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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Russian Reds, Whipped In the Field, Agree to Armistice With the Poles. SUBMIT TO ALL DEMANDS Soviet Forces; May Concentrate Against Wrangel Peace in Ireland Nearer Some Late Developments In Our Presidential Campaign. By EDWARD W. P1CKARD. Thoroughly whipped by the Poles, the Russian Bolshevik! have signed an armistice with their opponents, and on October 14 hostilities are supposed to cease. The full terms agreed upon at Riga have not yet been given to the public, but enough has been told to show that Poland has won virtually all her contentions. M. Joffe, head of the Russian delegation, was in no position po-sition to refuse anything within reason, rea-son, and indeed he had been instructed instruct-ed to accept almost any terms the Poles might offer. The western boundary line of soviet Russia was the main matter under discussion, and this was settled entirely entire-ly in favor of the Poles, according to reports from Riga. The line is placed so far east that Lithuania is cut off entirely en-tirely from Russia, and Poland is given a corridor between those two countries. The boundary agreed upon begins east of Dvinsk, runs south through Baranovitchi. Luniniets and Sarny, and virtually along the German line of 1915 to the Roumanian frontier. The Poles have asserted repeatedly that the Lithuanians have been fighting fight-ing alongside the Russians, and this boundary settlement should, therefore, go far in bringing about a peaceful agreement between Poland and Lithuania; Lithu-ania; when that is accomplished the Toles will he free to turn their attention atten-tion to the establishment of their own government and the development of their country. They have agreed to he neutral In the Ukraine, where the soviet so-viet and Petlura forces are fighting, and Russia gives up all claims to eastern east-ern Gallcla. Tt is asserted by some correspondents correspond-ents that Donibski, head of the Polish mission at Riga, was moved to hurry up the agreement with the Russians by the admonitions of the British ambassador am-bassador in Warsaw and also by the movements of his political opponent, Prince Sapieha. In addition, say these correspondents, the liberal Dombski element In Poland, is somewhat alarmed by the successes of Baron AVrangel In southern Russia; considering consider-ing that the restoration of the old Russian empire would constitute a great danger to Poland. Many experts believe that a Russo-Polish peace will result in the crushing of Wrangel and his armies. It is taken for granted that the soviet government will at once concentrate Its efforts - on the Crimean front. novever, Wrangel has been making such progress In his campaign that his chances still seem good. In his advance ad-vance northward he has taken many thousands of prisoners and vast quantities quan-tities of material, and his forces also pushed along the coast of the Sea of Azov northeastward toward Important cities on the lower Don. Early In the week tt was said that Makno, the Ukraine Insurgent leader, had formed a junction with Wrangel's troops and in a flying raid had seized Kharkov. Later a wireless dispatch from Moscow Mos-cow asserted that Makno had joined the Bolshevikl and had been given a command against AVrangel. It was said his shift was due to the refusal of his troops to fight against the Bolshevikl. Bol-shevikl. Makno's past history inclines i one to doubt the truth of this report. ! According to a Copenhagen newspaper. newspa-per. General Weygand, who assisted the Poles, has gone to South Russia to take supreme command of the nnti-soviet nnti-soviet armies there. The apparent collapse of the Bolshevikl Bolshe-vikl Is probably due in large measure to the fact that the Russian crop outlook out-look Is the worst ever experienced and that in consequence the country faces starvation during the coining winter. Lenine and the other leaders have been making desperate efforts to reopen re-open commercial relations with Great Britain and Italy and to make peace with Rouniania, but these efforts have been fruitless so far. The Red soldiers sol-diers are mutinying and assassinating their officers, and the Russian people generally are In despair. In Petrograd especially the conditions condi-tions are terrible, and all the inhabitants inhab-itants who can are fleeing from the city. The Finnish Red Cross has Just issued an appeal to the Red Cross Societies So-cieties of the World describing the shocking state of affairs In the former capital. The population has shrunk to about 600,000, and thousands are dying every month of various kinds of epidemics. epi-demics. There is no fuel, no hot water wa-ter for baths, no street cleaning or removal re-moval of garbage, and the streets are becoming impassable because the paving pav-ing blocks are being burned and the water pipes are bursting. The hospitals hos-pitals are overflowing with patients and their equipment is wretchedly Inadequate. In-adequate. "Death," says the report, "stalks on every side, waiting for winter to aid in the grim work of mowing down the silent, hungry sick, and dying thousands. thou-sands. With streets and houses choked with filth that Is already spreading spotted and intermittent typhus, the cold weather will finish the task with pneumonia and abdominal typhus." The allied mission named to handle the dispute between Poland and Lithuania Lith-uania arrived at Suwalkl Tuesday to begin work, and on the same day, it was announced, the Poles and Lithuanians Lithu-anians stopped fighting. The Adriatic dispute between Italy and Jugo-Slavia is in a fair way of settlement, for cabinet members of both nations met Friday in Venice atKl resumed direct negotiations. Some time ago Lloyd George and Millerand, then premier of France, said If the Jugo-Slavs and Italians got together it was nobody else's business,, which was taken as a warning to the United States government to keep its hands off, whatever may be the disposition of Fiume. If it were not for the people of California Cali-fornia and a few jingoes on both sides of the Pacific, the threat of unpleasant relations between America and Japan would quickly fade away. The