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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS League of Nations Assembly Is Trying to Find Some Way to Save Armenia. AMERICA ASKED TO MEDIATE Balfour Suspects Plan to Recognize Kemal Pasha Poles and Bolshe-vikl Bolshe-vikl Resume Negotiations-Affairs Negotiations-Affairs in Greece Murders and Reprisals in Dublin. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. tVhat shall be done to save Armenia i That Is the question that absorbed much of the attention of the League of Nations assembly last week, and It Is not yet solved, nor, apparently, In the way of being solved. The Armenian Armeni-an problem was forced on the attention atten-tion of the assembly by the repeated questions of members of delegations whose countries would not be involved, and the representatives of the greater powers were compelled to take It up. The net result, so far, is the appointment appoint-ment of a commission which will examine ex-amine the Armenian situation. Sir Robert Cecil, South Africa, is its chairman, chair-man, and the other members are : Senator Sen-ator Henri La Fontaine, Belgium ; Doctor Doc-tor Fridjof Nansen, Norway ; Honorlo Pueyrredon, Argentina ;' Signor Schan-zi, Schan-zi, Italy, and Rene Viviani, France. In the course of the debate Viviani proposed that the league council should seek some government which will mediate for Armenia with the Turkish nationalists and try to obtain ob-tain a cessation of hostilities. The council thereupon cabled to President Wilson asking the United States to act as mediator in the case, pointing out that although the senate had rejected re-jected the mandate for Armenia, a new situation had arisen and a new solution was possible. The United States is not asked to send an expeditionary expe-ditionary force and only a small outlay out-lay of money will be necessary, since we are asked merely to represent Armenia Ar-menia by entering negotiations toward ending warfare with Kemal Pasha. It is believed in Geneva that the Nationalist Na-tionalist leader would welcome America Amer-ica as mediator because the fixing of the boundaries of Armenia was left to President Wilson. M. Viviani declared that the United Unit-ed States would be the most logical power to represent Armenia in the proposed negotiations, and that the fact that It was not a member of the league would not interfere. Some correspondents cor-respondents saw in all this talk an endeavor to "lure" the United States in'O the league. Mr. Balfour saw more tl.van this in the French plan. He believed be-lieved it was the beginning of an effort ef-fort to tear up the treaty of Sevres with Turkey and to deprive Greece of the territory given her by that pact ; Rlso that it was designed first to recognize rec-ognize Mustapha Kemal Pasha. He demanded whether the Kemalists would be offered money or territory as a hribe to cease attacking the Armenians, Armeni-ans, and said Kemal was entirely indifferent in-different about the league's opinion; furth .Tmore, he did not believe a viandt tory power for Armenia could Se found anywhere in the world, and aid the league could not send an expedition ex-pedition into Asia Minor unless it was mder the control of some treaty signing sign-ing power. Various delegates asserted their belief be-lief that the United States would now accept the mandate and furnish the expeditionary force, which, according to Doctor Nansen of Norway, would require GO. 000 men and $100,000,000. High French officials In Paris said on Wednesday that France would r,t tend a man or spend a franc on an Armenian mandate, but intimated that she might ask Kemal Pasha what changes in the treaty would make it acceptable to him. The league subcommission on new members has decided not to admit states carved out of the former Russian Rus-sian empire Lithuania, Latvia, Es-thonia Es-thonia and Ukraine; and undoubtedly this means that Azerbaidjan, Georgia tnd other states in the Caucasus will be refused admittance. This accords with the position taken by the United Unit-ed States administration some weeks ago. The league council decided to limit the scope of policing operations to the Vilna region and to keep the league "army" down to 1.S00 men. Of these Spain will supply 300, Sweden 100, France at least 1,000, and Great Britain Brit-ain and Belgium small detachments. Holland and Switzerland refused to participate. Peace negotiations between Poland and soviet Russia were resumed after a lapse Uiat threatened the renewal of active hostilities. The Poles, however, how-ever, consented to withdraw their troops to the armistice line. Moscow notified Lithuania that the Red forces would have to occupy Vilna, which is still in the hands of General Zellgou-skl. Zellgou-skl. The soviet government has now pretty nearly cleared Russia of all its active opponents. Petlura's troops have about all escaped 'from the Ukraine Uk-raine Into Poland and have been disarmed dis-armed there, and now It is announced that General Semenoff's campaign in Siberia has collapsed entirely. His last base has been taken by the Reds, the corps that was defending it having, hav-ing, mutinied, killed Its officers and joined the Bolsheylki. Semenoff himself him-self has fled to Japan. Unless the temper of the Greek people peo-ple changes, they will vote, on December Decem-ber 5, for the return of Constantine to the throne. This will be the logical logi-cal outcome of the victory of Gounaris and Rhallis in the election. However, the new government is placed in a somewhat uncomfortable position, for to restore the ex-king will be to alienate alien-ate France and possibly Great Britain. Brit-ain. The former has warned Greece that it will withdraw its material and moral support, but it is not known certainly what attitude Lloyd George will assume. The Greek newspapers favorable to Constantine assert that Great Britain is willing to recognize the right of Greece to manage her own affairs and that King George is in constant communication with Constantine Con-stantine and has assented to his return re-turn to the throne. Of course, Rhallis and his confreres are most worried over the possible effect ef-fect of the restoration on Greece's adventure in Asia Minor. They can hardly hope to maintain their army (here against the