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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS League of Nations Is Born but United States and Other Nations Are Absent. BLOODY RIOTS IN BERLIN Communists Attempt to Start a Revolution Revo-lution Poland Needs Help to Repel Re-pel Bolshevists Settlement of Adriatic Trouble Constitutional Consti-tutional Prohibition in Effect. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The League of Nations came into being last Friday, the first meeting of its council being held in Paris pursuant pur-suant to a call issued by President Wilson. At present it is admittedly somewhat of a - weakling, since the United States is not a member and Russia, Germany and some other powers pow-ers have not been admitted. But America doubtless will adhere to the covenant before long, and the league will then proceed to fulfill, or not fulfill, ful-fill, the rosy predictions of its creators. crea-tors. Most of the world wishes it well and hopes it will prove to be the beneficent institution that its ardent supporters believe it will be. The nations participating In the opening meeting Qf the league council and their representatives were : I'rance Leon Bourgeois, former premier. Great Britain Earl Curzon of Kedlestone, foreign secretary. Italy Signor Scialoia, foreign minister. min-ister. Belgium raul Hymans, foreign minister. Spain Count Quinones De Leon, ambassador to France. Greece Eliptherios Venlzelos, premier. pre-mier. Japan Viscount . Chinda, ambassador ambassa-dor to Great Britain. Brazil Dr. Gastoa Da Cunha, ambassador am-bassador to France. The people of the United Stntes, especially, es-pecially, perhaps, the business men, do not at all relish the fact that this country alone is now technically at war with Germany. They are letting the senate know how they feel, and thus the pressure on that august body to reach a compromise on the treaty has been increasing daily. The people do not wish the matter put up to them as a political Issue in the presidential presi-dential campaign, for they do not claim to be experts at treaty-making and feel that the senate should attend to its own business. All last week the compromisers were busy trying to reach a common base, assuming that President Wilson would not reject moderate reservations despite his repeated re-peated assertions to the contrary. But article 10 was, as ever, the sticking stick-ing point, and at this writing a settlement settle-ment was not In sight. Meanwhile. Immediately following the promulgation promulga-tion of the peace treaty, the other nations na-tions are sending their representatives to Germany and pushing their campaigns cam-paigns to secure trade. Plans are being laid for a great educational, edu-cational, financial and Industrial conference con-ference for the purpose of restoring normal conditions throughout the world. Support for the scheme has been asked of the governments of the entente and neutral nations of Europe Eu-rope and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States by a large number num-ber of leading men of this country and Europe. The original call does not include Germany and Austria, but It is stated that these countries as well as Japan and the Latin-American republics will be asked to send delegates. dele-gates. The communists of Germany, who take advantage of e-.ery excus? to start trouble, staged a great demonstration demon-stration in Berlin against the government's govern-ment's measure putting the workmen's work-men's councils on a legal basis. Thousands Thou-sands of them undertook to force t L .--i r way into flip reichstag and Nosk r"s police, patiently resisting for a time, finally opened fire with machine guns and rifles. About forty of the rioters were killed and scores wounded. The government openly accused the independent inde-pendent members of the reichstag with aiding in the attack, asserting some of them went to the windows of the building and motioned the mob on. Next day it was officially announced that the demonstration was the beginning begin-ning of an attempt to start, a general revolution which ' was to be led by radical government officials. Ever since the signing of the armistice armis-tice Germany has fostered the idea lhat the reds were likely to get control con-trol of that country unless it were given milder terms by the allies, and some correspondents have insisted that such reports could not be believed. be-lieved. Tills latest apparent revolt will give some support to the German appeals for leniency and to the insidious, in-sidious, cleverly worded editorials of certain American metropolitan papers which argue that the reparations commission com-mission must treat Germany gently and permit her to regain her old strength in order that she may successfully suc-cessfully stand between the bolshev-ists bolshev-ists of Itussia and western Europe. If the German press represents the German Ger-man nation, what it would do with its regained strength is made very clear by the articles published after the exchange ex-change of ratifications of the treaty. The burden of them was recovery of all the nation had lost, and Revenge with a big R. The allied nations have been disposed dis-posed to regard Poland, as the real bulwark against the bolshevist flood, and Poland so considers herself. Last week Secretary of War Baker recommended to the state department that the United States furnish surplus sur-plus military supplies to Poland to help her in repelling the bolshevists. General Bliss appeared before the house ways and means committee to discuss a proposed loan of $150,000,-000 $150,000,-000 for food relief for Europe, and declared de-clared that If the loan were made this country should call on the allied governments to contribute their surplus sur-plus military supplies to Poland because be-cause that nation alone could prevent the bolsheviki from swamping western west-ern Europe. The Poles, he added, are poorly equipped as to everything, while the soviet armies are well trained, well equipped and well led, and outnumber the Poles. The imminent return