The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-01-18

rah's resolution requesting the rules
committee to consider the ACCESSIBILITY
Of amending the present rules so as
to permit the consideration of trea-
ties in open session.
Even some plants making munitions
and other war supplies may have to
curtail fuel consumption during the
next sixty days, Fuel Administrator
Garfield said, in a statement assuring
the public that every effort will be
made to distribute the available sup
ply Of coal where most need, and that
no partiality will be shown in any
section.
European.
It is reported that the Turks have
broken the, armistice by landing TO-
900 troops between Trebizond and Lie
and that a submarine has sunk Rus
sian transport.
This telegram has been sent to al
lied capitals 1.-THE final rupture of ne
gotiations at Brest.Litovsk may be ex-
pected at any moment, as 1t seems
probable that the German militarists
will continue to impose their policy
on their delegates"
An Amsterdam dispatch says that
the report of the Wolff bureau, the
German official news agency, on the
deliberations at the Brest-Litovsk
peace conference says that at the
opening of the sitting Count Czernin,
Austro.Hungarian minister, announced
that the central powers recognized
the Ukranian delegation as an "inde-
pendent delegation representing the
Ukraine republic" but that formal rec
ognition of the Ukrainian republic as
an independent state would be reserv-
ed for the peace treaty.
Trotzky, Bolsheviki foreign minis
ter, says the conflicts between the
Russian government and The Ukraine
have no connection with the question
of characterization of the Ukraine,
concerning which there is room for
conflict between the two sister repub-
lies"
All German newspapers are being
freely admitted into Russia.
Rioting is reported at Sebastopol,
but the date of the trouble is not
specifically stated The rioting is said
to have started with the crew of a
torpedo boat, who arrested their Off
GERS and shot them. Sixty-two Off
GERS are reported to have been killed,
including vice admiral and three 9th
er admirals.
Germany was never in such danger
of collapse from internal and external
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 KuehI-
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.
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.
Initial comment in the Austrian and
German press on President Wilson's
message is bitterly hostile. His pro-
gram is declared to be unacceptable,
and one pan-German paper says it is
more brutal stilr' than the recent
statement of Premier Lloyd George.
The president is accused of desiring
to hinder the Brest-Litovsk negotia-
tons, 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.
1t is apparent that the Germans will
not be able to begin operations in an
effort to complete their conquest of
Veneua while the supply linese are
snow-bound.
Snow has come tosthe aid of the
Italians, The Austro-Greman often
sive apparently has reached 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 hampering the Teutonic sup
ply lines seriously.
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.
Leon Trotzky, speaking at the peace
conference at Brest-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.
The additional strength which the
enemy can obtain from the events in
Russia and Italy already has been
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