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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
2
The article reports that Slavs were forced to accept German terms including cession of Baltic states and a demand for a four billion dollar demnity payable to German authorities amid postwar settlement pressures.
Protests from Berlin report German forces push eastward across a 400 mile front into Russia. Petrograd and Brest Litovsk talks are cited, with Bolshevik capitulation announced but German advances continuing unopposed. The piece notes claimed allied violations of peace principles and the warning to resist Germans if hostilities resume.
London reports Prime Minister Lloyd George praised the American plan submitted at Versailles as powerful and logical. He said the supreme war council policy reflected allied unity with France Italy and America in full accord and hoped his statements would be seen as policy not personality.
A German patrol planned ambushes an American patrol but American rifle fire sparked counter fire from machine guns, driving the Germans away with casualties. British raids on the Flanders front south of Lens and near Arras at Epehy yielded prisoners. Wyoming Republicans push for strict prohibition and Montana ratifies federal prohibition amendment.
Berlin moves to secure a German garrison while Reds activity ends. Conference attendees include Kuiperar Willian, von Hovis, von Minden Wins, von Lideidorti, von Kuehinany. Trotsky warns peace not secured. Germany seeks freedom to press on in Ukraine and against Bolsheviks as Teherin fronts report. Trotsky defends the Brest-Litovsk terms amid German aims to reshape postwar Europe.
Austria resists joining the war against Russia amid Bolshevik threats. German prisoners face potential execution as tension rises. A Polish strike looms, signaling mounting resistance across Europe.
A chaotic Petrograd scene reports indiscriminate shooting and pillaging by forces allied with the Kaisers. The dispatch notes raids on Vosnesensky, Galernaya, and surrounding districts, with many killed or wounded. Reports from Kiev and Berlin allege German and Austro-Hungarian strategic moves, prisoner hostages, and threatened reprisals as Bolshevik actions intensify across north Russia and the Baltic region.
Lieut. Col. Tang Tehe of China's general staff says forty thousand Chinese engineers in forty battalions will be at the front in France by June. He cautioned transportation issues may delay arrival. He added 20,000 Chinese civilians work in French munitions factories and 120,000 in road construction.
A severe earthquake in Amoy China destroyed many buildings and damaged scores of others with no deaths reported. U S Speede Building Washington Congress approved to Secretary Daniels for 230077 to expand the navy program and cover expenses including ordnance and ammunition. Senator Humbert of Meuse arrested in France amid treason scandal linked to Bolo Pasha conviction. London reports a third raid by hostile aircraft with no damages or casualties yet reported.
Kiev, a major Ukrainian city, was captured by Bolshevik forces after brutal fighting. Casualties are estimated at thousands killed or wounded as bombardment and looting occurred. Poles report advances toward Smolensk while other fronts see shifts and bombings across the region.
American forces have taken control of three key French sectors, reinforcing vital frontline lines as U.S. troops assume responsibility from Allied units. The move signals strengthened coordination among American and French commands amid ongoing operations.
World war updates report German sailors bodies washing ashore after a major battle at sea. Dispatches describe Luftwaffe raids on London, movements on the Russian front, and Allied offensives in France and Italy. News items include deaths of Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Sibley and Maj. Philip Henry Sheridan, bandit sieges in Arizona, and a Chinese earthquake toll with widespread destruction.
Sixteen year old and younger youths from prominent families in Mt Pleasant are suspected as the Black Four brickmailers. They allegedly threatened business man George MacGillivay for 500 dollars and a bank president John Weldman for 30 thousand, with letters found at the drug store and bank. The charter pledges loyalty and death for betrayal.
Mrs Selma Levinson files for separation from Isaac Levinson a lawyer, alleging he demanded $10,000 as dowry and warned of divorce if not paid. She says she received the dowry but he did not get it nor was it promised to him, in a dispute over婚?
Janitor C E Ellsworth at Greensburg public school found a note revealing he is heir to half of a $600,000 estate. Robert J Ellsworth, aged eighty eight, died in Washington eighteen months ago and left his fortune to his Greensburg nephew and to his sister Mrs Elvina Binion of Washington. The nephew had lost all contact with his uncle for over forty years and soon received notice of the fortune from an attorney.
Kansas officials estimate 9.5 million acres sown to winter wheat with 70.1 percent condition, below last year by 5.8 points. Government wheat allotment for Kansas was 10 million acres. Victor Peterson in San Pedro valued his leg at 12 500 an inch and sues Lando and Podesta Produce for 25 000 over an accident shortening his right leg two inches.
Washington orders at army camps to save all tin cans to conserve the nation s tin supply. A nationwide campaign for tin conservation will be carried on among the public.
Market notes show cattle and hog prices in Chicago bids, with lambs, hay, poultry, and wool deals. Prices for grains including corn, oats, barley and flax reflect regional trades in Nebraska and Kansas, alongside vegetable and dairy quotations and miscellaneous metals and hides.
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