Arizona republican., 1917-12-16

fore, be considered closed for the | present.
 Nearly the whole English army, reinforced by the French has fol over three months struggled with our army in Flanders to obtain a de- cision. Here also German leader ship and German troops have been victorious while at other points we have crushed the enemy by mighty blows The failure of the English army in Flanders has been acceutu- ated by the heavy defeat which it suffered at Cambrai."
 The supplementary report from general headquarters this evening says there have been no events of importance on any of the fronts.
 Holding Secret Conferences
 STOCKHOLM, Dec 15.-While the Bolsheviki government at Petrograd is proclaiming it's intention of con- ducting all negotiations openly and is declaring it's hostility to all monarchies, including Germany, Phillip Scheidemann, the German majority socialist leader, and strong supporter of his government. is hold ing secret conferences at Stockholm with the newly appointed 'Workmen and Soldier governments plenipo tentiary and representative in Stock holm,'' Vorovsky, also known as Or laffsky
 Herr Scheidemann arrived here last Sunday and went to a room which had been engaged for him by a former Russian subject named Parvus, now German subject. The secret of his presence here and of his conferences with Voronsky was kept so well that 1 it was learned only today.
 A further interesting light is thrown ! on the situation by the fact that l Trotzky, Bolsheviki foreign minister, whose Stockholm representative is now working through Parvus as intermedi- ary, denounced the same Parvus in a paper he conducted in Paris, as a trail l tor.
 The Social Dmoraken, which pub- lished a long expose of the affair, de-
 clares that when the Dutch Scandi- navian conference was endeavoring to 1 bring about a general democratic
 peace, the Leninites did their utmost | to oppose it.
 But now, when it is a question of a separate peace" says the paper
 with every possibility of an imperial
 istic peace at Russia's cast, first of all
 and then at the cost of the whole west
 ern democracy-this traitor is invited
 to Stockholm by the Bolsheviki as the proletarlat representatives The Social Demokraten recalls the
 German minority socialists recent at
 tackS on the efforts of the majority
 socialists to represent the German gov.
 ernment as desiring an honorable anC
 democratic peace with the right of al nations to decide their own destiny
 and says with reference to the presen
 Bolsheviki secret conference witl
 Scheidemann:
 This manner of co co-joining two polit'
 lcal parties with such radically differ. ent principles is inconceivable. excep
 on the assumption of moral bankruptc,
 on at least one side, and after what tn, last weeks have taught us concernin;
 the Bolsheviki methods it is not diff cult to see where such bankruptcy al ready exists"
 ParvuS, who acted as intermediar,
 between Scheidemann and Voronsky
 poses as majority socialist and en
 joys the German governments conf dence to such an extent that he wa among the men mentioned at the tim of the last government changes a possible minister of finance He wa
 born Russian subject, but left Rus sia some years ago.. He made million ] through, grain and coal dealings i Germany, and became a German sub T ject shortly after the outbreak of tn d war.
 f WITH THE FRENCH ARMY T. e FRANCE, Friday, Dec. 14-The tots d man power in Austria -Hungary's ar S mics, the latest enemies of Americ; y now has reached 1,170 battalions ( : infantry, 240 squaorons of cavalr! 0 2,95O field guns, 1,500 light howitzeI e and 922 heavy guns, according to ar 0 proximately exact figures obtained tC c day by the correspondent.