the |
outside world from Mcsopotamia. |
that Obscure quarter of the world |
has tor months been the thcatcr of a |
violent struggle between a British
army of nearly 100000 men and
strong forces OF Turks and Arabs. |
In the Interior of Andtolia the hrunt |
of the lighting on the allied side fen |
upon the Greek army which was
sent 10 crush the natisnalistp on .
the Marmord littural tho British and /
Turks were at grips, but the fre |
from British warships compelled |
the Turks 20 retire to the hlntcrland.
In syria the French went to war
against the Arabs because the Arabs
refused To accept the French mana
dite' 'nlF brici campaign was
necessary 20 qucll Arab resistance.
Hht little fighting fen to the lot ol
80 'fHl4hll lbl''S VI occupation ia
Turkey
Japanese In Sibcria.
only the lack of transport auGI
the rmbroilmcuts In western and
southern Russia prevented Sibcria
from becoming a great battle neid
during 1920. Tho japanese occu.
pied vast stretches OF Siberian terri.
.oiy In CciInucc tD the soviet, mean
while giving assistance to the
-bolshcvik army of General
Scmenuff Thc reds crushed Sem
pnuftl army but were not strong
enough 10 so 70 wai against the jap
luth,.
The Only warfare In continental
Europe occurred in western Ger
many whore communists were on
gagged with the government forces.
Ate. a Iucf campaign the Com.
W"r, defeated and dis
armed
Tho Balkans. formerly known asI
the cockpit Of Europe" failed 10
run true To torn in 1920. II FUR
nishcd only d little fighting. This oc.
'urrcd In the mountains Of Albania
where MOntCupErlu iugurrCptg .pJ