Show Ito No 1 15 1 i 1 Q 83 r LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST RUSSIA r CO CONQUEST 1 4 r OF BALTIC r LANDS IS HUNS HUNS' AIM is Cross Marc l to Seize Disputed Soil I Make l the Pretense The They Wish ish to Prevent Massacres Massacre DISORDER RAMPANT RAl THROUGHOUT RUSSIA r Poles Cossacks J. J J. J and Ukraine Forces Ar Are Battling g Bandits Loot i ill Stricken Famine Ca aa Capita p i a I f Berlin via London Feb 18 Operations have been resumed on the Russian front The Germans have crossed the This announcement was made by general general gen gen- eral hc headquarters tonight G ER rANY already has begun the tl carrying out of her threat of invasion invasion in ir because of the failure of th the ki to sign a peace compact with tho the central powers powers Reports emanating front from Sweden Swe en ea say eay that the Germans have havo begun pushing forward their troops Into Russia's Rusala's two remaining Baltic provinces provinces and Livonia the onla th-e th taking of or which completely com con Isolated Russia from the tho short shore of or tho the Baltic and give th the enemy 1 In addition to the port of ot Riga the tho city of or Reval situated on tho the gulf gult or of Finland Fin Fir land opposite whence th the they y easily might operate against Petrograd by sea In hi Placated Although Hungary Austria Hungary hn has shown dissatisfaction over the stand stan that Germany German has taken toward Russia RussI the tho dual monarchy monarch evidently had been beell placated by b a promise of ot Germany Germon that tha any German military activity will b be confined to northern Russia an and ond Hungary Austria-Hungary left lert to deal with wit whatever other problems mo may arise 1 in inthe the territory adjacent to h her r borders Belated dispatches from Petrograd tell of or the capture of or Kiev Kle tho the new ne capital of or Ukraine b by th tho BolsheVIk Tho The fighting is described as lla ng g I been boen of or an extremely sanguinary character character char char- acter aeter four thousand persons having been killed and seven thousand wounded Great destruction wa was wrought In the town by shells and explosives ex ex- plosives dropped by b aviators a v la tors At Odessa a another big battle ha hu been fought between the Bolshevik I Iund and und tho the moderates during which warships warships war war- ships ship in tho the harbor bombarded th the city Polish lc legions lons at Minsk are arc de de- declared declared declared to have hn been defeated de de and put to rout which tin the also are arc reported to have hav captured on the Black sea sei and amI capital of or tho the of the tho same name Gerl Germans Pretend Invasion Humanitarian Action Is H I Amsterdam Feb Berlin Berlin continues continues continues con con- to send end reports throughout Germany German Germany Ger Ger- neutral countries depicting and md m man many yand the parts larts of or the Russian Baltic provinces as having having- been delivered delivered ered up to anarchy murder and robbery robbery rob rob- bery and declaring that German settlers settlers' set set- the thc thoGer tiers Hers and others are arc beseeching to advance to th their h Ger German Serman an troops I rescue Tho The i Imperial chancellor has received re- re sa says tho tie i c hed a n telegram ram from a representative tive of or the th nobility and pee peo- plc pIc lc assorting that t conditions In Livonia as desperate as In Esthonia and re reporting re- re ire arc Innumerable arrests exhausted porting i and md robberies and adding occupation of or orthe Immediate the thc anI Only the he country with a n simultaneous threat Continued on Pago o nc-o 3 3 GERMANS BEGIN WAR ON SLAVS f Continued from Page e 1 1 of the sharpest reprisals can save the tho women children and men who are arc still alive e RuNe nan A Budapest Budapest dispatch to the Vos Berlin says cays that the Russians Russian have evacuated the last section of at Hungarian Hungarian Hun Hun- garian territory which the they occupied In the east corner of oC Tr Transylvania learns learn from Ukraine lne that thai guerillas are setting setting- fire t to the wheat stocks in man many sections am and andare are arc also systematically destroying growing crowing crops b by plowing them out An n agreement nan hs 8 11 been reached between between between be be- tween Germany and where whereby b In the tho event of ot military action being necessary ry the Gorman German troops I will be bo confined to the tho frontier oi of at atI I great grent Russia and the Austrians Austrian to thu thuI I I Ukraine only This announcement ii Is isI I mado made In a 1 dispatch J Electoral I In 10 A bill on th the composition of ot th the reichstag and antl proportional representation tion In iii the great reichstag electoral lectora districts according to Berlin die die- patches passed the federal council Saturday and now goes to the tag This bill raises tho the number of of or the reichstag to tc HI 1 Tho The number at the present time Is Berlin will elect ten ad additional additional all all- onal lt members Tel To Tow 7 i Hambur Hambur Ham Ham- bur burg 5 Bochum and Leipzig 4 each ach Cologne Breslau Duisburg Dortmund Munich and Dresden 3 cach each Numerous other districts will elect two rn members mhers It lu is pointed out In an explanatory tor memorandum that while ever every federal state stute retains its present representation the tho districts where here there has been a abig a aI abIg hI big increase ase in the population will I elect more moro deputies than heretofore According to tho Cologne tung tring tho the German foreign secretary I Dr Dron von on Kuehlmann will address the tho reichstag on Tuesday when the first firstI I reading reading- of oC the Ukraine peace treaty will be bo taken up I Russ Troops Still Arc Under Arms Petrograd rad Feb 11 Although h Although during the last lut eight months the Russian soldier sol- sol thiers dier have hae b been en gradually drifting homeward the tho number remaining under under un un- der tIer arms Is variously estimated at from to Even Iven It If carried car CRr- ned ried out In the utmost order and without without without with with- out Interference of or the central powers the work of ot demobilization