Arizona republican., 1918-01-21
WAR REVIEW
 OF THE DAY
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The Russian constituent assembly was short-li Converting Friday in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd during street fighting. it was dissolved early Saturday morning Jby the Bolsheviki after a vote had shown conclusively that the government headed by Lenine and Trotzky was greatly in the minority.
 Thus, for the moment at least, has passed away at its inception the legis- lative body through which it had been supposed order would be brought out of the anomalous situation that has existed in Russia since the revolution.
 Likewise the delegates to the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk again are at siXes and sevens and the pour par lers have ended.
 AS on the other occasions when they have ceased, the stumbling block is the German demands and their refusal to withdraw their troops from the occupied portions of Russia.
 After an adventurous career of nearly three and a half years in fight ing and raiding operations in the Black Sea, the famous former German cruis- CTS Goeben and Breslau have met their fate at the hands of British warships in a fight at the entrance to the Dar- danelles. The Breslau. renamed Mid ullu, was sunk, and the Goeben, re- christened Sultan Yawuz Selim, was beached. The two cruisers escaped into Turkish waters shortly after the outbreak of the war and were pur- chased by the Turks
 Evidently the German censors are keeping strict watch over the German newspapers in their expressions of cnrif, into cal situation, for even the most meager reports concerning the doings of the militaristic and anti militaristic par ties were missing Sunday. The latest accounts of the controversy coming by way of Amsterdam and forwarded by the semi-official Wolff Bureau. were to the effect that the military party had gained victory over their oppo- nents with regard to the settlement of apnexations in the east.
 Fresh troubles are reported to have broken out throughout Austria. Gen. eral strikes have taken place, and in Vienna and Neustadt all the war man. ufacturlng plants are reported to have been closed. In these towns 100000 l men are said to have quit their jobs. The movement is political and eco- homie and has as it's basis the desire
 
 | clared to be especially prevalent throughout the country
 On the western front in France and Belgium the military operations are apparently increasing all along the line as compared with those of the past few weeks. when little or no fighting except artillery duels and minor raids were carried out.
 Entente allied warships have bom- barded Germany's submarine base al | Ostend, on the northern Belgian coast while around Ypres, between Lens and St. Quentin. on the Chemin des Danes on the St. Mihiel sector and north of the Rhine Marne canal there has been g notable increase in the operations by the infantry. The probabilities are that with the return of good weather the expected big battles may take place
 One indication of the probable early commencement of fighting is the re- | sumption of aerial activity on larg, scale. especially on the French front Saturday the French airmen had { good day operating against the leu. I tons. sending down eight enemy ma I chimes in fights in the air.