Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1918 — WAR SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY

With the occupation of th* great Russian naval base of Reval. officially announced in Berlin and the capture of Pskov, 162 m'.les from Petrograd, also claimed by .the Germans, reports are current today that the Teutons expect to enter the Russian capital by Sunday. The Russian situation today appears more of a tangle than ever. Dispatches from various sources say the Russians have again decided to “fight to the end 1 ’ and have appointed a dictator; that peace delegates have left for Brest-Litovsk; that the Germans are advancing through Finland; that 20,000 German soldiers have refused to fight the Bolsheviki; that the Germans are executing members of the Red Guard and that a state of siege has been proclaimed in western Poland. Except for heavy gun duels on the French front, particularly near Tahure, in the Champagne, where American batteries are aid&g the French artillery, the last twentyfour hours brought no new developments on the west front. Raiding activities .were continued all along the front by both sides. Paris dispatches today told of a destructive air raid by allied flyer* on military work* behind th* German line* in Belgium. ...Th* British force* in Mesopotamia have registered a new advance. They have occupied KhanaBurayat and are now only ten mile* from Rita on the Euphrates, seven-yt-five mile* northwest of Bagdad.