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Show Artillery Activity In- 1 tense at Many Points on I tie West Front. ; FRENCH REPULSE 1 Heavy Attack May Oc- j cur at Any Time ! Americans Expect Blow. I LONDON, March 8. "The enemy's artillery was active last night in tho ; neighborhood of Ribecourt and tho j-Scarpe j-Scarpe valley,"" the war office reports. "Considerable artillery activity do- j vcloped also on, both sides -in the 1 Ypres sector between the Menin road land Houtholst wood." I Russian revolutionary troops have j struck back at the Germans who de- clined to halt their advance when L peace was agreed to and have taken G Jamburg. 68 miles south-southwest of Petrograd, from the invaders. Jam- . burg is a railroad town on the Luga j 3 river and the Germans had moved a there from Narva to straighten out j their line southward toward Pskov j after peace terms had been reached. ( Differences between Ensign Krylen-ko, Krylen-ko, commander-in-chief of the Bolshe- ; vik armies, and the People's Commissaries, Commis-saries, are reported to have led to the J resignation of Krylenko, who recently j B had urged the Russian people to use ' H all means at their command to resist KJ the central powers. This is the first E split among the men who have com- r posed the Bolshevik government, al- ; Kj though there havo been reports from ; ffi time to lime that either Lcnine or . m Trotzky or both would resign. m German claims that the Ukranian RJ city of Kiev had" been occupied arc j m denied in Petrograd, which says that ; f the city is still in the hands of the ', j Bolshevikl, who captured it more than a month ago from the Ukranian rada, i i which later made peace with the Ger- j 1 mans. Berlin's announcement of the j j capture of Kiev was made just after i ' Russia and Germany agreed to peace J, terms nnd since then there havo been ) j! no reports of military activities in that i i region. In five days Germany has forced j terms on three different governments j Russia, Rumania and Finland. The ' 3 Finnish government apparently sub- j mitted to the German terms in order 3 to gain military aid against the revolu- 1 tionlsts, who hold much of southern j Finland along the Finnish gulf. With Finland and Esthonia under German ; suzerainty, the gulf of Finland is taken ! j from Russian control and Great Russia has less than 150 miles of coast line j along tho gulf. Although the Germans apparently will permit King Ferdinand to con- j tinue to rule Rumania, the victorious ! enemy has compelled his victim to j agree to humiliating terms. Important : wheat, oil and salt concessions are to j be given Germany, which is to con- trol tho Rumanian railroads for fif- i M teen years and is to have' a most fav- ) K I orable trade agreement with Rumania w which loses the Dobrudja and control Kl jof the Danube. Bj j Raiding operations' have not yet de- B vcloped into largo operations on the In western and Italian fronts. The artil- Kg lery duels, however, continue intense ft at important sectors. All the entente Vtt armies from the North sea to the H Adriatic have withstood enemy raids, ffl while at the same time successfully Hi penetrating the Teuton lines. K |