Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-14
ITALIAN FRONT IS
SCENE Of LIVELY
AERIAL WARFAR
King Winter Settles Down
in Earnest and Silcnces
Infantry.
BOLSHEvIK DELEGATES
CONTINUE PEACE TALKS
Pctrograd Decree Provides for
New Elections to Re-
place Assembly.
RUSSIA Is ASSURED AS no FOOD
Crown Council Called to Assemble
in Berlin to Discuss
Treaty Terms.
RUSSIA is ASSURED AS no FOOD
Try Associated Press.1


Winter mas settled down IN earnest
over all the important war .front:,
and beyond artillery actions, which ere
being carried out over very limited
sections. there has been little lighting
either in the west or in the cast.
Only patrol encounters are reported
along the British lines, and artillery
action 1T two points on the French
front. In Italy tho terrific artillery
and infantry lighting has given ::a5'
to aerial warfare, which, however
though it Is spectacular, has little d.
rect bearing on the progress OF Ill.
campaign when confined to combats he.
tween individuals or sQuadronS
For nearly a month now tho trout
in France and Belgium has been al.
most snowbound Thus the lors await
ed German offensive, will. tho heayS.
re e-enforcemcnts which Germany trans-
fcrrcd from the Dusaian front TO til.
west, has been delayed for weeks. is
not. possibly, for months.
The peace negotiations between tho
Eolshcviki and thc representatives. @;
the quadruple alliance at Brcst I.itov.,:
continue, but without definite :esu,te
Another delay in the assembling OF the
constituent assembly Is likcly because
of the issuance OF decree at Pctro-
grad providin. for new elections to re-
place members of the constituent as
sembly who arc deemed not TO repre
sent the interests OF the workmer and
peasants.
According to reports from the Err-
sian capital. Northern Russia is TO re
ceivc ampla food supplies from Tx.
raine. through tho reconciliation OF
the Bolsheviki and the UIrainiana
Every effort has been made In the last
few weeks by the Eolshevik uutturI-
ties to prevent the threatened famine
in Petrosrad and other cities ofFr.u4.
sia when the Eolsheviki hold-.1he
power. -t
boLSHEEfKt ARE SAID ro
CONTROL NOyOcHEHilIsiS
1t is also semioficially reported from
fetroSrad that the Eolshcviki he.
taken control at Novochcrkask. can
itai or the province of the Don Ios-
SACKS and headquarters OF General Kali
edines. hetn,an OF the Cossacks.
Tho London Daily Mail reports the
establishment by the British govern :
mcnt Of informal rcla tions with Maxim
Litvinoff. recently appointed by tic
Rolshcvik government as Russian, am
bassador at London. The explanation
OF this according to the Mail. is that
possibly l.snine and Trotzlsy, IL they
retain the de facto power. might even
tually Sive heed to the counsel or tie
allied governments and 1t Is not de-
sirablc that communication With Petro-
grad be cut off.
\ meeting of the Crown Council at
Berlin is reported by the L.oksl An
sciscr. composed Of Field Marshal Won
lIindcnburs, General Won Ludendorf
the crown prince and other German
leaders. Relations with Russia prob
ably will be the most important sub
jcct discussed.
Prince Alexander Won Hohc iohc. who
has LONG held liberal views and was
among the German representatives at
the pacitist congress in Switzerland eS-
presses the belief that should the Cor
mans as a people rid themselves OF the
fixed idea that America entcredn the
war only for selfish and materialc'ip-
tcrests. President Wilson's new mes
sage "can become a way toward peace"