The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-01-25
European.

difficulties as at present, says the cor
respondent in Germany Of The Til, in
an analysis of the existing situation.
The political struggle concentrated
around Foreign Secretary Won Kuehl-
mann has been reflected in violent
scenes in the main committee of the
reichstag. Public action of the So
cialist minority cannot be longer re-
sisted.
Initial comment in the Austrian and
German press on President Wilson's
message is bitterly hostile. His pre-
gram is declared to be unacceptable,
and one pan-German paper says it is
more brutal still'' than the recent
statement of Premier Lloyd George.
The president is accused of desiring
to hinder the Brest-Litovsk negotia-
tions, and Vienna newspapers declare
that his peace conditions are such
as could only be imposed on the cen
trail powers if they were defeated COM
pletely.
The number of British ships sunk
by German submarines in the ruth
less U-boat warfare which has been
in progress since last February has
passed the thousand mark
Leon Trotzky, speaking at the peace
conference at 3rest-Litovsk, told the
Germans that the Russians were there
not as the representatives Of a con-
quered country, and did not intend to
ask pity, but were just as strongly
revolutionary as ever
Snow has come to the aid Of the
Italians. The Austro-Greman often
sive apparently has reached a halt, if
not an end. The whole mountain front
where the Teutons had been making
slight but steady gains is buried un-
der from three to five feet Of snow,
making infantry operations impossi-
BILE and hamperings the Teutonic sup
ply lines seriously.
It is apparent that the Germans will
not. be able to begin operations IN an
: effort to complete their conquest OF
Venetia while the supply linese are
snow-bound.
AS the Russian peace delegates
passed along the way to renew the
negotiations with the Germans, the
Russian troops in the trenches near
Brest-Ltovsk, urged upon Trotzky {:
"Be firm. Don't make dishonorable
peace. We did not overthrow the
czar to bow to German imperialism" J"
A Constantinople report has it that
within the Ottoman empire there are
rowing bands of brigands estimated
at three hundred thousand. They are
mostly armed deserters from the army
bent on pillage, and venture near
towns and sometimes attack the reg
ular troops in order to get arms and
food.
The hospital ship Rewa was torpe-
doed and sunk in the Bristol channel
while on her way from Gibraltar. All
the wounded were saved. There were
three casualties among the crew.
"The additional strength which the
enemy can obtain from the events in
Russia and italy already has been
largely discounted and the ultimate de-
struction of the ener1y's field forces
has been brought appreciably nearer"
is the confident summing up of the
British commander-il chief in France
and Belgium of last years work
Germany announces a further exten-
sion of the barred zone. It became
effective January II. The extensions
particuarized in the message af,eet
tbs region around enemy supnot;ing
pointa'' on the Cape Verde islands ard
the point Of support Of Dekar, French
Senegal, with the adjoining casstal
district
President Wilson'S address to con-
gress on the ccuntry's war aims, was
characterized by William B. Thomp-
snn. head Of the American Red Cross
roissiln Co Russia, as an adaptation
=. 5otl; the Russian people and the
program CT the Russian democracy.