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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS France Acts Independently of Great Britain in the Russo- territories allocated to other states and because Jugo-Slavia did not receive re-ceive Macedonia as she asked. The United States did not sign the treaty owing to President Wilson's objection to the presence of the sultan in Constantinople, Con-stantinople, the allocation of Thrace and Smyrna to Greece, and the Asia Minor mandates. The British parliament has passed and the king has approved the new Irish coercion bill. The debate in the house of commons- was bitter. Very optimistic persons think the law will restore order in Ireland. Much interest and some excitement were caused by the British government's govern-ment's course in dealing with the visit of Archbishop Mannix of Australia, the warm advocate of free Ireland, who spent some weeks in the United States. He intended to land in Ireland, Ire-land, but government agents removed him from the liner n put him ashore at Penzance under technical arrest. He proceeded to London, but his movements move-ments were restricted by orders. He received invitations to address meetings meet-ings in many places in England, Scotland Scot-land and Ireland. The treatment of the archbishop looks, at this distance, like a characteristic bit' of British would he no war hy the entente. If the Minsk meeting failed of results, he declared, the allies had decided on these lines of action: (1) No action, except to support Poland in the struggle strug-gle for existence; (2) only to give support sup-port to the nation which fights its own struggles; (3) no allied troops to he sent to Poland; (4) the allies, will help to equip I he Poles for their own defense: (5) to give military advice and guidance; (6) economic pressure to he brought to bear on Russia ; (7) to help Wrangel and all oilier counterrevolutionaries; counter-revolutionaries; (S) end of trading negotiations. ne-gotiations. Turning to the Russian representatives representa-tives who sat In the gallery,-the little Welshman said : "If you want peace, get it now. If you are out to challenge chal-lenge the liberties of Europe, we will meet you and fight to the end." British labor leaders had already warned Lloyd George there would be a general strike if the nation went to war, but at the conclusion of the premier's pre-mier's speech Mr. Clyne. their chief, declared the laborites do not favor soviet ideas and methods, and that if they were convinced the soviet government gov-ernment was aggressive, they would be forced to consider supporting the Pritish government. "muddling," but probably the government govern-ment knew what it was about. To an Interviewer the churchman said what he wanted was to see England get out of Ireland, intimating that tile latter as an independent country would be no more the enemy of Great Britain that It is now. ; Another big wage increase award was made last week by the United States railway labor board, the employees em-ployees of the American Railway Express Ex-press company being the beneficiaries this time. They were granted a flat increase of 16 cents an hour and the total will amount to $30,556,445 a year. The heads of the four unions affected appeared well satisfied with the award. , The railway rate increase ran against a snag in Illinois wheu the state public utilities commission ruled that the 2-cent passenger fare in the state was restored by the passing of the wartime transportation act; denied de-nied applications for increases to 3.6 cents per mile, for increased surcharges on Pullman and parlor car fares, for increase of commutation rates and for increased milk rates; and denied application for 40 per cent increase in freight rates, granting a temporary increase of 33 1-3 per cent. Franklin Roosevelt was formally notified Monday of his nomination for the vice presidency by the Democrats, and two days later opened the Democratic Demo-cratic campaign in Chicago with a speech in which he made a special plea for the support of the old Bull Moose element. Both in this address and in his speech of acceptance he exhibited ex-hibited a spirit of fair-mindedness that won commendation. Governor Cox began his speaking tour the latter part of the week. The front, porch campaign plans for Senator Harding have not been changed, but the Republican leaders will make extensive use of "publicity" news stories, advertising and the movies. It was expected that Harding would soon declare himself as to just what kind of a League of Nations he thinks would be acceptable to the American people, for he does not wish Polish Complication. PROMISES AID TO WHAH8EL America to Use "All Available Means" to Preserve Poland's Independence Resistance to Red Armies Increasing In-creasing Express Workers Get Wage Increase. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The United States will employ "all available means" to safeguard the Independence In-dependence and territorial integrity of Poland, and will not recognize the soviet government of Russia. The French government has recognized recog-nized the Wrangel government, of southern Russia and will give it military mili-tary aid against the bolshevik! ; and the French representatives In London have been instructed to break off all relations with Krassln and Kameneff. the soviet trade commissioners there. The British government, though somewhat dismayed by the American and French announcements and the apparent break with France, still hopes and believes a peace can be negotiated ne-gotiated between Russia and Poland. The Russians, persisting In their refusal re-fusal to permit mediation by any third party, sent a delegation to Minsk to meet the Poles, and continued their circling movement designed to capture cap-ture Warsaw. The Poles sent representatives to Minsk to talk armistice, and, having withdrawn In good order from their advanced positions, established two lines of defense before Warsaw and prepared for an extensive counter stroke. In tile lineup