Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23
GERMANS CONCEDE REVERSAL
Danger of Invasion of Plains
Not Yet Past; Other
Fronts Inactive.
RUSSIAN PEACE PLANS FAIL
Separatist Movement Is Giving
Bolsheviki Gravest
Concern Now.

LONDON, Dec. 22.-Not only are
the Italian lines hiding in the Monte
Asolone region on the northern front.
where a threatening salient was driven
into them early last week. but con-
siderable progress has been made to-
ward restoring the original position.
This process, begun by the Italians on
Thursday, was continued on Friday.
the Rome war office reporting the
capture of further ground In the hotly
disputed area
The Austro- German command evil
IDENTIFY had In mind the expansion Of
the Asolone wedge in "A way further to
imperil the entire Monte Grappa po-
sition To the east the Italian bulwark
against the intended drive into the
plains, and this possibility still re-
mains. The Italians. however have
negatived much OF the enemy advan-
tage and even the German accounts
OF the fighting concede that for the
present the aggressive is on the Italian
side, with the Asolone heights the OBJ
jecuVe of repeated attacks.
Other Fronts Inactive.
There has been no fighting Of con-
sequence in any of the other war
areas. military activities being at low
tillery engagements along the French
front appear to have lessened in in
tenslty and there has been no indica-
ton OF a revival of artillery activity
in upper Alsace. where a German
demonstration on Friday gave the en-
emy a temporary advantage which
was quickly wiped out by the aggres-
sive French reaction.
In Russia the strife for control Is
a col mi 10
parent solidificatlon of the Ukraine
| Cossack movement in south Russia
seems to he giving the opposition 10
the Bolsheviki n firmer hold on that
territory. The Petrograd commis-
sioners themselves are considerably
worried by the spread of the separatist
movement which prospectively is cut
ting huge slices off Russian territory,
not only in the direction Of the Uk-
raine and the Don region. but IN va
rious other quarters. Evidence of this
appears in their sending emissaries 10
the numerous affected districts in an
effort To line them up again in support
of the BolsheVilN regime at Pstro-
grad
Peace Negotiations Fail.
The status of the Russian peace me-
gotiations continues uncertain. Fur-
ther reports are coming out of Petro-
ETdu tlldt lnt NEGOTIATIONS were bIOhtn
off because of the objectionable ma
ture of the German terms and that the
Russian representatives have left
BrcstlitoVsk. Up to IA late hour there
has been neither confirmation nor
denial from official sources of these
reports.
Some hint that the Teutonic offers
were not of an acceptable nature to
the BolsheylN. An indication of what
Al.
a declaration by Leon TrotZky the
Bolshevik foreign minister, that the
Russians would fight rather than sub
nit to Objectionable terms. This was
coupled. however, with what appeared
To be an admission of Russia's present
military impotence and the assertion
that If the Russians were thus com
PEELED to submit they would join
with the German people in rising
against German militarism-the ia
miliar Bolsheviki prediction Of a Ger
man revolution being thus repeated.