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Show MilM iimii i--:enerni Pershing dec.or'atng French heroes with 1 1 1 o Distinguished Service Cross in the Court of Honor of tlie invalided. Paris. 2 Vle of Saarbucken,. center of the Sum- coal region, which both Franc and Germany claim. 8The grand mufti of Palestine, head of all Moslems in that country and descendant of Mohammed, who is opposing the establishment of a Ztonlsi commonwealth In the Holy Land, NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Supreme Allied Council Tries to Reach Agreement on the Reply to Germany. BRUSH FOR CONCESSIONS Huns Preparing for Refusal to Sign Independent Republic Proclaimed in Rhineland Austria Gets Terms of Peace and Says They Mean Her Death Warrant. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Germany's counter-proposals were successful at least so far as causing a temporary division in the big four, but nt this writing it seemed likely an agreement on the disputed points would be reached within a few days and a unanimous reply made to the Germans. That some alterations, not fundamental, would be made in the treaty was predicted, since it only remained re-mained to gain the consent of Cle-menceau Cle-menceau to changes favored by 'the Rritish and presumably by the Americans. Amer-icans. These included the readjusting readjust-ing of the Silesia clauses so that the population may obtain self-determination, probably through a plebiscite plebi-scite ; reduction of the period of occupation occu-pation along the Rhine from fifteen lo ten years; and the addiiion of some plan by which the Germans shall have the use of a certain amount of merchant mer-chant shipping witli which to resume trade and help pay the reparations. The endeavor among the allied delegates dele-gates was to assure the world that such changes as might be made in the terms were contemplated not in the way of leniency to Germany, but to make the conditions "workable" and bring about a speedy peace and resumption re-sumption of normal business everywhere. every-where. Clemenceau and the rest of the French were said to be strongly opposed to any changes. Lloyd George was reported as favoring concessions. President Wilson, after first standing aloof, taking the position that the British and French should come to an agreement among themselves, undertook under-took to reconcile them, and as some of the alterations had been favored by American delegates his task was mainly main-ly to persuade the French. Orlando's attitude was not made clear. He was more interested, anyhow, in the settlement settle-ment of the Adriatic question. In view of his pre-election pledges, the position taken by Premier Lloyd George is surprising until one considers consid-ers the fact that lie is tlie head, of a very shaky and unwieldy coalition ministry, which even now is threatening threaten-ing to go to pieces. The liberal and labor elements in England have been urging greater leniency toward .the Germans in order that the treaty may be signed and calmness be restored to Hie industrial World! and it is fair to suppose that the premier has been trying to placate those elements, Vehement Ve-hement denials by the British press and attacks by British correspondents on American correspondents who have made public the state of affulrs will be taken for what they are worth, While the allied armies of occupation occupa-tion are ready to move forward at a moment's notice if the Germans refuse to sign the treaty, the Germans themselves them-selves are not idle in the same line. Noske. minister of defense, has made a lour of the coast defenses and directed di-rected all forces lo he ready for femer-I femer-I gencies in case of tlie resumption of naval operations, and the fortifications near the borders have not yet been dismantled as the treaty requires. The German volunteer army, much of vhich is in the eastern part of the country, is so large and so well equipped equip-ped that it must be taken into serious consideration. Only recently the supreme su-preme army command sent out a circular circu-lar asking the people of Germany whether they favored the resumption f the war, and when the government failed Von Hindenburg to account for Ihls he had a ready excuse which was (ii r from an apology. tine Insistent demand of Germany, that she be admitted at once to membership mem-bership In the league of nations, it was said would not be granted, for the French were unalterably opposed to (his, and Mr. Wilson, according to reports, re-ports, bud gradually come around to their view of keeping Germany out of the league until she lias become regenerated regen-erated and proved her sincerity. There are not wanting Influential persons and journals that argue for the immediate admission of Germany, basing Hie plea mainly on the allegation Hint Hie good will and early restoration to prosperity of that country are necessary to the safety and economic progress of the rest of the world; They call attention', with shivers of apprehension, to the imminent danger of Germany's forming form-ing an alliance with Japan and Russia, Rus-sia, and this was backed up last week by more or less precise statements that the Japanese and German emissaries emis-saries already had been holding conferences con-ferences in various neutral places. A good deal of this sort of stuff may be pilt down to pro-German propaganda, more active just now than for some time past, as witness (he recent doings of the "Germanamerican Citizens' league," with headquarters in Chicago. Much of it, too. Is said and printed in behalf of the selfish and self-centered business man who demands uninterrupted uninter-rupted and greater returns from his investments, regardless of justice to the vanquished and the -victors in the war. the victors who might suffer, in this case, being the French. The setting up of an Independent republic re-public in tlie Rhine provinces, with Dr. Hans A. Dorten as president, has still further increased the bitterness between be-tween France and Germany. The Berlin Ber-lin government, of course, refused to recognize the new state and ordered tlie prosecution of Dorten for high treason. Then the Germans claimed to have discovered that the scheme was fostered and aided by the French and that Marshal Focli and Premier Clemenceau had told the Rhinelanders that "the German government would never again have anything to do with the left bank