Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — HUNS TAKE BIG RUSS FORT [ARTICLE]

HUNS TAKE BIG RUSS FORT

German Forces Occupy Sevastopol— Kaiser Establishes Military Rule in Ukraine. Berlin. May 3. —German forces have occupied Sevastopol, the great Russian fortress in the Crimea. According to the official communication from headquarters, the town was taken without fighting. London, May 3. —The Germans have established military rule In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, and have arrested a number of the members of the government on the ground that “the government had proved too weak to maintain law and order,” according to a Berlin official statement. The Ukrainian government officials arrested included the minister of war.