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Show lyzed. The government was forced to accept the socialists' demands as to food, communal woman suffrage and nonmilitarism of war industries, and thereupon most of the strikers returned return-ed to their .work. The trouble was only partly allayed, however, and the radicals made further demands and reiterated re-iterated their call for a general peace by understanding. The Austrian masses are determined that at least peace shall be made with Russia, and if this is not done their words and actions betoken a revolution revolu-tion that will remove the dual monarchy mon-archy from the alliance of the central powers. Germany Is awake to the danger of this defection and the militarists mili-tarists there are manifesting great irritation irri-tation toward Austria because they think Emperor Charles and his government govern-ment have fostered democratic Internationalism. Inter-nationalism. The troubles of Emperor Charles' realm are aggravated by the attitude of Bohemia. At a great meeting In Prague a resolution was adopted demanding de-manding independence for. Bohemia. Hungary, also, Is doing Its bit in the general upheaval, having absolutely refused re-fused to give cereals to either Austria or Germany. . The Roumanian stocks of grain are exhausted and the food situation in Austria Is most acute. S The reasonable peace advocates in Germany have not by any means surrendered sur-rendered to the increasingly arrogant pan-Germans, and have been holding meetings In Cologne and elsewhere, and the radical socialists are keeping up the fight with vigor. There is no doubt that the proletariat of both Germany Ger-many and Austria has been Immensely heartened and inspired by the propaganda propa-ganda of the Russian bolsheviki spread by means of the fraternization of soldiers sol-diers on the east front. ' Si-All Si-All this sounds good, but It would be foolish to base upon it any strong hopes of an early peace with victory for the allies. The German army probably prob-ably was never before so strong as now, and If the Indications may he trusted, the long expected offensive on the west front may be under way before be-fore this review Is In the hands of readers. All last week there was Intense In-tense artillery action in France and Flanders, with numerous "feeling out" raids and much activity by the air forces. Great concentrations of troops ft several points continued and it seemed evident the kaiser was about ready to strike. French military experts ex-perts believed the Germans would attack at-tack the British lines in Flanders and also the French In the region of Nancy. It was In the latter sector that the raid was made on American troops. Whether Pershing's men still are helping help-ing hold the line there has not been revealed. PS Having lost -to the French some Important Im-portant positions on Monte Tomba, the Teutons In Italy were compelled to evacuate considerable territory west of the Plave river, moving back to Monte Spinoncla. They seem to have given up hope of forcing the passage to the plains along the west bank of the Plave and are constructing defenses de-fenses in the rear. - NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Germans Threaten Quick Attack When the Russian Delegates Reject Peace Terms. DEMAND BALTIC. PROVINCES Proletariat of Austria-Hungary on Eve of a Revolt Turks Lose Two Big Cruisers Secretary Baker's Bak-er's Management Hotly Criticized by Senator Chamberlain. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Encouraged by the growing strength of the Fatherland party, the pan-Germans have thrown aside the mask they have worn in their dealings with the Russians and shown their true face. At the last meeting of the delegates at Brest-Lltovsk before adjournment to January 29, General Hoffman told the bolsheviki frankly that Germany must have Courland and all the Baltic provinces, and that If Russia did not consent the German armies would move at once and within a week would occupy Reval. When asked about the territory south of Brest-Litovsk, Hoffman Hoff-man replied that Germany would settle set-tle that only with the Ukrainians. The request of the Russians for a recess that they might consult on the German Ger-man terms was grudgingly granted with the assertion that no further postponements post-ponements would be allowed. The Russian delegates thereupon voted unanimously to reject the German Ger-man terms and departed for Petrograd to submit the question of peace or war to the congress of soldiers' and workmen's work-men's delegates, with which the final decision rests. That the Germans are able to carry out their threats against Russia there can be little doubt. The bolsheviki leaders realize their helplessness and have Issued "to all" an official wall telling how they have been deceived and how monstrous are the demands of the Germans. In Petrograd and Moscow the bolsheviki are struggling to maintain their power, putting in jail large numbers of their opponents on charges of plotting a counter-revolution, and taking any other coercive steps that promise to help them. If they can prevent it, they do not intend that their principles of "self-definition" and personal liberty shall apply at home. They promptly dissolved the constituent assembly because they could not control Its deliberations. So loud has become the popular outcry out-cry against the rule of the bolsheviki and so great the disorder In Russia that German parliamentary leaders are seriously questioning whether It Is wise for the central powers to negotiate nego-tiate further with a government that may be swept away any day. The Ukrainians, according to late dispatches, are proceeding amicably In their negotiations with Germany and Austria and are about ready to sign a separate peace. teims of peace, so tar as they concern Belgium itself, are absolute political, economic and territorial independence, equitable reparation and guaranties for the future. fa The British labor party In convention conven-tion at Nottingham declared its position posi-tion in the matter of war and peace. A resolution was adopted welcoming and indorsing the statements of Premier Prem-ier Lloyd George and