The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-10
AMERICANS ARE ON THE
 LINE IN FRENCH LORRAINE
Central Powers Announce That They Have Signed Up Peace Agreement With the Ukranians for Which They Are to Receive a Part of Poland.

New Ork, FGb. 9.-Whtle lt was d routine item in the German statement of Saturday the few words in whicl the headquarters staff announced a minor operation in lower Lorraine held American interest to far great CT degree than the other war news of the day
 Northwest of Toul," said the re- cent statement authorized by the American censor as to the location of the sector now being held by men of the United States army And it was | near a town northwest of Tou that the Germans announced having taken some American prisoners" This is XiYray and 1t is situated about ten miles east of St Mihiel indicating that the Americans are holding a line 1 along the southerly edge of the famous St. Mihiel salient in France Lorraine, southeast of Verdun This raid by the Germans was but l one of several conducted by the vari- ] ous belligerents on the western front
 
 ently was so carried out in Lorraine but which the French in the vicinity of Dioncourt. The French penetrated German position here, cleared out the trenches and brought back thirty prisoners and machine gun
 While these military activities were in progress in the west the central powers were busying themselves with their manifold peace negotiations with various groups of more or less i'm - portance on the eastern front and an- nounced they had come to a peace agreement with the Ukraine, signed at two o'clock Saturday morning.
 This announcement marking the first peace concluded by any of tho belligerents may turn out to be epochial.
 Doubt exists as to the extent of the control exercised by the rada over the territory comprising the so-called Ukrainian republic which it purports to represent. That control is disputed by the Bolshevih who broke with the rada representatives at Brest- Litovsk and appointed Ulranian dele Q gates of their own when they found the first set of Ukranians, whom they objected to as "Bourgeoise" secretly dealing with the central powers.
 Bolshevih end Ukrainain troops are engaging each other for the mastery of territory which includes some of the best grain growing provinces of Russia and each is claiming success in the operations.
 Germany and Austria are tacitly ad - mitted to have seized upon the op- portunity to sign up peace with the Ukranians in the hope that they could work their way commercially into the grain growing territor and thus se- cure supplies of food for their hungry populations. Their own people seem 1 to have built great hope on the ef- fectiyeness of this speed with the 1 Ukraine but apparently their leaders are none too certain of the relief il will give for one thing, because of the uncertainty as to the security of the rada's power in the territory.
 Thus they are reported to be tryine ] to incite Rumania to join forces with the Urkrainians in an attempt to de- feat the Bolsheviki and to be hold ing out to the Rumanians the possi bility of their taking portions of Rus sian territory in Besserabia as a re- ward, labelling the transaction as compensation of loss of Doubraia The Ukranians. it has been reported were to get part of Russian Poland | for signing a peace
 l The Spanish steamer Sebastian and the Italian steamer lDuci di Genoa have been sunk by German submar- ines off the Spanish coast
 Spain is reported to be contem- plating a protest to Germany over tl, torpedoeing of the latter within a mile of the Spanish shore. following III her recent protest over the sinking O the Giralda, Spanish coastwis, Steamer