The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 28, 1918, Image 7
V
RUSSIA HELPLESS
♦
GERMAN ARMIES ADVANCE AT
WILL TOWARDS PETROGRAD
CAPTURE MUCH BOOTY
Discipline and Authority Disappear
* * ' ^ *
in Russia as Rolsheviki Reap the
, Whirlwind — Teutonic - Military
Leaders Have Free Hand in Deal
ing With Important Foes.
In their wild race against compro
mise with the Bolsheviki the Ger
man armies are pushing forward
on a front of 400 miles. The re
sistance to their invasion is feeble,
unorganized. From Petrograd the
Bolsheviki ministers are sending
frantic appeals for restoration of the
„ discipline and order which they
themselves have systematically de
stroyed. In the field Bolshevist com
manders are urging their troops to
J‘defend the revolution, figlft to the
finish.”
But like a great tidal wave, the
German invasion of Kussia rolls for
ward from Leal, in Ksthonia.
a sly , wink In the direction of France
whose finances would suffer hearlty
were the bolshevist threat not to
J>ay back a single rouble be kept. <
"Now or never, is the time for
Bolshevism to be wiped off the face
of the earth,’* is the watchword of
Germany’s militarists. Diplomacy has
been subordinated to the policy of
blood and iron. The generals are
to act. The diplomats are to do the
explaining to the people at home,
and to tfoe world. Posing as a cru
sader bent. upon ‘‘saving Europe
from anarchy/’ Germany is pushing
her new war In the east with all
might and speed.
All dealings with the Bolsheviki
now are in the hands of General von
Hoffman, at Dwinsk. He was the
the military member of the German
delegation at Brest-Litovsk, who
gained such notoriety with his table
banged speeches. Besides being an
arch-doe to Bolshevikism he has
some scores to settle with Trotzky.
In many a heated tilt with the Bol
shevist foreign minister at Brest-
Litovsk, the general was stopped in
his fistic attacks upon the peace
council by his more gentle colleague,
Kuehlmann.
‘‘You' talk as if you were a con
queror,” thundered von Hoffman at
Trotzky, at the hottest of the verbal
duels.
‘‘I talk.” was the Bolshevikist
hetman’s cool response, "as if you
were a man.” German soldiers art-
i ing as flunkies in the council room
had slyly chuckled.
UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPU BLIC WHERE BATTLE RAGES
' csthonT
LIVONIA •
If
RIGA
'PETROGRAD
i With, -these memories burning in
felfl hrain \<>n llotfm.m began to I
Russian province on the south shore • deal” with the Bolsheviki. The
of the Gulf of Finland, on the north f | ri(t thin p he waH !o HPn( i a t . urt
to Kovno. part of the famous tri
angle of fortresses which stood as
a Muscovite bulwark in the early
days of the war. in the south, the
Germans are still advancing. The
Teutons’ forward movement has tak
en the form of a crescent, with Its
convex face towards, the heart of
Russia Minsk which was occupied
ednesday by Get man troops, ac
cording to an official report from
jlerhn In at the extreme eastern
uf'e of the wave
The Prussian military machine Is
crushing all
hour defense
been landed In Finland, presenting
a grave flanhlnc menace to the Kaa
sian capital, la the south Ko%uo
the Volhyutau fortreue that bald for
three yearn acaiast assaults baa
been occupied Here the laeadees
message. to Petrogrnd Informing
Lenine and Trotzky that their wire-
lean- m^sage of yesterday, declar
ing their willingness to sign a Ger
man peace, meant nothing tq him for
to Germany. The only way to con
vince him, he said, was to send to
him immediately tha> same message
In writing with authenticated sig
nature# affixed.
The so far still unconfirmed store
fr« *rti Petrograd Is that l^euine and
Trot thy wired back that they would
do thta aud ten nested a promfll
attempts at eleventh- | rst»|y Meanwhile the two invading
force# have gr«t#s are raring against aay ram*
promise
Hoffman a fire-water who Hie
the rest of military commander* hate
and abhor Rotwbev Ihism her a use to
them it means the death of organ*
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p«ed towns ubo talks, arts or looks make good etna If no support
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labeu by the German L gk command forutga minister has bogna the pro
man of eaplaiaiag
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slums the extreme
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sold to be -tuvalvulnblr.**
Man lag Petrograd la in (be throes
of indescribable turmoil Twu-thlfds
of lb# rupitai • pop slat ion m paak
atrkkea The other third, rnaelatlag
mostly of radkals persists la bo
Itevlag that ibe Teutonic peoples
util bah the laxaaloa by remit For
ly thousand German prisoners ta Po
trograd a*e awaiting the boom of the
first attaching gun to dot tbetr
share tboroagbly mapped out by the
me eat German commission la the
capital
Whether the Bolshevikist faith la
a forthcoming Teutonic home revolt
Is Justified forms the question of
quest loos la all political specala-
Mon. Signs are plentiful that It ta.
