Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-21
RAIDERS OF BLACK
|. SEA, GOEBEN AND
BRESLAU, co DOWN
British Warships Engage
Both at the Entrance
to Dardanelles.
| RUSSIAN CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY SHORT.LIVED
Government Headed by Lenine
and Trotzky Greatly
in Minority.
CENTRAL ERS IN ROM
General Strike Breaks Out in AUS
tria, Where Men Quit Their
Jobs to Demand Peace.
CENTRAL ERs IN Ro,
[Rx Assoeiated Prcss.l

After an adventurous clrc"r o. n:ar;
ly three and a half years in lighting
and iaidnT operations in the E!aclS
Sea. the famous former German cruisers
Gocben and Breslau have met their
fate at the hands OF British warships
in fight at tpe entrance to the Ear
dancllcs. The Breslau, renamed Midul-
lu. was sunk, and the Cocben, rcchris-
tened Sultan Yawuz Sclm, was beach
cd. The two cruisers escaped into
Turkish waters shortly after the out
break of tho war and were purchased
by the Turks.
The official statement issued by the
British Admiralty says:
The Goebcn and Brcslau--Turkish
names. Sultan Selim and Midullu--
with destroyers were in action with
the British forces at the entrance TO
the Dardanelles this tSunday) morn.
ing. The Brcslau was sunk. The Coo
ben escaped. but has been bcached evil
IDENTIFY badly dana = cd, at Niagara Point
in the narrows of the straits.
Tho Gocben now is beng. attacked
by naval aircraft.
Our losses reported arc the monitor
Ras aslan and a small monitor. the M-2s."
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
BREAKS From TROTZTTY
The Russian Constituent Assembly
was hort-livcd. Convenins Friday. in
the Tauridc Palace, in Petrograd cur
ing street lighting. it was dissolved
carly Saturday morning by the Boil
sheviki after vote had shown con-
clusivcly that the government headed
by Leninc and TrotzSy was greatly In
the minority,
Thus, for tho moment at least, has
passed away At It's inception tho lcgis-
lativc body through which IL had been
hoped order would he brought out OF
tho anomalous situation that haa ex-
iatcd in Russia since the revolution
which resulted In the imperial family
and the bu-eaucrats being thrown out
of power.
Likewise. the delegates TO tho peace
conference at Erest Litovsk again are
at skies and sevons and the pourpar-
icrs have ended. AS on the other oc-
casions when they ceased. the stumb-
ling block is the German demands and
their refusal TO withdraw their troops
from the occupied portions of Russia.
GERMAN CENSORS HALT
NEWS OF POLITICAL RIOTS
Evidently the German ccnsors are
Keeping strict watch over the German
newspapers in their expressions OF
opinion on the serious internal politi-
cal situation. for even the most meagcr
reports concerning the doinSs OF the
n'fitaristic and antimilitaristic parties
were missing Sunday. The latest ac-
counts of the controversy, coming by
way OF Amsterdam and forwarded by
the semi official Wolff bureau, were
a. off
had gained victory over their oppo-
ncnts with regard to the settlement OF
the question OF anneHations in the East
Fresh troubles are reported TO have
broken out throughout Austria Gem
eral strikes have taken place. and i'll
Vienna and Ncustadt all the war manu-
featuring plants arc reported to have
been closed. In these towns 100000
men are said to have quit their Jobs
The movement is political and eco
nomic. and has as its basis the desire
for peace. Anti-Germanism is declar-
ed TO be especially prevalent through
out the country.
On the western front in France ana
Belgium the military operations ap-
parently arc increasing all along tb.
line. as compared with those of the
past few weeks, when little or no
fighting. except artillery dueis and NIL
nor raids, was carried out.
ALLIED WARsHIPS BOMBARD
OSTEND SUBMARINE BASE
Entente allied warships have bonn
bardcd Gcrmany's submarine base at
Ostcnd. on the northern Belgian coast.
while around Ypres. between Lens and
ST. Quentin. OH the Chemin des Dance,
on the st. Mihel sector and north OF
the Rhine -MarHc Canal there has becc
notable increase in the operations
by the infantry. The proba bilities arc
that with the return OF good weather.
the expected big battles may taks
place.
One Indication of the probable early
commencement OF lighting is the re-
sumption OF aeria! activity on Largo
scale. especially OH the French front
Saturday the French airnen had 4
good day operating against the Teu-
tons, sending down eight enemy ma
chimes in fights in tho air
ON the Italian front, the hShsins