New Britain herald., 1918-02-27

Wl7efAer the Germans or the Russian now hold Pskov. An Exchange Tei4 graph dispatch from Petrograd undd Tuesdays date, but bearing no timl says the Bolsheviki announce Pskc| has been recaptured.
 All reports confirm the earlit| statement that the town frequent changed hands.
 Another Exchange Telegraph di patch says Borisoff, so miles nortI east of Minsk, has been captured | the Germans, and that Orsha an Smolenysk northeast of Minsk, al being evacuated.
 Fighting at Rostov- on-the-Do ceased Monday night. The Cossacl retired and are being pursued t Rolshevik force. Gen. Nazaroff u l. Cossack leader, has been arrested Bolshevik troops, who now are a tacking Novo Tcherkask, which is re sisting strongly.
 If dispatches from Petrograd guad| accurately the situation there u Germans are likely to find little di r ficulty in occupying the city wit trained troop. Russian soldier Qui r. frankly refuse to fight and say, "W have had enough of fighting. If tl H Germans come. let them take us.''
 There is a stiffer attitude amor the workmen from whom, if at a resistance to the Germans must com Even though for lack of trainhU their resistance should prove of lit f value. they are said to be enrolliT with enthusiasm in response to tlH call of the Bolshevik leaders. TlG correspondent of the Daily New writing Sunday says;
 Russian troops, almost without e-& ception have refused f1atly to figh& A division which was supposed to defending Narva has arrived Gatchina. Ensign Krylenko protes cd They replied they did not interX to fight.
 ''Immcdiately the first few GerrnaM troops appeared the Russian peasa soldiers who, being peasants, not il dustrialists, were interested merely the land question and cared nothir for the revolution, started eastwa1 in an uncomfortable way, threatenirE to sack all the towns on the way.
 'The Russian army was GermanyI
 
 wards Petrograd they were driving horde of stampeding cattle whidI would trample down everything in iI way. The revolutionary workme| could have put up a real fight again | the Germans but they could do not1 ing against the Russian army wfid must disappear before the revolutto1 can begin to create any real mifftaI force for itself. The workmen of tf towns are eager to fight"
 Some correspondents, describir the bulk of the population as lost bewilderment and apathy, think sue resistance as may be offered wi amount to little. They say no amoul of talk by the Bo1shevik leaders cd cover the plain fact of the situa&io
 Luga, half way between Pskov au Petrograd, has been occupied by tfN Germans, according to an uncoaX f1rmed rumor, a Reuter- dispatd. from Petrograd says.
 A number of British subjects hay left Petrograd for home during tf past week. The embassies stiH ri main there.
 The Bolsheviki continue busily e1 rolling men, gathering and shipplr arms and supplies and i'll other df fense activities. A dispatch fro1 Moscow says 7o,000 revoiutionaH troops have been sent from Mosco toward Bologoie.
 In a. dispatch filed at Petrogra vesterdav a correspondent of the Es change Telegraph company says Gel mans operating in the region
 nf eraI. Hoffman, whether, in view Russia's acceptance of the Germa peace terms, they should continue advance. Gen. Hoffman, the dispatc says, replied in the affirmative.