Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-18
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900 troops between Tlebzond and III
and that a submarine has sunk a Rus.
sian transport
This telegram has been sent to al
lied capitals The final rupture OF ne
/ gotiations at Brest Litovsk may be -.
/ peeted al any moment, as il seems
probable that the German militariSts
| viii continue 10 impose their policy
on their delegates
An Amsterdam dispatch says that
the report OF the Wolf bureau, The
German official news agetcy, on the
deliberations al he lIresl litoysk
peace conference says that AZ the
opening Of the sitting count C2ernin
tustro. Hungarian minister, announced
that the central powers recognized
the Ikranian delegation as an indie
pendent delegation representing the
4 Ukraine republic bu that formal rec
ignition Of the ukranan republic A.
/ IN independent state would h reserv
I'd for h. peace treaty
Irulzky Bolshe,iki foreign minis
ter. says the conflicts between the
Russian government and the Ukraine
h,svr no connection with the question
Of DIFFERENTIATION of the Ukraine
concerning which there is room for
conflict between Lc Two sister repub
i lies"
All German newspapers are being
4 freely admitted into Russia
Ruung is reported at SebaStupol,
+ but The date OF the trouble is NOT
4 specifically stated The riotlng is said
TO have started with the crew of a
torpedo boat. who arrested their OFF
GERS and shot them SiXty Two Off.
GERS are reported to have been killed
including a vice admiral and three 9th.
or admiralS
Germany was never in such danger
Of collapse from Internal and external
I difficulties as al present, says the cor
Respondent in Germany OF The Til. in
an analysis Of the existing situation
The politics struggle concentrated
around Foreign secretary Won Kuehl-
mann has been reflected in violent
scenes IN the main committee OF the
relchstag Public action Of thr So.
clalist minority cannot be longer re.
sisted
The number IF Bash ,m1s sunk
/ By German submarines IN rhe ruth
less beat warfare which has been
IN progress since la- February has
passed ihr thousand mrk
Initial common IN tbe Austrian and
German press ON President Wilson
message i, utterly hostile His pro
gram is declared % b. unacccp hlc
and one pan German paper say II /.
more bru.al stir han tho recent
statement Of Premier Lloyd George
The president Is accused OF desiring
10 hinder he BreslLinoy-k npgotia
ion, and Vienna newspaper, declare
hat his peace conditions are such
rs could OILY be imposed ~ he cen
tral powers if lhey we're dpfea ed com
piotely
It apparent thai thc German- viii
not be- able TO begin operations in an
"ffor to complete their conquest OF
Nene.ia while he supmy lncse arr
snow bound
snow has com, 10 HI I'D OF The
Italians The AuSro-Greman oHen
siyr apparently has reached halt. il
not an rnd The whole mountain front
where the Teutons had been making
slight but steady gains is buried un
der from three to five fept u snow
making infantry operations impossi
bic and hampering The Teutonic sup
ply lines seriously
\ Constantinople repuri ha, il that
within The Ottoman empire there are
rowing bants OF brigands estimated
al three hundred thousand They arr
mostly armed desertprs from h. army
bent on pllage, and venture neal
towns and sometimes attack the reg
ular troops in order to get arms anc
food.
The hospital shin Rewa was torpe
doed and sunk in the Bristol channe
while on her way from Gibraltar. Al
the wounded We're saved There wer,
three casualties among the crew.
Leon Trotzky, speaking at the peac,
conference al Bresi-IitovsK told tn,
Germans that the Russians were Their,
moi as the representatives. Of con
quered country, and did moi intend Il
ask pity. but were just MS strongly
revolutionary as ever
THE additional strength which tn,
enemy can obtain from the events il
Russia and Italy already has beer
largely discounted and the ultimate de
struction Of the enemy's field force,
has been brought apprecably nearer
is the costident summing up of tn,
British commandment. chief in Franc,
and Belgium Of last years Nork
Germany announces further exten
sion of the barred zone. It becam,
effective January H. The extension,
particularized in the message affec
the region around enemy supportint
points" on the Cape Verde islands ant
the point of support of Dekar. French
Senegal, with the adjoining coasta
district.
President Wilson's address to con
gress on the countrys war aims. wa.
characterized by William B. Thomp
son. head of the American Red Cross
mission to Russia, as an adaptation
of both the Russian people and the
program Of the Russian d1n ocracv.