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Show free and in the way of being freer very soon. As for the Chinese, If Yosuke Mat-sucka, Mat-sucka, a member of the Japanese peace delegation, is to be believed, the wind will soon he taken out of the sails of those who are shouting against the Shantung settlement. He thinks Japan will open negotiations in a very fev weeks for the settling of the Shantung question in a way that will satisfy ev eryone. Tokyo will offer to restore The territory to China, withdrawing all Japanese troops, stipulating that the peninsula shall he open to international internation-al trade and that there shall be an international in-ternational settlement at Tsing-Tao, NEWS REVIEW OF CURREUT EVENTS President Wilson on His Tour to Argue Peace Treaty Case Before the People. HE ACCEPTS NO COMPROMISE militarist plot of Germany for the domination dom-ination of Europe. As It Is left by the treaty, Austria will be an unimportant "republic" of some 6,000,000. , The decision whether it shall be permitted to join Germany is left to the League of Nations. When the supreme council coun-cil read the new German constitution the other day it found In it provision for the representation of Austria in the German reichsrath. This being contrary con-trary to the Versailles treaty, the German Ger-man government was told that the article ar-ticle must be changed within a fortnight fort-night or the allies would undertake a further occupation of the left banK of the Rhine. The Berlin press thereupon there-upon warned the allies of the danger of precipitating a new revolt of the German people. The Pan-Germans, by no means suppressed, held a union conference recently in Berlin which was participated In by Austrians, and laid plans for the restoration of the Imperial government, union with Austria Aus-tria and the recovery of the lands ceded ced-ed by the peace treaty. Marshal Foch has determined the territory which the American troops will occupy permanently in the Rhine-land. Rhine-land. It will be about twice as great in extent as that occupied by them recently. re-cently. Just befo, starting nut on his speaking speak-ing tour I'residen. - Vv'l!son announced tl;l a general conference' -on industrial indus-trial and economic questions wovid held in Washington early in October. Already a number of leaders of finance, manufacturing, labor and agriculture have been invited and the list will be enlarged from time to time. The president pres-ident and members of his cabinet will take part In the discussions; and it is the hope and belief of Mr. Wilson and indeed of everyone that the sessions of this round table will have decisive beneficial ben-eficial results in the Way of stabilizing industrial conditions. Certainly much good should come of the frank interchange inter-change of opinions and suggestions that is planned. In general the labor situation is unchanged, un-changed, pending the president's tour, the war on high prices and the above mentioned conference. At the same time the radical elements are keeping busy, and it may be the threatened strike of steel workers will come any day. Quick to resent attacks on the packing pack-ing industry, several big clubs and associations as-sociations of Chicago have gone on record rec-ord against the proposed restrictive legislation by congress. The secretary of the Chicago board of trade said its members were united in opposition to the licensing features of the pending blils, believing the w.iole licensing system sys-tem was wrong, or, if right, should lie applied to all business. All of these organizations seem to assume that the reports of the federal trade commission commis-sion and the allegations on which legal action against the packers is based are full of falsehood. The senate has passed the highly Important Im-portant bill providing for the lease of public lands with oeposits of oil, coal, gas, phosphate and sodium, and the measure has gone to the house. Senator Sen-ator Lenroot of Wisconsin says the bill goes further in the protection of the j public interest than any other bill ever proposed in the senate or bouse. Other senators charged that it was framed in the interest of the Standard Oil company. com-pany. It places the leasing of ail lands In the bands of the secretary of the interior and fixes the minimum and maximum royalties. One amendment adopted compels constituent companies compan-ies of the Standard Oil company to sell their product at the same price in all parts of the country, and another is designed to force those companies to become Independent in fact as well as in name. Mexican soldiers In the Carranza uniform provided the latest complication complica-tion in the Mexican situation by shooting shoot-ing at an American army airplane that was patrolling the border near Laredo. Tex. One of the aviators. Cant. Davis W. Mi'Nabb, was wounded. The Mexican Mex-ican authorities said the machine 'vas over Mexican territory at the rime; the American officials on the ground denied this, and the administration at Wnshinston patiently awaited further information. The American army Is growing restive under the evident contempt con-tempt in which ". Is held by Mexico. and that the Shantung railway shall he operated by a Chino-.lapanese joint corporation. There are reasons to believe be-lieve the Chinese government is not nearly so angry over the Shantung article ar-ticle as the American opponents of the treaty pretend to be. Hungary continues to present the most annoying problems now before the peace conference. The Roumanian occupants of the country so far have been absolutely defiant of the orders Tt t.!2. supreme council and are said to be plundering it !"! 