The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-24
GERMANS ARE
KEPT MOVING
into RUSSIA
invasion of Teuton Army
Continued, No Resistance
Being Offered Yet.
TURKS DRIVE
RUSSIANS EAST
Military Operations Else
where Are of Minor I'm
portance, Announced.
(Assoeiatsd Press Summary,

Germans are continuing their march
into Russia, ard indications are that
stiff resistance will be offered them
At Petrograd If they attempt to cap
ture it before the reopenirg Of peace
negotiations.
Turks in Turkish Armenia have
opened an offensive, driving the Rus
slams forward along the Black sea
coast.
Military operations elsewhere are Of
minor Importance.
The inter allied labor conference az
LoEdor has reached a. determination
not 10 accept any German peacs''
promises in support of British war
inns.
Peace neEotiations with tie Russians
will not be resumed Immediately BY
the Germans and guerilla warfar,
proba bly, will be instituted by the
Bolsheviki u impede the German ad-
vance which apparently Is not NOV
the week. The Germans, however, arc
meeting with little resistance an the
long line and Austrian and Ukrainian
troops are approaching Kiev.
Tt is announced semi ON ciallv from
Berlin that DR. Won Euhlmann foreign
secretary has gone to Bucharest to
discuss peace with Rumanian emissary
and therefore resumption of nerotia-
tons with the Bolshevikt will have to
he postponed. Leon Trotzl<y. tn :
Bolshevilxi foreign minister, is reported
70 have left Petrograd for Dvinsk 10
seek an early conference with tho
Germans.
Bolsheviki resistance seemingly de-
rends on whether the Germans will
accept readily the capituIation OF the
fS M
that tie Germans with the Rumanian
negotiations as an excuse are going
70 push their campaign in the Balti,
provinces before answering the Ru :
slams. In the region east and north
of Dvinsk and along the Gulf Of Fin
land, the Germans have advanced fur
ther from the South where east OF
Minsk tEey are nearing the line OF
Beresina. in crossing which in 1872
Napoleon suffered a serious defeat
while retreating from Moscow.
With the regular army and navy
SERIOUSLY demoralized he Bolshevikl
'eaders are placing their faith in tho
Fed Guards and guerilla warfare by
the inhabitants OF the invaded dis
tricts The Russian commander of the
Northern front reports the Germans
advancing in detachments of fom 1nr
to 200 men and not as regimental
units.
Except for artillery duels there has
been no lighting actively on the West
ern front. On the American sect y
the bon1bardment by the big guns con-
tinues. German raiders were dispersed
by American nre, while rain has pu,
a temporary halt 10 the intense aeria,
activity. A trench mortar shell has
caused the death OF three Americans
and the wounding OF four others Brit
ish airmen have accounted for nine
more enemy airplanes, bringing their
total for the past six DAYS to nearly
100. There has been no let up in the
intensive bombing OF German air
droTnes and other targets.
Capture o Jericho by the British
gives the Palestine army a continu-
Gus front from the Mediterranean tc
the river Jordan. General Allenby Is
now in n position TO cut the railroad
running south from Damascus as well
as to fcfn forces with the Arabs
marching northward on the eastern
side OF the Dead sea