The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-22
'0GOUPATI0NOF
.PETB0GRll now
CLOSE AT HAU1.
Huns May Reach For
mer Capital This
Morning
Population Waits Ar
rival and Viii Make
No Resistance

III ONDoN, March 2f-(Asso-
~ ciated Press) - Occupation
OF Petrograd by invading German
forces is only matter Of hours.
The population Of the city has as
sumed a waiting mood, It ex-
poets the. arrival Of the Huns. 1t
knows thisais only a question OF
a short time so il prepares for tie
inevitable. No attempt at resist
ance is to be made. These adj
vices came in dispatches from
Petrograd which were received
last night Actual occupation OF
the city may occur today, even as
early as this morning.
&f}tGE HUNS PRESS ON
Notwithstanding the ratifca-
ton Of the est-Litovsk treaty
by the. congress Of Soviets in
Moscow, : Germany's invasion of
Russia is going steadily forward.
Earlier message, including a
Reuters despatch said that artil-
cry fighting was reported at Ono,
$50 miles from Petrograd. The
alter despatch indicates the leu
ton forces in other directions are
still closer to the former capital.
In southern Russia the Teuton
advance also continues and re-
ports Of yesterday said they had
occupied Sonny, five hours from
Kiearkov.
Fear is expressed that an at
tempt will be made to throw an
enveloping movement around
Moscow, the newly chosen capital
and the Bolshevist government is
said to be considering a removal
of the seat of government, with
the treasury and the archives OF
the country, to Layoff or Mimi
Novgorod.
Escape of the Russian warships which
were in the harbor at Odessa when that
city was occupied by Teuton forces was
told in consular dispatches of yester-
day. They proceeded to sebastopoi af-
ter leaving Odessa.
In the Ukraine martial law is report
ed to have been declared in Poltava,
Tchernignox and Khartov.
Armstice Continued
Peace negotiations with Rumania are
going forward. An official announce
ment was made in Berlin yesterday that
the armistiee between the Central Pow
ers and Rumania had been extended to
midnight of March %.
Meantime reorganization of the Ru-
manian government is continuing with
view, apparently to throwing no difi
1ulties in the way of an early peace
protocol for it was announced in tele
grams to Amsterdam yesterday from
Bucharest that Alexander Marghiloman
lad been named Rumanian premier and
hat he had accepted. The telegram
| ldded that it Is "beieved he favOrs
Deace with the Central Powers. ..
british Air Forces
British aviators have had decidedly
Ne best Of it during the last twenty
our hours in the ceasless air-battle
tween the Britons and the Germans.
a this period British aviatOrs on the
ancO-Belgian front have accounted
orr twenty:eight flyers, nineteen Of
be machines being destroyed. Twelve
iritisherB are missing.
During the twenty -fOur.hour period,
inc tons of bombs hGve been dropped
n enemy ,billets and airdromes.
The heavy German artillery firing
ontiRued in the Ypres region and near
Armentieres.
Nfendve Doubled
otfieial dispatches from Switzerland
scribe German renewal of talk regard
ng great offensive on the west front
a desire of the general staff to con-
use the Allies and conceal Germany's
real intentions.
| Uprising Put Down
Regarding the many casualties in the
iprising in Beluchistan, British India,
he India Office reports that the natives
| ,ttaeked a British post but were com.
Sletely repulsed, after which punitiv,
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