Aet so far they are only slgna.
y^From Vienna came a dispatch late
Indicating Emperor Charles had caat
away the garb of benevolent, demo
cratic ruler," and donned the armor
of military tyrant. He la said to
have threatened the Reichsrath, the
Austria parliament, with a proclama
tion of empire-wide martial law. If
the war budget Is not promptly pass
ed. The Socialists and radicals ap
pear’ to be holding out for redemp-
were also further reports from Ger
man sources of a brewing strike.
Rut every direct dispatch from
both Teutonic capitals confirms that
the militarists are in full control and
mean to exploit that control to the
uttermost limit. Diplomacy has been
reduced for the time being to mili
tarism’s hand strapper. This became
clearer than ever wh,en it was learn
ed that in reply to the I»enine-Trotz-
ky declaration Berlin will make de
mands which It will he impossible
for the Bolsheviki to grant unless
they wish to lose all hold on the
Russian masses.
These demands include two
shrewd attempts:
1. To conciliate the Poles, in
dignant over the cession of Cholm
to the Ukraine.
2. To place the neutrals under
s obligation to Germany.
Russia, so the Germans now de
clare, must ‘‘guarantee the Inde
pendence of the Russian Poles," and
guarantee payment of her debts to
the central powers. The proposal is
made that Germany act as collec
tor also for Russia’s, debts to ^the
aeutrals.
In this latter proposal is also seen
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vou Kuehlmaaa la believed te have
started for Focuaul. la German occu
pied Mumaala where a peace cou-
fereuce with Romaala ta ncheduled
to mpea Uouat vou Ctemlu. the pilot
of Austria’* foreign affair*, also
started for Focsaal. report* have t.
% Petrograd ditpalrbqp stated that
Germany had rut down her origi
nal demand for n $4.000.000.000 In
demnity from the Bolsheviki to tl,-
500.000.000.
German paper* lay stre*a. as w dld
also von Kuehlmsnn In his speech
upon the "Imperative necessity to
respond to the Ukraine’s appeal for
help." .
There were Indications that * the
central .powers have yielded to the
Polish indignation over the cessation
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Teutons Hope to Deliver C'rushing
Blow With Intensively Trained
Shock Troops—All Sectors on
Western Front Are Scenes of Nu
merous Minor Engagements.
After extensive preparations, si
lently and systematically carried out.
it is apparent that both the Germans
and the Allies are ready for the
long-expected offensive in the west,
says Secretary Baker in his review
of military operations for the week
ending February 16.
4 ’While there have been outwardly
no new developments In the military
situation in the west during the pe
riod under review/’ says the Secre
tary’s communique. ”yet It la appar-
• lit that both the enemy and the
Allies, after the extensive prepara
tions, which have been silently and
systematically tarried on, are ready
for battle.
The German* have recently with-
wn a number of their veteran
t fiont unit* from the first liu#
»• Ue* and arp busily training
m In mobile warfsr**
'According fo advice* received.
I German general siaff bop#* that
I by massing g large number of the*#
I pkisd ahork battalions, which have
| inien*iv#ly trained, they may
I deliver u crushing blew
The hulk of tbe German force*
are now aaoombled lu Ibu woot Mot
a laia# number of the** unit* nr#
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An erooamtr ngruument with
•U*»*. bp wbbrb General Fersblng
wlM get mule* blank#<* and other
f^s’rri*ia jm that country in ra-
t*ra for cotton, oil and other com■
mudMieu from tbu United Staten, baa
been in Madrid Tbe state depart
meat was so advised by Ambassador
Willard
tion of Count Czemin’s promises of
immediate peace in the east, There < °‘ Cholm to the 1 kraine, and that
wore ninn further rpnnrt* frnm fipr- ® modification of the frontier ad
justment Is contemplated.
The "republic of Ukraine” has re
ceived a jolt. She Is to be ji “pro
tectorate under the uardianship of
Austria-Hungary.” Berlin dispatches
to this effect add that the rada al
ready has declared perfect agree
ment with this plan.
Meanwhile the systematic clearing
out of the Turkish possessions in
Asia by the Russians continues. Tre-
bizend, the big Armenian port on the
Black sea, has just been "peaceful
ly occupied” by Ottoman troops. Er-
zerum and Erzingan, the two great
fortresses, capture of which consti
tuted memorable triumphs for czar-'
ist forces, c^re being evacuated.
^Thousands of square miles of Turk
ish territory, capture of whilch more
than two years ago cost hundreds
of thousands of Russian soldiers
lives, are being abandoned.
NEW REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN
Foch May Command.
Dispatches from both English and
French sources indicate that General
Foch, one of the best known of
French military leaders, may tie giv
en supreme command of all the al
lied forces on the western front.