of the Rhine, and hence the propagandists could not be punished." pun-ished." The Berlin press said the French had a propaganda fund of $2,-000,000 $2,-000,000 and were using it to bribe the people of Rhineland and the Palatinate to favor the independent republic. It is true that the French look with favor on the new state and apparently they will, so far as possible, protect it from the Ebert government. General Man-gin, Man-gin, commanding the French army of occupation at Mayence, has forbidden strikes and other disturbances directed against the Rhenish republic. The German government formally protested protest-ed to the armistice commission against tlie course pursued by the French. The British and Americans in the occupied territory, it was said, were taking no part in the affair and would take none. The reply of the Austrians to the terms of the peace treaty handed to them was a dignified, rather pathetic and almost hopeless plea by Chancellor Karl Renner for conditions that would permit the German-Atistrian republic to live and to organize for the existence exist-ence of an independent commonwealth. He outlined Hie history of its establishment estab-lishment and argued that it has no relation re-lation with the former empire of the Hapsburgs. His country, he urged, should be treated as considerately as the oilier nations that have sprung from the Danube monarchy. Like th GeHpans, he made frequent reference io thp fourteen points, and so did tlie Vienna papers when the terms were given to the public. The press declared de-clared the terms were cruelly harsh, and much anger was shown against the Italians. Czechs and Jugo-SIavs. The people generally were bitterly dis-appointed dis-appointed ui find that they were not being treated much better than Hie Germans, and n big meeting of protest was held. The public view was expressed ex-pressed by Doctor Treiehl. a banker, who said : "The only thing for the Austrian Aus-trian people is to say: 'We might as well join with Germany, as we are companions in misfortune. We have nothing to lose by doing so.'" Tlie grand council of German Austria Aus-tria adopted Hie report of Dr. Otto j Bauer, which was to the effect that the peace terms meant the death Seja- ' tence of the Austrian republic. From Vienna comes the news that the bolsbevist regime in Hungary is hearing its end. The communist cabinet cabi-net has been replaced by one headed by llerr German, one of Count Karol-yi's Karol-yi's followers, and it was said he had been inviled to Versailles to confer with the entente representatives. In Hie Ukraine the troops of General I'etlura captured several railway centers cen-ters from the bolshevik!. A premature report from Vardoe said the Esthoni-ans Esthoni-ans and Finns hud captured Petrograd. Later the bolshevists claimed to have driven the Esthonians back west of Gatchlna. The American troops in the Archangel region began embarking for home. An interesting but unlikely story coming by bolsbevist wire from Moscow said General Semenoff had called a congress in eastern Siberia, which had declared the autonomy of Mongolia and named Semenoff aw grand duke of that country. .. ' I Two events have stirred the Sparta-cans Sparta-cans of Germany to renewed activity that leads to the prediction that they will soon make another organized attempt at-tempt to overthrow the government One was the finding in the Landwehr canal of a body declared to be that of "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, their murdered mur-dered woman leader. The other was the discovery that Capt. von Pflug-Har-tung and Lieutenant Llebman, who were convicted of the murder of Lieb-knecht, Lieb-knecht, had been allowed to escape from prison on false release orders and get to Holland on false passports. It had been known that Lieut. Kurt Vogel, convicted of the same crime, had escaped in tlie same way. All this has aroused great bitterness against the government in the minds of many people. Another "leak" sensation enlivened tlie proceedings of Hie United States senate last week when Senators Lodge and Borah declared that to their certain cer-tain knowledge copies of the peace treaty, denied to the senate, had been in the hands of New York financiers for some days. Their statement was not doubted lnd Senator Hitchcock, after conferences at the White House and tlie state department, asserted that the copies in question had been stolen. He introduced a resolution calling for an investigation by the committee on foreign relations. The senate on Wednesday adopted the resolution for submitting to the states the Susan B. Anthony amendment amend-ment to the Constitution granting the franchise to women. .The vote was 56 to 25. The bouse already had adopted the resolution and as the women of 28 states now- exercise presidential suffrage suf-frage there is little doubt that the amendment will be ratified ,by a sufficient suffi-cient number of states. The springing of another big bomb plot by terrorists early in the week has aroused the national government to the necessity of rounding up and disposing of tlie anarchists who are running amuck in this country. William Wil-liam J. Fiynn, new chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, lias been given a free hand, with orders to end anarchy in the United Uni-ted States, and his record warrants the prediction that hp will go far toward doing that very thing. This time Hie "Reds" sought lo kill Attorney General Gen-eral Palmer and other law-enforcement officials in eight cities of the East. Cordite bombs were exploded at their residences, but they all escaped death. One of the conspirators was blown to pieces by' his own bomb in Washington Washing-ton and a watchman was killed in New York. The attorney general says extra legislation is mil needed io take care of these bomb throwers and be wishes the authorities to treat Hieni like other criminals and not to give the radicals the chance to say the government is persecuting them. The strike situation in Canada improved im-proved considerably. In Winnipeg most of the returned soldiers threatened threat-ened action against the strikers and the leaders of the latter appealed for "protection." It wa relieved the strike might soon be called off. This action already had been taken by the workers of Toronto. In Toledo, where automobile automo-bile plant workers are on strike, there were riots in which f.ve gB wins iiUec by ju.rds |