Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-03-01
BY EDWARD w. PickARD.

mo longer believing In the pacific
intentions of Russia" and with the
professed purpose Of restoring peace
and order in the parts of that country
they already occupy, the Germans last
week re-opened the war on the boil
sheviki. Their first advance took them
across the Dvina and into Dvinsk and
.Lutsk, and thence they continued on
their way toward ~Petrograd, gathering
In many prisoners and large quantities
of arms and supplies. After protesting
against the resumption of hostilities
against Russia, Austria-Hungary joined
In the Invasion. The move is extreme
lily unpopular among the socialists of
Germany and the people generally OF
Austria, but the Prussian militarists
have the whip-hand and pay little heed
to objections from others.
Continuing their advance, toward the
end of the week the Germans sent a
large fleet Of warships to Reval and
landed troops to invest that great sea-
port. They also landed a force OF
Firms, who had been fighting In the
German army, in Finland, presumably
to attack the bolsheviki at TANNER
Ifors and viborg.
Trotzky, finding his hope that the
,Teutonic workers and peasants would
refuse to fight against those of Rus
STA, emitted a loud wall, Offering to
sign the peace treaty Germany had de-
manded, but seemingly DR.. Won Kuehl-
mann deemed 1t too late. Fur her
more, there were strong indications
that the long-expected split in the
ranks of the bolsheviki leaders had
come, for Lenine countermanded Trotz-
ky's orders for immediate de-
mobilization, stating that they were
unable yet to the terms OF
peace as peace had not yet been
signed.
The Red guard is necessarily scat
tered. because civil var is raging in
many parts of Russia. The bolshevtki
claimed to have established their au-
thority In that part of East Siberia
known as Trans-Baikalia to have cap
tured Botalsk and advanced far be-
yond Rostov-on-the-Don, and to have
routed the Cossacks In Astrakhan. In
Finland, too, they claimed decided vic
tories over the White guard of the
government. Official dispatches from
Petrograd said the U%krainians had
made an alliance with the Roumanians
and that a joint army had occupied
iKishinev, but that the b~olsheviki
forces had driven them from Tiraspol
on the Dniester. The Ukrainians, on
the other hand. appealed to Germany
for help against the b~olsheviki, who,
they asserted, had invaded their terri
tory and were burning and looting
their towns.
In the Don Cossack region the gov
eminent fostered by General Kalen-
dimes was ousted and a new republic
organized at Tcherkask by the work
men and soldiers. Kalendines commit
ted suicide, and his successor Is het-
man, General NaZaroff, ordered all
Cossacks to mobilize at once and fight
the advancing bolsheviki forces. Al
together it is a pretty mess, and no
one will envy the Germans the task
they have assumed of restoring order.
Ia
The German and Austrian ministers,
addressing the reichraths, expressed
the strong conviction that the peace
with Ukraine was the beginning of
peace with all Russia, but warned the
people they might be disappointed.
They explained that. In order not to
disrupt this peace and lose the chance
lof getting wheat from Ukraine, they