President Wilson and calling on the central powers to formulate their war aims at the earliest ear-liest possible moment. Speakers gave high praise to Mr. Wilson's statement, and It was made clear that the party w:ould not stand for peace negotiations with Germany while she holds the territories ter-ritories she has seized. ' I Fuel Administrator Garfield's industrial indus-trial shut-down was far from being wholly successful In relieving the coal shortage and railway tie-up. For this the plan was not entirely to blame, for heavy snows in the eastern part of the country Intervened to prevent the free movement of coal trains. Consequently Mr. McAdoo was constrained con-strained to declare an embargo on three of the largest coal carrying roads of the East, forbidding the transportation transporta-tion of any freight save fuel, munitions and foodstuffs. The situation, especially espe-cially on the Atlantic seaboard, still Is most serious. Safari Sa-fari isan politics reared its ugly head in congress last week and en-tered en-tered Into the discussion of the conduct con-duct of the war. So far It has done little harm, and perhaps it cannot be kept down in an election year. Senators Sena-tors Penrose and Stone were the chief offenders, the former attacking the administration ad-ministration and the latter having the effrontery considering his own record to assail the patriotism of Colonel Roosevelt. Interest in the doings of congress centered on the Chamberlain bill for a war cabinet, the introduction of which was perhaps hastened, though not caused, by the investigation of Secretary Secre-tary Baker's department. The president presi-dent had forcefully, even angrily declared de-clared his opposition to the measure and his absolute confidence In Mr. Baker's ability and efficiency, and the defeat of the bill was predicted, although al-though it had the support of many senators sen-ators of both parties. Mr. Wilson in a public statement accused ac-cused Senator Chamberlain of making "an astonishing and absolutely unjustifiable unjus-tifiable distortion of the truth" In a New York speech, in which the Oregon Ore-gon senator told of the failures of the war department. In replying to this In the senate, Mr. Chamberlain, reiterated reiter-ated his charges and undertook to prove them by citations from the investigation in-vestigation by the senate committee. The senator scored the war department depart-ment unmercifully, and produced documentary docu-mentary proof that Secretary Baker, when before the senate committee, was Ignorant of the actual conditions In the matter of supplies to the army camps. "The president," be said, "did. not know the truth, and I did. He must have got his facts from his distinguished distinguish-ed secretary of war and he In turn got Ihem from somebody else, and if those who furnished t lie evidence knew the facts, they lied." In the course of his speech Mr. Chamberlain road a heartbreaking letter let-ter from a father telling of the death of his son in an army camp under most astounding conditions of neglect. Afterward Af-terward Secretary Baker said of this that it was not a singular case, that there had been several such due to the lack of nurses, and that each one had been rigidly Investigated. The hot discussion over the Inefficiency Ineffi-ciency of our war preparations continues con-tinues unabated and Is reaching the stage where it becomes personal and vicious. The thicl;-nnd-thin supporters support-ers of the administration declare the critics of some of Its acts are bordering border-ing on treachery because they give comfort to the enemy, while those who criticize assert that only by letting the public know the faults that are being committed can those faults he corrected. correct-ed. Their coarse, they hold, Is dictated dic-tated by the purest patriotism. W General Tusker II. Bliss, chief of start', has arrived In Paris to represent the American army In the supreme war council. It Is believed he will urge that the allies renew offensive operations opera-tions on a lare seal On the sea the Turks suffered a considerable con-siderable disaster in the loss of the cruisers Medullu and Sultan Selim. formerly the Breslau and Goelien. These vessels emerged from the Dardanelles Dar-danelles to attack certain British monitors, mon-itors, but were seen and at once engaged en-gaged by British destroyers and driven into mine fields. The Breslau was blown up and sunk and the Goeben. badly damaged, was run aground at Nagara point, where for several days and nights it was sublootod to bombing bomb-ing by British air craft and rendered useless. The British lost two monitors. moni-tors. The number of British vessels sunk by submarines In the week was given as only six large and two small ships. In Its efforts to supply tonnage to meet the submarine depradal ions, the United States scored a point by getting get-ting a large number of vessels from neutral nations, especially Sweden, for use In American coastal traffic. This brought forth a howd of "unneulrallty" from Germany, coupled with a threat to sink all such vessels that Its submarines sub-marines could reach. fca Belgium made a dignified reply to the pope's peace note, stating that Its IBS-Japan, IBS-Japan, which holds itself responsible responsi-ble for the preservation of peace In the far East, Is ready to take radical steps to put an end to the Increasing disorders in Siberia, according to Premier Pre-mier TarauchI who addressed the opening open-ing session of the Japanese diet. He reiterated his country's absolute loyalty loy-alty and fidelity to the allies and Its determination not to sheathe the sword until an honorable peace Is secured. l-In l-In Finland there is growing disorder disord-er and the socialist red guards and government militia have fought several sev-eral considerable battles, notably at Viborg and Pavldstad. The red guards are aided by Russian ao'dlers while the peasants are supporting the government gov-ernment forces. H The Auslro-llungarlan government has hecn treading on thin Ice for two weeks. A great peace-demand wave Rwept over the nation and more than a million workers went on strike, the war industries being absolutely para-I |