ALLIES MUST
RID RUSSIA OF
BOLSHEVISM
LONDON. Dec 30 (Correspondence
of the Associated Cress). There is a
wide divergence of opinion among
English politicians and newspapers as
to the attitude which the entente pow
ers should assume toward Soviet
Russia.
On the one hand is the view ex
pressed by Sir George Buchanan. Brit
ish ambassador to Russia, who in a
recent public speech urged that re
inforcements bo recruited on a volun
tary basis and be immediately sent to
check the Bolsheviki. Sir George con
tended that the allies must not desert
Russia now. and that they would be
untrue to the cause of democracy if
they did not put an end to the reign
of Bolshevism.
At the opposite pole are Ramsay
McDonald and such newspapers as
tin* Manchester Guardian and London
Daily News, whit mnl for the innne
diat»* withdrawal of all entente forces
and demand that Great Britain cease
participation in military operations
which they denounce as interference
in Russian internal politics.
The majority of tin* press is gener
ally noncommittal and contents itself
with printing Russian news and re
training from an expression of opin
ion pending consideration of Russian
policy by the peace conference.
Then appears to he a widespread
unwillingness among Englishmen to
support any policy which may involve
a continuation of military action on a
large scale unless it he clearly estab
lished that such action is necessary
to safeguard the entente victory.
Nevertheless there seems to he a
growing disposition in the press to
regard the* restoration of peace and
order in Russia as a task which is
necessary to insure the stability of
central Europe.
This is especiall> true since the
manifestations of Bolshevism in Ger
many and the attacks of the Bolshe
viki upon Kdhnnia and other Russian
territory vai ua»ed |»\ the Germans.
The sian muddle is regarded
lo r* of th«* all important sub
jects t< discussed at the peace
confer* and the average English
man see. content to let the allied
representai. ves dispose of it without
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NORWEGIANS TO START
BANK IN MEXICO CITY
MEXICO CITY. Jan. ~f> (by Asso
« iat**d Cress). llrprcscntativch of
Norwegian capitalists are arranging
for th** establishment in this city of
a Norwegian hank, which will have
branches in various parts of tin* re
public, particularly in the states of
Tauitiuiipas and Jalisco.
LETTISH TROOPS FOR
SERVICE IN EUROPE
VLADIVOSTOK. Jan. 2a. General
.tannin has been designated by the
French government as commander ol
Lettish troops which are being organ
ized in Western Siberia. There are
said to he more than 20,000 Lettish
fugitives who can he mobilized, and
tin work is progressing. They will
he sent Inter to Lithuania, it is stated, j
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ICE BEING HARVESTED
IN SIERRA MOUNTAINS
GRASS VALLKY, Cal . Jan. 2f> (by
Associated Press). The harvesting of j
thousands of tons of ice in the high
So rra mountains, with a temperature
ranging well below zero, while at the
same time, only a few miles away, in
(he valleys, oranges, lemons, grape
fruit and other fruits associated with j
tropical countries are being picked in
commercial <iuuntities, is going on in
Nevada county. Eastern California, at
the present time.
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WANT SOLDIERS TO
RETURN STOLEN PLUNDER
AMSTERDAM. Jan 25 (!>y Asso
ciated l’ress). In a newspaper at
Duisburg, Germany, appeared this ad
vertisement. Inserted by the Duisburg
soldiers' council: "Comrades—Some
j of you have plundered the hospital
: wards. We will overlook that Hut
I are your comrades from the hospital
! now to go out walking in shirts and
I stockings, and that in winter? Pleaae,
therefore, be good enough to return
tile things to the town hall
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MEXICAN INDIANS ARE
DYING FROM INFLUENZA
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press). Ravages of Spanish
influenza among the poor charcoal
burners who live in the mountains
surrounding the capital are said to he
responsible for the unprecedented
price which that commodity is bring
ing. in the last month charcoal,
which is generally used for cooking
purposes, has increased about 300 per
cent in cost. The municipality has
made arrangements to buy this prod
uct in uuantities and retail it at re
duced figures. One paper in the
capital states that almost 00 per cent
of the Indians who supplied Mexico
City with tile fuel were victims of the
scourge.
BRITISH NAVY
HAD NEW BOAT
ALMOST BUILT
LONDON', Dec. 2S (Correspondence
nl the Associated Press). There is
now lying at Clydebank, nearly com
pleted. a remarkable "hush" boat of
the British navy, which, according to
the shipping paper. Fair I’lny. is
something notable in the history of
naval architecture.
