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Show .... 'rPfrmmi 1 New Curtiss airplane, fastest in the world, built for the American navy. 2 The Emir Feisal, son of the king of the Hedjaz, who has been in England to present bis fathers respects to King Grge. 3 Government troops in Cologne celebrating the order to re-mobilize to combat (he Spartacans. NEWS REVIEW OF-CURRENT OF-CURRENT 'EllIS Formal Sessions of the Peace Congress Begun; League of Nations Up First. MANY PLAKS ARE PRESENTED Americans Carefully Safeguarding the Monroe Doctrine Poland to Get' Help Armistice Terms Made More Drastic United States For National Prohibition. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Unless the peace congress, which held its first formal session on Saturday, Satur-day, changes its mind, the world must be satisfied hereafter with such information infor-mation concerning its deliberations as is contained iu the official communique issued daily. Possibly because of a breach of confidence on the part of some correspondent, the supreme allied al-lied council adopted a resolution that the delegates shall not talk outside the peace chamber of the doings of the conference. The hundreds of high-priced high-priced journalists gathered in Paris from all parts of the world can devote their time to describing the majesty of the Arc de Triomphe and the allurements allure-ments of the Paris boulevards. The American and British correspondents formally and energetically protested against this rigid censorship. Later the rule may be relaxed, otherwise the demand for "open covenants of peace openly arrived at" goes by the board. , In the preliminary work of the conference con-ference the make-up and procedure of the congress were settled. It was decided de-cided that the United States, the British Brit-ish empire, France, Italy and Japan should be represented by five delegates apiece. The British dominions and India In-dia besides are represented as follows : Two delegates respectively- for Australia. Aus-tralia. Canada, South Africa and India, In-dia, including the unlive slates, and one delegate for New Zealand. Brazil has ttrree delegates. Belgium. China, Greece, Poland, Portugal, the Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak republic, Roumania and Serbia have two delegates apiece; Slam, Montenegro, Mon-tenegro, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hon-duras, Liberia, Nicaragua and Panama one delegate apiece. Tin; delegates will vote as units. ' . US A great deal of time last week was devoted to consideration of the various plans for (he league of nations, the organization of which was the first matter taken Up by tlie peace delegates dele-gates affer they began their formal sessions, in accordance with the desire de-sire of President Wilson. Jinny schemes for the league were submitted, submit-ted, these dividing themselves generally gener-ally Into two groups w hich differ as to the means of making effective the decisions de-cisions of the league. One holds tha-l the rulings of the society of nations should be backed up by iis combined physical forces; the oilier, thai such force will not be necessary. Iu (he examination ex-amination of the plans it seemed CPr-tain CPr-tain thai 0 compromise would not be difficult to reach. Prodded by -the expressed anxiety of the senate, the American delegates, carefully examined every scheme submitted sub-mitted to make sure that nothing in them endangered the cherished .Monroe doctrine. They appear to be satisfied thai th-is American ideal is nol imperiled imper-iled ami that, on the contrary, the league would In effeCl extend the principle prin-ciple of the Monroe doctrine to Hie whole world. The senate is nol so sure of this, and Senator Borah, who strongly oppnseiFi be formation of the league, Introduced n resolution which, If passed, would serve notice thai Ihe senate will nol ratify a treaty the provisions pro-visions of which conflict with the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine and with the traditional duly of the United Stales to enforce thai principle. R3 The mal ter of extending aid to Poland Po-land was one of the serious things discussed dis-cussed last week, especially serious because il probably involves the prob lem of what the allies shall do in tlie case of Russia. The American and British delegates were said to have agreed that, while none cf their own troops should be sent to help -the Poles, the two Polish divisions recruited recruit-ed in the United States should be sent from France through Germany to assist as-sist the government set up by the Polish Po-lish national committee. These troops would co-operate in stemming the tide of bolshevism that is flowing , west from Russia,- making the new Poland a strong bulwark against that flood of anarchy. The plan is a concession to the ideas of tlie French, who are convinced con-vinced that bolshevism cannot or should not be dealt with militarily in Russia by the allies. It also is likely to compel Genera Pllsudski to come to an agreement with tlie Polish national na-tional committee as represented in Poland by Paderewski. lea The Spartaean revolution in Germany Ger-many or at least in Berlin has fizzled out. Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were captured and, according to report, killed. The other leaders are under arrest ar-rest or dispersed and some hundreds of their followers are dead. Alter a week of terror the police were reinstated and armed, order was restored and business busi-ness was resumed. In some other cities the "Reds" are still in control, but their chance for ultimate success seems to have gone glimmering. For one thing, Hindenburg still has under his command an efficient army of more than a million men, and most of tliese troops he is holding true to the Ebert government. sa This fact about the German army leads to the warning issued by the Central News of London, that a situation situa-tion exists in Europe under which war may break out ngais at any time and that the British scheme of demobilization demobiliza-tion will have to be radically changed which may also apply to American demobilization. An "unimpeachable authority" is quoted as saying that' Great Britain will have to keep an army of occupntion on the Kbine for many months, which accords with the opinion of others concerning all the armies of occupations It may be