The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-02-22
ADOPT US. PLAN
FOR 1918 DRIVE
LLOYD GEORGE SAYS co-oPERA-
TON is NECESSARY TO WIN
DECISIVE VICTORY.
BRITISH RAIDS IN WEST
AMERICAN euNNERs POUR HAIL
OF BULLETS INTO GERMANS
LYING IN AMBUSH.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
| Berlin Via London), Feb. 20--The
official communications issued by the
German war office says that from Riga
to as far south as Lutsk German
armies are advancing eastward into
Russia. German forces entered Dvinsk-
The Russians unsuccessfully attempt
ed to blow up the bridge across the
Dvina river.
London.-The British prime minis
ter, in a statement before the house
of commons on the decisions OF the
supreme war council at Versailles,
paid high tribute to the plan sub
mitted by the American representa-
tives.
IF I should read the document sub
mitted by the Americans" said Mr.
Lloyd George. there would be no
need to make this speech. The case
is presented with irresistible power
and logic"
The policy adopted by the supreme
war council, Premier Lloyd George de-
clared, was not the policy of the Brit
ish government alone, but of all the
great allied governments in concert.
There is absolutely no difference be-
tween our policy and the policy of
France, Italy and America in this re-
spect," he said.
He was loudly cheered when he said
he hoped that whatever he said would
be treated as a question of policy and
not of personality.
Neutrality-suspicious. have been re-
sumed on the Russian front The Ger
mans have crossed the Dvina.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween Germany and Austria-Hungary
whereby, in the event of military &C
ton being necessary, the German
troops will be confined to the frontier
of Great Russia, and the Austrians to
Ukraine only. This announcement is
made in Vienna dispatch.
A Budapest dispatch to the vossiche
Zeitung (Berlin) says that the Rus
SLAMS have evacuated the last section
of Hungarian territory which they oc-
cupied in the east corner of Transyl-
vania.
/ Germania learns from Ukraine that
Bolshevik guerillas are setting fire to
the wheat stocks in many sections
and are also Systematically destroying
growing crops by blowing them out.
London, Feb. fisherman airmen
raided London again last night. Sew
eral bombs were cast into the city In
Saturday nights raid only one of the
six airplanes succeeded in reaching
London. and only one bomb was
dropped.
Belief that a naval engagement has
occurred is expressed in dispatch re-
ceived In Stockholm from Gothenburg
and forwarded by the correspondent of
the London Morning Post The dis
patch reports the recovery OF large
number of bodies of German sailors
who APP arently belonged to a warship.
1t was only Friday that a powerful
squadron of German destroyers made
sudden raid in the straits of Dover
and sank eight British small craft out
on submarine chase.
American forces are reported in bat
tie with the Germans at three import
ant points in France-on their own
line east of st. Mihiel with the French
forces in Champagne and at another
point referred to as 1.-The most famous
battle ground of the war;"
British forces raided German posts
near Hargicourt and captured a num-
Der of prisoners. Hostile artillery ac-
tivity is reported from Passchendaele.