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The Soviet (Council) of the People's Commissaries samoil the following pro The neator General Allenby's army sp-clamation to the Russian people and to proaches Jerusalem the more obvious beat the Councils of Workpen', Soldiers' conus the Turks deep anxiety provent and Pensanta Delegator in December

from reaching the Holy City The Whilst the representatives of th Work nefroreparations have been thorough, men's, Soldiers, and Peasants Soviets but the

rapidity of our advance lins com- have opened negotiations with the object pletely

upotdenking

their calculations, and by of securing, an honourable peace for the continua forced from positio

the enemies of tho great strength

the on to what Positiona

must be almost the last line the bankers and their allies, he

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AUSTRIA'S CHANGE OF TONE BELLICOSE SPEECH BY COUNT CZERNIN

A THREAT TO ITALY..

A Budapest tologram saya that Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the course of a speech to the Foreign Affairs Committee

of the Hungarian Delegation said :--

Erainent Hungarian party leaders have

overcome the view's imparted to, the Italian and Roumanian peoples regard. ing the inner weakness of Austria Hungary 1 Circumstances concerning Which our diplomacy was entirely inno contand against which it was entirely powerless gave rise to a wrong estimate of our strength. That the estimate of the le gratifying aspect of the matter. strength of Austria-Hungary was wrong

AMERICA'S WAR DECLARATION One gentleman asked me what I thought. unconfirmed nowa leaves the possibility, of the American declaration of war, The

they havo boon Countists, the 18 COSSACK Addressed questions to me which should open that America may declare war upon.

they can occupy west of Jerusalem. Generals, have undertaken a final stage so far as possible, to sasver im- is so upon our two allies Turkey and

Aut

the Turks to abandori have tempt to destroy the cause of peace, to the warmth one might expect from him of that it may be, but should that eventu- mediately. Count Anbrassy spoke with Bulgaria. I do not say it will be but the power from the hands of the the alliance with Germany, and he asked ality occur we shall nevertheless, not 1,000ft high or thereabouts on either sidemete, the land from the bends of the whether and how far we are at one with regret anything we have done in the

tions in the foothille, There are hills of the Jaffe-Jorssalem road, which, if defended, would take a bold and wall-sup- plied army weeks to secure

and power

We

posi- wrest

ors, and Cosencks to shed their blood for Germany in our war ains. I can answer des Owing to our loyal alliance with passants, and to compel the soldiers, sail. the benefit of the Russian and allied In-

this question positively. We are at one Germany we have had to reckon with perialista,co

t with Germany on the basis which holds America's onnity If America draws About a dozen mics from Jerusalem these hills are grey rocky aminences, few Ural have raised the flag of revolt. The hera in this exalted assembly found un-Hangarians who are in America and will Kaledin on the Don and Dutoff in the on the basis of a defensive war, which ful on account of the Austrians and good for Germany and Austria-Hungary; the conclusions Indmit that it is pain- entirely devoid of vegetation, some Cadet Party are providing the necessary divided approval which was laid down be placed in a most painful position. crowned with olumps of stunted bareness of their lower sides the means for enabling them to carry on ther in the German Reichstag as the guiding That however, will not have the slightest

relieved by some bushes and tufts of

fight

against the people The Red- But ziankos of grass,

Millukoffs Gutchkoffs,

line, for our war aima, and which, in my effect upon the events of the war. they are mostly barren and forbidding. This military value, however, I high, and with the aid of the Kaledina, Korni. There is no other obstacle to peace than President Wilson, which in many respects

Konovaloffs want to regain their

opinion, Baron von Kühlmann in his last because from their creste the road is com: lofs, and the mute labourers into su in Alsace-Lorraine Of course when We is incomprehensible and unclear but yet very clearly stated when he said to draw your attention to the speech by Speaking of America, I would like manded, and the approaches to Jerusale from the west, which have been conten-strument for achieving their criminal compare our situation with that of our contains a noteworthy step forward. In

to turn the Cossack an in- tious points for thousands of years, are ins, infinitely more difficult to win in these

