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...rivers Bug and Muchowietz overflowed causing severe damage to life and property at Brest of Brest-Litovsk* fame, and Terespol. The inhabitants of both places were driven to the tops of tall buildings by the tremendous inundation...
...Treaty of Brest-Litovak, signed March 3, 1918, ended hostilities between the German Empire and Russia...
...largest bridge in the world is shortly to be built over the estuary of the River Elorn to connect Brest with Plougastel. The length will be six miles. It is to be made up of two approaches, one-third of a mile long, and four spans of one and one-third of a mile each...
...point of view of history Professor Ross covers in some detail the period of the Russo-German negotiations during the winter of 1917-18 that culminated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 1918, and he describes briefly the reorganization of Russia under the Soviet regime. He then outlines the various attempts at counter revolution and foreign intervention such as the Archangel expedition, the struggles in Siberia of the Czecho-Slovaks, Kolchak, and Semenov, and the intervention of Japanese and American troops, as well as the attacks of Denikine, Wranged, and Yudenitch. Throughout he emphasizes the policy towards Soviet...
...matter of public knowledge. Of these the book may afford a fairly useful summary, but it does not fulfill the promise on the wrapper of making sensational disclosures. He does, to be sure, bring out the fact that Lenin and Trotsky offered to reject the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and renew the war against Germany, and offer which, for as yet unexplained motives, was not taken up by the Allies; but this is hardly news. Likewise his account of the German occupation of the Ukraine, and of the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia is good but not novel; and the same...