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VOLUME XVII. NO. 282. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1918. PRICE FIVE C
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LEON TROTSKY HIS
RESIGNED HIS POST
Socialist Revolutionists Are Said to
Be Planning the Overthrow of
the Bolsheviki Government.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, March 9.—Leon Trotz
ky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister,
who brought abbut the armistice
which resulted in the present enforc
ed peace with Russia, has resigned.
The resignation of Krylenko, the
Bolsheviki commander in chief, was
announced Friday, and dispatches
from Europe indicate the social rev
olutionists are planning to over
throw the Bolsheviki regime. It is
reported an army is being raised in
the Don district with the support of
the Cossacks, and the introduction
of a republic with a coalition govern
ment, which will not accept the
German-Bolsheviki peace, is planned.
The evacuation of Petrograd contin
ues with serious fighting.
The Germans stormed the British
lines on a front of more than a mile
northeast of Ypress and broke
through at one point, but were
thrown back with losses on most of
the front by a counter attack. The
British occupied throe hundred yards
of German line. Artillery raiders
are active elsewhere on the western
front, and there are indications that
the Germans are preparing for se
rious work in the American sector
northwest of Toul.
Germany Shows
Her Real Aims
Cupar, Scotland, March 8—There
are two keys to the world war posi
tion, said former Premier Herbert H.
Asquith, in an address to his consti
tuents here today. These keys are
the command of the sea and the
Western front. Both, he said, after
all vicissitudes, still remain in the
hands of the entente allies. •
“While it is impossible to avert
our eyes from the tragedy unfolding
in Russia and the formidable dangers
that tragedy has revealed,” he said,
“these dangers do not give us appre
hension. There are two important
factors. First, Russia as an effec
tive military factor has been wiped
off the slate; second, the German
procedure in the so-called negotia
tions with Russia and the light they
have thrown upon the minds and
methods of Germany’s present rulers.
There rarely has been a more in
structive contrast between preten
tion and intention.”
Referrin to the speech of Imperial
Chancellor Von Hertling, Mr. As
quith said:
“The very moment he was making
his address, his subordinates were
writing terms, not of peace but of
capitulation as harsh and humiliat
ing as can be found in the annals of
history. Districts in the rsiacK sea
and in the Caucasus were to be
handed back to share with Armenia
the horrors and desolation of Turk
ish rule. Could anyone doubt the
fate of Belgium if Germany ever is
able to dictate to the Western pow
ers after the pattern set at Brest
Litovsk ?
“It is not by such roads that a
clea% peace is attainable.' The so
called treaty of Brest-Litovcq was
everything that an international coin- j
pact ought not to be. The only peace j
worth having must be a peace, not of
rulers or parliaments, but of peoples.
“One thing seems to be of para
mount importance in the world’s best
interest and that is that the people j
with whom in the long run the issue
rests, should be brought to under-'
stand that so far as the allies are con
cerned we have but one governing j
end to which everything else is sub- \
ordinate, namely, to build upon that
foundation the fabric of the future j
world.”
Flatter a man a little and he will
appreciate your taste; overdo it, and
some day he will begin to wonder
why such a combination of Solomon
and Apollo Belvedere should waste
bis time on an insignificant little
thing as you.
THRIFT STAMPS
SELL AT GRUBBS
Patriotic Citizens of That Progres
sive Point Rally to Support of
Campaign With $3,600.
Few points in this section have
contributed more to the government
in the way of man-power and money
than the little town of Grubbs. The
good and patriotic people of that
community have answered every call
that has been made upon them, and
Friday night they again went “over
the top” with their commendable
spirit and ever-ready financial sup
port.
A party of Newport citizens drove
out to Grubbs to attend a war sav
ings meeting planned there last
night. A number of addresses were
made, with the result that the people
of the community responded with the
purchase of Thrift Stamps and Cer
tificates in the amount of $3,600.