American Ameri-can associations of Tokyo and Yokohama Yoko-hama have cabled to Secretary of State Colby a set of joint resolutions urging that Americans "act with sober deliberation and patience, trusting the respective governments to find a solution so-lution satisfactory and effective without with-out affronting-Japan or sacrificing the principles of equity on either hand." Viscount Ishil, the new Japanese ambassador to France and one of his country's wisest statesmen, Is quoted as saying: "War will never come between be-tween the United States and Japan, unless the United States seizes Japanese Japa-nese territory or Japan seizes American Ameri-can territory. Japan has not the remotest re-motest Intention of ever attempting to appropriate any American territory." He says there Is no trade war on between be-tween the two countries, and that labor la-bor and land problems cannot be permitted per-mitted to be magnified Into questions where war might be even envisaged. He and other Japanese leaders assert that most of the people of Japan realize real-ize that most of the talk of international interna-tional trouble Is due to the fact that the Tjnlted States is in the throes of a presidential election. The efforts of the Irish peace council, coun-cil, made up of moderates from all parts of the island, are slowly leading lead-ing to a settlement of the Irish problem. prob-lem. The council has completed its plan for dominion rule of the Island, and its members say the leaders of the Sinn Fein have intimated that, though of course they still desire entire en-tire independence, they will not oppose the plan if it can be shown that a majority ma-jority of the Irish people desire it. Premier Lloyd George also told the council it must be able to assure him of sufficient support in Ireland to guarantee guar-antee that the scheme would be workable, work-able, before he would submit it to parliament. par-liament. The council claims to have this support, and It may send a deputation depu-tation to Lloyd George this week. The first step in the plan is the creation of a constituent assembly in Ireland in which Ulster will be represented. President Wilson got into the presidential presi-dential campaign at the beginning of the week with i long letter addressed to his fellow citizens, urging them to place the seal of their approval of the League of Nations covenant by their votes at the polls in November. He said : "The chief question that Is put to you Is, of course, this : Do you want your country's honor vindicated and the treaty of Versailles ratified? Do you In particular approve of the League of Nations as organized and empowered In that treaty? And do you wish to see the United States play its responsible part in it?" He said the opponents of the league had mislead the voters and had displayed dis-played gross ignorance and impudent audacity in their "attempt to invent an 'Americanism' of their own, which has no foundation whatever in any of the authentic traditions of the government." govern-ment." Following this lead, Governor Cox and Franklin Roosevelt in their campaign cam-paign speeches are now making the League of Nations the great issue and are devoting to It most of their arguments. argu-ments. Homer S. Cummings, former Democratic national chairman, also has been called on and will speak for the league in Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, New Mexico and California. Senator Harding abandoned his porch again for a quick speaking tour through part of the Middle West, and in his address at Des Moines he accepted ac-cepted the direct Issue of ratifying or rejecting the League of Nations covenant. cov-enant. He declared flatly he would favor staying out of the league as formed at Versailles ; he said fce wanted want-ed no acceptance of the league with or without reservations to clarify America's obligations, and that he thought the proper thing to do was to reject the covenant altogether. As for what he does favor doing in the way of an association of nations, he said : "I shall not risk embarrassing the final solution of a problem so momentous mo-mentous by undertaking to lay down in advance specific details or plans. As soon as possible after my election I shall advise with the best minds in the United States and especially I shall consult in advance with the senate, with whom, by the terms of the Constitution, Con-stitution, I shall indeed be bound to counsel and without whose consent no such International association can be formed. I shall do this to the end that we shall have an association of nations for the promotion of international interna-tional peace, but one which shall definitely defi-nitely safeguard our sovereignty and recognize our ultimate and unmortgaged unmort-gaged freedom of action." An acrimonious controversy has arisen between President Wilson and Senator Spencer of Missouri. The latter, lat-ter, In campaign speeches, asserted that the President during the peace conference promised Rouinania and Serbia that if needed the American army and navy would be sent to their aid. This charge Mr. Wilson branded as absolutely false. The senator retorted re-torted that the alleged promise was to be found in the stenographic report of the eighth plenary session of the conference, con-ference, in which Mr. Wilson was reported re-ported to have said to Premier Bra-tianu Bra-tianu of Roumanla: "You must not forget that it is force that Is the final guaranty of the public peace. If the world is again troubled the United States will send to this side of the ocean their army and their fleet." Spencer asked the President to produce pro-duce the report, but Secretary Tumulty said on Thursday the President had no stenographic report of the eighth plenary plen-ary session and, so far as the President Presi-dent knows, there is no such record in this country. Unless the Supreme court of the United States says no, "Big Bill" Haywood Hay-wood and the 93 other I. W. W. members mem-bers who were tried some time ago before be-fore Judge Landis will have to go to the penitentiary. Their conviction on charges of conspiracy tn violate the selective draft and espionage ncls has been affirmed by the United Slates Circuit Cir-cuit Court of Appeals. |