of the powers, Italy stands with Great Britain, and France counts on the support of the United States. Germany maintains an ostensible osten-sible neutrality while hoping for the crushing of Poland, believing the Polish adventure was instigated and directed by France. Such Is the summary of conditions, on the day of writing, in the biggest of the wars that are still going on. President Wilson's statement of America's position was made to Italy. In It he suggested that the contiict might be ended by the withdrawal of all Russian forces from Poland and the withdrawal of all allied troops from ethnographic Russia, together with assurances by the allied and associated as-sociated powers that Russia will not be dismembered. He urged that any dealings with the soviet regime be confined con-fined within "the most narrow boundaries boun-daries to which the discussion of an armistice can be confined," and scored the soviet government as that of a tyrannical and dishonorable minority whose assttrances and guarantees are practically worthless. In asking that the true boundaries of Russia be respected, re-spected, the note specified that those boundaries should not include Fin-Aind, Fin-Aind, ethnic Poland or such territory as may by agreement form a part of the Armenian state. Just what the president meant by "all available means" lu promising aid to Poland was not made clear, but it was assumed, as-sumed, both by government officials find by the representatives of Poland in Washington, that the phrase did not include the dispatch of troops. Prince Luhomirski. the Polish minister, minis-ter, did not ask for armed assistance, but said the need of his countrymen was for food, clothing, arms and other ivar munitions. The-e, he added, are needed immediately and imperatively. ' A conference of the British and French premiers was held at Ilytlie Hid. returning to London. Lloyd George told the house of commons that he still believed in peace. He said Russia was entitled to strict Guarantees against a repetition of the Polish attack bur was not entitled to lestroy Poland as a nation; if Russia e'.eO. vi'.hin those cusidi 'Juks there Kameneff outlined the armistice terms the soviet was offering Poland, and In some respects they were reasonable. rea-sonable. They included, however, demobilization de-mobilization of the Polish army within with-in one mouth and the demobilization of all war industries. Another clause demanded that the families of all Polish Pol-ish citizens killed, wounded or incapacitated inca-pacitated in the war shall be given land free. This was looked on as a part of the plan to establish soviet rule in Poland. The encircling movement of the soviet armies carried them across the Warsaw-Danzig railway and down toward the Vistula from the north. But the other rail line to Danzig, through Thorn, seemed safe for the present. The Polish forces were being be-ing concentrated and regrouped, and a competent observer, formerly in the American army, declared that though the Tolish position was serious it was not desperate. The stories of panic and complete loss of morale he said were false, and were the result of a propaganda hy the enemies of Poland. The spirit of the Polish people was still high, he asserted, and men and women in large numbers were volunteering volun-teering in all classes of war service. A correspondent who has just completed com-pleted the trip from Vladivostok to Finland says that from one end of Russia to the other is heard the cry for food and clothing, and Nikolai Lenine himself is said to have admitted admit-ted that the Russian people cannot pass through another winter like the last. On Wednesday the soviet government govern-ment signed a provisional peace treaty with Letvia and agreed with Finland upon armistice conditions. These arrangements ar-rangements will make more difficult the maintenance of a blockade of Russia Rus-sia by the allies if that course is found necessary. In Persia the reds have withdrawn from Enzeli and some other places because be-cause of lack of supplies, but they have established headquarters of a Persian soviet republic at Ardebil, a little' south of the Caspian. The old government remains at Teheran, though its flight has been rumored repeatedly. re-peatedly. Greece continues to increase her forces in Asia Minor and has captured some more strategic positions. Kemal Tasha, however, has not quit by any means and recent dispatches say 15,-000 15,-000 Tartars are on the way to join his nationalist troops for a great offensive against the Greeks, probably on tiie Smyrna front. According to an agreement agree-ment between Italy and Greece the Dodecanesus has been transferred to Greek sovereignty except Rhodes, where a plebiscite will be held some time in the future. Tec hnically the world war came to an end Tuesday, so far as the allied nations and their opponents are concerned. con-cerned. On that day the last of the peace treaties, that with Turkey, was signed in Sevres, near Paris. The Jugo-Slavs refused to sign because the treaty provides that the Ottoman debt b?. par.kiened among former Turkish the nation to believe that because he is against the Wilson league, he is against any league. The prohibition nominees, Watkins and Colvin, both delivered their acceptance ac-ceptance speeches at Germantown, O., and plans were made to carry on a vigorous campaign, largely by airplane. air-plane. Charles Ponzi of Boston, whose sensational sen-sational operations in international postal coupons attracted the attention of the authorities, came to grief, at least temporarily, when a slate hank examiner closed the Hanover Trust company, through which he carried on much of his business, and he was arretted ar-retted on a state larceny charge. The same day the "wizard" admitted he had been an inmate of prisons at Atlanta At-lanta and in Canada. Fonzi has not revealed the exact method by which he made so much money for his clients and himself jn a few weeks. He asserts as-serts he can take care of all his financial finan-cial cbfljations. |