This is the Hood, a battle cruiser
of extraordinary size, speed and gun
power, and which would, says Fair
Play, "have inaugurated new methods
of naval lighting and shown the Gor
mans that we are still far ahead of
them in naval construction "
The prospect of an eurly termina
tion of hostilities caused work to be
ceased on this great vessel, but in or
der to make room for merchant ship
ping the Hood has been nearly com
pleted and is now out of the fitting
basin.
Fair Play says the vessel “is under
stood to lie the finest combination of
size, sliced, gun power and light ar-|
mor yet dreamed of, and farther ahead i
of the present "hush boats" the Cour
ageous class than these were of the j
Lion and Tiger. As she lies at Clyde
bank. the Hood seems to till all the
space which was at one time occu
pied by the Lusitania, and a war ves
sel as long as the Lusitania—to say
something notable in the history of
nothing of her other features- is
naval architecture."
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FOCH WAS CONVOYED
BY ROYAL AIR FORCES
LONDON, Jun. 25 (by Associated
Press) When Marshal Koch and M
Clemenceau came to London recently !
their steamer from France was es
corted by a fleet of twenty-seven air
planes of the Royal air force. Al
though the meteorological report had
declared the weather conditions to
In* absolutely unfit for cross-channel
flying, the airmen's plans were car
ried out exactly as arranged. They
accompanied not only the steamer,
but picked up also the distinguished
visitors’ train at Folkestone and con
voyed it right into the metropolis. 1
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HAMMER SENT
OUT SIGNALS
TO HUN SUBS
PHILADELPHIA, Jim, 24 (by Asso
ciated Press). An intorsting story of
enemy spy work is told by Frank li
Gaskill, assistant chief of the protec
tive league, which rendered service
during the war.
The organization. Mr. Haskill re
lates, was responsible for the intern
ment of a man caught spelling out
dangerous messages with a tripham
mer he was operating in a big indus
trial plant on the Delaware river The
messages were first detected by a
telegraph operator in Palmyra, N J.
He caught the hammer spelling out:
"Troop ship moving tomorrow
morning."
The telegrapher notified the gov
ernment authorities who caught the
trip-hammer operator signalling:
"Raid on fishing fieet complete sur
prise.”
This was several hours bofor* the
news dispatches brought word ot the
sinking of a fishing fieet by German
submarines off New England. The
trip-hammer expert was found to be
a former telegraph operator Mr Has
kil said the mystery of where the
operator got his news or to whom he
w„ ■ signalling was never solved
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OUR TROOPS ABROAD
NOT WITHOUT FUNDS
LIVERPOOL, England, Dec 2N |
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press). American soldiers ordered!
here since the signing of the armistice
are not leaving England without funds, :
Most of them have some money and 1
some of them have eon iderahle
amounts.
One Red Cross officer who has been
here from London changing the
money of the soldiers from pounds to !
dollars, in order that they may have
the currency of their own money when |
they reach America, says:
"I have changed the money of thou
sands of men. and not one of them had :
less than two months' pay to take !
home with them. Some of them had |
as much as $100, while here and there j
was an especially thrifty fellow with j
$125. When it Is remembereji.ps^the j
boys have been subjected to the temp |
tations of buying souvenirs for the j
home folks in a strange country, and
that they have been paying war prices j
for all they bought. It can be seen !
they have done very well.”
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PRIMITIVE METHODS
ALONG DVINA RIVER
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
ON THE DVINA, Oct. 2ft (Correspon
dence of the Associated Press). The
shortage of kerosene and candles in
Northern Russia has brought into use
once more a primitive lighting ar
rangement known as the “svetila, ' an
arrangement to burn birch twig.
The "svetilas” have been resur
rected from some ancient, storing
place in the log houses of the villages
and are now lighting many of them.
The arrangement consists of a
wooden trough, about two feci long,
with an Iron pan to catch the ashes
from the burning birch twig- which
fire placed in a fork-like arrangement
so that they slant downward and urn
easily.
Each twig, or "lutchlnka." burns
about five mlnutees. with ahoui as
much light as a candle and much more
smoke. The members of the family
take turns feeding it.
The "svetila" is but one sue,pi of j
the resort to old-time custom e. ra
sinned by the general shortag. m al
most every imported cotnmodiij in the
villages along the Dvina river The
peasant women are again generally
employing th> "preelka," a primitive
wooden loom, on which they curd and
weave flax for their garment . The
result Is cloth, both coarse and line
varieties, and not at ail bad looking.
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