The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02
JAPAN OFFERS
AID FROM ARMY
ASKS PERMISSION FOR FORCES
TO SAVE VAST SUPPLIES
STORED IN RUSSIA.
NANCY AGAIN BOMBED
ROYAL BRITISH FLYING CORPS
BRING DOWN SEVENTY-FIvE
GERMAN PLANES.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-Japan has d.
rected inquiries to the entente powers
and the United States government to
, test their feeling toward proposal to
institute joint military operations in
Siberia to save the vast quantities OF
war supplies stored at Vladivostok and
along the Siberian railroad. Criticism
at home of the failure OF Japan to play
larger part in the war is said to have
been influential in bringing about the
negotiations.
Further evidence of the growing
strain in relations between Germany
and Austria over the refusal OF the
latter to participate in the renewed at
tack upon Russia is given in an offi-
cial dispatch from France. 1t quotes
the Austrian premier as formally reit-
Grating on Feb. % that Austria-Hun-
gary will take no part in the military
action against Russia or Rumania, and
will not send her troops into Ukrainia.
The dispatch refers to the meeting be-
tween Emperors Charles and William
Feb. % and says there seems little
doubt that a serious conflict has arisen
between the two nations which Ger
many is determined to settle, by vio-
! lent measures if necessary.
| London, Feb. 2S.-Seventy-five en-
emy aircraft were brought down by
the Royal Flying corps on the western
front from Feb. l to %, inclusive, ac-
cording to an announcement by the
| British air ministry. During the same
period thirty-nine enemy aircraft were
driven down out of control and six
enemy aircraft were brought down by
anti-aircraft defenses and infantry.
Against these 120 machines of the
enemy, says the statement, twenty
eight of the allies are missing. The
weight of bombs dropped during the
month to Feb. %, was sixty-five tons.
On the Italian front, since the ar
rival of the British airmen to the pres
ent time, fifty-eight enemy machines,
principally German, have been de-
stroyed The British losses for the
same period were eight.
Many hostile machines, the state
ment adds, have been driven down
out of control.
German airmen again bombed
Nancy, inflicting some casualties, the
Paris war office stated.
Madrid.-A dispatch from Bilbao
says the Spanish steamer Neguri had
been sunk by 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.
London.-Signing of a Russo-Ger-
man peace will not be the final solu-
tion 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 M. 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 conjunc-
tion with a French patrol, penetrated
few hundred yards into the German
lines and captured two German Off
GERS, twenty men and one machine
gun There were no American casu-
alties.
Wife of Senator Cummins Dead.
Washington.-Mrs Albert B. Cum
minis, wife of the senior senator from
Iowa, died here after three days ILL
ness.
Eighteen British Vessels Sunk.
London.-Eighteen British mer-