Evening star., 1918-02-27
"We Have Had Enough" J" They
Say-Burden on Workman /.
Volunteers.
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GERMANS NOT Deferred &
BY PEACE AGREEMENT
Armistice Is Refused-Lenine and
Trotzky at 0dds-Bolshevih Re.
port Cossack Defeat. :
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press
LONDON, February 27.-H special diss
patches from Petrograd gauge accurately
the situation there, the Germans are
likely to find little difficulty in occupy.
ing the city with trained troops. Rus.
| sian soldiers quite frankly refuse to
fight and say "We have had enough Of
fighting. If the Germans come let them
take US"
There is sitter attitude among the
workmen, from whom, If at all, resist
ance to the Germans must come. Even
though, for lack of training, their re-
sistance should prove of little value.
they are said to be enrolling with en-
thusiasm in response to the call Of the
bolshevik leaders.
Military Situation.
It is uncertain whether the Germans
or the Russians now hold Pskov. An
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Petrograd under Tuesdays date but
bearing no time. says that the bolshe.
wiki announced Pskov has been recap-
tured- All reports confirm the earlier
statement that the town frequently
changed hands.
says that Borisofi. sixty miles north
east Of Minsk. has been captured By
the Germans. and that Orsha aud
Smolensk. northeast of Minsk, are being
evacuated. Luga has also been occu-
pied, according to rumor.
Fighting at Rostov-on-the-Don ceased
| Monday night. The Cossacks retired
and are being pursued by bolshevik
forces. Gen. Naxaroff. the Cossack lead-
! er has been arrested by bolshevtk
| troops. who are now attacking Noyo
Tcherkask. which is resisting strongly
Germans to xssp On.
t'-In-a dispatch nled at Petrograd yes-
terday correspondent Of the Exchaneo
operating in the region Of Pskov Inc
| quired Of the German general, H01-
mann. whether. in view OF Russia's aes
ceptance of the German peace terms,
they should continue to advance. Gen.
Hoffman,, the dispatch says, replied
that they should.
The Russian revolution will defend
itself against Germany. says an onctal
Russian statement sent out by wireless
and which announces that Germany
has refused to grant an armistice. The
announcement reads:
"a peace delegation is now on the
way to Brest-Litovsk. We expect any
moment news that it has arrived at
the place appointed for peace nego-
tiations, but there is no armistice. The
German government has formally re-
fused an armistice, and German do.
tachments continue to advance.
Ready to Sign Peace. i
I'VE are prepared to sign their peace
Of usurpation. We have already de-
clared this. but there are many indi-
cations that the German imperialista
do not desire peace at the present
moment but rather an immedfato
strangling of the workmen's and
peasants revolution.
Resistance to the German hordes
thus becomes the principal task Of the
revolutfon-brave. heroic, obstinate and
pitiless resistance. Every position.
every railway station. every locomotive
stacle must be put in the way of the
enemy.
"Our greatest strength is in our wide
territories. Enemy detachments. stu!
very small, have occupied Reval and
Skor Even Petrograd itself. which IL
still TAR distant, can no way decide the
destiny of the revolution. The governs
mert of the peoples commissaries can:
gather its forces and must appeal to
the country to use it's whole strength
for the defense of the revolution.
Should the threat to Petrograd increase
the government will remove to Moscow
or any other city Of Russia.
IF GeTtnany'S plunde -ing raid should
advance the task of The government
would be to destroy the possibility Of .
Simultaneous catastrophe decision By
the Gerjnans. They are attempting
to crush the authority of the councils
and are III search of it on the routes
leading to Petrograd.
Will Bar the Routes.
1--WE will bar these routes by everys
thing we can interpose as obstacles.
This at the moment Is the principal
task of the heroic FstroGrad prole-
tariat and its revolutionary staff. But
at the same time we must act in such
a manner that the German generals
may declare they recognize the au-
thority of the councils. not only n :
country, north. south and On both
sides Of the Urals. Even If they think
they can reach Petrograd by a mere
them that they will have to disperse
themselves all over Russia before they
can reach and crush the authority OF
the councils.
carry out such a task il we defend
ourselves heroically? No. They never
will have forces enough. Such an en-.
terprise inevitably will resolve itself
into an adventure and will fail. How
ever deeply they penetrate Russia, then
the more surely will they bring about
the outbreak of revolution in Ger.
many. Patience and firmness is nec-
eSsary.
Cowards Are in Flight.
'aThe first symptoms of panic created
by the Germans plundering raid have
become bygone events. The cowaroo
are in flight and have made room for
the brave, who are rallying themselves
in hundreds and thousands for the de-
fense of the socialist fatherland
IF peace with the revolution IL mot
the aim Of the German imperialistA
they will see the revolution knows how
to defend ITSELF"
Workmen Ready to Fight.
The correspondent Of the Daily News
writing Sunday. says: - 81
Russian troopS almost without oxv