of the 8,000 Americans in Siberia is again promised, prom-ised, and apparently it is high time. A correspondent at Harbin says an American detachment in trans-Buika-lia recently fought with troops of General Semenoff, commander of the all-Russian army, and took an armored ar-mored train from them. Two of the Americans were killed. The Czechoslovaks, Czecho-slovaks, to aid whom the Yanks went to Siberia, have had frequent clashes with Semenoff's men. The bolsheviki have continued their forward movement in the Caucasus and along the Black sea, and now comes news of a new movement In that part of the world which they are said to be supporting. Enver Pasha." who formerly was minister of war of Turkey and was elected king of Kurdistan, Kurdi-stan, has started what is called a bolshevist bol-shevist revolt In Turkestan, Afghanistan Afghan-istan and Baluchistan and for which the government at Moscow has contributed con-tributed large sums of money. En-ver's En-ver's ultimate aim, it is said, is India. Those who understand conditions in the countries mentioned assert this Is not a genuine bolshevist movement, but is directed against Great Britain. However that may be, it Is likely to cause the British considerable trouble. The Adriatic problem seems about to be solved, and In a way quite opposite to that on which President Wilson insisted. in-sisted. Mutual concessions have been agreed upon, and though neither Itnly nor .Tugo-Slavia is wholly satisfied, probably both will yield. By the arrangement. ar-rangement. Flume is to be governed by a municipal council under the nd-1 nd-1 vice of an Palian high oomniissiom'r ; and a small independent state will surround the city. Italy is given control con-trol over the city of Zara but ahn;i- I dons her demand for the neutralization neutraliza-tion of the Dalmatian coast. She is granted a mandate over Alban'a. but will modify her boundary claims in favor of Serbia. The Slovenes of .Tugo-SIavia so strongly opposed some features of the settlement that the country's delegation felt inclined to reject the proposal, whereupon Lloyd George and Clemenceau told the government gov-ernment at Belgrade that it must say yes or no to the Italian offer at once. The French, British and Italian premiers on Thursday handed the conditions of peace to the Hungarian delegation in Paris. There was no ceremony. Ambassador Wallace and the Japanese ambassador were present. pres-ent. Secretary of Lahor Wilson says that every alien who advocates the overthrow of the American government govern-ment by force or who belongs to an organization holding such views will be deported "as fast as we can get the ships." But each of them will be given a fair hearing, he added. In New York Federal Judge Knox has caused the federal officials some worry by ruling that those held in deportation deporta-tion proceedings must be released on bail Immediately. Immigration authorities au-thorities say this would make It almost al-most impossible to get cases against many of the radicals. The government govern-ment officials are now eager for legislation leg-islation that will permit them to handle properly those reds who are citizens. The senate passed the Sterling Ster-ling sedition bill for this purpose, but the house considers it too stringent in some particulars and is formulating one of its own. The chief objection to the Sterling measure was it put too much power in the hands of the postmaster general, virtually re-establishing war-time censorship of publications. publi-cations. John Barleycorn turned up his toes on Friday. At eight o'clock that morning the forces of the directors of federal prohibition were afield all over the country looking for violators of the constitutional amendment which went into effect. The day dreaded by so many Americans was preceded by several events that caused wets preliminary distress. The Supreme court destroyed one of their hopes by refusing to permit the New Jersey liquor dealers to institute original proceedings in that court to test the constitutionality of the prohibition amendment. The court decided it had no jurisdiction. Next the internal inter-nal revenue office announced that after Friday no liquor might be kept except in government bonded warehouses ware-houses or in homes. A general movement move-ment of bottles and jugs from club lockers and hotels to residences began be-gan forthwith, and the officials were kind enough not to enforce the provisions pro-visions against the transportation of intoxicants while it was in progress. Then along came Prohibition Commissioner Com-missioner Kremer with a ruling that fruit juices and ciders came under the dry ban if they contain more than one-half of I per cent of alcohol and that the penalties are the same as in the case of stronger liquors. Presidential politics Is humming these days, and the contest among the candidates for the bead of the ticket, especially the Republican ticket, is growing mighty lively. The managers and scouts of eacli of the chief contenders con-tenders are bustling around after delegations and the headquarters are fhe scenes of almost continuous conferences. con-ferences. General Wood, Governor Lowden and Senator Harding seem to be leading the field, but the others are not idle or hopeless by any means. It is a notable fact that women are taking a prominent part In the campaign. cam-paign. The Democrats are still resting rest-ing under the shadow of the third-term third-term possibility. Herbert Hoover Is looked at with the appraising eyes of the Warwlcks of both parties, for his political affiliation affilia-tion has been uncertain. Now Julius Barnes, bis close friend, declares Mr. Hoover is a "progressive Republican" who "will never allow himself to be a candidate for high office nor allow his friends to make an effort in his behalf, unless tiiere shall come such indisputable evidence of such spon-ti'iU'oiis spon-ti'iU'oiis mid universal popular demand that it will overwhelm bis present r solution noi to enter politics." From 'which it i'i:.y be deduced that Mr. I llo'..i - is -a iniovt in the conventional |
