Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

of bolsheviki literature across the
lines and this, together with the gen
eral publication of President Wilson's
war aims address, has had immense
influence.
The conflict In Finland between the
government of that new republic and
the rev0utiOnists. who seek to follow
the example of their brethren in Rus
STA, has resulted in some sharp fight
ing The so-called white guard. sup
porting the government in northern
Finland, detected the red guard de-
spite the help given the latter by Rus
sian soldiers, and then began a march
on the southern part of the country,
where the red guards We're in control.
A report that Sweden had interviewed
in behalf of the government was de-
MED.
The Roumanans joined forces with
the Ukrainians under the command of
General Stcherbatcheff, whom the boil
sheviki declared an outlaw, and invad-
ed Bessarabia, partly to restore order
there and especially to protect great
stores of supplies belonging to Rou-
mania that had been removed there
at the time of the German invasion.
This move, added to other sources of
Irritation, caused the Russian govern
ment to break off all relations with
Roumania and To announce that it
would fight the Ukraine The troops
of the rada got into action, and in Vol
hynia they defeated the bolsheviki.
taking possession of Lutsk.
On the other hand, the Ukrainians
were forced to surrender Kiev to the
bolsheyiki troops
The bolshevlki seem not to have
come to any agreement as to the peace
negotiations with Germany, and 1t was
reported the breach between the Le-
nine and the Trotzlty factions was Wild
ening. The premier favored yielding
to the German demands. rs might be
expected from him, while Trotzky firm
ly opposed such a course
The negotiations at RreSt-Iitovsk
were resumed on Tuesday. the Russian
delegates returning as the "repreSent-
atives Of the world proletariat." for
the pansOviet congress In Petrograd
has declared for a holy war against
all imperialistS. Trotzky was given
Il free hand in dealing with the cen
tral powers.
IA
Italy struck suddenly and hard last
week at the Austrian line on The east
ern Asiago plateau, The daShing Ital-
ians broke through the enemyS posi-
tons. took some 1900 prisoners and
repulsed all Counter-attacks A day
or So later they attacked again. taking
enemy positions on Col del Rosso and
Col Dechele and finally pushing on to
the capture of Monte dl Val Bella, a
dominating height thousand more
prisoners, many guns and large guam
titles of supplies were taken. The
Teutonic resistance to these attacks
was strong, but the Italians, who had
valuable assistance from the French
and British batteries and aviators,
were not to be withStood. This looked
like the beginning of IA real offensive
that might develop into drive of
magnitude, the probable object being
TO drive the enemy back against the
slopes of the Snow-cOvered Alps.
ON the west front there was ever
increasing artillery activity hut no no.
cable infantry movements. The much
advertised German offensive still was
DELAYED. perhaps waiting for internal
troubles TO simmer down. The sector
held by the Americans was subjected
~ frequent Smelling. and one early
morning trench raid was made there
So that General PerShlng had to report
a number of casualties.
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Our government gave out the grati-
fviug news that sixteen great trans
ports, the biggest armada ever sent
out by America had arrived safely at
/ French ports. and uuloaded thousands
Of soldiers and immense quantities of
war material. The assembling Of the
men and the departure of the vessels