Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-22

Geneva dispatches said the Austria
Swiss frontier was closed for some
days and all trains were full Of Aus
trian troops going to the italian front,
which was taken to meap another COM
ing offensive there. However, the Ital-
ians were ready for 1t and daily I'M
proved their positions, especially in
the mountains.
In Albania the Austrians evacuated
all points held by them south of the
Semeni river.
An amazing development is the selz-
ure of Baku, center of the Caspian sea
oil district, by a British force which
made its way up through Mesopotamia
and Persia.
The parlOus condition Of the central
powers resulted In "kaiser confer
ence" at German main headquarters
which was attended by the rulers Of
Germany and Austria and their chief
advisers and by representatives OF the
Turks, Bulgarlans and Russian bolshe-
Wiki The internal situation In Aus.
tria-Hungary especially is growing
wOrse-or rather better-daily; an ex-
ploslon there almost any day would
not greatly surprise anyone Bulgaria
shows signs of breaking away from
its confederates, and as for Turkey, the
general public knows nothing of what
is going on there or what Is expected
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The situation In Russia, including
Siberia, also IL improving, for the
forces opposed to the bolshevlld and
the Germans are growing stronger and
amalgamatlng. The possibility Of es-
tablishing an eastern front that viii
seriously worry the Huns is being con-
sidered, especially since the supreme
government Of the northern territory"
embracing half dozen districts, has
declared itself opposed to the Germans
and ready to fight them Possession
Of the port of Archangel and the Muir
man coast gives the allies an inlet
for troops to help this movement. That
Germany recognizes the menace Is evil
dent from the facts that she is sending
more soldiers from the west front to
Russia, and has ordered Finland to
, prepare to make war on the people of
! Murmansk and the allies there. Dis
patches from Helsingfors declared the
Germans intend TO occupy Petrograd.
though what they would gain by pos
session of that hunger-strlcken city Is
not apparent. Lenlne and Trotsky
and their soviet government were re-
/ ported to have fled from Moscow TO
Kronstadt. the great fortress near
Petrcgrad, and to have placed the exc
cution Of power in the hands Of a tri-
umvirate composed OF Lenlne, TrOtsky
aud Zinovleff, LenIne also issued n
manifesto urging the pltlless annihila-
tinn of all counter-revolutionarl
Moscow being admittedly In the con-
trol of the counter-revolutlonlsts, the
German embassy also fed from that
city to Pskov, which greatly perturbed
the German press.
The diplomats Of all the allied pow.
erS, now living on warships az Arch
angel, have demanded OF Trotsky an
explanation Of his threat that Russia
would declare war against Anglo.
French imperialism"
ia
The first American regiment sent tC
Siberia, the Twenty-seventh regular in
fautrl from Manila, landed at vlndi
vostok Thursday, and other Yankees
are ON the way.
The CzechO-Slovaks In eastern 81
IBERIA now have the assistance of Brit
lSh and French forces which landed al
NludivOstok and Joined them IN tn,
uSurl river valley. Those In western
siberia were lust reported us engaged
IN u desperate battle with a large Dol
Shcvlk army.
a long step forward In the mora
support Of these fighting Czechs anC
or their fellow nationals who are II
rebellion against Austrla.H Hungary wa,
the formal recognition by Great Brit
ain of the Czecho.Slovnks as an al
lied nation and OF their armies as m
allied force regularly waglng warfar,
against the central powers. II 1,
hoped and believed America aud othel
allied nations will follow the exampl,
/ Of Great Britain.
Last weeks dispatches told of furl
nus and bloody riots against the Ger
mans In several Russian cities caused
by the attempts Of the Huns to selz,
foodStulis.
M
: The activities of German U.hoats OF
/, the Atlantic coust have grown so nn
nnylug that the cabinet Is snld to hav,
devoted Il long meeting To discussing