The Elbert County tribune., 1918-03-01
SPANISH SHIP
SUNK BY U-BOAT
THREE TMERIcAN SOLDIERS ARE
KILLED AND NINE "oAssEo" IN
RAID NEAR ToUL.
TURKS TAKE TREBIzOND
BoLSHEvIkI DELEGATE DE-
cLAREs THERE WILL BE PROB
LENS AFTER PEACE PACT

Madrid.-A dispatch from Bilbao
says the Spanish steamer Neguri had
been sunk by a submarine. Her crew
was landed on Ferro island. one of the
Canary group.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 27.-Three American soldiers
were killed and nine badly "gassed'
in two formidable gas attacks made by
the Germans on the American posi-
| tions in the Toul sector with project
ors. The enemy also heavily lombard
ed the American batteries with gas
shells, but without result.
msterdam.-Turkish forces entered
Trebizond on Sunday. according to re-
ports from Turkish sources.
Misunderstanding of a Russo-Ger-
man peace will not be the final solu-
ton of the German problem on her
eastern frontier and the final settle
ment will come when the peoples OF
Courland, Esthonia, Livonia and Pol
and take matters into their own hands.
according to NJ. Kameneff, one of the
Bolshevik delegates to the Brest-
Litovsk negotiations, in an interview
in the Daily News. M. Kameneff has
arrived in London after three weeks
journey from Petrograd He is on his
way to Paris as Bolshevik plenipoten-
| tiary to France.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 26.-An American patrol in the
Chemin Des flames sector, in commune
tion with French patrol, penetrated
a few hundred yards into the German
lines and captured two German Off
GERS, twenty men and one machine
gun. There were no American casu-
allies.
Paris.-The Belgian official state
ment reads -Four German attempts
during the night of Feb. 1928 to APP
proach our advance posts at various
points on the front were checked by
our barrage fire, machine guns and
grenades Artillery activity on both
sides was general along the front.
most intense in the region of Dixmude.
where we effectHally silenced several
batteries by our destructive fire. Our
aviators have carried out a number of
flights and engaged in several aerial
combats."
Petrograd.-The Germans are still
advancing to the provinces they had
decided to occupy. In this connection
it is reported they are executing Red
Guards, treating them as outlaws, but
releasing and disarming soldiers Of
the regular army.
Bolshevik forces have occupied Ros-
tov, it was announced in Petrograd.
Street fighting continues.
Berlin.-In their new invasion of
Russian territory, the German forces
have reached Walk, In Livonia, ninety
miles northeast of Riga, it was an
nounced by the German general staff.
In Volhynia, the Teuton armies march,
ing from Lutsk have reached the town
of Dubno
London, Feb. 25.-The Germans have
been raiding the British lines at vari-
Gus points, according to the report
from Field Marshal Haig's headquar-
tiers in France. The statement says:
"a hostile raid against our positions
on hill 10 was repulsed with loss An
other raiding party, which attacked
one of our posts north of Poelcapelle
was driven off by rifle fire before
reaching our position. A few prisoners
were brought in by our patrols on va
rious parts of the front A successful
raid was carried out by Scottish
troops in the neighborhood of Monchy-
Le-Preux."
The Germans again have tried to
outgun the Americans in their sector
northwest of Toul. AS on several for
mer occasions, the Americans retail
ated with such fierceness and accur-
I acy of aim that the enemy desisted.
French troops raided the German DO
sitions north of the Ailette river and
in the Champagne. Prisoners and war
material were brought back by the
French. W
The Turkish forces dislodged by the
British by the capture of Jericho, in
Palestine, have retired to the north
and east, the war office announces.
The Turkish army in the Caucasus
has begun an offensive.