Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-01-19
WINTERY WEATHER
GRIPS WAR FRONTS
FRANCE and ITALY
LIMITED ARTILLERY ACTIONS
ONLY FEATURE ON ALL OF EU-
ROPES WAR FRONTS.
PEACE MEETINGS ON
Russians Yield to Pressure of Gers
mans Against Change Of Meeting
Place-Trotzky Gives
Reasons.

Winter has settled down IN earnesg
over all the important war fronts, and
beyond artillery actions, which are bea
Ing carried out over very limited sec
tlons, there has been little fighting
either In the west or in the east.
Only patrol encounters are reported
along the British lines, and artillery
action at two points on. the French
front. In Italy the terrific artillery
and infantry fighting has given waY
to aerial warfare, which, howSvsss
though it is spectacular, has little a
rect bearing on the war, when cons
fined to combats between individuals
or squadrons.
For nearly month now the front IN
France and Belgium has been almost
snowbound. Thus the long-awaite0
German offensive with the heavy rein
forcements which Germany transfer
red frcm the Russian front to the west
has been delayed for weeks, if nos
possibly for months The peace ne
gotiations between the bolsheVists and
representatives of the quadruple al
lance at Brest-Litovsk continue, but
without definite results. Another de-
lay in assembling the constituent as
sembly is likely because of the issu-
ance of a decree at Petrograd providr
ling for new elections to replace mem.
bers of the constituent assembly whd
sare deemed not representative of the
iworkmen and peasants.
~ fhn pssN
sian capital, Northern Russia is to re-
iceive ample food supplies from Uk-
.raine through the reconciliation of the
.bolshevists and the Ukrainians. Every
effort has been made in the last week
iby the bolsheyik authorities to prevent
the threatened famine in Petrograd
9and other cities of Russia where the
.bolshevists hold power.
It is semi-officially reported from
Petrograd that the bolsheVists have
taken control at Novo Tcherkask, cap
ltaI of the province of the Don Cos.
sacks and headquarters of General
Kaledines, hetman of the Cossacks.
, The London Daily Mail reports the
establishment by the British govern.
ment of informal relations with Maxim
LitYinoff. recently appointed by the
bolshevik government as Russian am.
bassador at London. The explanation
of this, according to the Mail, is that
possibly Lenine and Trotzky, if they
retain the de facto power, might event
uaIly give heed to the counsel of the
allied governments, and it is not de-
tsirable that communication with Pc
itrograd be cut off.
Leon. Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign
minister to the conference at Brest-
Litoysk, claims that in order not to
leave any possibility in the fight for
peace unutilized, the Russian delega-
tion accepted the demand that the ne
gotiations be continued at Brest-
Litovsk.
= The chairman of the Russian dele
CATION said that in full accord with
their former resolution, the Russians
desired to continue the peace negotia-
tions, quite apart from the fact wheth-
er or not the entente powers .partici-
pated.
A meeting of the crown council at
Berlin is reported by the sLokal An
zeiger, composed of Field Marshal yon
Hindenburg, General Won Ludendorff,
the crown prince and other German
leaders Relations with Russian prob
ably win be the most important sub
iect discussed.
Prince Alexander Won Hohenlohe,
who has long held liberal views and
was among the German representa-
tfves at the pacifist congress in Switz-
erland, expressed the belief that
should the Germans as people rid
themselves Of the fixed idea that
America entered the war only for self
ish and material interests. President
Wilson's new message "ean become a
way toward peace"