The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-09-21

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revolutionaries, Strengthening the latter
mercilessly whenever they fall into
their hands. Petrograd is reported to
be given Over to massacres and flames
and to have been captured by revolt
ing peasants; Yaroslav and Vologda
have been burned by the soviet troops,
and Moscow Is threatened with the
same fate by Trotsky. Two attempts
were made on the life Of Doctor Helf-
ferich, the new German ambassador to
Moscow, but he fled back to Berlin.
The soviet rulers, persistent shout
ers for peace without annexations and
indemnities, have just paid to Ger
many 25O,OOO,0OO rubles, the first in
stallment of the indemnity exacted
from the unhappy country by the
Huns.
In Siberia the allies, with the
Czecho-Slovaks, Cossacks and loyal
Russians, have been making satisfac-
tory progress, but the Austro-German
ex-prisoners and the bolsheviki are
putting up so obstinate a resistance
that japan is contemplating sending
a much stronger force in order to in
ure the safety of the expedition and
The Japanese government is convinced
that the American government will
abandon its opposition to such q
course.
The London Express says it has IN
questionable information that the for
mer empress of Russia and all her
children have been murdered by boil
sheviki. If this is true, the entire i'm
mediate family Of Nicholas has now
been exterminated. The dowager en-
press and her daughter and son-in-law
were attacked by %bolsheviki at Yalta,
but were saved by men from the Black
sea fleet after two weeks of fighting.
The progress of the Czecho-Slovaks
OF Austria-Hungary toward the indie
pendence recognized by Great Britain
and America is encouraging. The ex-
lstence Of the CzechO-Slovak state was
declared by all the Czech deputies in
the Austrian parliament and has now
been Endorsed by all of the clergy Of
the Bohemian dioceses.
Baron Burian, Austro-Hungarian for
eign minister, who still is at outs with
Berlin because he insists on an Aus
trian solution Of the Polish problau
nevertheless was employed once more
last week to start a Teutonic peace
offensive. This, aimed directly at Presi-
dent Wilson, was a suggestion that the
central powers and the entente get to-
gether for an exchange of views and to
consider all the things which are keep
ing the belligerents apart. He init
mated this might make further fight
Ing unnecessary. Though President
Wilson is not quoted in reply, Wash
ington dispatches make 1t clear that he
holds unwaveringly the position that
the only tolerable peace will be, not
negotiated, but dictated to the central
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the kind of peace which the allies will
achieve. In this, it Is needless to say,
he Is backed up by the entire nation.
No one in a position to predict pre-
m to believe that such a peace can
be attained this year, but no n in
tends that any other kind of peace
shall be accepted by America. We
have gone into the war to the finish,
n we propose that the finish shall be
In accordance with our high aims for
the future safety Of civilization and
freedom, no matter what the cost.
AT a most opportune time came the
registration day for all Americans be-
tween the ages of eighteen and twen-
ty-one and t~hirty-one and forty-fve
years. Gladly, with patriotic exalta.
uon' some 100000 youths and older
men enrolled themselves for military
duty, and from their number 5000, 600
more trained soldiers will soon be
ready to move forward to the battle
lines. Millions of others, not so fit In
one way or another for actual fighting,
Will be listed for other work directly
connected with the carrying on Of the
wal. In q few weeks the relative