Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-02-10
.YANKS TAKEN
PRISONER BY
HUNS IN RAID
ON TRENCHES
Minor Operation in French
Lorraine Holds Greatest In
terest In America. Various
Fronts Quiet.
By Review Leased wircl

While it was only routine item in
the German official statement OF Sat
urday the few words in which tire
headquarters staff announced a minor
operation in Lorraine held American
interest to a far greater degree than
the other war news Of the day. They
carried the news of a raid upon the
American lines and the capture of AM
erican soldiers by a German reconnoit-
ering party.
Northwest OF Toul," said the recent
statement authorized by the American
censor as to the location of the sector
now being held by men OF the United
States army. And it was near a town
northwest OF Toul that the Germans
announced having taken some Amer
lean prisoners" The town is Xivray.
and it is situated about ten miles east
OF St. Mihiel. indicating that the Am
ericans are holding a line along the
southerly edge Of the famous ST. Mi
hiel salient. in French Lorraine, south
east of Verdun.
This raid by the Germans was b,t
one of several conducted by the vari-
GUS belligerents on the western front.
the most important of which apparent
ly also was carried out in Lorraine
but by the French. in the vicinity Os
Dioncourt. The French penetrated a
German position here. cleared out the
trenches and brought back thirty pri-
sOners and a machine gun.
Huns Seek Peace
While these military activities were
in progress in the west the central
powers were busying themselves with
their manifold peace negotiations with
various groups OF more or less import
ance on the eastern front and announc-
ed they had come to a peace agree
ment with the Ukraine, signed al
o'clock Saturday morning.
This announcement, marking the
first peace concluded by any OF the
belligerents. may turn out to be one OF
epochal importance. II has been
largely discounted. however. by the
apparent anxiety manifested by the
representatives OF the Ukranian rada
at Brest-LitOvsk to sign a peace Of
some sort with Germany and her al
lies and also by the uncertainty as to
the reality of the peace which has
been achieved on paper.
Doubt exists as to the extent OF the
control exercised by the rada over the
territory comprising the so-called Uk-
ranian republic which il purports to
represent. That control is disputed
by the Bolsheviki. who broke with the
rada representatives at Brest-Litovisk
and appointed Ukranian delegates OF
their own when they found the first
set OF Ukranians who they objected
to as "bourgeOise." secretly negotiat-
ing with the central powers. Bolshi-
Wiki and Ukranian troops are engag-
ing each other for the mastery of the
territory. which includes some OF the
best grain growing provinces OF Rus
sia. and each is claiming success IN
the operations.
Need Of Supplies Great
Germany and Austria are tacitly ad-
mitted to have seized upon the oppor-
tunity to sign a peace with the Ukran-
ians in the hope that they would work
their way commercially into the grain
growing territory and thus secure sup
plies OF food for their hungry popula-
tiOns. Their own people seem to have
built great hopes on the effectiveness
OF this peace with the Ukraine. but
apparently their leaders are none too
certain OF the relief il will give-for
one thing because OF the uncertainty
as to the security OF the ra6a's power
in the territory. Thus they are re-
ported trying to incite Rumania to
Join forces with the Ckranians in an
attempt TO defeat the oBlshevih and
70 be holding out to the Rumanians
the possibility OF their taking portions
of Russian territory IN BesSenabia as
reward. labelling the transaction as
compensation for the loss of Dobrudja
to the Bulgarians. The UkranianS