The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-08-30


Geneva dispatches said the Austria |
Swiss frontier was closed for some /
days and all trains were full Of Aus |
trian troops going To the Italian front. ]
which was taken TO mean another COM /
Ing offensive there. However. the ltai-
ians were ready for IL and daily Inn
proved their positions, especially In
the mountains.
In Albania the Austrians evacuated
all points held by them south OF the
Semeni river.
An amazing development Is the SELF
ure Of Baku. center of the Caspian sen
oil district, by British force which
made Its way up through Mesopotamta
and Persia.
-
The parlous condition of the central
powers resulted In kaiser confer
ence" at German main headquarters
which was attended by the rulers OF
Germany and Austria and their chief
advisers and by representatives Of the
Turks. Bulgarians and Russian bolshe-
Wiki. The internal situation In Aus
tria-Hungary especially Is growing
worse--or rather better--daily; an ex-
plosion there almost any day would
not greatly surprise anyone. Bulgaria
shows signs of breaking away from
It's confederates. and as for Turkey. the
general public, knows nothing Of what
Is going on there ar what Is expected.
The situation In Russia. including
Siberia, also Is improving. for the
forces opposed To the bolsheviki and
the Germans are growing stronger and
amalgamating. The possibility OF es-
tablishing an eastern front that will
sIdered, especially since the supreme
government of the northern territory"
embracing half dozen districts, has
| declared itself opposed TO the Germans
and ready to fight them. Possession
Of the port of Archangel and the Muir
for troops TO help this movement. That
| Germany recognizes the menace Is evil
| dent from the facts that she is sending
more soldiers from the west front TO
/ Russia. and has ordered Finland to
/ prepare TO make war ON the people OF
Murmansk and the allies there. Dis
patches from Helsingfors declared the
Germans Intend TO occupy Petrograd.
though what they would gain by pos
session Of that hunger-stricken city II
not apparent. Lenlne and Trotsky
and their soviet government were re-
ported to have fled from Moscow 10
Kronstadt. the great fortress near
Petrograd. and 10 have placed the exc
eution of power 10 the hands OF a tri-
umvirate composed of Lenine, Trotsky
and Zinosieff. Lenine also issued a
manifesto urging the pitiless annihilu-
ton OF all Observation-Disclosures
Moscow being admittedly In the con-
troll of the Observation-Disclosures, the
German embassy also fed from that
city to Pskov, which greatly perturbed
the German press.
The diplomats OF all the allied pow
ers, now living ON warshins Mt Arch
angel, have demanded OF Trotsky an
explanation of his threat that Russia
would declare war against Anglo
French Imperialism"
The first American regiment sent Ia
, Siberia. the Twenty regular In
fantry from Manila. landed at vIadi-
vostok Thursday, and other Yankees
= are on the way.
Z The Czecho- Sloyaks In eastern 81
IBERIA now have the assistance Of Brit.
ish and French forces which landed nj
: yladivostok and Joined them In the
% Csuri river valley. Those In western
% Siberia were last reported as engaged
!. in a desperate battle with a large Dol
I sheyik army.
= A long step forward Ia the mora
support of these fighting Czeehs ans
r Of their fellow nationals who are II
: rebellion against Austria-Iinngary wai
:. the formal recognition by Great Brit
j, ain OF the Czecho- Sloyaks as an q,
lied nation and OF their armies as al
. allied force regularly waging Narfar
: against the central powers II
y hoped and believed America and othe
: allied nations viii follow the exanpl
: OF Great Britain.
Last weeks dispatches told OF fur
A Gus and bloody riots against the Get
. mans in several Russian cities cause
h by the attempts OF the Huns to SELF
I foodstuffs.
~
!. The activities of German U-boats Of
a the Atlantic coast have grown so an
' noying that the cabinet is said to hav
devoted a long meeting TO discussing