The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-06
GERMANS,DESP|TE.
PEACE,PUSH DRIVE.
ATe Reported 100 Miles From
PetrOgrad.
SAID TO HAVE TAKEN kARVA
Text of the Russo Teuton Trtaty Sign
ed at Brest Litovsk-IndemnitIe
Not Mentioned.


ed at Brest Litovsk-IndemnitIes
Not Mentioned.
London, March 6.-Narva. one hun
dred miles southwest of Petrograd,
has been captured by the Germans.
The enemy is reported to be contin-
!u1ng his advance on Petrograd, &C
cordlnd to an Exchange Telegraph
company despatch from Petr9grad.
Statements issued by the German
war office Sunday night and Monday
derlared the Teuton advance in Rus
STA had been halted.)
Ratification of the (peace) treaty
| between the Ba'sheviki government
| and the central powers) has been set
for Thursday, but the final decision
rests with the All-Russian congress
OF councils Of workmens, peasants
! and Cossacks' deputies, which will as
semble a. Moscow, March -.
The peace agreement between the
central powers and Russia is given in
dispatches from Berlin.
! The document says the powers in
volved have agreed to terminate the
state Of war and bring about peace as
! quickly as possible, and, therefore, the
ptenipotentiaries signed the following
articles:
Ffrst-The central powers and Rus
| STA declare the state of war between
! them to be terminated and are resolv-
ed henceforth to live In peace and
friendship with one another.
| Second-The contracting nations
! will refrain from all agitation or pro-
vocation against other signatory gov
ernments and undertake to sptre the
| population Of the regions occupied by
| the powers of the quadruple entente
Third-The regions lying west OF
the line agreed upon by the contract
ing parties, and formerly belonging to
Russia. shall no longer be under Rus
sian sovereignty. It Is agreed the
line appears from the appended map,
| No. /, which, as agreed upon, forms
an essential part Of the peace treaty
/ The fixing of the line in the west will
be settled in the German-Russian mix
ed commission. The regions in ques-
| ton will have no obligation whatever
toward Russia, arising from their for
mer relations thereto. Russia under
takes to refrain from all interference
in the internal affairs of these terri
tories and to let Germany and Aus
tria determine the future fate Of
these territories in agreement with
their populations.
Fourth - Germany and Austria
agree, when a general peace is con-
cluded and Russian rehabilitation is
fully completed, to evacuate the re-
! gions east Of the line designated in
Article 8, number one, insofar as Ar
ticle does not stipulate otherwise.
Russia will do everything in her pow
er to complete as soon as possible the
evacuation of the Anatolian provinces
and their orderly return to Turkey.
The districts of Erivan, Kars and Ba-
toum will likewise without delay he
! evacuated by the Russian troops. Rus
STA will not interfere in the reorgani-
| zation Of the constitutional or inter
national conditions of these DISTRICTS,
but leave it to the populations of the
districts to carry out the reorganiza-
ton, In agreement with the n|t3hbor-
ing states, particularly Turkey.
Fifth-Russia will without delay
carry out the complete rehabilitation
Of her army, including the forces
newly formed by the present govern
ment. Russia will further transfer
her warships to Russian harbors and
leave them there until general
peace or Immediately disarm. War
ships of states continuing in a state
of war with the quadruple alliance
will be treated as Russian warships
insofar as they are within Russian
control
tinues in force until the conclusion
of peace. An immediate beginning
will be made Of the removal of mines
| in the Baltic and insofar as Russian
power extends in the Black Sea. Com
mercial shipping Is free in these
waters and will be resumed immedi-
ately. A mixed commission will be
| appointed to fix further regulations,
! especially for the announcement of
routs for merchant ships. Shipping
routes are to be kept permanently
from floating mines.
Sixth-Russia undertakes immed1-
ately to conclude peace with the Uk-
raine peoples republic and to recog-
nize the peace treaty between this
state and the powers of the Quad
ripple alliance. Ukrainian territory
will be Immediately evacuated by theI
Russian troops and the Russian redI
guard Russia will cease all ..agita-
ton or propaganda against the gov-l
eminent or the public institutions OIL
the Ukrainian peoples republic.
Esthonia and Livonia will likewise|
be evacuated without delay by the|
Russian troops and the Russian red
guard.
The eastern frontier of Esthonia
follows in general the line of the Ma
rova river The eastern frontier of
Livonia runs in general through Pei
pus Lake and Pakov Lake to the
southwesterly corner Of the latter;
then over Lubohner Uuban) Lake in
the direction Of Livenhof, on the
/ Dvina.