The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-24

would not be- Withdrawn from the uc.
cupied territories while the war lasts.
The Austro-GermnnS. the statement
added do not intend incorporating
into their respective countries the ter.
ritori"s now occupied by them.
Trotzky clung In his demands for the
right ~ Self-drtcrmlnutiun for all M.
tionulitieS. and that rrincplle. supported
by Lloyd.Grnrgc ANA President Wilson,
has taken lis place as almost the lead.
ing peace term ~ the opponents of the
central powers. The German General
Hoffman taunts the holShcviki with llr,
fact that they are Inconsistent h.cauS.
they are fighting III" Ckraininns, hut
on the other hand Lenine. TrotzEy and
their fellows hay" permitted the set.
ting NJ Of independent governments In
various parts of Russia because the
people so willed II. They have lust
declared. also, that their government
supports the right of the Armenlnns
In Russia and Turkey n be inderend.
ent and to decide their own dr.;iny.
The British government has 81 far rec.
Ognized the boshcyiEi rs tn rsi;hlisi
official relations with their minister ia,
London.
Turkestan announced IL. indrp NJ
ence on Tuesday.
Petrograd announced tral g. ..
days OF fighting the bolshevkl forces
had seized lrkutsk. eastern Siberia;
disarming III" toSsacks and military
cadets. They also have occupied Orcn.
burg.
Among the interesting reports that
came OUT Of Russia was one to the
effect that the former CZar and his
family had mndo their escape from
Ioholsk. Another story said the for
m"r "zarina has become hopelrssly in.
sane.
The abandonment of the Roumanlnn
front by III" Russian troops led 10 u
nasty little row. Roumaninns arrested
and dlsarmrd several Russian rrgi-
m"ntS and III" Russian government at
one" put under arrest the Roumnnnn
diplomats In Petr"grnd and threatened
war on Rounania If the Russian sol.
diers were not AT once freed. \ strong
Joint protest by Representatives of all
the allied and neutral powers brought
about the release Of the Roumunan
diplomats.
Then came an astonishing order
from the holsheviki government for
the arrest Of King Ferdinand of Rou-
MANN and his incarceration In the
fortress .f 81. Peter and St Paul. This
was attributed to the action Of the
Roumanans In arreSting some Aus.
trian officers who had attempted TO
pass through the Roumanlan lines to
fraternize with III" Russians.
tn" British labor party came IN the
front "n Tuesday with message To
the Russian people announcing that
the British people accepted the prln-
riplr Of Srlf.dcterininntion Of peoples
aud no anneXntinns for the British EN-.
pire, especially in The middle East, AZ
ricn und India. The manifesto con
cludrd with nn ~ peal TO the peoples
of central Europe 10 help end the war
by the defeat Of militnrism on both
sides, and not tn drive the British peO-
pie, as they are driving the Russians.
into the terrible choice between con.
iinuing the conflict and abandoning the
only principles thai can save the world.
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There Is not much To he written Of
III" weeks fighting. The German pn-
pers were talking openly of the com.
Ing great offensive an the west front
and asserted that n million more troops
had been sent into France, hut Won
Hindenbnrg still delayed the blow. The
scllvity NJ the avlntors was notable,
and the allied flying men made several
successful bombing raids an German
cities, Karlsruhe especially being hard
hit.