Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS president wilson blocks plan of the premiers to settle the adriatic problem HIS PROTEST IS EFFECTIVE ahr Th abens Matena withdrawal of america from peace treaty decision slon Is 1 reached concerning turkey compromise railway dill bill before congress sate sale of former german liners la enjoined dy by EDWARD W PICKARD tito the adriatic Adi latic lit in general and flume tin in particular provided tile main topic of international nt discussion last week weck and there was much excited talk in tile the world capitals capt tola premiers lloyd bloyd george ceorge INfIll erand and dittl thought they had arranged A n neat settlement of tile the adriatic trouble and had find culled on oil jugo to accept it with the alternative ter native of having tile the principles of 0 tho pact of london applied bui they were reckoning without president wll son probably because lie seemed to hiiro withdrawn Jilin self to a great extent from froat the discussions over tho subject As soon ns as lio lie learned what tho the big three lind done one sir air wilson projected himself Iilma elC into the altair with alth it note that tippet over their apple cart and brought thein to n realization eliat ho vas still to bo be considered lie ile declared that lie he not consent to tile tho solution reached by tile premiers find called attention to tile tho discrepancies between it and the settlement of the problem agreed upon in december nt at tile london conference in which the united states was represented then lie added it ft postscript that was the rent stinger despite dentals denials in washington it ui Is quite certain that in ili this postscript mr wilson told tho me pro ailers nil ers unit that unless they hey receded from their position lie would take into serious consideration tho withdrawal of the united states from tile tho treaty of versailles and front from the treaty between the united states and france of course a considerable portion of tho the press in tin the allied coun countries trios avns ana enraged by this noto note and roundly abused mr wilson but the statesmen and others welt well informed recognized tile tho soundness ot of ills position and tile fact that tile tho of america from further concern lit in tile pence settlement would lie be disastrous the allied council seat scat a reply to washing tot ton 1 while it urged tho the difficulty dini culty or of inducing the rival interests ln teresta to consent to the december solution was exceedingly cee conciliatory in tone and asked the president to indicate aliat practical steps can bo taken to curry carry out the earlier agreement under which flume dna to bo be created into a frae arca state under tile tho league of nations and the principle of 0 self determination wits to bu be applied to the dalmatian coast the situation Is extremely delicate dell cato and here are not a few who alio predict that tho outcome will be another war italy and jugo minvia na As the contenders from the beginning air wilson lias lia insisted that jugo slavca should not bo be shut off ou front from the son sen by italian territory and in tills this country nt at least tills contention Is generally supported thero Is no unfriendliness toward italy but a feeling that alic has nl at ran townly y enough seaports orts and the sm pathy avith tho the new republic of the serbs gerbs croats choats and slovenes venes ta Is marked tito tho american government wished to make public tho the notes exchanged in this affair and took steps to obtain obeal tho the consent of great britain france and italy this Is in n accord with tho principle of open covenants openly arrived nt at which mr wilson vainly tried to make effective lie ho delit ant to carls furls tile tho first time it Is known that tile the prok president ident holds that Ain america prIca ns as n belligerent cobell co bell lit hi th war Is actively interested in ili tile the seti of the adriatic dispute despite lo spite fact blint it has hot the peace treaty also lie he holds tillit we e tire aro equally interested lit in tile the questions concerning tim the vp up of me sli empire consequently ito ho may ave soi to say about the alio agree bents reached by the lie council last ast week that tile sultan sli allbe permitted to constantinople and to reside there provided the massacres of if armenians Armen ians tire anro discontinued slid that the dardanelles Darda nelles and the us shall tic be internationalized it Is not known own however 1101 el that he opposes these arrangements it la Is said tant alint in the future nil sessions of the supreme council will bo be attended by nn an amerl american representative who will keep washington informed of developments the allies so far yielded to the protestations te stations ions of the germans against the surrender of war hiir criminals as to tell berlin that tile accused might be first tried before tile lie german supreme court in nut but tho allies reserve tile right to reject tile the nf f site such trials it if they believe there Is any miscarriage of justice and in such cas cases e 3 to enforce the he terms of the treaty an and d themselves try tho the offenders it Is stipulated ted also that tho the verdicts nt at previous trials of gernian war criminals must ho he tin annulled and tho the cases remanded for retrial tills this would reopen the r fryett ease case in which tile the verdict wits was that the murder 6 ol 01 tile the british ship captain wits was not a violation of international law tho conservatives in ili germany declare this ills offer of the entente is quite unite unacceptable capt it Is 18 inconceivable to tile lie germans tin that they could put on rial their national heroes tito the government of the netherlands was put in a rather uncomfortable position by the reiteration of the weinand for the extradition of the former kaiser and though it prepared a reply repeating its ita refusal there was much discussion of plans for the lie internment of tho fugitive ili some dutch possession far from europe place most favored seemed to bo be curacao an island in the caribbean sen sea north of venezuela if wilhelm intends to to do any plotting in his retirement lie he would lind ind n congenial atmosphere it in curacao for it tins lias long been the refuge of would be revolutionists froni from ihu latin american republics it may be however that holland will merely intern tho the ex kalser tn in his now new house nt at doorn doom keeping him under strict military guard Geri germany linny la Is having so BO much trouble with revolutionists and aind labor agitators that the