The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-02-22
BoIsheviki Surrender, Will Fight
On Or Overthrow BY Social
Democrats Each Statement
Has Its Official Authority
GERMANS OCCUPY
lUTSK AND DVlNSK
Trotzky Sends Telegram To
Vienna To Find Out Whether
Austria Is At War With Russia
Or Prepared To Carry Out
Agreements

AMSTERDAM, Fch,narv % As
dictory reports dealing with the stu
alton in Russia the Cu--nCk Republic
to the south and Fmlrud nrr being
received from MANY of thr capitals.
What is reported to hr nm official
statement nv Lcninc "nr"uuccS tn,
decision of the Bolshc>ik TX, 80 surrender
stating that thrrc il ru'hrug further
left for Russia than TO " the peac"
treaty demanded hv R",nu and on the
lines dictated by Won kurhlmnn.
Another report Announces To" over
throw Of the BOlsPhNL 90 ,'nmrnt
while still another states thHt the Rus
iun forces IN the fC'd La," been told
| 20 resist TO the last i've German ad
vance. after proposals hH'" been made
70 the German soldiers fur n soldiers
peace.
German Advance Begtrs
Berlin oNirinlIv announces that the
| Germans have begun general al
| 'nncr AGAINST prtrograd ON n front
| offending from the Gulf Of Riga a
! Far south aS Tutsk. II j. also officially
| announced that the Germans have en-
| erred and o"cupiPl I.utsk without
| lighting. and have entered DNinsk, the
| ,dVpnce "unrd reaching the city Just
| ~ the Russians were attempting e
| 1vnamitc the bridge over the DvinC
| River. The Gcrmars are under the
| command of General Won IinSingPN.
An early despatch Yesterday from
petrorrad reported nm official Statement
igncd bv Lenine and Trot2kv. in whicl
| ia xyn;onJ annir,St fh,, (,,r n /
determination to resume the war an'
,aving that the councils Of the peoples
commissioners will now h" forced to de
lare their readiness to sign the peac'
'reatv az dictated by tn" delegates o
the QTadruplP Alliance at Brest Ii
| .Ovsk
solshevikt overthrown7
On top Of this comes report, b.
vay Of Vasa. Finland. stating that Rp
oarentlv authenticated reports haV
cached there from Petrogrnd that tn
9Olshevik government, following it
| announcement of a readiness to Surrcn
Ter, has been overthrow 10y the SOcia
Democrats, who have formed n new
Government under the leadership o
rchernoff.
| Stockholm papers have received des
patches Quoting the general orders is
ued by Ensign Krylenko. Russian min
ster of war. to the Russian armies i
he field. These orders state that tn
russians. whenever thew encounter il
vahing Germans must first attempt t
rntpr into communication with the Gen
nan soldiers, disregarding the officer
70 the soldiers they must propose a 80
tiers peace. If they fail to sCrur
'his. thew must then resist the udvanc
" the Germans to the fhll extent q
heir power.
A Prtrograd despatch states tina
Trotzkv has been appointed food diet,
'or for Russia. with unlimited power.
Would Like To Know
From BPrne il forwarded n Nirnn
, statement that TrotZky has TELEGRAPH
+ n to Count Czcrniu saving that. &C.
many having rePstohlished a state {
var with Russia, he requests to hr il
formed whether Austria also couSid"I
t herself in n state of war or whether n
| Austrian government still believes
: rosSihlr to realize the agreements ~
tered into nj Petr"grAd between II
AUSTRIAN and the Russian represent
tiNCS