Turkish nationalists and the Arabs without the active cooperation co-operation of the entente allies, and, too, they rely on the British to supply sup-ply the money needed for the occupation. occupa-tion. It is said by them that Veniz-elists Veniz-elists left the treasury empty, destroyed de-stroyed quantities of documents and left Athens without informing their successors of the state of business in the various departments. Oueeu Mother Olga, the regent, staged a triumphal return last week for two of Constantine's brothers, Prince Andreas and Prince Christopher. Christo-pher. They were received by enthusiastic enthusi-astic crowds and escorted to the palace. pal-ace. The same day the foreign newspaper news-paper correspondents made formal complaint that the press censorship was being continued and that their dispatches were suppressed or delayed. de-layed. Rhallis and Gounaris made explanations ex-planations and promised all restrictions restric-tions should be removed. Paris had press dispatches from Smyrna saying the Greek army in Asia Minor was split Into two camps, one for and one against Constantine. and that fighting between them already al-ready had broken out. Some of the troops were said to be demobilizing themselves, declaring they were done with the war against the Turks. Sunday. November 21, was a day of bloodshed and terror in Dublin. The Sinn Fein assassins early in the day put into execution a deliberate plan of murder, calling 14 British officers or former officers to their doors and shooting them dead. About sixty others oth-ers were wounded in these attacks. The black and tans got iuto action at once, making many arrests. Then they forcibly entered Croke park, where 15,000 persons were watching a football game, and, being hooted and attacked, fired on the crowd. Several score of persons were killed and many wounded before the wild combat ,nded. Of course more murders and more reprisals re-prisals followed, and the military took possession of the city. Numerous ar rests were made by them and quantities quanti-ties of documents said to be incriminating incrim-inating seized. , Though attacked bitterly by the opposition op-position press and members of parliament parli-ament for this Dublin affair as well as for its Irish policy generally, the government defended its position with extraordinary tenacity, and to support It made public captured documents which were said to expose Sinn Fein plots for a campaign of terrorism in England, including assassinations and the destruction of property by dynamite dyna-mite and fire. In the house of commons com-mons Wednesday night Lloyd George scored a notable victory. Former Premier Pre-mier Auiulth moved a resolution expressing ex-pressing abhorrence of the Dublin assassinations as-sassinations and condemning the reprisals re-prisals and urging immediate steps to pacify Ireland. Col. John Ward by an amendment changed the motion Into an expression of admiration for the courage of the crown forces in Ireland, and this was adopted by a vote of 303 to 83, amid the cheers of the government's supporters. An echo of the Irish trouble was heard in New York Thanksgiving day, wtien an anti-English mob undertook to sack the Union club on Fifth avenue. ave-nue. On the club building was flying the American flag between British and French flags, and the manager was asked to remove the British emblem. He complied, but later the flag was replaced, re-placed, and then the mob attacked the building, breaking all its windows and destroying most of its paintings and furnishings before the police could disperse it. The American commission ou conditions condi-tions in Ireland is hearing many witnesses wit-nesses and has now decided to send a special committee to conduct a firsthand first-hand investigation. It is made up of Maj. Oliver P. Newman of Washington, Washing-ton, Rev. Dr. Norman Thomas and Arthur Gleason of New York and J. H. Maurer, president of the Pennsvlvania State Federation of Labor. The row between the Western Union Telegraph company and the administration adminis-tration has leached the acute stage. It has to do with the laying of certain cer-tain cables at Biscayne bay, Miami, Fla., permission for which was granted grant-ed some time ago. Connected with it was the attempt to land a cable from Barbados, which the Navy department prevented. The company thereupon declined to carry further messages for the State department at reduced rates, and the Navy department threatened to destroy the bay cable if the construction con-struction work was not stopped. The company applied for an injunction to restrain Secretary Daniels from interfering in-terfering with the work, and the next day Secretary of War Baker revoked the permit for the laying of the cables. ca-bles. The courts must now decide the entire matter. President-elect Harding and his party landed at Cristobal on Tuesday for a five-day visit in the Canal Zone. Wednesday he made a trip on the canal to Panama City and called on President Porras. Later the president crossed into American territory to return re-turn the call. Thursday Mr. Harding had a game of golf, followed by dinner din-ner with President Porras. and Friday he returned to Cristobal, whence he sailed on Sunday for Norfolk. A Thanksgiving day announcement was made to the effect that John D. Rockefeller had given to charities and public institutions the sum of SG3,-703,357, SG3,-703,357, in memory of his late wife. The fund is being administered by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial, me-morial, chartered in New York, nnd the beneficiaries are mostly organizations organiza-tions in the support of which Mrs. Rockefeller was especially interested in her lifetime. More than eight millions mil-lions of the fund already has been appropriated ap-propriated to 22 institutions. It is estimated that this brings the total of Mr. Rockefeller's big gifts up to approximately ap-proximately $475,000,000, making him the most munificent giver known to history. Gaston Chevrolet, one of the best known of the automobile speed kings, was killed and Eddie O'Donnel, another an-other race driver, fatally hurt when their cars collided during the 250-mile 250-mile national championship race at Los Angeles on Thanksgiving day. The contest was won by Sarles. |