Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-01-24

days of fighting the bolsheviki forces
had seized Irkutsk, eastern Siberia,
disarmlng the Cossacks and military
cadets. They also have occupied Oren-
Durg.
Among the interesting reports that
came out Of Russia was ohe to the
effect that the former czar and his
family had made their escape from
Tobolsk. Another story said the for
mer czarina has become hopelessly in
sane.
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The abandonment Of the Roumanian
front by the Russian troops led to
nasty little row. Roumanlans arrested
and disarmed several Russian regi-
ments. and the Russian government at
once put under arrest the Roumanian
diplomats In PetrOgrad and threatened
war on Roumanla If the Russian sol
diers were not at once freed. A strong
joint protest by representatives of all
the allied and neutral powers brought
about the release of the Roumanian
diplomats.
Then came an astonishing order
from the hoIshevll,i COVE c'r,n, for
the arrest of King Ferdinand of Rou-
mania and his incarceration In the
fortress of st. Peter and st. Paul. This
was attributed to the action of the
Roumanlans in arresting some Aus
trian officers who had attempted TO
pass through the Roumanlan lines to
fraternlze with the Russians.
r.
The British labor party came to the
front on Tuesday with message to
the Russian people announcing that
the British people accepted the prin'
ciple of Self-determination Of peoples
and no anneXatiOns for the British EN-
pire, especially in the middle East, At
rica and India. The manifesto CON
cluded with an appeal TO the peoples
Of central Europe To help end the war
by the defeat of milltnrism on both
sides, and not to drive the British peo-
pie, as they are driving the Russians,
into the terrible choice between con.
tinuing the conflict and abandoning the
only principles that can save the world.
III
There Is not much to be written Of
the weeks fighting. The German pa
pers We're talking openly OF the com
ing great offensive on the west front
and asserted that u million more troops
had been sent into France, but Won
Hlndenburg still delayed the blow. The
activity of the nvlators was notable
and the allied flying men made several
successful bombing raids on German
cities, Karlsruhe especially being hard
hit.
In Italy the main event Of the week
was surprise attack by the Italians
supported by the French, by which Ger
tain important dominating positions or
! Monte ASolone were wreSlcd from tn,
AuStrlans and their observation posts
destroyed.
On Wednesday the Austrians mad,
a desperate attempt to recapture tn,
lost positions. For four hours they at
tackled herccly and were Stubbornl
fought on, finally retiring, leaving tn
field covered with their dead.
NJ
, The German submarines have no
been very active OF late the weekly r.
, port of the British admiralty Showin
/. only six large British vessels and fOu
. smaller ones sunk. one Of the sui
I mersibleS, hGwever. emerged on Ial
/, mouth and shelled that pretty Englis
). city violently. Three persons wer
killed.
- Further evidence that the SuMnarin
i. service Is most dlStaSteful to the Ge
Il man sailors Is contained In the repol
from Geneva of another mutlny anon
/. the submarine crews at Kiel, the Ge
=. man naval base, Thirty.eight officer
II are said to have been killed. The nun
2. her of U'boOts returning to Germa
~ ports is decreasing every month, II
:, cording to the Geneva correspondent
Il In
:, France Is In the thrOes Of a new Cal
n huS scandal, the former premier belr
~ now under arrest on a charge of tire
a son. The affair was brought to Il crls
# by information supplied by Secretai
,s lansing, for II appears that Callla,
4. engaged In intrlgues with Count v,
y lMXhurg in Argentina in 1913 and WI
@. In communication with the foreign q
;h flee at Berlin with the object of co
in cludlng peace. His plotting In Ita
also has been exposed and doc amen
d. seized there show he planned 10 ma
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