and the re return ro- ro turn of or the men to the towns and villages vii vil lages lage would occupy at least a year rear ac accordIng according according ac- ac cording to statements made mado by a a. military military mili mili- tary authority It to the Associated Press Iress According to a report current here General hetman of oC the Don Cossacks has committed suicide Kale- Kale dines Is reported to have hac quarreled with General Alexieff and disappeared early In February from Novo Noyo I V Violence and Robbery Reign Through Russia London Feb 18 Tele Telegraphic 18 communication communication com corn with Petrograd broken brokenfor brokenfor for tor several da days b by tho the cutting of ot wires with Finland has been resumed and long delayed dispatches now are arc coming through All ore are eloquent eloquent elo elo- quent of oC disorder throughout Russia Kiev Kle one of or the thc principal cities ot of tho the Ukraine was captured by the Bol- Bol on Friday February 8 8 after aCter sanguinary fighting The Tho streets were were- filled tilled with dead or wounded While the fighting was wall at Its height Thurs Thursday n the ctt city was bombarded b by aviators a Casualties were dead and wounded Polish t troops have defeated the Bol fbi at S 85 miles south- south cast enst of Minsk Other Poles are advancing advancing anc ad In ing toward Rumanians control control con control con con- the Akkerman district of ot Bessa rabia rabla and arc are threatening Odessa n Sn Say Dt Defeated at d. d According to reports of oC February 12 Bolshevist arm army commanders claim to have ha defeated Cossacks of or the forces of ot General under command of ot General on Saturday February 9 9 and to have ha occupied a Russian seaport In the Don Cossack territory capital of or the province pro of or also Is said to be beIn beIn bein In the hands of the Bolshevik lk troops The Bolshevik he have hn established a n astaff astaff staff at nt Odessa from which point the they are conducting the Ukrainian and Rumanian Rumanian Rumanian Ru Ru- manian c campaigns ns An Odessa dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch latch says saS the at Odessa nave navo arrested Rumanian officers as ns aswell well eIl as a Ukrainian committee went sent to take talce up peace leace negotiations Subsequently the committee was waa as released Sod and sent hack back with the warning that the tho I would kill ono one Rumanian officer for Cor each Russian soldier killed by the Rumanians In Looter nu In That t brigandage t Is rampant In the capital elt city do itself is II Indicated b by some of ot the dispatches j A gang of ot sixty arm armed ell men In motor lorries on February Feb Feh- clubs In this mary S visited two social city and robbed the tho members of ot G and the tho guests of oC rubles rubies TS as well an as a large amount of diamonds and other Jewelry Two T of ot tho the gang ang while under arrest were lynched b by a n crowd which took them from the po po- po- po lice In an night all battle February 11 during which Jewelry stores and wine Cellars ellars In the tho capital wore were pillaged b by marauding soldiers about persons person II welo killed lc Forty orty 1 thousand German and Austrian prisoners who freed treed freedl by l y tho the councils of ot workmen's and soldiers soldiers' sol eel diers' diers delegates delegate's In smaller Russian towns now are arc In Petrograd homeless and I In danger of oC starvation star The rho patriarchal sacristy at Moscow has hns been robbed of ot gold church plate encrusted with diamonds and other precious stones Bibles with Jewelled gold rold covers ers one valued before the war var warL varat at L rubles rubies also have ha been stolen Caste Outlawed Tho The executive o committee of ot tho the Us- Us council of soldiers soldiers' and workmen's work work- mens men's committee has proclaimed the baronial caste outlawed and has or ordered ordered or- or dered tho the wholesale arrest of oC men above o 17 antI and women over o 21 1 Moro More than a thousand persons already have havo b been en Imprisoned The barons are arc charged d with plotting against the council council coun coun- cil elI In sending delegates to ask Emperor Intervention Inter and German occupation occupation oc oc- to save e Esthonia from ruin The rhe commissioner loner of Justice has protest protested protested pro pro- test tested d against these extreme extremo measures and has hall prescribed tho the appointment of or ofu ofa a u revolutionary court with powers power to I severely punish th the guilty If It u a plot be lie proved pro The peasant section on of tho the Assembly of ot councils of soldiers soldiers' ri anti and workmen's delegates In agreement with tho general gen gen- oral eral assembly has approved the law lw of ot socialization of or landed property and do- do munds tho ho Immediate confirmation and 1 publication of oC said law b by the central executive committee of OC tho the workmen's and soldiers soldiers' councils council General Judson Returns From ill Mission sion to Russia An Atlantic Port Feb 13 Brig Gen William V. V Judson head of ot tho ho American military mission to Russia and recent recently recal recalled etl by Wash Wash- In ton arrived ed today toda on a Norwegian steamship General Judson then lieutenant colonel came caine Into notice the tho early part of December by sending to the tho chief of ot staff state of ot the Bolshevist government go a note saying that the United States wa was not desirous of oC Int Interfering with Russian Rus Rus- sian elan affairs and urging friendly relations relations relations rela rela- between the two countries He also was reported to have havo visited at Bolshevist headquarters at acts which were ere construed by Trotsky and a portion of or the Russian press as asan asan an indorsement of oC the Bolshevist government government gov gov- h by the United States Later it was announced b by Ambassador Am Am- 1188 Francis and also b by tho the state stata department at Washington ton that Colonel Judson had acted without Instructions Soon afterward announcement of oC his recall was made at nt Washington ton to together together to- to gether with his promotion to tho the rank I of or brigadier general |