Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-25
HISTORY OF WORLDS
GREATEST CONFLICT
oNTfsUrD YRoM PA0I "
THIS SECTION

rfininr minister. nad bfought ABOUT
The betrayal of itoumania. both by
failure to deliver Indispensable. mum .
ions and Withholding OF promised
Aid Of troops and by advance com
nunication OF Roumania's plan of
campaign to tho German general
staff. That In. the undoubtsd abih-
Ties OF Maokcnscn were added At
Irirdgrnd by tho groraeN ueaChery.
procured by ucrilns bTibeA while
NoumaniA nonIinally held out for
more than year, her army was not
after the end of 1915 an important
fnctor IN tho conflict
America Enters the War.
Many Americans had been slow TO
believe tho tales OF Hun atrooity In
.Bnsum and France Hut evidence
accumulated and the wholesale mur-
der of the Lumtania reused such In .
dlgnation that ntillionH would have
srlcomcd an Immediate declaration
of war, Tho government at Washing
ton, however, deemed II wise to wait
until the cup OF Hun iniquity should
be not only full, but Tunning over.
After fun two years of effort on
the part OF President Wilson to re-
call Germany To observance OF the
laws OF civilized warfare. and after
Berlin's repeated promises had
proved 10 be brnxen lies. tho break
finally oamV when on January 81.
the kaiser's government added open
insult to repeated Injuries
ON that day Berlin dccrccd To IT.
solf tho ownership OF about half OF
tho Atlantic ocean for It's bubma-
tines and assumed to bar out OF this
war zone not only all enemy. but
oil neutral vessals, under penalty of
destruction. The United States was
forbidden to sand to any British port
more than ono ship weekly. which
yessel must also be- distinguished by
Q sort OF barber-pole decoration.
ON February 3 tho German am
bAssAdor was handed his passports
on AIuii +: President Wilson asked
congress to make a formal declara-
ton OF war. which was passed and
Agned on April s-.Good Friday. and
In the Judgment OF the whole nation
. good day for a good deco.
Tho first American naval contin-
gent sailed Immediately. American
troops began to land In France In
June 90 and aaw their first fig hting
on october "a. but the remainder OF
the year on this side OF the Atlantic
vas largely consumed In raising and
'.h"h ''N "''''' "'N' ""'S
grow to 1000. 900 men IN France and
ss many more preparing to follow
them when tho successive surrcndcrs
OF Bulgaria, Turkey. Austria ana
Germany brought the conflict TO an
end. That end was not to bo
reached. however, for 10 months.
and among them four OF the most
anxious OF the war.
The year lsl7 hhd opened not un-
prospsroosiy for the free nations
The french ana English had I'M
proved theh positions on the west =
ern front new British army mat
mad been pushihs UP the Tigris TOOK
BaEdad on March IL. Al the same
time ue Huns In Flanders retreated
about 20 miles TO what became
known an 'the hindenburg line" To
ward the Gnu OF May tho ithiians had
crossed the isonro and were on tho
balnirsa ptnteau' within III miles OF
Trieste Ins united states, though
sot yet ready With great army was
Freely making enormous and soreiy
needed loans TO France. England.
iuy. belrium and Russia
Hut on March - revolution, led
by members OF the duma and backed
py tne fcuosrau gai irison' had de-
hroned the c1ar. declared monarchy
abolished and set up Russian re.
punhc. IL was haiieu win Joy by MI
trends OF democracy out me hopes
pui't upon u were doomed To disAp-
p"lntmcht. Thn proViSionai govern
ment went through one crisis after
another, until finally with the fail OF
hciehsky on NoNenper : tne control
OF Russia fe'i into ths hands OF mo
bolsheviki. group OF radical 40
ciaiSts ana doctrinaire pacifists who
oemorn'lkeu the army ana made
peace win the Huns, cedinG 10 them
ana inc TURKS Poland. tho baltic
provinces, tho ukraine ana Trans
Caucasla
Even tho original Russian rcvolu-
uon is suspected TO have been more
or less made In Germany" though
Tho honesty OF Kercnsky ana others
OF It's original leaders In not ques-
TONED. IL has been proved. how
ever, that L<nine and Trotzky, tho
chiefs of tho boisheviki. were from
tho beginning In German pay. II
has been said OF the bolaheviki that
'thoso who are not crazy are
crooked and those who are not
eroched are crazy" and the epigran
appears 10 be m accurate descrip-
ton.
Even before tho fall OF Kerensky
the Germans had been enabled by the
growing demorallza ton OF the Rus-
alan armies to tnke RIGA and en-
gineer n secession OF the Ukrpine