The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-02-28
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According to M American corrcSpon.
dent III France. the peace program Of
llindrnhurg. Iudrndorir and the crown
prince. forcrd ON Won Kuchlmnnn and
the emperor, Includes tho extending OF
the EAST rruSStnn frontier, making an
autonomous protccturntc of the Baltic
provinces. diSmrmhrring Belgium and
nnnrNinE or otherwise controlling the
t'rl"y'l.nnEwy Industrial region Of
northern France. The question Of
t"land apparently Is left to Austria.
Mrnuwhllr rrotZky and his hulShc-
Ntk comrades have handed Germany II
hard nut tn crack. Elatly refusing To
S'En peace treaty. they declared the
war with the central powers, so far uS
Russia is concerned, has ended. They
decline to hEht longer against the
workers and peasants ot Germany and
Austria. simultaneously, the complete
rehabilitation ot the Russian armies
WAS ordered although II w,,S reported
.NAt iNiS Nr,:rr WAS immediately coun.
:erni"uIsi aud that the reorganization
.. iNe NsN! guard WAS begun. At first
'"s H'\Np,e ~ Gcr,uauy and Austria
- - ms s7sa: victory" With extrav.
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ffy"'.nG.rz M spreading " their prop
sgsaca I'll rve. Tie wo.ld. Hhat.yer
"sy te the real uotiyes of Lenlne.
4!rtzky g a. they appear 70 have the
PT1<.!an autoc.ats up ia the air Just
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'E!ainE, one NJ The indcpendeDt gov.
rTn'nEnts into which Russia has split
mn presented Il complication that NAV
be more serioug for the allied causc
tlah The quitting of the boIsheyiki. II
nag NGhed Il Ecphrate peace treaty with
me central powers which opens to them
me possibility Of obtaining immense
storca Of food from that rich grain
country. However, ns pointed out in
theHe colurnns HoInc time ugO the trans.
portation system Of that part OF Rus
sia ~ 30 utterly inadequate that sun.
piles can be got out only extremely
slowly. and besides, the croDs hnye
been sadly neglected ever since tho war
began. The treaty gave Ukraine quite
slice OF Poland. which aroused the
POLES to bitter opposition.
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termhny during the week ATTEMPTED
TO put the screws on Roumanin. de-
fnandlng that 1t accept peace terms
within N hours or suffer the conse.
quences. But the Noumanians defied
the kaiser. declaring they still had un.
shaken confidence in their alliea and
would continue to fight to the finish.
1heir armies now occupy all Of Bessa.
rabla, where they have repeatedly de.
fehted the b0lsheviki troops. It is be-
lievcd they were nerved to take tbis
determined stand by prospects of nm
allied offensive In the Balkans which
they might aid by attacking the Bull
gnrians and Austrlans from the north
There are increasing evidences thot
such drive, to cut Off Turkey and re-
ducc bulgaria, Is contemplated. A new
Koumhnian cabinet Is headed by Gen
eral Avarcscu.
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In southern Finland, where the Red
guards ara still holding out against the
government, horrible conditions prc.
val. Murders and oil other crimes are
committed openly and the bolsheyiki
are running amuck. Sweden still feors
10 violate neutrality and send helm to
the government. Recent reports from
stockholm said certain Red guard lead.
crs hnd asked General Mannerheim to
consider peace negotiations.
Ihere Is little to say of the Italian
front except that the fighting there was
mainly by the artillery and aviators
ana that neither side had any marked
advantage.
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seemingly the stage la set for Ger.
many's supreme military effort on the
west front. and Field Marshal Won
WSyrsch, the invader of Poland in