French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-03-21

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powers.
President Wilson has called on all
American boys of sixteen years and
over, not permanently employed, to
enroll in the United States boys work
ing reserve. A national enrolment
week, beginning March Is, has been
set aside by the department Of labor.
European.
Severe rioting occurred in the ma
tfonalist quarter of Belfast, Ireland,
between a mob of Sim Feiners and
the police. Many casualties were
Sent to the hospital, including a num-
Der of policemen. The rioting lasted
four hours, and the military was call
ed out to take charge Of the district.
Strikes are again in progress in
Austria and Hungary, and are spread
ing, according to reports appearing
in German newspapers received in
Holland.
With the approach of spring each
day witnesses an increase in the
fighting activity. In every theater, eX-
| cept Russia, the infantry and artillery
are hard at work. From the North
sea to the Swiss frontier no day pass
es without numerous "patrol" encoun-
| tiers, which, at times, reached the in
tensity almost of battles, and artillery
duels of violence, but little short Of
the great exchanges Of shells which,
in the past year, reached the high wa
for nor k in intensity.
At numerous points along the Brit
ish front Field Marshal Haig's men
are under heavy bombardments from
the Germans, particularly along the
Bapaume-C Cambria; road, in the Scarpe
valley and around Lens.
Twenty-six persons are missing in
consequence of a collision between a
/ naval vessel and the British steam
ship Baltimore. Survivors have been
landed at Kingstown, Ireland, by de-
stroyers.
The aIl-Russian congress of s~oviets,
meeting at Moscow, by a vote of 453
to 80, decided to ratify the peace trea-
ty with the central powers. M. Ryaz-
onoy, a prominent Bolsheviki theorist
and representative OF all the profess
sional unions, resigned from the Boil
sheviki party after the vote.
Replying to an inquiry as to wheth-
er there was any truth in the ru-
NOR that proposal had been received
from Germany for a peace at the ex-
pense of Russia, Lord Robert Cecil
| said: CAS- far as I know no such pro-
posals are being considered or will be
considered.
+ The peace treaties that have been
signed by Russia and Roumania have
not caused any change in Serbia's dip
lomatie representative in Switzerland.
All rumors in regard to a separate
peace on the part of Serbia are un-
founded. 1t is stated, however, that
! Serbia has lost over a million men
in the war.
The Verdun offensive Of the Ger
mans, in which they failed to break
the French line, has been estimated
in conservative quarters as having
cost them something like five hundred
thousand men.
General o Ludendorff says: eff
Che enemy wishes to attack now let
him do so. He will find us ready.
If the enemy does not want peace, he
will have to fight, and this fight will,
Of course, be the most tremendous Of
the whole war. With Gods aid, we
will obtain a German peace, not a
doubtful peace"
British Foreign Secretary Balfour
says nothing could be more unfortun-
ate than the coincidence between the
Russian revolution and the war that
was being conducted by Russia and
her allies, but he is an optimist about
Russia, though not about Russia's i'm
mediate future.
A Constantinople message says that
Erzerum has been captured by Turk
ish forces, after Armenian resistance
was overwhelmed. Erzerum is the
principal city of Armenia, and is To-
Gated 100 miles southeast of Trezi-
zond, the Black sea port, which was
seized recently by the Turks from the
Russians.
The notice served on Holland by
Great Britain and the United States
regarding the taking over of Dutch
ships in allied ports has thrown the
German press into a towering rage.
The British admiralty reports the
loss by mine or submarine of 10 Brit
ish merchantmen in the past week and
one fishing vessel. OF these Is were
1900 tons or over, and three under
that tonnage.
Remier Lloyd-George;S speaking. In
London, said there had been criticism
because the cabinet ministers had not
given much prominence to the idea
OF a league of nations in their state
speeches. The -Bolshevikists had, he
said, taught them a lesGop-that was
that a real league of nations did not
come by talking about it.
Nobody has been so eloquent on the
subject of the league of nations as
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