German Allies, we should not forget one days of accurate gunfire. Yet the Turks

Kaledin has declared a state of war in thing that it certain respects we are owe it, however, to ourselves to say that

one passage the President said: have had to give up many of them; some supply of brend to the front, and is col have practically our entire territory in we do not wish in any way to impair or the Don region. He is hindering the better position than they are; we well-prepared systems have fallen into our hands without a blow to looting forces, thus mening Ekatori are to-day in Germany's colonies Empire: It is no affair of ours what to arrange the Austro-Hungarian Thus, strategy has claimed its own lof, who, fed from prison, has arrived When I am now reproached from many dustrially or politically We do not pur

nolaff, Kharkoff, and Moscow. Korni in the hands of the enemy. We are now up the preses, and the strug to his aid. He is the one who in July sides with weakness in my policy, which pose or desire to dictate to them in any they do with their own life either in- gle-sways round a few places command introduced the death penalty and con- is said to be in tow of Germany what way. We only desire to see that their ing the whole country. Some of these ducted a campaign against revolutionary ever these phrases may be when it is affairs are lert in their own hands in are ours, but the hghting continues, Petrograd, strong and bitter Our progress is quite in Orenburg, Dutoff has urrusted the the war longer than would otherwise be if sw compare this conception with

said that this policy forces us to continue Fall matters, great or small."- satisfactory The term consolidatio of new positions signifies much in

Executive this

and the Military Revolution the case and that we are even forced to that of the Entente regarding the glorious battleground.

ary Committee, bas disarmed the soldiers, fight for German aims of conquest, I say Monarchy which is described by the and is endeavouring to capture Tebela omphatically No. We are fighting for catchword the right of nations to govern _______ ENGINEERING FEATS

binsk in order to cut off the supply of the defence of Germany just as Germany themselves, which, they claim, will be The ground is so rocky that we build town Karauloff is attacking Tohoche spect I know no territorial boundaries. the help of the Extente, I see in the bread from Biberia to the front and the is fighting for our defence. In this re realised at the peade conference with sangars from the mass of boulders lying.nef and Ingushei in the Caucasus. The If anyone should ask whether we are statement of the President of the United. around the base of the hills. They are Cadet Party are the political leaders of fighting for Alsace Lorraine, I would, States a great and important advance not as secure as trenches, and cost much this rising. labour. But the most wonderful feat of ang. scores of millions to the counter-re Lorraine, just as Germany is fighting for it is greatly to our interest to nail down. The hourgeoisie is supply reply fes; we are fighting for Alsace an advance which we recognise and which consolidating is

road-making-turning volutionary Generals for the cause of i gost-tracks into motor roads. these new highways, which the porer..

rising against the people and their I know of no difference between Strass more word about that catchword-the- us and fought for Lemberg and Trieste 111 may seize the opportunity to say one- have constructed with narvellous in

would explain my standpoint on the burg and Trieste geneity and rapidity, the same energy,

subject as follows: The phrase the right which characterised the advance from the

right of nations to govern themselves-I. Turks battered and broken Gaza Beersheba line, is being prosecuted in tho is assisting the Kaledins to draw troops pect that does not appear intpossible of nations to govern themselves appear- hills and narrow passes down from the to the Den region, and is hindering the if on other fronts big events shoulded Father late in this war in the discur Juden uplands to the Shephalah. They may forces throughout Ukrainie, of myself in doing so at one with Count give a universally accepted dobnition of Sorite from distributing the necessary occur, then I say it frankly, and feel sion of war aima. It is impossible to are not the only channels the spring-tide of victory is moving. It the appression of the Kaledin rebellion. Tisza) I would heartily welcome the moth catchword, as almost every one of the

through which is not merely on the bill crests that our positions are being consolidated, and prop, who, together with the capitalists fronts together with our Allies. If, on a different meaning, so that one can. Cadets, the worst enemies of the ment that found us fighting on other statesmen who are using it has based, it with knowledge of the work accomplished of a countries, prepared the present therefore, after the course which we have say that there are as many interpreta- I repeat what I said a few days ago of the Executive Assembly they will be which we are pursuing with the full utterances on the subject.

are hoping that as members taken since the outbreak of the war, and tions of this catchword as there are There has been fighting about Belkr-el- erals, the Kaledine, the Korniloffs, and Austria as well as of Haiguss, if after able to come to the assistance of their gen consent of the overwhelming majority of Tanta and Beitur el-Foka, the Beth the Ditoffs, in order to strangle the our taking this course, there should still Harons of Joshua's butties. One impor people with their aider be people on the side of the Entente tant incident at Foka was great triumph for the dismounted Yeomen. A

Workers, Saldiers, and Peasants! The living under the impression that they Welsh Horse company, formed of men of revelatin is in danger. It is necessary might succeed in separating us from our the regiments, was ordered to occupy It is necessary to sweep away the enemics for me to say than that those who believe to carry through the cause of the people. Allies, then there romains, nothing else the village of

of Foka, which stands

of the people. It is necessary that the that are bad politicians and persons of the Cousek generals, and their Cadet in counter-volutionaries-the conspirators spizers-hall feel the iron hand of the revolutionary people.

