The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-01-31

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days Of fighting the bolshcviki forces
had seized Irkutsk, eastern Siberia;
diSnrmng the CoSSacks and military
cadets. They also have occupied Oren-
burg.
Among the interesting reports that
came out Of Russia was one to tho
effect that the former czar and his
family had made theft escape from
T0bolsk. Another story said the for
mcr cZarina has become hopclessly in
sane.
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The abandonment Of the Ro,lmanIan
front by the Russian troops led to
nasty little row. Roumanians arrested
and dsarmed several Russian regi-
mcntS, and the Russian government at
once put under arrest the Rolmanian
diplomats in Petrograd and threatened
war OH ROumanu If the Russian sol
dicrS were not at once freed. 4 strong
Joint protest by representatives of all
the allied and neutral powers brought
about the release of the Roumanian
diplomats.
Ihen came an astonishing order
from the bolsheviki government for
the arrest of King Ferdinand of Rou-
mania and his incarceration i'm the
fortress of ST. Peter and st. Paul. This
was attributed to the action Of the
Roumanans In arresting some Aus
trian officers who had attempted to
pass through the Roumanian lines to
fraterniZe with the Russians,
The British labor party came to the
front on Tuesday with message to
the Russian people announcing that
the British people accepted the prin-
ciple of Self-determinati0n of peoples
and no anneXntonS for the British en-
pire, especially in the middle East. AZ
rica and India. The manifesto con
cluded with an appeal to the peoples
of central Europe to help end the war
by the defeat of militnriSm on both
sides, and not to drive the British peo-
pie, as they are driving the Russians,
into the terrible choice between con-
tinuing the conflict and abandoning the
only principles that can save the world.
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There is not much to be written of
the weeks fighting. The German M
pcrs were talking openly Of the com
ing great offensive on the west front
and asserted that n million more troops
had been sent into France, but Won
Iiindenbnrg still delayed the blow. The
activity of the nvaiors was notable.
n,.i,
successful bombing raids on German
cities, Karlsruhe especially being hard
hit.
In Italy the main event Of the week
was surprise attack by the Italians
supported by the French, by which GER
tam important dominating positions on
Monte ASOlonc We're wrcStch from the
AuStrianS and their observation posts
destroyed
On Wednesday the Austrians made
desperate attempt to rccapture the
lost positions. For four hours they at
tackled fiercely and were stubbornly
fought off, finally retiring leaving the
field covered with their dead.
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Ihe German submarines have not
been very active of late, the weekly re.
port of the British admiralty showing
only six large British vessels and four
smaller ones sunk. One of the snb.
mersibles. however, emerged off Var.
mouth and shelled that pretty English
city violently. Three persons were
killed.
Further evidence that the submarine
service Is most distasteful to the Ger
man sailors is contained in the report
from Geneva Of another mutiny among
the submarine crews at Kiel, the Ger
man naval base. Thirty-eight officers
are said to have been killed. The num-
Der Of U-b0ats returning to German
ports Is decreasing every month, no.
cording to the Geneva correspondent
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France Is In the thr0es OF new Coi,.
laux scandal, the former premier being
now under arrest on charge of treo-
son. The affair was brought to crisis
by information supplied by Secretary
Lansing, for 1t appears that Caillaux
engaged in intrigucs with Count Won
Luxburg In Argentina in 1915 and was
In communication with the foreign OF.
fice at Berlin with the object of con
Guiding peace. His plotting In italy
also mas been exposed and documents
seized there show he planned to make
himself dictator of France and to with
draw that country from the war.