3 most shameful shame-ful way. Finally the 'exas-iii'a.,P(, council last week dispatched to the J Roumanians an ultimatum couched in drastic terms, demanding that they evacuato Hungary and hand over to the allies for proper distribution all the goods they have requisitioned. The Roumanian diplomatic representatives in the allied capitals also were summoned sum-moned by the foreign ministers who Impressed on them the seriousness of the situation that would arise If their government should refuse to comply. The position of the Roumanians is that what they call the war between them and the Hungarians is a new affair and that the allied conference has nothing to do with It.' In Budapest they were trying hard to establish a government that the allies al-lies would recognize. Fricdrich offered offer-ed to resign In favor of a coalition cabinet cab-inet formed by Helnrlch, a wholesale hardware merchant, on certain conditions. condi-tions. All Jews are barred from the Heinrich ministry, but all other classes and parties are represented. Serbia officially denied the report of a general revolt of the Montenegrins, Montene-grins, but neutral observers who have arrived In Paris from the Black Mountain Moun-tain country declare the Serbs are fast wiping out the loyal people of Montenegro Monte-negro and that they can be saved only by military intervention' by America and Great Britain. These observers assert that much of the food Hoover sent into that country fell into the hands of the Serbs and that no Montenegrin Monte-negrin can obtain supplies unless he denounces his own country and swears allegiance to King Peter of Serbia. Late reports from the Ukraine said Petlura and Denikine were closing in on Kieff and apparently were about to lake that important city from the bol-sheviki. bol-sheviki. The Reds claim the capture of Dubovka, on the lower Volga, and also announced that Admiral Kolcbak bad evacuated Omsk and established his government at Irkutsk. 1.050 miles further east. Kolchak lias issued a stirring appeal to all loyal Russians to rejoin the ranks, and his representatives representa-tives have been granted the privilege of recruiting in .lit pan. The Esthoni-ans Esthoni-ans had the bolshevik armies In so tight n bole that the Lenine government govern-ment offered to make peace with them. Trotsky, addressing the Petrograd soviet, sov-iet, said the bolsheviki must stand im-pregnably im-pregnably in the defense of that city. The reports that General Gough. the British commander, was about to attack at-tack Petrograd appear to have been intrue. The Poles also, using tanks for the first time, whipped the bolsbev-ik'i. bolsbev-ik'i. capturing the fortified town of Bobruisk Bob-ruisk and 500 prisoners. The supreme council handed to Austria Aus-tria the final peace terms and a long reply to the protests of the Austrian delegates. The note Impressed on the Austrians the fact that they were primarily pri-marily responsible for the outbreak of the great war and cannot escape retribution ret-ribution by claiming they have thrown off the ys-ke of the Hapshurgs. The people of Austria-Hungary, It said, had given full support, to the ultimatum to Serbia and to the prosecution of the war, and for years had supported the Senate Committee Votes to Report Pact With Reservations Supreme Council Sends Ultimatum to Roumania and Warning to Germany Industrial Indus-trial Conference Planned. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. President Wilson is on his way, telling tell-ing the people of the United States... fuce to face how excellent a document Is the peace treaty with the incorporated incorpor-ated League of Nations covenant, and how necessary to the welfare of the world it is that it should be ratified by the senate speedily. Beginning his addresses ad-dresses at Columbus, O., he continued them at Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas Kan-sas City and Des Moines, and he is now proceeding on westward by the northern route. Before leaving Washington Wash-ington Mr. Wilson bad a final conference confer-ence with Senator Hitchcock and issued is-sued instructions to his supporters to make a fight to a finish for ratification - of the treaty just as it stands. Senator Hitchcock on the same day addressed the senate on the question, hotly denouncing the opponents of the treaty, even those who favor only mild reservations. He declared the real purpose of the majority on the foreign relations committee was to kill the pact entirely, and indeed there seems to be justification for that assertion. Senator Knox's proposal that the treaty trea-ty be rejected and a separate peace made with Germany, he said was an Insane In-sane mixture of poltroonery and folly. Mr. Hitchcock took direct issue with those who complain that the Fruited States will derive no advantages and benefits from the treaty as it is. They evidently have no conception, he said, of the enormous benefits America will pet from it, and Intimated these would come through the operations of the reparations commission, though how. and what they would be. he neglected to explain. The senate committee on foreign re-.latlons re-.latlons voted to reeommeud the ratification ratifi-cation of the treaty by the senate with four important modifications. These 'reservations provide for unconditional right to withdraw from the League of Is'allons; assumption of no obligation to guarantee territorial Integrity of nations or to employ troops for coercive co-ercive purposes or to accept mandates except under the direction of congress; full freedom to determine what questions ques-tions are domestic and therefore not subject to consideration by the league: exemption of the Monroe doctrine from 't. consideration by the league and dec laration that the United States is sole Interpreter of that doctrine. Senator Shields of Tennessee, Pom-lOorat, Pom-lOorat, joined the majority in voting for all the reservations except that relating re-lating to article X. Senator McCum-ber McCum-ber of North Dakota voted against the first two reservations. On the last two the vote was 1 1 to 0. The committee resolution stipulates that the treaty ratification by the United Unit-ed States shall not take effect until the American reservations have been accepted by three of the four other great powers: Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. The hearings granted the representatives representa-tives of small and dissatisfied peoples by the f.irvlgn relations committee must be regarded as largely political bunk. The spokesmen for the Irish of course made the loudest noise, demanding de-manding that the senate reject the treaty entire, but the Republican senators' sen-ators' know, as do most Americans that the Irish question Is none of our business; moreover, many of us believe be-lieve the Irish already are tolerably |