All's well

of

the on a conical hill with very steep sides

the bourgeois central Rada of the If the general situation of the Euro Ukminian Republic, which is vaging apean war should assume a different struggle against the Ukrainian Soviets,

al

earics he made the necessary arrange Tao Sict of the People's Commis-

They worked round the hill, and as it Wag gott the Taricial side. In the village

getting dusk

the top from the they found 500 Turks with a German of cor. It was suggested that the enemy should lay down their arms, and this they did The Yeomen got into the tiayments for the movement of the necessary village

square and saw them standing troops agenst the enemies of the people The German officer began about and shouting, Start

The countr-revolutionary rising will be suppressed and the culpable subjected to Some of the enemy picked up their

A Denalty cominenced fighting and others followed, of their orine.

Erresponding the

magnitude They were too late. The Yeomen,

For furks were not surrendering, saria de those regions of the Ural,

seeing

The Sovel

the

People's

Commis fited into the mass, and for dve minates there

8 desperate battle in the small enclosure, and the narrow streets leading therefrom, the ranges seldom exceeding ten yards, The German officer was bayoneted and killed, as were many Turks. The remainder then gave in to

The Yeomanry officer decided that, have

it was best

decres

to

Don

and other places where counter- revolutionry detachments are discover થો ed are delared to be in a state of siege. local revolutionary garri son must het with all firmness against tha

childish mindr

phrase we find that it is connected with the war aim of the protection of amall nations, which has been professed by the If we inquire into the origin of this

Entente from the beginning of the war the small nations, that is, the smalk victims on Btates which are alleged to have been the Powers, namely, Serbia, Montenegro, etc., the part of the Central

UAE PEACE FOR ITALY. That was what he described as the right for whoes protection and salvation the Entente professed to have taken up arms, Count Andrassy questioned me, about of small nations to govern themselves. frankly. Since the outbreak of war dressed to the "belligerents President. Italy, and I would like to reply quite In his Note of December 18th, 1816, ad- Italian policy has boon going down an Wileon still described as one of his prin...... inclined plane Gentlemen, you know cipal pesce aims the safeguarding of the that before the war Italy might have lights and privileges of small States: negotiated with us because we were great. Subsequently this was supplemented by ly interested in avoiding this unnecessary President Wilson by the brutal formula war. Italy could have concluded an that they are waging war also for the agreement with us which to-day oven in liberations from foreign domination of her wildest dreams she can hardly hope Italians, Serbian, Roumanians, Czechs, to attain, Sines then, in twelve battles, and Slovaca. The protection of small Italy has lost hundreds of thousands of States receded into the background. tract illerden treasure and large while the forcible separation from the tracts of her territory which are to-day Monarchy of certain nationalities stood in our hands. At the most Italy can in the foreground, namely, forcible

a force they outnumbered by four to one ling for off the people without wait to day only hope to reach the status quo separation, without the gay forcible ing for offers from the supreme authe ante bellum right of nationalities to govern them- rities. I must, however, go a step farther, (3.)-Neotiations with the leaders of which brings me to what Count Karolyi

Belvos. the counte-revolutionary rising or at tempts at mediation are absolutely said. If I understood rightly, he gave President Wilson made some approach to In his message of January 22nd, 1917, reat, and started retiring as be enany, fortiden assistance offered to the his speech and at the confusion of internal standpoint in calling for

to understand

ing so many model but use his

him not to hold forts as an escort for the prisoners to the

The

to be the British attacking the hill, and from A neight juring height shelled thers.

In

the confusion Some of

of the Turks got away, but the Yecimen had the satisfac tion of bringing in eight officers and ninety-nine men, more than twice the number of our

On Sunday we took the bill again, and beat off thres strong counter tricks on Monday. But enemy heavily fired on Foka from higher hills. We retired a short distance after defeating a third attach

Turks made no move on the villa The

TURES STORMING TROOPS When I was in the neighbourhood yes terday the Turks on the surrounding hills were receiving much attention from

possession, AGMURI

home

counter-reolutionaries on the part of stances to be a pacifist à outrance. In drawing the internal political conditions the local pulation or the railway em connection with that idee he devoted of certain States into international dis

Bevarity be punished with all some well-meaning words to my Budapest cussion. At the same time he declared Faro declare to be outlawseyferred only to the first portion of it. nationalities from one Government to

ofthe revolutionary laws. speech, but to my astonishment here that none had the right to hand over (5.)The leaders of the (6.)-Evy Cossack labourer

while he entirely passed over the second another as if they were the latter's pro- who part. This second part, however, modi perty In this message of the President casts off the yoke of the Kaledina, the hes the entire character of the speech of the United States the idea is expressed Kenilefis, nd Dutoffs will be met What Count Rarely desires of me is that that the cession of parts of one State to fraternally and given by the Soviet I should go security for the Italian ad- another must not be brought about by a necessary suppert.

