New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-15
OO0REDCUARDS
KILLED BY Firms
ARABS DEFEAT TURKS NEAR RED
sEA-AMERicAN GUNS SMASH
HUN SHIPPERS.
AUSTRIA CABINET QUITS
lEMBURG POLICE AND CITiZENs
CLASH IN FOUR.DAY ANTI
WAR OUTBREAK.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Amsterdam, Feb. PA dispatch
from Brest-Litovsk via Berlin giving
details of the conference at which the
peace treaty between the central pow
ers and the new Ukrainian republic
was signed has been received here.
The agreement cedes territory to Ger
many and is called complete surren-
der by Trotzky.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 1l.-One American artilleryman
was killed and five artillerymen were
wounded Saturday night by shell fire.
The Americans %sprinkled the enemy
trenches with s%hrapnel all day Sun.
day.
The armies of the German crown
prince before Verdun since Feb. 2
have suffered costly defeats in seven
vain raids IN French positions on both
sides of the Meuse. Although large
bodies of troops were employed at
times, not a single permanent ad an
tage has been gained.
Parie.-In a raid on a German posi-
ton near DiOncourt, in Lorraine, a
French detachment took thirty pris'
oners and one machine gun, the war
office announced.
Germans took prisoners west OF Op-
py and north of Passchendaele and
claim success in surprise attack on
eastern slope of Lorraine heights.
Italians repulsed surprise attack in
Monte AsolOne region.
The German artillery is increasing
its activity on the Flanders front in
the vicinity of the HouthOlst wood,
says the London War Office report.
Washington.-Arab forces, under
command OF the sheik of Mecca, have
completely defeated the Turkish army
operating southeast OF the Dead Sea,
official dispatches state. In a san
culinary battle which began Jan. 30
the Arab tribesmen virtually annihil-
ated the entire Turkish force, cap
turing 300 prisoners, including the
Turkish commander-in-chief and his
staff. The Turkish loss in killed alone
exceeded 400. Eighteen machine guns,
two mountain guns and a large
amount of booty fell into the hands
of the Arabs.
with tho Ap,opioan Arrnu in L,rapna
artillery and infantry have
cleaned out a majority of the snipers
who caused considerable annoyance
from the time the sector was taken
over. Snipers' posts in buildings have
been destroyed by knocking down the
shelters over the heads of the Ger
mans with shells. Shippers hidden in
bushes or in shell holes have been
routed by American sharpshoOters.
Night patrols have succeeded in locat-
ing some of the positions and the Ger
mans in these have been finished off
later.
Stockholm, Feb. 9.-General Man
nerheim, commander of the forces
which are supporting the Finnish pro-
visional government, has defeated the
revolutionary Red Guard, a Helsing-
fors dispatch to the Alton T~idningen
reports. The Red Guards are said to
have suffered a loss of 5000 killed.
The battle occurred at Korkeakosi,
neal Tammerfors.
Amsterdam.-A serious four-day
peace demonstration occurred at Lem
berg, according to dispatches received
here. In, clashes between the authori-
ties and the demonstrators three po-
licemen were killed and forty civilians
wounded.
DR.. Won Seydler, the Austrian pre-
mier, has rendered the resignation OF
his cabinet to Emperor Charles, &C
cording to a dispatch from Vienna. A
Zurich dispatch states that Emperor
Charles has refused to accept the res
ignations.
The resignation of the Won Seydler
cabinet, it is understood in parliament
ary circles in Vienna, is due to the
opposition of Polish deputies against
special debates and the provisional
budget.