Show B 6 1717 TP 0 7 1 rm I 1 AN iain Nwe union 1 of the soldiers and work mens council conducting their business in the building in berlin 2 russian men and women being bedink trained as shots I 1 nh inh free class established by the soviet government 8 3 beautiful figure figureoa of 0 liberty in the salonon baton salon of the thir french ministry of foreign affairs which was redecorated for the meetings of the geuco delegates NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS progress with the league of nations plan big nations yielding to smaller OLD ALLIANCES MAY STAND ST AND likely to oe be asked to gov ern cm constantinople so ro alet government consents conceits Con cents to i conference german national assembly convents convenes in weimar by EDWARD W PICKARD though the peace conferences commission isslyn on the league of nations Is m silting making very co considerable progress w with ith its task the drafting of the plans for the organization Is not without serious difficulties these last week centered in between the desires of the tha great powers and the claims of tho the smaller nations as to re representation p resen tation in the league before the close of tho the week it was inas announced the commission had agreed provisionally on the preamble and two thirds of the articles but what these are was wag not revealed two general plans were laid before the fhe commis commission slon the first farst which was waa favored 6 by y the ifie sma small 11 nations provided tor for a legislative branch on which the largo and small nations would be equally represented each as IL ft unit nn an executive branch consisting 0 of f two members from each of the live five great powers and nine members chosen from the small powers and arbitration of international disputes by three arbitrators in the second plan the legislative branch was left unchanged but the executive branch was made to consist chiefly of tile the great powers and instead of arbitration there was substituted an executive council of the great powers as a tribunal for judging international issues in B n word the great powers fear chilt if all nations are given equal representation in the league they will find themselves in the minority though their inte interests rests might be much greater renter and the small powers fear that if not equally represented they will be swamped but the big five shows bows signs of yielding enough to satisfy them concurrently with the work on the league the conflicting territorial claims of the various nations are being heard and studied but the establishment lish ment of a principle on which such claims shall be decided depends so much on the creation of the league of nations that action on the report of the territory commission Is not expected before tile alie other matter Is tied just where thu united states is going to get oark off in all this Is a question that Is worrying pany others besides our senators who debate it frequently quent ly it if the orders of the league are arc to be backed by force it might be necessary to land european troops in a south american country and that Is in direct violation ot of the monroe doctrine if the former german colonies and parts paris of the turkish empire are to be governed by of the league the united states cannot well evada some of the responsibility sIbl sivility lity and might be called on to administer tile the affairs of constantinople and the dardanelles Darda nelles maintaining military as well as civil forces there conceivably this would arouse the bitter opposition of a considerable portion of our population but as we through president wilson are taking a leading part in the reconstruction of the be world by the nations that defeated germany we cannot avoid shouldering our share of the resultant ant labor another inter interesting esting angle to the situation aaion was disclosed by the statement by british foreign secretary belfour that the establishment of the league eague of nations would not require jim the abrogation oi of international allf alces cea lilt hitherto herto entered teed into alpar tt 4 bently great britain france and jaan are not entirely suro sure of the full effi cm ency of tile the league and would lave their offensive and defens defensive lve alliances to full fall back upon in case of need sir mr balfour Ilal fours a statement also gave rise to the opinion that lint the allied nations might decline to abrogate the secret treaties they entered into tor for the division among them hem of certain territories of the central powers france Is perhaps especially interested in this as the secret treaties not only gave her alsace lorraine but also tile entire coal district of the valley and provided that the german territories ri on the left bahk of the ithone athine should be freed from all political and economic dependence on germany L fore foreign ign minister ell cheran erin hannent has sent out a wireless message saying tile the soviet government Is willing to participate in the proposed conference on tho the princes islands ile he also intimates that tila lils government will cease its propaganda in other countries it if tile the entente powers will undertake not to interfere with ru Rus dussias 9 sins sias internal abfal affairs i rs the other russian factions ft as i represented at paris were surprised by action and were not at all pleased they are arc strongly deposed to tho the conference and had hoped a a refusal by the government would relieve them of the necessity of rejecting the plan the hot bol shevIs ts or to give them the more fitting appellation the anarchists in northern hussla Ilus sla utter it a series ot of successes against the american and allied troops which were due joithe to the difficulty the latter experienced in getting supplies went a bit toa 09 far and were given a stinging defeat by the yanks at on tho the vagn river about the same time the siberian troops under general gaida practically all annihilated two dIvIs divisions lons of the anarchists ts at kangur PO miles southeast of perm perin relieving tile the latter city from tile the danger bange r of attack general galda gaida then advanced on ufa which the anarchists arches ts took some ll I mongo the central soviet of moscow has called 6 to the colors alt all men between et the ages agea of twenty nine