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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1918
Page
4
As dry senators depart, leaders weigh postponing roll call on the prohibition measure while hearings continue on government control during wartime. The House resolution faces Senate resistance and adjournment plans loom, with cross party pressure over emergency agricultural aid and wartime revenue.
Special Cable From London to The Washington Post reports that field marshals and admirals approve measures for national defenses and army coordination. An IL corps with 126 regiments is planned, changes to follow with evolving international conditions and annual needs. The proposal avoids immediate shifts, signaling staged reforms.
A cryptic dispatch describes Pole units aiding Czecho-Slovaks and engaging German forces in a tense confrontation. The report mentions a Pole captain leading troops, with scant details on date or precise location, but notes significant combat action and casualties.
Japanese and British patrols moved through Vladivostok during clashes between the zeche Slanks and the beisheviki. Reports say landing parties patrolled streets and enforced order in the area. Dispatches from Ndoks th The Mehl mention tensions and a cabinet resignation in Chile dated April 2.
Article notes continued Allied aid to Russia and German Bolshevik collusion. It cites Archbishop authorities arrest in Archangel, dispatches from Ambassador Francis via Vologda, and a June 21 code report to Washington. The State Department sought details but no further messages arrived, implying disrupted communications between Washington and Moscow.
Report from Kiel travelers arriving at Vitebsk confirms a revolution in Ukraine. About 75400 well armed rebel troops march from Boistoy Railway junction forty miles southwest toward Rist Rim tin detachments, with departures withdrawing toward Whuief. Communication between Kiev and Dessy has been cut for four days.
Paris reports a wary reaction to the assassination of Count von Mirbach in Moscow. Kerensky doubts the news but sees possible Russia revival while warning Germans may intervene. Lenine calls for protection of Germans as state policy amid border tensions and a revolutionary tribunal plan emerges. The British army council and American Red Cross will repurpose two London hospitals for American wounded.
A London Times cable via The Washington Post reports in July 1918 that Russian Bolshevik excesses in Chinese Turkestan provoke widespread unrest. Versatile tales describe massacres, lootings, deportations, and forced arms disarmament, with refugees flooding the border and Cossacks appealing to Allies for aid. The population remains largely armed only by migrants and scarce armaments, while loyal Moslems and Cossacks hold out in Simerechia against an undisciplined Bolshevik force.
The Navy released a full account of the sinking of the Army transport President Lincoln after three torpedoes struck her off the French coast. Some 715 men were rescued with heroic acts noted as destroyers hurried to the scene. Commander Percy W. Foote described calm discipline, lifeboat launches, and the last moments as the linchpin of a brave evacuation.
A Russian nationalist statement denounces the Bolshevik peace as a mockery betraying Russia. It warns that the treaty endangers Moscow and center Russia to German invasion, leaves Petrograd open, and renders Russia unable to resist foreign intervention while Belgium remains occupied. It asserts Russia risks subjugation under Lenine's peace and global intervention.
A call for national unity against Bolshevik rule argues that only a new historical epoch can repair the damage from the peace imposed on Russia. It urges democratic organizations and both socialist and other democrats to unite to restore Russia’s independence and integrity amid looming international strife.
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