The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-19
Terms of Peace Treaty Submit
ted by Germany Agreed to
by SOviets.
WAS SOME OPPOSITION
Trouble Broke Out Between the
Bolsheviki and Social Revo-
lutionaries Representing
Council of People.

empires. The hard terms of the
peace treaty submittd by the Ger
mans at Brest-Litovsk have been
agreed to by the all-Russian con-
gress of soviets, in session at Mos
COW, in spite of the opposition of an
importont element of the Russian
people.
The result OF the vote was fore
cast in the announcement from Mos
cow on Friday that the Bolsheviki
delegates to the Moscow congress
mad at party caucus, voted in favor
OF ratification. There was a fac
uon, however, that registered its
disapproval of the treaty. but the
presence OF Nikolai Lenine, the Boil
sheviki premier, probably united his
followers and enabled them to roll
up large majority in favor of ac-
cepting the provisions of the German
peace treaty.
The message sent by President
iiS'h w NilC NOIS tSS, Ill which ne
expressed his sympathy with the Rus
sian people. was read at the opening
session on Thursday night 1t was
received with marked enthusiasm
and reply embodying a resolution
of appreciation was sent to the
American people.
That there was spirited opposi
tion to the ratification of the treaty
is evidenced by reports that trouble
broke out on Friday between the
Bolsheviki and social revolutionaries
OF the Left, who have been repre-
senting the council OF peoples com
missaries.
On Western Front.
The military situation on the
Franco-Belgian front has shown a
marked change in the last "a hours.
The most noted development was
the increasing activity by the Brit
ish on the old Arras front, from Ar
ras itself as far south as st. Quen-
tim reported by Berlin. Apparently.
the British long-range guns were do
ing effective work some distance be-
hind the German lines in Flanders.
as we'll, for the Germans statement
complains of casualties among the
population Of Menin and Halluin-
more than five miles in advance of
the British front southeast Of
Ypres caused by British shell fire
and airplane bombs.
Both German and French reports
show that heavy artillery ire has
been in progress in the Verdun re.
gion, and that there has been brisk
work by the batteries near Rheims.
on the Lorraine front and in Alsace
No change in the situation in the
American sector in Lorraine has been
indicated, although Paris reports a
German raid in the vicinity of Flery
near the American sector northwes
o. Toul, which was repulsed
Interesting possibilities are sug
gested by the revolution in Satur-
days German official statement that
a new German army group has been
created on the front in northern
France. IL is under command OF
General Won Gallwitz, an officer pre-
viously prominent in the Russian and
Serbian campaigns and apparently
transferred to the western front last
year and put in command OF the Yer.
dun sector. included within the
front occupied by the German crown
princes army group.
Boundaries Indefinite.
The German statement is so word
ed that the boundaries of the dis
trict under General Won Gallwitz'
command cannot be determined.
even approximately. That part OF
the front running east and south
east to the Swiss border from the
vicinity OF Laon. on the Aisne front.
had previously been divided between
the German crown prince and Grand
Duke Albrecht, OF Wurttembers.
The crown princes front included the
Aisne. Champagne and Verdun re-
zion and extended to the end of the
line. The new Won Gallwitz group Is
indicated as resisting between the
crown prince and Aibrecht groups.