Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-05

Geneva dispatches said the Austria
Swiss frontier was closed for some
days and all trains were full of Aus
trian troops going to the Italian front,
which was taken to mean another COM
ing offensive there. However, the Ital-
ians were ready for it and daily i'm
proved their positions, especially in
the mountains.
In Albania the Austrlans evacuated
all points held by them south of the
Semeni river.
An amazing development is the seiz-
ure of Baku, center of the Caspian sea
oil district, by British force which
made its way up through Mesopotamia
and Persia.
The parlOus condition of the central
powers resulted in q kaiser confer
ence" at German main headquarters
which was attended by the rulers of
Germany and Austria and their chief
advisers and by representatives of the
Turks, Bulgarians and Russian bolshe-
wiki. The internal situation in Aus
tria-Hungary especially is growing
wOrse-or rather better-daily; an ex-
ploSion there almost any day would
not greatly surprise anyone. Bulgaria
shows signs of breaking away from
it's confederates, and as for Turkey, the
general public knows nothing of what
is going on there or what Is expected.
The situation in Russia, including
Siberia, also is improving, for the
forces opposed to the bolsheviki and
the Germans are growing stronger and
amalgamating. The possibility of es-
tabliShing an eastern front that will
seriously worry the Huns is being con-
sidered, especially since the supreme
government of the northern territory"
embracing half a dozen districts, has
declared itself opposed to the Germans
and ready to fight them. Possession
of the port of Archangel and the Muir
man coast gives the allies an inlet
for troops to help this movement. That
Germany recognizes the menace is evil
dent from the facts that she is sending
more soldiers from the west front to
Russia, and has ordered Finland to
| prepare to make war on the people of
Murmansk and the allies there. Dis
| patches from Helsingfors declared the
Germans intend to occupy Petrograd,
though what they would gain by pos
session Of that hunger-stricken city is
not apparent. Lenine and Trotsky
and their soviet government were re-
ported to have fled from Moscow to
Kronstadt, the great fortress near
Petrograd, and to have placed the exc
cution of power in the hands Of tri-
umvirate composed of Lenine, Trotsky
and Zinovieff. Lenine also issued a
manifesto urging the pitiless annihila-
ton of all counter-revolutionarie
Moscow being admittedly in the con-
troll of the counter-revolutionists the
German embassy also fled from that
city to Pskov, which greatly perturbed
the German press.
The diplomats Of all the allied pow
ers, now living on warships at Arch.
angel, have demanded of Trotsky an
explanation of his threat that Russia
would declare war against Anglo
French Imperialism"
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The first American regiment sent Il
Siberia, the Twenty-seyenth regular in
fantry from Manila, landed at Vladi
vostok Thursday, and other Yankees
are on the way.
The Czecho-Slovaks in eastern 81
IBERIA now have the assistance of Brit
lsh and French forces which landed a
Vladlvostok and Joined them in thu
Usuri river valley. Those in western
Siberia were last reported as engaged
in desperate battle with a large Dol
shevik army.
A long step forward In the mora
support of these fighting Czechs ant
of their fellow nationals who are il
rebellion against Austria-Hungary wa
the formal recognition by Great Brit
ain of the Czecho-Slovaks as an al
lied nation and of their armies as al
allied force regularly waging warfar
against the central powers. 1t i
hoped and believed America and othe
allied nations will follow the example
of Great Britain.
Last weeks dispatches told of furi
GUS and bloody riots against the Ger
mans in several Russian cities, cause,
by the attempts of the Huns 10 seiz
foodstuffs.>
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The activities of German U-boats OF
the Atlantic coast have grown so an
noying that the cabinet is said to hay
devoted long meeting to discussln