The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
WORLD IS STILL I'LL AND
WAR GOD WIDE AWAKE
NEW DAY IN EUROPE HAS NOT
YET DAMNED. SEVERAL
NEW REVOLUTIONS.
THE BAYONETS STILL BRISTLE

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Like Armed Camp, With Distrust
And Hatred of One Nation for
Another Evident
| The world is still pretty sick. The
era of peace on earth and good will
toward man" that so many expected
would follow soon after the end of the
world war, has not yet come to pass.
The millennium has not yet arrived.
Europe, bristling with bayonets,
presents pretty much the appearance
of an armed camp Recently party
! of senator's and representatives from
| the United States returned from
tour of Europe, and more than one
expressed the conviction that another
war is imminent on the other side.
Hatred of each other is the domi-
nant characteristic of all the nations
/ visited" said Senator Kenneth Nc
Kellar, If Tennessee, one of the party
Recent Developments.
Within the past two months the
peace OF Europe has been disturbed
by the following episodes:
Peasant revolution in Bulgaria.
Revolt of the army in Spain and the
appointment of Capt. Rivera as head
of the new cabinet.
Occupation of the island of Corfu
by a military force of Italy, following
the murder of five members of an
Italian commission on Greek territory
and the threat of war between Greece
and Italy.
Separatist movement in Dusseldorf
and other places in Germany, with
accompanying riot and bloodshed.
There is party in Germany seeking
to dismember the nation into small
units. The movement is particularly
strong in Bavaria and in the Ruhr
valley.
Mobilization of 10000 Italian troops
on the Jugo- Slav frontiers in anticipa-
ton Of trouble over Fiune, a little
strip of territory claimed by both
Italy AMI the Jugo-Slavs.
The Red Menace.
Perhaps the greatest menace in
Europe today, according to observers
and students of European affairs, is
the spread of bolshevism, or the ten
cts Of Lenine and Trotslxy, dictators
in Russia 1t is generally recognized
that Lenine and Trotsky are doing
everything in their power to under
mine the existing governments of
Europe and substitute communism in
their stead The recent revolution in
Bulgaria, when thousands of peasants
armed themselves and prepared TO
overthrow the government and were
put down only after considerable
bloodshed was given active assistance,
financial and otherwise, by Russian
communists.
The bolshevists are finding fruitful
ground to work on in Germany, where
many thousands of people are dis
gruntled because Of the existing state
of things The communist party in
Germany is we'll organized and re-
ceives financial assistance from Rus
STA.
The finest army in Europe today is
the army of the reds" in Russia. 1t
is not intended to maintain peace at
home If such were the case half of
the troops could be mustered out and
sent back to the farm.
The Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean sea, lying be-
tween Europe and Africa, has always
been sourc eof trouble in Europe.
When Mussolini, premier of Italy,
now called "the strong man of Eu-
rope" sent his soldiers to occupy Cor
fu because of the Greco Italian trou-
bic, already mentioned, England was
instrumental in persuading Mussolini
to abandon the island
England holds Gibraltar, Malta, Cy-
prus and Suez, key positions to the
Mediterranean. Italy thinks it should
be strongest on the Mediterranean be-
cause it lies at her door. Hence the
occupation of Corfu. Italy would have
permanently occupied the island did
not the powers, at the instigation of
England protest.
The fascist movement, or what
might be called the "miid-radical
movement" in Europe has spread to
Russia and other countries Europe is
a hot bed of various movements. all
potential causes of trouble. There are
the social democratic movement, the
bolshevist movement, the fascist, the
nationalist, the separatists, the So
cialists, the monarchists, the demo-
Gratis, the republicans and about a
dozen minor movements, all with diff
ferent aims and beliefs, and the dis
ciples of every movement firmly con-
WINGED that they are divinely called to
be the saviors of a continent which is
said to be morally and Financially
bankrupt and which does not know
and dares not conjecture what the
morrow may bring forth.
The League of Nations
Meantime the League of Nations IS
functioning, with nobody in Europe
taking the league seriously, as was
evidenced when Mussolini said he
would not recognize its jurisdiction in
settlement of the Greco-Italian dis
pute.
Europe ought to get back to
work said a prominent American, re-
Gently returned from a trip on the
other side of the Atlantic. "The peo-
pie over there must FIRST get the will
for peace, the desire for peace and
until the great majority are thus con-
tro1ied there will be no enduring