this note of alarm was caused by the discovery dis-covery that the Germans were dying to evade' some of the terms of the armistice and by toe more drastic conditions imposed by Marshal Fodi in graining an extension Of the armistice, armi-stice, ii was reported the marshal even threutered to maiyh directly on Berlin If the Huns didn't fulfill their pledges. II was slated unofiicially thai the new terms included the following: First Ketribulion upon Ihe Germans Ger-mans for the murder and ill-treatment of allied prisoners. Second The Vnnchlnery and goods stolen by tierinany from France and P.elgium to be at once given up. Third German gold, amounting . to more than SfKXJ.OOO.OOO, to be moved from Berlin to a safe place, probably Frankfort, and protected from bolshevism bolshe-vism in Germany en route. Certain other property lo be surrendered. Fourth Germany to give pver her shipping, of which she is believed to have 4,600.0(KJ Ions, lo carry Pood Supplies Sup-plies to countries In Europe iu need of them. P'i lib - Any U-boats on the slocks to be handed to the allies for their disposal, dis-posal, or to be destroyed, and no more submarines should lie built. ' -Ba- Germany is fuljy justifying all those who refused to believe in her good faith under any circumstances1. She is determined nol to permit the establishment estab-lishment of an Independent Poland because be-cause she still proposes to grali enough In Mm snsl to make up for her losses oil the west, and a Polish slate would prevent ibis. The Germans are s:iid in be supplying unns to the bul-slievikl bul-slievikl who are ravaging parts of Poland, and there was heavy fighting last week between the German troops and the Poles near Knlmnr, II was reported re-ported thai I llndenbut'g himself w ould lead the German army against Poland. H-, . The world-wide activities of the bol-sbevikl bol-sbevikl tool; in Argentina, Uruguay and Peru, where there wen- desperate strikes accompanied by bloody lighting, light-ing, engineered by bolshevik agents. They also Ren I from Uusslu 4,000,000 gulden io Holland for ii coup d'etnl and rlolotis demonstrations planned for .January 20. In this plot Ihe Cer- man radicals were co-operating with Wyncoop, the Dutch socialist leader. fia Because of dissension over Italy's territorial claims the cabinet resigned and Premier Orlando was commission-, ed to form a new one. Several members mem-bers were bitterly opposed to Foreign-Minister Foreign-Minister Sonnino in. his demands that Italy be given the whole of the Dalmatian Dalma-tian coast, holding with President Wilson Wil-son that part of that territory should justly be given to the Jugo-Slav state. sa Little Luxemburg also had her crisis last week. After a republic had been proclaimed, ami suppressed within a few hours by the French military authorities, au-thorities, Grand Duchess Marie abdicated abdi-cated and was succeeded by the eldest of her sisters, Princess Charlotte. Marie had lost the favor of her people hcause, though ,he protested against the passage of tne German armies through the principality, she afterward after-ward entertained high German personages. per-sonages. fa-Speaking fa-Speaking of high personages, there are some queer reports coming from the refuge of the former kaiser in Holland. It is declared he is bordering border-ing on insanity, talking almost incessantly inces-santly and incoherently and wandering about at night. It is also said that Ids health is fai'mg rapidly.- The Germans, who supported Wilhelm heartily until he turned out to be a loser, are now heaping abuse on him ami the German commission appointed appoint-ed to determine his responsibility for the war has recommsnded that he be brought to trial, declaring that marginal mar-ginal notes in the kaiser's .handwriting on papers in the foreign office prove him to have been one of the chief war makers. This venomous course of the Germans certainly is superfluous, for Ihe allied governments will see to it that Wilhelm and others get the punishment pun-ishment they so richly deserve. B3 The desperate need of the liberated peoples of central Europe for food will be relieved as soon as possible. Urged by President Wilson, the American house of representatives appropriated $100,000,000 for this purpose, and It is understood the other allied nations will do I heir part. The money is not to be spent for food for the Germans, but much pf the relief will go to the peoples peo-ples formerly under the rule of the Emperor of Austria. The British army in Italy did a graceful thing the oilier day when I hey sent several trainlonds of food lo starving Vienna in recognition recogni-tion of Ihe decent way in which the AUStrlans bad treated British prisoners prison-ers of war. Hungary, Which has been made a republic under Ihe presidency of Count, Karolyi, is appealing to ihe allies for ils share of belli, as well as against being deprived of any of its territory by the surrounding new nations. na-tions. Ra-Turkoy Ra-Turkoy came to the front with the report that the Tui'ltS bad finally surrendered sur-rendered .Medina, the holy city of Ihe Mohammedans, to the king of Ihe Hedjaz, This capitulation was in-eluded in-eluded in the terms of the armistice, but was delayed by the long isolation of the garrison. The disposition of Constantinople also was brought under un-der renewed discussion by he Submission Submis-sion of the claims of Greece lo Ihe peace delegates in Paris, The general belief was that Ihe city would be placed under International control rather than turned over to Ihe Greeks. to The United Slales wont dry las' week-, national prohibition "going over the top" when Nebraska ratified ihe constitutional amendment, being the thirty-Sixth slate to lake thai action. ac-tion. The amendment goes Into effect one year hence, bul as the war measure meas-ure passed by congress establishes country-wide prohibition p'n July 1 the dry era will really date from that day. The leaders of the prohibition party naturally are joyous over the triumph of the cause for which they struggled through so many years, and they now have a vision of a boosseless world. They have established headquarters In many foreign cities and say they are making great headway. The United Unit-ed siaics is the first great nation to adopt prohibition, for the. Russian ban was only on vodka, and lhal has I n lifted by the bolshevik government. |