Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-02-08

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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.
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The conflict in Finland between the
government of that new republic and
the revolutiouists, 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, defeated 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 were in control.
A report that Sweden had interviewed
in behalf of the government was de-
MED.
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The ROumanans joined forces with
| the Ukrainians under the command of
| General Stcherbatcheff, whom the boil
| 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
bolsheviki troops.
The bolsheviki seem not to have
come to any agreement as to the peace
negotiations with Germany. and it was
reported the breach between the Lee
nine and the TrOtZky factions was wild
ening. The premier favored Yielding
| to the German demands, as might be
| expected from him, while TrOtzky firm
| ly opposed such a course.
The negotiations at Brest-LitOvsk
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 holy war against
all imperialists. Trotzky was given
q free hand in dealing with the CEN
J trail powers.
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Italy struck suddenly and hard last
week at the Austrian line on the east
ern AsiagO plateau. The dashing Itaf-
ians broke through the enemys posi-
| tons, took some 1000 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 di Val Bella, a
! dominating height. A 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 he withstOod. This looked
| like the beginning of a real offensive
| that might develop into 4 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 but mono
table 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
to frequent Smelling, and one early
morning trench raid was made there,
so that General Pershing had to report
a number of casualties.
Our government gave out the graft
fying news that sixteen great trans
| ports. the biggest armada ever sent
out by America. had arrived safely at
French ports and unloaded thousands
of soldiers and immense quantities of
war material. The assembling of the
| men and the depart'.re of the vessels
were successfully kept secret. and all
SUMMARIZES WE'RE dNbltltu Ht tIdiS-
ports were all formerly German or
Austrian steamships that were seized
by America. among them being the E
viathan, which was the Vaterland,
largest of Atlantic liners. The Ger
man press had led the German people
70 believe that most of these ships had
been damaged by their crews beyond
repair.
According to Secretary of War