Abstract

The Week

The article presents various news briefs on political happenings in different countries during 1918. With the arrival of German and Austrian troops at Odessa, the Central Powers will be in touch with some of Russia's stored-up wheat. Broomhall, the Liverpool grain trade expert, estimated last week that northern Russia is bare of supplies and that the Ukraine may have 40,000,000 bushels. "Armenians are resisting our advance" is the official formula of hypocrisy under which the Turks have taken up again the job of exterminating the Armenians. Unanimous passage by the Senate of legislation authorizing the sale of all property in the United States owned by enemies abroad is simply the newest evidence of the process by which the commercial interests of the Central Powers,outside their battle-lines, are threatened with being crushed out.