Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-01-26
AIMS FOR PEACE IN
RUSSIA AGAIN FAILS
ASSEMBLY IS DISSOLVED BY THE
6oLsHEVikl AFTER SEEING
POWER WANING.
BIG WARSHIPS SUNK
Two German Cruisers, Famous as
Raiders, Meet Fate in Darda-
nelIes at Hands OF
the British.


The Russians constituents assembl!
was short-lived. Converting Friday il
the Tauride Palace in Petrograd dur
ing street fighting, it was dissolved
early Saturday morning by the bolshe
Wiki after vote had shown conclu
sively that the government headed BY
Lenine and Trotzky was greatly in the
minority.
Thus, for the moment at least, has
passed away at its inception the 1egis-
iative body through which it had been
thought order would be brought out
Of the anomalous situation that has
existed In Russia since the revolution
which resulted in the imperial family
and the bureaucrats being thrown out
Of power.
Likewise. the delegates to the peace
conference at Brest-Litovsk again are
1T skies and sevens and the pourpar-
l@rs have ended As on the other oc-
casions when they ceased, the stumb-
ling block is the German demands and
their refusal to withdraw their troops
from the occupied portions of Russia.
After an adventurous career of near
" three and a half years in fighting
and raiding operations in the Black
Sea, the famous former German cruis-
ers Goeben and Breslau have met their
fate at the hands of British warships
in a fight at the entrance to the Oar
danelles
The Breslau, renamed Midullu, was
sunk. and the GoebeD. rechristened
Sultan Yawuz Selim, was beached.
The two cruisers escaped into Turkish
waters shortly after the outbreak of
the war and were purchased by the
Turks.
Fresh troubles are reported to have
broken out throughout Austria. Gen
aral strikes have taken place, and in
Vienna and Neustadt all the war man
ufaeturing plants are reported to have.
been closed. In these towns 100000
men are said to have quit their jobs.
nomie and has as its basis the desire
or peace. Anti-Germanism is de
clared to be especially prevalent
throughout the country.
On the western front in France and
Belgium the military operations appar-
emily are increasing all along the line,
if compared with those of the last few
weeks, when little or no fighting, ex-
cept artillery duels and minor raids,
was carried out.
Entente allied warships have bonn
barded Germany's submarine base at
Ostend, on the Northern Belgian coast,
while around Ypres, between Lens and
St. Quentin, on the ChemIn des Danes,
On the St Mihiel sector and north of |
the Rhine-Marne canal, there has been |
A notable increase in the operations by |
the infantry The probabilities are
that with the return Of good weather |
the expected big battles may take |
place.
One indication of the probably early /
commencement Of fighting is the re
sumption OF aerial activity on large
scale, especially on the French front.
Saturday the French airmen had a
good day operating against the Teu-
tons, sending down eight enemy ma
chimes III fights in the air.
On the Italian front the fighting
again has turned to the artillery wings
of each side, the infantry keeping to
It's trenches except for small patrol
engagements. All along the northern
front the artillery duels are of a vio-
lent character, and at several points
along the PiaYe river like conditions
prevail
The authorities at SHlolny Institute
have sent note TO the Japanese and
British embassies at Petrograd asking
concerning the entrance
Of British and japanese cruisers into
harbor