Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-02-10
Number Of Prisoners Taken
Not Announced by Berlin
War Office or American
! CenSori French Success,
PEACE TALKS OCCUPY
TEUT0N NEG0TIAT0RS
FuIfiIIment of Negotiations
With Ukraine Is Announced; !;
First Agreement Since Be-
ginning of HoStiIitieS,
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: While it was only a routine item in
the German official statement of Sat
urday, the few words In which the
headquarters staff announced a mi
nor operation in Lorraine held Amer
lean interest to 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 American soldiers by German
reconnoitering party.
Northwest of Toul," said the re-
cent 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 American prisoners. "
The town is Xivray, and it is stu
ated about ten miles east of St Mi
hiel, indicating that the Americans
are holding a line along the souther-
~ edge of the famous st. Mihiel sali-
ent, in French Lorraine southeast of
Verdun.
Other Fronts Active.
This raid by the Germans was but
one of several conducted by the vari-
Gus belligerents on the western front,
the most important of which appar-
entity also wst .trritd out in Lorraine.
.Gut by the French, in the vicinity of
Dioncourt. The French penetrated a
German position here, cleared out the
trenches and brought back thirty pris-
oners and a machine gun.
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 impor-
tance on the eastern front and an
nounced they had come to a peace
agreement with the Ukraine, signed
at o'clock Saturday morning.
Ukraine Anxious.
This announcement, marking the
first peace concluded by any of the
belligerents, may turn out to be one
of epochal importance. It has been
largely discounted, however, by the
apparently anxiety manifested by the
representatives of the Ukrainian 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
Ckrainian republic, which it purports
TO represent That control is disputed
by the Bolsheviki, who broke with the
rada representatives at Brest- -Litovsk
and appointed Ukrainian delegates of
their own when they found the first
set of Ukrainians. whom they object
ed to as bourgeois, secretly negotiat-
ing with the central powers. Bolshe-
vik and Ukrainian troops are engag-
ing each other for the mastery of the
territory, which includes some of the
pest grain growing provinces of Rus
sia, and each is claiming success in
the operations.
rood Supply Object
germany and Austria are tacitly
admitted to have seized upon the op-
portunlty to sign peace with the
Ihraihiahs In the hope that they
would work their way commercially
INTO the grain growing territory and
thus secure supplies of food for their
iuhsry peoples. Their own people
nave built great hopes on the effect
Neness OF this peace with the Ukraine
out apparently their leaders wore
none too certain of the relief II will
slVe--tor one thing because of the
uncertainty as to the security of the
raoas power in the territory Thu.
tney are reported trying to incite Ru-
mama 10 join forces with the Ukrain-
ians IN an attempt to defeat the Boil
sheViki and to be holding out to the
Rumanlans the possibility of their
taking portions of Russian territor,, A.,
Bessarabia as reward, labelling tho
transaction as compensation for the
loss OF Dobrudja to the Bulgarians.
The Ukrainians. it has been NJ.
ported were to get part of Russian
Poland for signing peace.
The Spanish steamer Sebastian and
The Italian steamer Duca di Genova
nave been sunk by German subma-
rines off the Spanish coast. Spain is
reported to be contemplating a pro-
test to Germany over the torpedoing
OF the latter within mile of the
Spanish shore. following up her re-
cent protest over the sinking of the
Giralda, a Spanish coastwise steamer.