The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
Allies Supreme War Council
Makes This Decision.
Plumber Pacts Forced on Russia
and Rumania.
CALL TREATY POLITICAL CRIME
Allies Mean To Fight On To
Put End to Aggression.
Activity in Both Political and
Military War Arenas.


German-made peace treaties forced
on Russia and Rumania will not be
recognized by the entente allied pow
ers, the supreme war council has de-
cide6 at a session in London. The
German policy of plumber is de-
nounced and the declaration is voiced
that the allied powers ARE fighting
and mean to continue fighting" to
put an enc to this aggression.
The treaty with Russia is called a
political crime in the statement is
sued by the council and Germany's
attitude toward Russia at present is
nexation. Germany is described as
destroyer of national independence
and implacable enemy of the rights
o. men"
United States at Council Table.
In persisting N the fight for right
and justice the statement says the
peoples of the allied nations may
place their trust in the armies now
facing the central powers The con-
,, ference was attended by premiers CT
Great Britain, France and Italy. The
United States was represented by
General Bliss and Vice Admiral Sims
Charging the allies power with
| hypocrisy and declaring he does not
| wish to discuss their opinions concern
! ing the treaty with Russia, Chancellor
| Won Hertling has informed the reichs-
-ag that COurland and Lithuania are
united to Germany politically, eco
nomically and martiaIIy. In his previ-
| Gus speech in the reichstag the i'm
! perial chancellor said that Courland
and Lithuania would have autonomy.
Holland Wants Wheat.
Holland has given conditional con-
| sent to the provisions made by the
United States and Great Britain con-
4 L,
statement to the second chamber the
| Dutch foreign minister said his gov
eminent found itself compelled to ac-
| cept the American offer, Germany
| having declared that it could not fur
nish the wheat required for feeding
the Dutch people. Holland is now
awaiting the Anglo-American reply to
its conditional acceptance. All pre-
| parations for taking over Dutch YES
sells in American ports today have
| been completed by the American gov
| eminent.
marked as during last week. the ar
| tillery on both sides along the western
front is unusually active.
BelgianS Check Huns.
German troops have been checked
| in an attack against positions on the
sectors nearest the North sea by the
Be1gians. Elsewhere there have been
only minor raids.
On the British front the artillery
bombardment has been most intense
around Ypres and in the region of
| Armentieres. British airmen have
accounted for twenty-six more Ger
man machines and have dropped
| bombs on airdromes, ammunition
| dumps and bil1ets. On the French
| front the artillery has been most
active northeast of Verdun in the
| Vosges.
United States Guns Smash Enemy.
| American artillery continues to
lombard effectively German positions
and towns on the Toul front. East
of Luneville the artillery firing has
not been so violent. There have been
patrol encounters on both sectors but
no serious fighting ensued. North
west of Toul the Germans have vir-
| tually abandoned their first line
trenches in many places and are
strengthening the second line.
Fifty Killed in Air Raid by British
In thei-- raid on Coblenz, Rhenish
Prussia, on March IL, British avia-
| tors dropped bombs which resulted in
| fifty deaths and great damage to
property, according to a neutral trav-
eler who has arrived in Holland
Residents of Mulheim, north of Cob
LEM, were convinced that the raiders
wer Americans, the traveller said