The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-14
European.

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member of the Red Cross, says a
Melbourne dispatch, a British gunboat
surprised a German prize crew aboard
the British vessel Turitella while they
were laying mines off Perrin. The Ger
mans took to small boats and blew up
the Turritella while Chinese were in
the stoke hole and engine room. The
gunboat captured the Germans who
were recently tried at Bombay for
murder.
The last details relative to the peace
signed with Finland shows that from
the Arctic ocean to the Black sea the
German power is complete. Semi-off1-
cial reports from Berlin also claim that
Germany has acquired a direct free
route to India via Russia, Persia and
Afghanistan.
1t is reported that Finland has ask
ed Emperor William to place his son
Oscar on the Finnish throne. This,
as was indicated few days ago, alb
solutely deprives Russia of both
shores of the Gulf of Finland and
makes Petrograd virtually an inland
city, so far as commerce is concerned
In his address to the British house
of commons Andrew Bonar Law.
speaking of the military situation, said
that the dropping out of Russia deep
~ affected every theater of war ex-
cept that in the German colonies, out
of which the Germans had been COM
pletely driven.
Eleven persons were killed and for
ty-six others were injured in an air
plane raid on London, says an Off
cial announcement
Great Britain's loans to her allies
up to February totalled G1,264, OOO,-
900. This has been announced in the
English house of commons by Andrew
Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex-
chequer.
The Germans have transferred thir-
ty divisions from the Russian front.
The allies still have a slight superb
GRITTY in men and guns on the western
front, but there is a possibility that
the appearance of Austrians there
would change this. More troops may
be brought up from the Russian front.
but, of necessity, they will be of in
ferior duality.
German reinfOrcements continue to
be sent up behind the lines in Bel
GUM and France. At present the Ger
mans have sixteen more divisions than
the allies along this front, but the
allied troops are numerically stronger
and also hold the uper hand in RI
fes, guns and aircraft, but this SUI
periority is diminishing.
From Flanders to the Swiss border
artillery 6I1n1c 0f VII
lence are taking place on various
sectors.
A preliminary peace treaty between
Roumania and the central powers has
been signed. Under the terms of the
agreement Roumania cedes the prov
ince of DObrudja as far as the Danube
to the central powers, and undertakes
to further the transport of Teutonic
troops through Moldavia and Bessara-
bia to Odessa.
Official announcement is made by
the British admiralty that the Brit
ish armed mercantile cruiser Calgari-
an was torpedoed and sunk on March
l off the Irish coast. Two officers
and 46 men we're lost There were
go persons aboard, nearly five hum
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Irish port. The Calgarian was struck
by four torpedoes.
In Little Russia, it is announced
that the Austro-Hungarian forces are
still going forward against the Boil
sheViki troops.
Japan is not only ready to take Wig
orous steps in Siberia, but has init
mated that she would welcome the as
sistance Of the Chinese in operations
which will have for their objective the
safeguarding of the entente allied In
terests in the Far East.
Again the Germans in Lorraine have
attacked the American troops an1
again they have met with defeat Not
withstanding the heavy snow and the
previous repulses they had met with
in their effort to penetrate the Ameri-
can positions, the enemy in the Toul
sector essayed a surprise attack in
considerable force