The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-02-20
IS GERMAN AEROPLANES
ACCOUNTED FOR SUNDAY
Regardless of the Agreement of the
6oIsheviki to Sign a Peace Agree
ment the Teutonic Forces Continue
to Advance Eastward Into Russia.

New York, Feb. 19-Behind the en-
tente allies lines in France and Bel
GUM the military leaders are ex-
/ pecting the Germans to launch their
much talked Of offensive, but there
still is no outward sign of its ap-
proach. Artillery duels and raiding
operations and intensive aerial activ-
ity continue to feature the fighting
all along the front
Three successful raids against the
Germans have been carried out by
the British in Flanders and near
Lens and Arras in northern FrancI
In Flanders the raid, which was car
ried out south of Houtholst Wood. re-
suited in the British penetrating Ger
man positions on a wide front, the in
Fiction of numerous casualties and
the taking Of prisoners.
Sixteen German aeroplanes were
accounted for Sunday in aerial fight
ing by British army airmen and in
addition German towns and military
positions between the battle front
were heavily bombed British naval
airmen also paid visit to the Ger
man naval and air bases at Zee
brugee which were effectively bomb
ed and drove down three German ma
chimes that attempted to give battle
The tense political situation in
9Vf a IN apfl iVf ~
surrounding the recent supreme war
council at Versailles and the retire.
ment OF General Robertson as chief
Of the British imperial staff has been
brdged
Premier Lloyd George announced to
the house OF commons that it hal
been decided to set up a central au-
thority to coordinate the strategy of
the allies and that the plan sub
mitted by the Americans (which put
the case for the present proposal"
was one of the ablest documents ever
submitted to a military conference
The plan was adopted with minor
changes
capitulated and announced its readi-
ness, although protestingly. to sign
a peace compact under the terms i'm
posed by Germany
Notwithstanding this fact. Teutonic
troops are advancing eastward into
Russia over four hundred miles front
from Riga in the north. to Lutzk, a
scant fifty miles from the cas-.
Galacian border, on the south, ap-
parently. Thus far the operation has
met with no opposition The north
ern reaches of the Dvina river have
been crossed by the enemy; the i'm
portant railroad town of DvinSk, from
whence roads run nOrtheastward to
Petrograd, and eastward to Smolensk,
has been captured and l.utzk, one
of the famous fortresses of the Vol
hynian trinagle and forming the gate
way eastward to Kiev, has been en-
tered without the Russians attempt
ing to stay the foe
The official announcement of "
capitulation was signed by Nikolai
Lenine and Leon Trotzky on behalf
of the peoples commissaries Of
Russia 1t protests against Germany
attacking a country which has de-
clared war at an end and which is
demobolizing its armies on all fronts
but under the circumstances. it says,
the government regards itself as
forced formally to declare its willing
ness ito sign peace which had been
dictated by the delegates of the quaS
ruple alliance at Brest-Litoysk.
The only indication that the enemy
will meet with hindrance comes in
an announcement by Ensign KrylI-
ko. the Bolshevild commander-in-
chief. He instruets Russians when
they encounter German troops to en-
deavor to persudade them to refrain
from. hostilities,
"If the Germans refuse he adds,
then you must offer them every pos
sible resistance"
As yet there is no indication from
German sources concerning the full