The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-05
Considered Chief Features of
Military Interest in View of
American Participation.
KIEV TAKEN BY GERMANS
No Definite Decision as to Jap
anese Intervention in Siberia.
Twelve Americans Taken
Prisoner by the TeutOns.

Raids of growing intensity and fire.
quency on the Franco-Belgian front
are furnishing the chief feature Of
military interest, particularly in
view Of the increasing degree OF
American participation in the fight
ing. Larger issues, however, are
involved in the Russian situation
the uncertainties of which are CIV
ing rise to manifold military and po-
litical complications.
The peace negotiations between
the Bolshevi!;i and the Germans
seem to have been broken off,
Manifestly, at any rate, there is de-
velOping a growing measure of bel
hgerency among the Russian pro-
letariat, who, with the safety OF the
revolution as rallying cry, are re-
ported to be responding from all
sides to support it.
Likewise the peace negotiations
between Rumania and the centra
powers are reported in unofficial ad-
vices from Berlin to have failed. The
unsatisfactory reply of the Ruman-
ian king is said to have been respon-
sible for the break. A semI-official
Berlin statement, however, says the
German and Austrian representa-
tives have not left Bucharest, where
the sessions were held.
;nt
terror of Russia is in full swing
again, with columns reported NOV
ing toward Petrograd from Pskov
and pushing northeast along the
railway from Podolsk with the OBJ
ject OF cutting the Moscow -Petro-
grad railway at Bologie. midway
between the two cities. and starving
out Petrograd by shutting off it's
supplies.
In the south the Germans have
secured their immediate objective
in the Ukraine by occupying Kiev,
the capital of the republic, after a
little more than a Today march
through the country on the 200
mile route east from the former
hghting front. The German reports
do not indicate what price in cas-
ualties the Bolsheviki exacted for
the surrender of Kiev, which they
had captured from the Ukrainian
rada's supporters February 8. with
reported total casualties for both
sides OF 1000 killed and 1000
wounded. Presumably the rada
which negotiated the separate peace
between the central powers and the
Ukraine at Brest-Litvosk, will be
speedily reinstated in the captured
city.
The tentative proposals for Jap.
anese intervention in Siberia because
OF the Russian situation have not
eliminated in any decision by the
allies. so far as the current advices
reveal. London dispa tches mention
a growing tendency there to discuss
the situation fully and await devel.
opments, particularly the attitude
the United States may assume
China is also involved I'm this situa-
ton and press dispatches from that
country report political unsettlemen,
there because OF it, The Chinese
government, 1t is said. is to send
reinforcemeuts to Manchuria.
Twelve Americans were taker
prisoner by the Germans in thei,
raid of Friday on the American
trenches east OF st. MihieI. the Ger.
man war office announces. 1t was in
this raid that the American troops
met the onslaught of picked Ger
man shock" detachments In gal.
liant style. strewing the ground in
front OF the entrenchments with
German dead and capturing three OF
the attacking party. The Germas
statement claims the infiiction OF
heavy casualties" upon the Ameri-
cans.
A powerful raid was carried ont
against the French in the Verdup re.
gion south OF Maucourt. more thai
400 prisoners and many machine
guns being captured, according r.
the German claim The Brit, q
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