and forty falve years saying they will willbe be thrown into ti the tajwar war if the confer conference enge on Prin kibo island Is a failure lit in some directions the he successes of the anarchists of russia were continued they were reported to have captured windau Cour lands port and to have gained control of virtually the whole of the ukraine the polish and czecho czechoslovak slovak troops that had been fighting on the front signed an armistice which it Is presumed will permit the emissaries of the peace conference to settle the quarrel between the two nations in tile the athens or of germany weimar the capital of the duchy of saso saja weimar the german national assembly begaw began its sessions last thursday chancellor friedrich ebert called the body to order and then surrendered the chair to herr the oldest of the members after the preliminaries were over tile the assembly got down to the work of formulating a government tor for germany the ebert or majority government was transferred temporarily to weimar but it considered that its mandates expired with the convening of the assembly so it at once proceeded to organize a new cabinet made up of majority socialists democrats and clericals the Sparta cans who die harj han made their latest big play at bremen gaining control of that city and holding it for a time then government troops from berlin bombarded the place ant battering some of its historic buildings and drove the Sparta caus to gen threats of the reds to attack welmar weimar when the assembly met were forestalled when the loyal garrison was re enforced by a large body of government troops the authorities of the allied nations maintain their aloof attitude toward the german revolution never permitting themselves to be quoted concerning it nor paying the slightest attention to the of hypocrites such bueti as Bernst bernstorff orif nut but they are watching with interest the international conferences of socialists socialist and trades unions that are in session in berne switzerland the former seems to be virtually dominated by tile the pro elements the tr iw I w i it i t union conference in whis which u are rd deev delegates from the united stages ild and erig land la Is discussing international inte in labor legislation in conjunction with the socialists turkey let out ouan n loud epli wall recently in protest against the proposition JO ito put constantinople tho the mid and the dardanelles Darda nelles under international control this idea Is being promulgated in paris especially fay by the efi entente nations and they assert that the controlling nation should be the united states as the one disinterested power that could handle the territory the ottoman liberal er at party which has been anti german throughout the ille war asked resident president wilson allson to save constantinople to turkey by giving it a chance at self determine tion several days later the sultan himself sent ft a secret letter to the liberal libera era turks in franco france and switzerland appealing to thein to rek return ru home and save their country from froin the starvation and law lawlessness e prevalent under tinder tile the regime by which the no noni M annl ruler Is dominated N many any communities muni ties and municipalities it under fider ottoman rule have sent petitions to the american peace delegates asking that they be put under tinder the protection of tile the united states the labor situation in n america and great britain was getting worse instead of better latt week and it if the opinion of certain british high and of many persons in this country Is correct it will not improve much until the alien anarchist leat lara are completely squelch edi iod cheso professional disturbers disturb ers anre held to blanie especially for the strikes in the united kingdom lip leany any of which are not authorized by y the governing bodies of the trades unions london was badly crippled by strikes of 0 nearly all transportation workers and the engineers on some of the steam railroads went out in sympathy the government refused to interfere on tho the ground that the cont controversies rov erstes were solely industrial but tried to relieve the situation by starting a military motor service to ta supplement that of the buses which were still run ping the mechanics of the army service corps in depots adjoining london to the number of refused to go on duty thursday because they wanted to be de mobilized and to continue work as civilians th tim ia united states was hit hardest last week at points widely separated new york and seattle in the metro metropolis building operations were virtually tied up by a lockout declared by the building trades employers pl association which affected workers and which threatened to spread throughout the country and canada in seattle the Ship shipbuilders builders who are on strike received the support of a general strike which was wa started on thursday Thur sOny sUay practically all union laborers quit work though the engineers in n the lighting plants were exempt the textile workers in lawrence mass struck for a 48 hour week with 54 hours pay one more mord greatest war revenue bill in the count rys history was presented to tile the house last week by chairman kitchin of the ways aya and means committee As fixed up by the conference it provides tor for the collection of about in taxes from the american citizen and in addition it ii gives H a bodus bo tius of GO to each soldier sailor nil r marine and woman nurse in the american forces pretty nearly everything acry thing one pow possesses esses or does will he be subject to tax even the th 1 president r es I 1 T ent and at all I 1 other federal officials must pay tax on their lo in comes though state officials do not the normal income tax for 1018 Is 6 per cent on incomes up to and 12 per cent on higher incomes after 1018 the normal Is 4 per cent on incomes up to and 8 per centon cent on those thoe over the present normal Is fig 4 per cent tile the income surtax sur in rates begin beg in nt at 1 per cent on incomes of to SO and run to 65 per cent on incomes of over provision Is made for both war and profits taxes in the fiscal beir but after that t h a t the war profits tax comes off except jn certain specified cases where war cou contracts tracts run 0 er lu in idler filter years |