The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-08-30

General Pershlng and other Ameri.
can officers were present at the new
battle of verdun.
Disturbing News From Russia.
The weeks news from Russia was
rather disquleting. Petrograd present.
ed to America and the entente allies
statement indicating that Russia would
be unable To continue In the war un.
less Immediate adequate and continu.
Ing assistance were given. She has no
intention oi making separate peace,
but says she cannot keep up the fight
unless her associates furnish her nt
once with materials and provisions.
The Russians fear they will be driver
out Of Moldavia within three weeks,
and last Monday the Germans began
an offensive In the Riga region that
forced the Slnvs back toward that city.
At the south end of the line the Rou.
manans still arc making valiant efforts
to hold back the invaders. There is
no longer any doubt Of the bravery OF
the Russians or of their desire to keep
on fighting the common enemy Of the
world, but It seems that they cannot by
themselves surmount the great eco.
nomlc obstacles that confront them.
The governmental troubles of Rus.
sia also are approaching crisis. The
"cXtrnordinnry national council" being
about to meet in Moscow, the constitu-
al 70 ,ttGnnnNAntnh al
ness men and dismissed generals, gath.
cred there ready To demand radical
changes. on the other side stand the
cabinet and the Socialist left. In pre-.
liminary discussions Prince Trou-
betskoi, Generals Alexieff and Brus.
siloff and others attacked the cabinet,
excepting only Kercnsky, and declared
the government had fallen into the
hands of corrupt men of Petrograd,
who think only of their own inter.
ests. The Socialist orders that de-
stroyed discipline In the army were
bitterly criticized.
As had been foreseen, the pope's
peace proposals were received decentiy
by all the bclllgcrcnt nations, but with
more than an undercurrent of skeptl-
cism by the allies. No definite reply
! to them has been made ut this writing
by any government, but representative
| speakers of the different parties In Ger.
many all indorsed In general the Vati-
can plan, md 1t is believed Berlin may
go so far as to Offer autonomy to Al
sace-Lorr, inc. which of course would
not In any degree satisfy France. Aus
tria, too, as was expected, approves the
proposals, but insists any settlement
must include the abandonment OF
Great Brtain's naval bases at Gibral'
tar, Malta and the Suez canal. Can
one imagine Great Britain willingly dis
mantllng these guardian posts Of the
route to her immense domains In the
Orient? The, voclferous assertions OF
the German press that the pope's pro-
posals were not inspired by Germany
and the intlmntions that they really
We're due to British suggestions car
only be considered as more bunk" ant
serve To confirm the suspicion that the
plan had It's inspiration In Teutoni'
sources.
German Poison Gas In America.
The poison gases emitted by the pro
German press and all the other traitor
Gus agencies In America are not grow
ing n0ticeably less In amount Of viru
lence, but Uncle Sam Is beginning Il
apply the antldote with considerabl,
vigor, In many cities soap box" or
ators are being gathered In by fedora
agents and several more rabld paper
have been denied the use of the .slls
The German-Amerlcan press of tn
large cities Is still too clever to sub
ject itself to that penalty, but II
keeps on Its present course doubtles
some means will be found to suppress
Il. Regretfully It must be said that