The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-02-07

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country the option of returning to
| ices within a fixed period.
Quick retaliatory measures have
been forecast as the answer of the
United States and the allies to SPANS
| interference with the shipment OF
goods across her frontier. In fact, GER
tain Spanish ships now in American
ports ready to sail are being held Up
| though the war trade board in for
NAL statement denied that vessels
were being kept in port.
European. So ~
| Forty five persons were Killed and
2O7 injured in the German air said re-
Gently. on Paris, according to the lat
est revised figures
The city of Paris has allotted burial
plots in perpetuity- without cost to
the families. OF the victims of air
raids.
The French government is bearing
the expense Of all killed in the war.
In Russia the BoIsheviki has cap
tured the important Black sea port
of Odessa and also the railroad juno
ton of Orenburg, which lies near the
Asiatic frontier.
The Russian Bo1sheviki is continu-
ing its program of hostilities against
Rumania, the revolutionary committee
of the Black sea fleet having conf1s-
Gated a large number of merchant and
other vessels in the Black sea in or
The Rumanians have captured from
the Russians the town OF Kishinev,
capital of Bessarabia. -
"The submarine is held" Thus in
ford words Sir Eric Campbell Geddes,
first lord of the English admiralty,
summarized the results of the first
year of Germany's unrestricted sub
marine warfare, which began February
1, a year ago. I'd
DIR. Alexander Wekerle, Hungarian
premier, in address the sdfet February
1, said: "Our readiness for peace is
sincere and earnest. We never strove
nor do we strive for conquests. We
are ready to seek just understand.
ing" .--,i !
The British torpedo gunboat Haz-
zard was sunk in the English channel
on January 28 as the result of col
iision. Three men were lost:
The peace conference at Brest-Li-
tovsk is in session again, but no de-
tails of the proceedings have yet been
made public. @
The British casualties during the
month Of January are reported to total
1907. .s.
A crowd of carousers broke into a |
factory at Novo Archangelsk, Russia, !
and became trapped in the cellar. Some |
one lighted a candle, the alcohol -ex-
ploded and the whole bunch went to |
kingdom come.
Twenty persons were killed and tif- |
ty were injured in raid on Paris. !
One of the German machines was
brought down and the occupants made
prisoners.
Fragments of projectiles dropped |
by German birdmen on allied cities |
show that they are winged torpedoes
weighing from 100 to 200 pounds, ex-
plosive bombs and incendiary bonabs. |
An increase in the British shipping
losses is shown in. the official sum-
mary issued February I, which reports
the destruction of nine vessels of
more than 1000 tons, and six of lesser
tonnage.
The Bavarian king is reported to-
be taking very active part in the
peace deliberations between Russia
md the central powers. sss /
The Huns attempted to break
through the hill region to the Vene-
ian plain, but failed around Monte
Eomba and sectors west. 1t is report
I'd, however, that the Austro-Germans
nave been taking up reinforcements
n the Asiago district preparatory to a
urther series OF attacks to reach the
oWlands around Bassano and Vicenza.
In the twelve months Of unrestrfct.
ID warfare launched against American
md allied shipping by Germany one
'ear ago, there have been sunk by sub
marines, mines and raiders So Ameri-
an vessels, totalingl I'll ,061 gross tons, T
according to careful compilation of
ecords of sinkings which have been
made public during the period.
Enemy airplanes dropped bombs on
4ondon. One of the invading aircraft
vas brought down In Essex.
Serious strikes are reported to be in
'rogress throughout Germany. In Ber-
in a1Sa suburban towns 10000 workers
re snjd to have quit work. Various
arge factories engaged in the. manu-
acture of war4supplies, especially air
lanes, are affected. Independent So
ialists are reported to have taken
n active part in the calling of the
trike.
Italian success against the Austri-
MS IN the mountain region of north
IN Italy has been extended by the can
nra Of Mnnfo IL 3yn1- ND III -. Il