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of her people sad bnag about a .
aormal view, so that they may be
coavlpced that tbe policy (buy have
adopted aad followed under Kaiser
Wilhelm Is wrong
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formation that will make them
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lb# total number of planes able to
take the air at aay one time oa
ettbtr side of the weetera front baa
not been more than 2.M0.
That forty-elf are required on the
ground for every plane la the air,
making a total of 115,000 men need-
•nd make them. re«.rd the oblto- ; for prrieDt B „ lnlum of
tlona of treaties
APPEALED TO AUSTRIA
Trotzky A»»^ Empire to Slate Inter
est in New War
According to Vienna dispatches,
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign
minister, has forwarded a wireless
message to Count Czernin, the Aus
trian foreign minister, reading:
“The German government having
re-dstablished a state of war with
Russia without even giving the sev
en days previous notice, I have the
honor to ask you* to inform me
whether the Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment also considers itself in a
state of war with Russia, and if not,
whether it believes it possible to
reach a practical realization of the
agreements worked out at Fetro-
grad.
AUSTRIA NOT IN IT
Will
Not Awdst Germany hi New
War on ItusMa
An agreement has been reached
between Germany and Austria-Hun
gary whereby. In the event of mili-
WiLL H. HAYES
Will H. Hays of, Indiana is the
youngest man to be chosen chair
man of the Republican National
Committee. He is about thirty-eight
years of age. In Indiana, where the I tary action being necessfVy the Ger-
best politcians are produced, he Is man troops will be confined to the
considered a genius at ‘the game! frontier of Great Russia, and the
He will have much to do with de- Austrians to Ukraine only. This an-
termining the policy of the party { nouncement Is made In
for the next two years' dispatch. -
600 planes
That for every plane In the air,
there must be two replacement
planes on the ground and one train
ing plane for every pilot who event
ually reaches the front, with a spare
ergine for each plane. ,
After reviewing the many obsta
cles that had to be overcome in get
ting the aircraft production pro-
eiam underway, Mr. Baker said the
great problem now remaining is to
secure the thousands of skilled me
chanics. enginemen, motor repair
men, wood and metal workers, etc.,
reeded to keep the planes in per
fect condition and without which
the machines turned out soon would
be useless and the fliers helpless.
"At best”, said the Secretary^
“the life of a plane is but two
montns and the engine must be over
hauled after seventy-five hours,
while a pilot on a plan** allowed to
leave the hangars in imperfect con
dition is as helpless as a bird with
a bn ken wing.
‘Now that American battle planes
fare going overseas, a great increase
in the volunteering of skilled me
chanics is both q^sential and expect-
Ml.”
During the past months, Mr, Ba-
kor said, a responsive channel of
* (''run unication with the Alllei bus
been opened, the latest types of for
eign uar bines have ben adapted to
An erlrsn manufacture, the Indus
try Increased at least twenty-fold,
the % training * plane problem solved
a Vienna and the production of battle planet
begun
"In < nempugue unMe uf A men cun
artillery eu ft l cl puled fen an eudape
meet •edectaheo bp Freach tureen
Thi* eperetftee uuu the meet Impact-
oat uf the ueuh la the unet. After
very careful artillery
dortof which ear boitocfeee
naefnlly. French tafaniry adveneed
lu the aeuuelt eouthweot uf the Butte
D* Meoall. along a front uf about
l.lhd yards Thu French succeeded
In peuetruilUf tbu Ourmun yos t oa>
broke through the second, aud
touched the third German ttuue
During this brisk attach the French
deetroyed many enemy shelters. In
flicted mack damage to enemy po
sit ions. besides bringing back lit
prisoners.
"Other aacceeaful mlda wore un
dertaken by French detachments In
tbe vicinity of the Chdtoln Due
Dames, east of Rhulms, In upp^r
Alsace end elsewhere. In all the
French drove forward twelve very
fortunate reconnolasance undertak
ings along different parts of the line.
"German units, were also active.
There attempts to reach the French
lines were temporarily successful in
the vicinity of Uexonvaux and in Al
sace. However, seven German raids
at various other points broke down.
French artillery kept the enemy con
stantly engaged along a widely scat
tered area.
“The British front was also the
scene of numerous minor engage
ments. No important actions took
place, and the enemy, who was evi
dently busy with the grouping of
units and disposing fresh forces re
cently arrived from other theatres,
in the front lines undertook, only
such reconnoitering engagements as
to familiarize the new units with the
nature of the terrain in front of
them. . *
“The concentration of an import
ant body of German’ cavalry in the
vicinity of Riga is noted and it is
believed that the Germans may find
it expedient to advance on Petro
grad. It is difficult to-determine the
exact status of affairs in South
western Russia The Russian con
tingents are evacuating the Armen
ian centers south of the Black .sea.
which are being reoccup^pd by Turk
ish detachments Treblzond will
probebh soon fall into Turkish
bands.
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