Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-22
GERMAN DRIVE ON
|. SLAV FOR PEACE AND
ORDER -KUEHLMANN
Even Today Germans Are Pre-
pared to Conclude a Peace
Which Corresponds to Their
Interests Minister Says

follows:
Yesterday morning we advanced to
the attack on a frontage of fifteen miles
east OF Jerusalem. BY evening all OBJ
jectives had been secured, to an average
depth of two miles"
STOCKHOLM. Feb 2O.-Serious out
breaks against the Jews in various parts
Of Russia are described in reports re-
ceived ythe Jewish Press Bureau here
Bloody pogroms are said to have oc-
CURED at Lublin, Rashkoff, Tscherkohi,
Tiraspol and Kornin.
AMSTERDAM, Feb ga raid by
entente aviators on Treves, Rhensh
Prussia, is reported in a dispatch from
that city TO the Cologne Gazette. 1t says
bombs were dropped in various parts
OF Treves. causing damage TO property.
No military establishments were in
jured.
Treves is a city of about $4,000 in
habitants on the Moseile river. thirty
I five miles from the French border
NEW YORK, Feb. aO.-(summary OF
European Cables Notwithstanding the
Bolsheviki have announced their will
I ingness to conclude an immediate peace
on the central powers terms, the Ger
man armies are continuing TO advance IN
Great Russia. The German headquar-
tiers statement today reports a further
forward move of the German forces
which recently crossed the Dvina on the
northern front and occupied Dvinsk
They pushed on east and northeast of
I that .ity yesterday, it is announced.
Germany undertook this campaign to
| safeguard peace and order in the Occu-
pied regions on her eastern frontier, Dr.
Won Kuehlmann. the German foreign
minister told the reichstag main COM
mittee yesterday. She had lost faith IN
/ the pacifist intentions of Russia, he de-
. clared.
! Nevertheless. DR.. Won Keuhlmann an
nounced, Germany even now was ready
I TO make a peace with the Russians on a
basis which would protect German in
terests. 1t seems probable that his adj
dress was made before the Bolshevik
protest and offer of submission was re-
ceived in Berlin. but the continued ad-
vance of the German armies reported
I today makes it appear that the German
military authorities, at least, are in no
haste to check the forward movement
The Bolshevik government in this
connection. reports that General HON.
man. German military representative al
the Brest-Litovsk peace conference, has
asked that written confirmation of the
Russian wireless peace offer be sent 10
Dvinsk The Russians have Forwarded
such confirmation TO Dvinsk by messen-
ger, they announce
| Every effort is being made by the
/ Austrian authorities to convince their
people that the peace made with the
| Ukraine was not only one Of great ma
| terial advantage TO the central powers
| but that the injustice that might have
60 nd nv subtract in U
/ from her the province of Cholm and Civ
/ ing il TO the Ukraine will be remedied.
] Great dissatisfaction has been created
among the Liberals in the dual mon
archy by this territorial feature OF the
peace settlement.
| Premier Won Seydler now announces a
separate agreement between Austria
Hungary and the Ukraine under which 4
mixed commission will be named to de-
eide the disposition of Cholm and race
principles. At the same time the pre-
mier points to the material gains which
will come from the peace. The ACstro-
\ Hungarian plea for food will be met
from the Ukraines stores. he intiInatesr
4 declaring that the Ukrainian surplus
] which has been placed at the disposition
of the central powers will be more than
the latter can possibly carry away by
the means Of transportation available
\ tions of continued Industrial unrest in
u Germany manifested by the determine
I ton of the German Independent Social
lists to arrange for a demonstrat!Ne
strike in the German munition factories
beginning on March l.
Although quite prepared to advance
against defenseless Russia, the Germans
have made no offensive movement on the
western front. Activity on the British
h,- al n=s
wholly to artillery bombardment, par
ticularly on the Arras-St. Quentin sec
tor, in Champagne and northeast of Yer
dun On the American sector a German
patrol has been dispersed with casual
ties and the American artillery has beer
\ scattering shrapnel over the German
trenches. Ra.iding and artillery opera
tions are becoming more active on the
Italian front.
Marked aerial activity continues OF
the western front and entente aviator:
have accounted for 80 more German ma
chimes British aviators in three days
have brought down or disabled 81 Ger
man airplanes. British and French air
men have not let up in their bombing
attacks on important points in German
Lorraine, both night and day raids beinl
carried out. Airdromes, docks and othe
targets in Belgium are being bombed b!
British naval alrmen beTlln reports I'M
! destruction of seven allied airplanes.
n Attacks on the Lloyd-George govern
Z ment I'm England have been quieted again
? by the premier in a personal appeal t.
. the house of commons either TO accep
p the policy agreed on at Versailles, Of
put in another government No propose
y for a vote OF want of confidence wa
made. the opposition apparently no
wishing 20 carry the matter that far
The supreme war council the premie
said, had accepted with slight modiica
. tions the plan proposed by the American
= delegates. who were praised warmly b!
. Mr.. LIoyd-George.
= IF the house repudiates the polio!
70 for which I am responsible and upol
: which I believe the safety OF the coun
n try depends. I shall quit Office with blu
Zone regret--that I had not create
u strength and greater ability TO plac
Re at the disposal OF my native land in tn
" gravest hour OF its history
n AuStro-G German Papers
D DiSapprove of Invasion