Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1918 — RUSSIANS TURN AGAINST ALLIES [ARTICLE]

RUSSIANS TURN AGAINST ALLIES

Prove Trailers to Those Who Tried Io Help Them. GERMAN PROPAGANDA WINS Probably Means the Helense of a Million and a Half German Soldiers and Prisoners of War. London, February 11.—-A German government wireless dispatch received here this evening confirms dispatches received from Amsterdam during the day that Russia has ordered a cessation of- war and the demobilization of the Russian armies on all fronts. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph (from Amsterdam, says: “There is great enthusiasm in Germany over the reported end of the state of war between the central powers and Russia. Cities every where pre beflagged, and there is much rejoicing over Trotzky’a unconditional surrender. It has been arranged that the central economic commission now in Petrograd shall settle the details of the resumption of relations between Russia and the central powers.’’

Although no formal treaty has yet been signed between the Russians and the central powers the Bolshevikl government has ordered a cessation of hostilities by the Russians against Germany, AustriaHungary, Turkey and Bulgaria, and the withdrawal of Its troops from the trenches and fortified positions from the Baltic sea to the Roumanian frontier. It long had been foreseen that such an outcome eventually would follow upon the revolutionary movement in Russia, where for nearly a year civil strife and 1 war weariness generally proved most potent factors in weakening the battle front. Long ago the enemy forces began thrr'withdrawal of troops (from this front, and virtually only a handful of them have been faced by Russians there. Rumania in Dire Peril. Peace having been effected both by the Russians and Ukrainians with the Teutonic allies, the situation of Rumania becomes a most critical one. Entirely cut off now from her allies the Rumanians apparently are faced with the absolute necessity of effecting a separate peace or being overrun by superior enemy armies. Nothing has as yet come through to show whether another Rumanian cabinet to take the place of the one which resigned last week has been formed or whether any reply has been made ot the ultimatum of the central powers that peace negotiations should be immediately started. As bad been anticipated, the terms of peace between the Ukraine and the central powers contain the much desired clause providing for the immediate entering into economic relations between the contracting parties by which Austria and Germany may obtain much desired foodstuffs.-" Guns Roaring in Italy. On the various battle fronts, except that in northern Italy, operation by small patrols and artillery duels are in progress. On the Italian front enemy forces have heavily bombarded Italian positions and delivered attacks with infantry in the Frenzela valley region and on the new Italian positions on Monte Vai Bella, Col Del Rosso and Massasso Bosso. In all of the attacks the enemy was repulsed by the Italian batteries.

Almost simultaneously with the announcement by the Bolsheviki government that Russia is out off tho war and that a general demobilization along the entire Russian front is to be caried out, thus permitting the Teutonic allies to withdraw all their forces for use on other battle fronts, President Wilson has restated to a joint session of congress the fact that the United States is in the war to stay until those principles, which the people regard as fundamental to a permanent peace, are obtained. Our Whole Strcfngthh. "Our whole strength,” said the President, “will be put into this war of emancipation'—emancipation from

the threat and attempted mastery of selfish groups of autocratic rulers — whatever the difficulties and present partial delays. We are- indomitable in our power of independent action and can in no circumstance consent to live in a world governed by intrigue and force. We believe that our own desire for a new international order under which reason and justice and the common interests of mankind shall prevail is the desire of enlightened men everywhere. * * Having set our hand to the task of achieving it, we shall not turn back.” The address of the President was delivered in' answer to recent utterances by Count Czernin, ttie AustroHungarian foreign minister, and Count von Hertling, the imperial German chancellor, made in reply to the 'peace aims of the United States and her associates in the war set forth by President Wilson and David Lloyd George, the British prime minister. In the words of Count Czernin the President saw a frledly tone; those of Von 'Hertling were vague, very

confusing and full of unequivocal phrases. Czernin, said the President, seemed to have seen the fundamental elements of peace with clear , eyes and did not seek to obscure them, and probably would have gone much further ‘‘had it not been for the embarassments of Austria’s alliances, and her dependence upon Germany.”