Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-31
KAISER BREAKS
RUSSIAN TRUCE
Germany Moves Troops From the
East Front to the FIan-
ders Trenches.
Wires TO PETROGRAD CUT
Washington Unable to Get Word to
Ambassador Francis - Boisheviki
Are Split on Question of
Peace With Kaiser.

washington Jan. 0D.-CaDIe ana
telegraph lines to Russia have been
cut, American Minister Ira Nelson
Morris at Stockholm reported, and the
only remaining routes of communica
ton with PetrOgrad now are through
Persia and VladiyostOk. The land tele-
graph lines were severed, Mr. Morris
reported, at Haparanda, Sweden, and
the cables at Viborg, Finland. He
gave DO Indication of the significance.
Kaiser Breaks Truce.
Washington, Jan. 30.-Charges that
Germany Is violating the terms OF the
Russian truce by withdrawing troops
from the eastern front and transfer
ring them to the western battle lines
were made by the war department. The
war department made this statement:
THE general staff Of the United
States army announces that the Ger
nan military authorities are evading
the terms of the Russian truce which
provide that German troops were not
to be withdrawn from the eastern
front for use in the west, during the
peace negotiations. German troops on
the Russian front are being allowed to
go home on furloughs. These soldiers
are then transferred to recruiting sta
tIOns and sent TO the western front.
THE troops are taken in this way,
man by man, for two reasOns-hrst be-
cause ii deceives the Russians, and Sec
ond, because the eastern troops have
been SO Influenced by the Russian rev.
olutionary propaganda that the Ger
man military chiefs have decided TO
separate the men and scatter them in
unaffected western regiments"
Reds Split on Peace.
London. Jan. 30-The bolsheviki
have split on the question of peace,
majority being against the conclusion
Of peace on the German terms and In
favor of a holy war, an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Petrograd says.
AS the present government is un-
able to carry on the war, the forrna-
ton of coalition of all socialist fac
tiOns was proposed.
Ukrainians Capture Iutsk.
After three days of fighting the
ukrainian Rada's troops have defeat
ed the bolshevik army and taken pos
session of Lutsk, according TO a wire
less message from Kiey to the Ukrain
ian committee at Geneva.
The fighting was extremely severe
and the losses on both sides were
heavy. Airplanes, the message adds,
greatly aided the Ukrainians in gain.
ing the victory.
Seize s612,ooo, 900.
The b0lshevik foreign minister, Leon
rrotzky, announced to the congress of
workmens and soldiers deputies at
PetrOgrad the decision Of the govern
ment respecting reprisals against Rou-
mania.
These include the breaking off of
diplomatic relations, the seizure Of
ROumanian gold reserves in Moscow
and the outlawing of Lieutenant Gen
eral Stcherbatcheff, the former COM
mander in chief on the Roumanian
front.
NJ Trotzky said that the Roumanian
gold reserve amounted to 1,200, 100000
rubles (S612, ,OOO,0OO), and that the Gus
| todian of this fund had been placed
! under arrest.
Il is understood that General Stcher-
! batcheff has been cooperating with the
| Roumanians IN disarlning Russians in
| Roumania and Bessarabia
Trotzky May Hang Back.
According to reports received from
| Berlin by way of Amsterdam. peace
negotiations will be resumed at Brest-
| LitovSk Tuesday. Count Czernin, the
| AuStro- Hungarian foreign minister,
! and DR.. Richard Won Kuehlmann, the
| German secretary of foreign affairs,
arrived there Monday, and NJ. Trotzky
| is expected at an early date. Later
| dispatches, however, denied that the
| Russian foreign minister intended to
| proceed 10 Brest-LitOvsk.
Before leaving Vienna Count Ger
min had an audience with the emperor,
| and he is quoted as saying that he
might be compelled to return shortly
on important business.
| Most of Troops Shifted.
| Almost three-QuarterS of the German
troops have been withdrawn from the
| Russian front, according to the news
| paper. Nasty Vedomesty. No heavy
| guns or armored cars are left, while
the number of light guns has been
| greatly reduced.
Young soldiers are being removed
daily and their places are being taken
| by old men and semi-inyalidS.
The German northern front is
strongest There are no Germans on
the southwestern front, and, although
the Austrians there have not been re-
duced, their heavy artillery has been
| withdrawn.
Catcher Eniists in Artillery.