The meeting was called to order
by Esquire J. L. McElrath, and Jos.
M. Stayton was made chairman of
the assembly.
Following were those present
from Newport:
Walter Smith, Walter Martin, Jos.
M. Stayton, R. W. Bandy, G. L.
Smith, Elmer Patton, Lon Phillips,
Fred R. Suits, MaJ. A. R. Campbell,
W. A. Billingsley, Mr. and Mrs. G. H.
Banks, Geo. M. Sink, A. T. Hubly,
George R. Hays, J. Q. Blackwood.
A party of local citizens went to
Swifton and Tuckerman to work in
the interest of the War Savings
campaign.
GERMANS SINK
TWO TRANSPORTS
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Russian Ships Carrying Troops Lost
to German Fire After Fight Off
Aland Islands.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, March 9.—A Copenhagen
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
says two Russian transports were
sunk by the Germans. They were
destroyed after a fight off the Aland
Islands.
ASK FOTiNEV
TO IKE SONS
Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Is
Asked By Ordnance Bureau
Today
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washinton, March 9.—The army
ordnance bureau today asked con
gress for an urgent deficiency appro
priation of four hundred million dol
lars for the manufacture of ordnance,
especially heavy guns. The urgent
deficiency bill is pending in the sen
ate and leaders are disposed to delay
action and have the appropriation
take its usual course through the
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Raid On Paris By Germans
Provokes Rage and Horror
LONE AMERICAN
FIGHTS PATROL
Sentry Singlehanded Kills Leader of
German Patrol and Wounds
/ Others.
Associated Press Dispatch.
With the American Army in Prance,
Thursday—A lone 'American sentry
this morning attacked an enemy pa
trol of about forty men, some of
whom had entered an American ad
vanced trench. He drove them off,
killed the leader and wounded others,
The sentry fired after five Germans
had entered the trench and advanced
five yards on him. He killed the
leader with the first shot. An Amer
ican patrol in the vicinity came to
help the sentry and speeded the Ger
mans on their way.
KlAjIll
mm peace
Rumania Promises to Evacuate All
of Bessarabia Within Two
Months.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, March 9—A conclusion of
peace between Russia and Rumania
was announced in a Russian wireless
dispatch today. Rumania promises
to evacuate all of Bessarabia within
two months. , ~ -
Russia and Rumania have been at
odds several months and a number of
battles were fought between ■> the
former allies. Rumania charged the
conclusion of peace with Germany
and plundered Rumanian towns.
Don’t be a dead one. Advertise.
Paris, Jan. 31.— (Correspondence
i of The Associated Press)— Paris
awoke this morning, or rather arose
from sleepless beds, with a shudder
of horror that gradually became a
feeling of rage and a cry for ven
geance and reprisals as the exagger
• ated stories of the casualties at
: tending the German air raid were be
■ ing circulated.
In spite of the fact that the visit
|of the raiders had been expected and
| that friends left one another on these
! bright moonlit nights with the part
iing: “Shall we be “Gotha-ed” to
night?” the general alarm of the im
pending air raid first came as a dis
tinct shock but the innate curiosity of
the Parisian promptly got the better
of his prudence and it was not Ipng
before there were heads protruding
from nearly every window and the
i people began swarming into the
j the streets.
It has now been definitely ascer
tained that the correct number of cas
ualties is thirty-six killed, and one
hundred and ninety wounded. Four
German squadrons crossed the French
lines, thirty-two machines in all and
it is asserted in German communiques
that thirty thousand pounds of ex
plosives were rained over the city and
its suburbs.
The amount of material damage
appears to be rather small as com
pared with the magnitude of tht
Germon endeavor.
It was twenty minutes past eleven
when the first alarm was sounded
and immediately the distant rumbling
of the heavy anti-aircraft guns coul<j
be heard in the distance to the north.
