The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-01-09
BIG OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT
NOW IN PREPARATION
ON WESTERN FRONT
Artillery Duels in France, Flanders
and Italy Forecast Big Engage
ments Very Soon
HUNS REPULSED IN RAIDS
Bolsheviki Reported to be PREPARING.
to Resist Huns-Status of Peace
Dealings Dark


major war theaters are of a minor
character, signs are not wanting that
big battles are in the process of max
ing IN Flanders, France and Italy. At
various points in these three war
zones intensive artillery duels are
going on day and night They are par
tlcularly severe in the region of
Iprcs and the Cambria sector, where
the British arc facing the Germans;
along the Aisne on the Vcrdun sector
and along the Moselle river, where
the forces of. the German Grown
Prince and Grand Duke Albrecht, of
Wurttemburg, are opposing the
French, and in the Italian highlands
from the region of Lake Garda east
ward to the Piavc river, where the
Austro German troops are aligned
against the Italians, French and Brit
ish.
Germans Repulsed
Southwest of Yprcs, Flanders, the
Germans have made an attempt to en-
ter British positions, but met with
repulse and heavy losses under the
fire of the British infantry and ma
chine guns. Likewise an attempted
raid against the French position on
the historic Hill 3O4, in the Verdun
! sector, was stopped with sanguinary
losses to the Germans. These two ma
noeuvcrs constitute the only activity
by infantry forces at any points cx-
ccpt that small British patrols at sew
, cral places forced CROSSINGS of the
Piave river against the Teutonic al
lies.
Peace Negotiations
The situation arising in the dis
agreement between the Tcutonic allies
and the Bolshcviki leaders in Russia
still remains clouded owing to lack of
definite information concerning the
trend the negotiations are taking or
whether they have entirely ceased. An
unofficial dispatch from Pctrograd
quotes NJ. Radek, one of the Bolshev-
Xxi delegates who has been treating
with the Austrians and Germans in
Petrograd, as declaring that the Boil
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, fighting front, but that the Russians
will accept no help from the Entente
Allies if they are forced to fight
again, as the Russians are fighting for
an ideal and not for conquest. The
Bolshcviki like the German working
classes, added NJ. Radck, stand for a
democratic peace and that if the Ger
man government attacks the Russians
sit will display itself to its own peo-
pie in its true light"
Meantime the German social dem
ocratic party has come out strongly
against the German plan of annexa-
tion as set forth at the Brest-Ltovsk
conference, and in a resolution has
declared that lasting peace is posi-
bic only if the democratic principle Of
clf-dctcrmination is honestly carried
out. The resolution added that the
party is resolved absolutely to combat
the misuse of the right of sclf-deter-
mination for the purpose Of Disgusting
annexations.
Another American steamship, the
| Harry Luckenbach, has been sunk by
an enemy submarine somewhere in the
war zone. Eight members Of the crew
of the steamer are rportd missing.
Earl Reading has been appointed
British high commissioner in the
United States. In addition to being
an able jurist he is one of Great Brit
aims best known financiers.