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Show RESIGNS; IEII iiclDLJ Principal Lenine Spokesman Spokes-man Quits, According to German Advance Predictions; Premier Is Losing His Colleagues in Bolsheviki Authority; Author-ity; Russ Congress to Meet March 14. REPUDIATION OF PEACE PROPOSED Movement Begun by Social Revolutionists at Moscow Conference; Confer-ence; Army With Cossack Cos-sack Support Being Organized in Don District; Dis-trict; Coalition Is Proposed. Pro-posed. ; While Nikolai Lenine, the BolsheviX : premier is bending every effort to insure in-sure ratification by the Russian congress, con-gress, to meet in Moscow March 14, of the peace treaty signed with the cen-; tral powers, his colleagues in Bolshevik! authority are dropping away rom him! or are being dropped by him. ! The latest to go is the man who, by j virtue of his post aa spokesman, has been more in the public eye than Lenine ; himself Leon Trotzky, the commissioner commis-sioner of foreign affairs. Trotzky 's resignations, announced at a maximalist party meeting in Potrograd, quickly followed fol-lowed that of Ensign Krylenko, the Bolshevik commauder-iu-chief. Meanwhile, there are reports from Russian soiirces through Copenhagen, that a movement by the Social Revolu-tiouistSj Revolu-tiouistSj launched at a Moscow conference, confer-ence, has as its aim the ousting of tho Bolshevik government and the repudiation repudia-tion of the peace treaty. A large army, with Cossack support, is being organized organ-ized in tho DoA district, it is declared. The setting up of a ropublic with, a coalition government is proposed. Announce Treaty. Petrograd has announced the signing of a "peace" between Russia and Rumania. Ru-mania. Under its terms Rumania is to evacuate Bessarabia. This is the Russian Rus-sian province which Russian troops invaded in-vaded last fall when Russian forces, disorganized by the Bolshevik peace propaganda, we're reported to have begun be-gun looting both in Rumania and in portions por-tions of Bessarabia, where the population popula-tion is largely of Russian nationality. The treaty provides, however, for Rumania Ru-mania leaving detachments in Bessarabia Bess-arabia "for the defense of Rufaulan property and inhabitants." The British front in Flanders has become be-come the chief field of military operations opera-tions within the last forty-eight hours. Passing from the stage of trench raiding, raid-ing, which has ruled for several weeks past, the fighting in this area now has entered upon a more active phase. Take Initiative. The Germans have taken the initiative, initia-tive, launching attacks upon fronts of approximately a mile each on two occasions. occa-sions. "In both they sustained heavy casualties, and in neither did tbey gain any ground. Penetrations within narrow nar-row limits effected by the Germans wero speedily negatived by counter-attacks, and in one case the Teutons lost even a portion of the ground they originally held. On the American front northwest of Toul, a German patrol was driven off largely through the vigilance and promptness to open fire of an American Ameri-can sentry. An attempt to attack the American lines by means of liquid fire was broken up by an American patrol, the Germans fleeing and dropping four of their flame projectors, which later were gathered in by the American troops. Paris has again had a visitation from German air raiders whose bombs caused some damage and loss of life. Berlin declares the raid was in reprisal for French raids February 1!) on Treves and other German cities. The Inst previous German air attack on Paris, January ,'!1. caused forty-nine dentil's and the wounding of 20f persons. BELGIANS DISPLAY GREAT GALLANTRY , IN FLOODED ZONE BRITISH ARMY 1 1 KA OOP A RT K US IN FRANC 1-1, Friday, .March S. Great (Continued on F'-e Thirteen.) r. TROTZKY OUT; N HEW MLT UNDER W Russian Foreign Affairs Minister at Odds With , Bolsheviki Chief; Un rest Is Growing. 1 (Continued from Page One.) pallantrv ami individual heroism was displayed by 1 lie Belgian soldiers in the face of great odds in the flooded zono northwest of Dixmude 'Wednesday. The (icrnian attack was futile. This operation opera-tion has been characterized as a raid, but as in the case of the recent attack :'. on the Portuguese, there is littlo doubt "that the Germans meant to occupy certain cer-tain posts permanently. They succeeded ,niporarily in one place, but were ,clriven out with heavy losses after spec- tacular fighting. King Albert personally congratulated his troops yesterday on tho remarkable ii ' work. ' i The Germans began their operations ' at daybreak against the Belgian posi-s posi-s tions at Beverdyk and Reigersvliet by i putting down a" tremendous artillery i bombardment. For an hour tho German L artillery continued to pour an avalanche i. of explosives, among which were many gas shells, against these defenses, and then followed with an infantry attack in force. . . Reply With Barrage. ' The Belgian artillery replied with a 1 ' heavy barrage, and this, coupled with the fine work of the riflemen and machine ma-chine gunners, .promptly checked the German advance at Beverdyk and eventually completely repulsed the enemy. ene-my. At Reigersvliet, however, the Ger-i Ger-i mans secured a footing at various ' points, which was due to the fact that I the floods had largely subsided and the enemy was able to cross with eoinpara-i eoinpara-i tively little difficulty, A "Belgian commander, at this juncture, junc-ture, with only nine men and a machine gun, occupied a bridgehead, whore he ' resisted 300 Germans and twelve ma-. ma-. chine guns for an hour before help arrived ar-rived in the shape of a patrol headed i by a lieutenant. With this small reinforcement rein-forcement the Belgian commander took ' the offensive, rushing and recapturing the position taken bv the Germans in front of a small bridgehead. Several German prisoners and machine- guns were taken in this daring assault. Organize Attack. ". n jln meantime ' the : Chasseurs had ','oeen organized, for a counterattack, . and these troops advanced under excel-i.:'; excel-i.:'; lent support by the Belgian batteries, fc.y In order for the Chasseurs to reach the ",s posts held by the Germans, it was neces- sary for them to cross the flooded space xon a single board walk, which was dorni-i dorni-i nated by German artillery and machine gun fire. Dismounted horsemen went forward as if on parade amid the crashing crash-ing of great shells, and hurled them-, them-, selves fiercely on the invaders. Sanguinary fighting followed, and at 1 o'clock in the afternoon the Belgians succeeded in retaking the first of seven posts lying, in a semicircle in front of the bridgehead. The savage battle continued con-tinued until 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon, after-noon, when the last of the posts was regained. The German losses were exceedingly heavy. Forty bodies were found lying on the barbed wire alone, while -many perished under the gruelling fire of the Belgians. One German officer was decapitated de-capitated by a shell as he was running away. Five officers and 111 men were captured, together with twelve machine guns. The Germans claim to have captured 1 a considerable number of Belgians, and they undoubtedly carried away some prisoners. Although it is impossible to give the exact total of . the Belgian losses, they were light. |
