, 1918-02-28

Entente aviators downed fifty-seven
Germans in three days.
Secretary Baker is not alarmed
over prospects of German offensive.
Just two hours after the armistice
ended German troops entered Dvinsk.
The French took 525 prisoners in
their raid in Lorraine, the war office
announced in Paris.
New Zealand troops carried out a
successful raid east of Polygon wood,
on the Flanders front.
A German attack at Four de Paris,
in the Argonne, a been repulsed
with losses by the French.
A regiment of Esthonian troops
has gone over to the Germans, the
Berlin war office
The main committee of the Reich
stag adopted the peace treaty be-
tween Germany and the Ukraine.
The British forces in Palestine AVE
captured the city of Jericho, Aus
tralian troops entering the city oil
Thursday.
A large number of German guns are
opposite the American sector. Among
them are some SIS, probably from
the Russian front.
The German navy has invested Re
val, the great Russian naval base on
the Gulf OF Finland. The Russian
navy is reported as demobilized and
demoraliZed.
The Berlin war office announces
that 1853 guns and between 1000 and
and 5000 motor cars have been CAP
tured from the Russians thus far in
the new campaign.
Russian troops are e%vacuating
Pskoff, $50 miles southwest OF Petro-
grad, and are also reported fleeing
from the city OF Polotsk. In the al
ture of Minsk the Germans gained
1900 guns and 5000 prisoners.
Marked aerial activity continues on
the western front and entente avia-
tors in three days brought down or
disabled fifty-seven German airplanes.
British and French airmen have not
let up i'll their bombing attacks on i'm
portant points in German Lorraine.
With a proclamation signed by Nix
OLAF Lenine, rs premier, and Ensign
Krylenko, as commander-in-chiet, the
Bolshevik government has called p
on all Russians to join in a fight TO
the death against the German inva-
sion.
WESTERN
The Pullman Company is engaged in
the elimination of German M
from its cars.
The canned salmon supply of the
Pacific Northwest was comman-
deered by the government.
The Montana Legislature signalized
Washington's birthday by adopting a
resolution asking Congress to grant
nationwide suffrage.
Governor Philip OF Wisconsin
called a special election for April ,
TO choose a United States senator to
fill the vacancy caused by he death
last October of Paul o. Husting.
Thirteen persons were injured in n
wreck of a Northern Pacific passen-
ger train near Miles City, Mont.
Chevalier Giuseppe Gentle as
sumed his duties at Denver as ltal-
ian consul general for Colorado, New
Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, North and
South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
He succeeds Chevalier Oreste Davella,
former consul general, who has been
transferred to San Francisco.
WASHINGTON
Garfield to put into effect new fuel
regulations soon.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion authorized the Morgan line and
the Southern Pacific railroad to in
crease rail and water commodity
rates on traffic from New York and
Norfolk to Galveston by water and to
California by rail to the level OF all
rail routes.
An economic agreement with Spain,
under which General Pershing will
get mules, army blankets and other
materials in that country in return
for cotton, oil and other commodities
from the United States, was signed in
Madrid. The State Department was
SO advised by Ambassador Willard.
Available shipping tonnage for
United States n allies on increase.
The first American built planes are
enroute to France, nearly five months
ahead OF the original schedule.
Another $500, 100000 block of treas.
ury certificates of Indebtedness in
preparation for the third Liberty loan
was offered for subscription by Sec,
rotary McAdoo.
Nearly 100000 perfectly fit men
will form Americas first line draft re-
serves, Provost Marshal General