Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-02-28
BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP
TORPEDOED BY GERMANS
Seven Women Nurses and Many Red Cross Doctors Among
Missing; Only "a of 200 Aboard Known Saved; Lights
Give Enemy Submarine Clear Target; Many Jump Into
Sea and Drown.
War Summary
JBy Review Leased wire)

imperial cndDCellOT kOH htIliAnS
has failed to drive wedge betW een
the entente allies by his reply TO
President Wilson The German dec
laration has come at a time when
Germany's acts belle its words. and
Paris and London have officially re
iected any proffers of the olive branch
that the more hopeful of the people
saw in the acceptance in principle of
the four points enunciated by Presi-
dent Wilson as the basis for peace
negotiations.
Arthur ]. Balfour. the British secre-
tary for foreign affairs sounded the
keynote of the entente allies, when.
speaking at London. he said that un-
til German militarism was a thing
of the past, and there came into eX-
istence a court armed with execu-
tive powers making the weak nations
as safe as the strong. the war must
go on He characterized Won Hertz
ing's attitude toward Belgium as un-
satisfactory and insisted that Germany
does not coincide with President Will
sons peace proposals. Philip
Schideman the German socialist lead
er. has voiced the protest of his party
to the peace that is being forced upon
Russia In the reichstag he said Ger
manv must negotiate a peace by un-
derstanding, and that the independ-
enee of Belgium must be secured
Advance On Petrogra6.
While the German imperial govern
ment is trying to convince the world
OF its disinterestedness in the future
of Russia, the advance of the Teuion
armies toward Petrograd continues.
II appears that there Will be no AIM
istice on the Russian front until peace
is finally cOnsummated. In spite of
the claim by the Bolsheviki that .he
Russians were vigorously fighting :or
Pskov. the Germans have pushed fer
TO the eastward of that town The
Teutons are said TO have reached .u-
ga. Midway between Pskov and Pctrc-
grad. Rorisoff, sixty miles northeast
of Minsk.. has been captured BY the
Germans. Teuton troops in Ukraine
have reached Coristesheff, east Of
Zhitomir, within fifty miles of kiev.
The Russian troops have refused TO
fight and those who have not sur
are fleeing in disorder.
Aerial activity on the western frcnt
Of great intensity is reported b.. tie
Germans who claim to have brought
down fifteen entente airplanes. At
the same time, the infantry is not
idle and raids have been attempted
at widely separated points in the past
"a hours. One of these attacks was
in considerable force by the Germans
agsinst French positions near the
Butte du Mesnil. which the American
artillery assisted in earturing recent
ly. The other was north OF the Che
min des Danes. where American
troops are understood to be in the
trenches. Both assaults were brok en
up bv the prompt action of the allied
artillery. British forces have repnls-
ed hostile attack near St. Quentin
Sink Hospital Ship.
German "frightfulness" again has
been examplified by the sinking of
the Rritlsh hospital ship Glenart
Castle According to the latest ad-
vises there are 164 persons missing
from the ship which was fully light
ed and carried the distinctive mark
ings of the hospital service when fired
upon. American torpedo boats assist
ed in picking up the survivors
The reported unrest in Ireland now
is said to BE- of little consequence.
Ne0otiafions looking to a union of
Lithuania and Saxony, with Prince
Frederick Christian son OF the king of
Saxony, as king of the new state. are
said to be under way. The Polish aTi-
bition to bring about a resumption OF
the ancient union between their cOun-
try and Lithuania seems to be doom
ed in the light of recent Developments.
During the last week IS British nret
chantmen were sunk by mines or sub
marines.