Gradually it grew nearer and neare^
and meanwhile the buzz of the motors
of the French airplanes, as one after
the other, they rose to meet the on
coming Germans in battle and cir
cled over the city now and then flash
ing their lights, became louder and
louder. It gave the Parisians a feel
ing of security and pride.
“They are sure of a warm recep
i tion,” said one man in a window. “I
j think I’ll turn in and let them fight
j it out. I’ll read all about it in the
; morning papers.”
Then suddenly, deeper detonations
were heard, hollow, muffled roars
and one knew that somewhere in the
city children and women were being
slaughtered.
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For two long, interminable hours
j they kept at it and then the reports
j became fainter and fainter and died
J out altogether.
All Paris was buzzing with ex
: citement as the people went to the
daily routine of their work this
morning and the conversations heard
in the subway and other conveyances
| and public places were of but one
1 topic, the raid. It was with stern
| visages that they greeted one an
j other. If the Germans had hoped to
| weaken the morals of the civilian
population they made a mistake as
; execrations and demands for repris
jals were heard on all sides. There
was no whimpering, no talk of let
ting up in the war; nothing but the
firm resolution to continue fighting.
“How can we make peace with
such people as that,” said a gentle
old woman in mourning. The women
were very brave.
To one accustomed to the air raids
by Entente aviators on cities in Bel
gium and in the occupied territory of
France, the firing of the French anti
aircraft guns against the enemy ma
chines appeared feeble in comparison
with the formidable bombardment
which the Germans greet the Entente
.machines.
This was explained to The Asso
ciated Press by a French officer as
due to the fact that it is dangerous
, t fire shrapnel and shells into the
sky over a city of the size of Paris
! as the casualties from the falling of
| the very shells destined for the enemy
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Washington, March ’8.— JhagtlHs*' «
of daily lists of casualties amijffnfjjl 11
expeditionary forces abroad ^
continued today by the publhr ^
mation committee as the result 1
order from the war department |
der which the names of the next g? «
kin and emergency address of 1
diers whose names appear | * 1
lists hereafter will be withheld. 'ftg J
official explanation is that the pnnj| 3
pose of the order is to keep inf<9§§|§|
tion of value from the enemy, IfJ
On being informed of the gfl I
the committee decided that tMftg|f ^ I
of men killed or wounded would jm
worthless to the newspaper M
pondents without the addresses, M**?
a notice was issued advising. ■* I
press that in the future all infmnM , . J
tion regarding casualties muajMski^l
tained from the war department*^#®-' ®
the ' adjutant general’s office ijjttbjMa 4
said that the lists without addUMjlB |!
would continue to be sent and'^H| ? t
be available there. -J
While the disagreement batWMM
the committee and the dep»dw»ft||i
probably will be straighten#)^
soon so that the “expurgated"£j|$i S
may be made available, the JWUVpiw %
of the department to withhold |
dresses apparently is ^naltemg||H “
Acting Secretary Crowell said
order was issued at the urgent *(fe|
commendation of General PerahHngt^
and that it would be permanent!
Both Mr. Crowell and Major Gen4§|i|§|
March, acting chief of staff, declar
ed that the purpose is to close Up
channel through which the
might obtain valuable informwtfSjjgj
and both disclaimed any intention sC ;
reports from General Pers
The nearest relative of i
dier who may be killed or wwi..
will be notified by rest •*
as heretofore. Lii
simply the names
der the heading “1 c*
“died of disease”
day to the commi fa
formation. I’d gi’ e l J
this shape, according fJSPjg
the committee, would bring
a flood of requests by telephone, tel
egraph and mail for identification
of each man named in the list of |
the previous day.
It was said at the war department
that General Pershing believes that
the publication of addresses with the
casualty lists tends to disclose the .f
identity of units in the trenches, in
formation which the er>emy is so de
sirous of obtaining thgt many Kvea |
are risked in sending iding parties
to bring out a prisone t» |
examined and quest4*"
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