The Arizona copper camp., 1918-02-23
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS


Russia, 800 transferred to Kron-
stadt according to Riga dispatch via
Berlin
German troops are concentrated in
Ukraine to attack Bolsheviki.
Russian troops withdraw from Ar
menia and Asiatic Turkey; Turks
advance on Erzingan.
Gen. Sir William Robertson, British
chief of staff, resigns on ground
that he cannot continue with linn
tied power.
German submarine bombards Dover,
casualties: killed, child; wound
ed, 3 men, 1 woman, children
German destroyers sink British
trawler and seven drifters, in the
straits of Dover.
Amendment of draft law so as to
exempt officers or citizens of neu-
trail nations outlined by Sec'y Lans-
ing. A
Peace commissioners representing
central powers leave Petrograd and
return to Germany.
Fuel administration promises reduc-
ton in price of coal after April l..
Great earthquake causes heavy loss
at Annoy, China.
Ukrainians attack Kirt, seeking to
wrest town from Bolsheviki.
Sunday, Feb. 17-President Wilson
wires sharp rebuke to Hutcheson,
head of striking carpenters in gov
ernment shipyards, telling him that
he is guilty of extending aid and
comfort to the enemy.
Germany cancels armstice with
Bolsheviki, hostilities to be re-
sumed.
German troops at Grodno and Kov-
no mutiny when ordered to French
front
War aims as stated by President
Wilson endorsed by executive coun-
Gil of American Federation of Labor
Germans bomb American hospital
in France.
Fourteen German planes brought
day of great aerial activity on west
front.
! Four killed in air raid on London
| by lone German plane. Other five
German planes fail to reach me-
| tropolis.
100000 German and Austrian pris-
oners in Petrograd reported starv-
ing as result of chaos. 100 persons
are killed in all night battle in
which jewelry stores and wine Gel
lars are looted
Bolsheviki government sends ulti-
matum to Rumania ordering evac-
uation of Bessarabia, and demand
ing right to move Russian troops
through Bessarabia and Rumanian
territory.
Agreement with central powers first
item in program of new Rumanian
cabinet
Fuel famine in New England still
continues acute, many states suffer.
Monday, Feb. 18.-Germany resumes
warfare against northern Russia.
Teuton troops cross Dvina river,
meeting with no resistance.
Bolsheviki troops defeat Polish
counter-revolutionary troops at
Minsk.
German airplanes lombard Ameri
can trench positions.
Third air raid on London in as many
nights.
Senator Humbert, French senator
from department of the Meuse, is
arrested in connection with Bolo
Pasha plot.
Brigadier General Frederick w.
Sibley dies at Camp Grant, Ill.
Last section of Hungary is evacu-
ated by Russian troops.
Baronial caste outlawed by Bolshe-
Wiki council, all men over II and
women over Fl ordered arrested.
Over 1000 are already imprisoned.
Bolsheviki capture Kiev amidst
scenes of widest slaughter and
havoc.
Polish forces defeat Bolsheviki IS
miles south of Minsk
Tuesday, Feb. 19-Bolsheviki govern
1hent finally capitulates and signs
peace pact dictated by kaiser. HUI
initiating conditions forced on Rus
sia include indemnities amounting
to $4,0O0,OO0,O0O and large slice of
Russian territory. Germany to re-
tain Poland, Lithuania, Riga and
Moon Islands
German troops continue advance
against Petrograd.
Draft convention entered into by
U. S. with Great Britain and Can
ada permits each country to con-
script it's nationals residing in
either of the other two countries.
Great German offensive on west