A SHIPBUIDING ACHIEVEMENT

T AMERICA.

venture. In Count Karolyi's view I force and that the acceptance by the should to-day say to the Italians: Con peoples of their Governments is neces us as often as you will Prolong the war The right of peoples to govern them tinus the war as long as you like. Attack Mary, cont according to your good pleasure. We solves is therefore, here already rather guarantee that nothing shall happen to a complicated mixtum compositum be you

cause of the right of a State to govern.

will be reserved for que later to give some

our artillery. We hold Beitar el-Tahti, to attend thelaunching at on Atlantic A correspondent has been permitted where our fine boys put up another grand

Now, gentlemen, I am very far from itself on account of its territory and at fight. After we had captured the place oil tanker land was a barren waste frankly, and so that Rome may hear it, nationalities to have a voice under inter port of one of America's new ships, an taking this standpoint. I say quite the same time, however, the right of its the Turks brought and by weight of numbers got into the

up storming troops fifteen months ago. It is now a large that if Italy wantonly continues the war national protection in their village, which here, as in most parts of shipyard inesing in size daily, and she will inter get a bad pean. We owe political relations On April 11th, 1917, inter this district, rests on the top of a hill the tanker latched there were on the home. (Cheers.) Count Karolyi mayclared that it disavowed any intention to employing tidsands of men. Besides that to the troops and to the people at the Russian Provisional Government de By a vigorous counter-attack we re-estab-ways two big Unarders more than three rest assured that I have one aim, namely, dominate over other peoples or to take lised pitreeves on the crest, and nothing quarters comped, and three big mine the speediest possible conclusion of an from them their national heritage. It the enemy has done has disturbed our sweepers for American Navy The honourable peace, but at the same time indicated the right of the belligerent whistles had ne stopped blowing to cele I refuse to give our enemies a premium States themselves to decide, at the con There was another sterling piece of brate the lounging of the first ship built on the prolongation of the war clusion of peace the destiny of their work on the ridge between Shilts and El before the keel another ship was being high ground, which covers the road lead", laid on the samways. The ship launched

The attempted

Regarding the U boats, I can entirely peoples. That is the right of States to ing from Jaffa, They rushed the

confirm what Count Tisza has said. It govern their own nationalities.

I do not hesitate to declare that within trongly a time when they were not, Per cent, read for sea

data. I can, however, assure Count my right shall most decidedly reject Feld, and

us out Their

Karolyi that the competent military all foreign influence on the arrangement landera launched a powerful counter at There has bee heavy fighting at Nebi port of mamtions to the East and West which might arise that certain internat

Low

authorities on bath the German and our of our internal conditions, and on the tack a

against 600 picked Tarks, absolutely Sams il, but par of the population had fronts was so greatly hindered that it questions might find an international side express the conviction that the trans. other hand I shall also reject the idea overwhelming them, killing large num- sugli confidence that the Malarmeden has substantially influenced the course of solution The relations of the component bers, and a prisoner since captur

red nd thits that he evacuated 7 mRby wounded up would pect the sanctuary of the War We knew quite well that our parts of the Hungarian Monarchy to each that probably the whole battalion of mosque a tomb as they went into the enemies are suffering tremendously from other are based on legal principles. The storming troops destroyed. These de, the Turks shell the mosque and despite

mosque on the mit already told, its effects. tails

of some engagements

the reverence

possibility of a change in those relations held other points too, I am in complete are provided in our constitutional in losses in their defence.

the Turkish Mohamedans, sacred building is a

which i

by agreement with Count Tisza, who answer stitutions. Whenever wishes for such a The fact is that s we find

considerable

ople took refuge in the od Count Kerole remark that our change arise they must be solved in number of Turkish | soldiers hiding in the villages; they

no remained unharmed diplomacy was blame for and constitutional manner with the co-opera have Two Had enough of our hard hitting It is then out, and corted them to saloty enemy. I can sum up the situation in a guarantee the right of self-determination nights ago sent a party to bring Roumanin going over to the side the tion of the constituent bodies which dificult to get the inhabitants of the The tide of batt runs a strong course single soutenice by saying that Roumania to the nations within both States of the villages to leave their homes in the zone about his 3,000 peak In one place and Italy made a bad speculation in Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. I am un of fighting

our troops are of forty yards from the adhering to the enemy group In that able to recognise the possibility of the (Gonzine ed al foot of nezl column)

connection, I jak, how could a diplomatist different solution,

success was Perved for

the

Top will show how beary fast of Jerusa