he entente tins lias extended the time limit for tho the reduction of her army to minister Mint ster of defense has issued nn nil order applying to berlin and brandenburg province threaten threatening imprisonment or heavy fine for inciting strikes hat that food production in tile the region which Is occupied liy by tile tho french troops fresh disturbances resulted in tho proclamation of martial law if soviet wireless dispatches from rom moscow are to be bell believed eved and in ili this instance ilance they probably ardathe art the revolutionists tire in full fall control of bladl and most of eastern cistern siberia and tire ore putting into effect a program which Is in ili favor of union with soviet russia lif in southern the volunteer army la Is reported ported ic to bo be ravaged ny by typhus and failing back in ills disorder order to the lie sen sea of adov before the red troops tho the aro said to have proclaimed a soviet republic in tile ho part art of the ukraine they occupy ani and the ho formation of nn nit eternal brotherly union with soviet ll lluela usla la Is president of the now new state sevastopol tile tho grent great port of the crimea Is panic stricken fearing tile the fate of odessa poland while still aill r maintaining tho the barrier fig against alast the Is taking steps toward a general pence peace between the allies and tile the moscow government ern ment anti in this it probably has all the support ot of the nations of western H europe tito tho negotiations will lie be taken up tip and thu results submitted to tile he pence peace confer conference enco in paris in Hourn attla where royalists tind and radicals are struggling for control the COndit conditions ious are not PrOmIs promising Ilig the radicals are in ili secret accord with the litis russian who already ire are creeping across we border and the lie recent mobilization of tile the army tins lias not chocked checked ug peril the monarchists of hungary who tire numerous bould like to help those of nf but cannot do so no tor for fear ot of the bolshevists in their own inn land and also because of me lie national hatred of I 1 the Roum anians engendered by their looting of hungary flung nry lint heartened disheartened dis by tile lie inter national comPlIcations the treaty coln compromisers pro misers in washington 1 agton antt 0 ampt el little list last week and made less progress nut but congress cop gress entered on another struggle glo that promised to be bb lively this was brought on by the submission to both houses housea of the conference report of tile tho railway reorganization bill it came up tip in the house satur JAY anti and n long tin heated debato debate ensued llie measure was aclo scheduled daled for consideration in the senate on tuesday it if tile the house should not reject it opposition to the bill was led by the of tile the federation of LAW labor and of the railway br brothe they iley were vero against the whole measure lit in the first place because they favor government ownership anti operation anti specifically they object to the section providing for compulsory investigation of wage disputes tin and decisions by a labor tribunal which while not binding tire are likely to have the support of public opinion and to that extent will deprive strikes of public sympathy all they y also object to to tile the cial provisions which labor views as it validation oi of water vater stock and guarantee of abnormal profits representatives of railway investors said they were satisfied with tile the financial provisions something of of a jolt was administered to the war department by the report odthe of alio subcommittee of the house which lind had been investigating aircraft production and expenditures but the deani lias has had so ninny such jolts that it probably has become callous the report finds that there was woeful extravagance total incompetency utter failure and a wild riot of waste Secret secretary nry baker colonel disque who supervised spruce production and director ryan are severely criticized the subcommittee strongly recommends the creation of a separate air service virtually nil all of the facts of the collapse of aircraft production during tho war have been known to the ho public for n long time they to do not lot innee pleasant reading and the amerlean people would like to forget them since it seems impossible to punish pull those to blame but they make line fine campaign ammunition disregarding the many and loud protests the united states shipping board tried to pull of its proposed auction salo sale of 30 former german passenger liners bids were received for single vessels and for groups but nil all of them thein so low that they were rejected then a temporary injunction against the sale was granted by associate justice bailey of the district supreme court in ili ashington Ay ile iio paid tho the statutes did not show an intention on the part of congress to place in tile the president or tile the shipping hoard board the power to sell tho the ships the board has asked congress for authority to offer tile tho vessels for sale again vice Chair chairman rann stevens Is tho the thuly member of the board opposed to the sale lie says their true valuation tins lias never been worked out and that they are worth whereas its th than an halt that hint amount was blo bid chairman payne and the alio other members thought tile the ships should ho be sold to the government of the expense of recon reconditioning df them and also because tile future market ni arkel tor or ships Is uncertain senator romer cne of ohio has withdrawn from the race tor for the democratic nomination for president alleging important briness in tho the senate and tile ho impossibility of ills his obtaining it solid ONO delegation ile iio never had bud inucci chance anyhow mr mcadoo lias has declared that lie ho la Is not a candidate but that it if nominated he would bo be proud to accept in many indiana cities petitions are in circulation to linao the name of vice president Man marshall shall placed on the democratic presidential preference ballot this 1 la dono done without the knowledge and t consent of sir air marshall who said lie he would not seek seck the nomination on tale Be republican publican side about the only iro im portent development wits the decision ot 0 biliti he lowden low den managers to keep out oat of tho the north morth dakota this rs nt at tile tho request of tho the of ti alm iq state mhd ha rear that it linroy anin nn tc tuest st would help their enemies of the league senator Jo linson pi probably will follow lowdena Lowden 4 nd general wood way inay ran |