The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-02-21
BOLSHEvIkI THREATEN BUTCH
ERY OF GERMAN PRISONERS
POLISH STRIKE IMMINENT.
RI0TING in PETROGRAD
KAISER MASSES FORCES IN Uk-
RAINE TO STRIKE FOLLOWERS
OF LENiNE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Petrograd, Feb. 18.-Indiscriminate
shooting is now going on throughout
the city both by day and by night. but
usually is most general after night
fall. Pillaging followed by shooting
spread Saturday night from Vosnes-
sensky Prospect past st. Isaac's cathe-
dral to Galernayast, where private
apartments were broken into and
plundered, eliminating In protracted
firing between the pillagers and red
guards where about 100 were killed
and many injured, in raids on stores
and wine cellars. The wounded were
taken to hospitals. A dispatch from
Kiev received here says: White
guards, after defeating red guards
and revolutionary troops holding the
aresnal at Petchersk, shot nearly 1900
workmen. All who wore the work
mems blouses or who had horny
hands were massacred, and all the
members of the revolutionary band
were shot"
Berlin. Feb. 18-The armistice be-
tween the Russian and German forces
which has been in existence for sew
eral weeks on the Russian front ex-
pires at noon today, according to the
official statement issued by the Ger
man army headquarters.
Amsterdam, Feb. 6.-German
forces are already being concentrated
In Ukraine to attack the Bolsheviki,
according to a Berlin dispatch to the
Tijd, and declarations looking to the
active prosecution Of the war against
the Bolsheviki in north Russia also
will be made at Berlin.
Bulgaria has resumed diplomatic re-
lations with Russia, according to a
Sofia telegram published In the Ger
man newspapers.
Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungar-
ian foreign minister, has notified Ber-
lin that Austrian troops must not be
used against Russia to support any
policy which Austria has not approved.
but only for purposes OF self-defense
against marauding bands.
Tho German authorities are anxious
regarding the fate Of German prison
ers in north Russia. whom the Boil
sheviki are holding as hostages and
who. Berlin dispatches say. may be
killed II the Bolsheviki are driven to
desperation. Germany has already
served notice on the Bolsheviki au-
thorities that she will enforce repris-
ais IL the German prisoners are
harmed.
The Bolsheviki are making whole
sale arrests OF Germans in Russia and
holding them hostages. according to
Riga dispatch. Three hundred Ger
mans and many pro-German Estho-
mans at Dorpat have been arrested.
The lives of those arrested, as we'll
as Germans and German supporters
who have not yet been arrested. are
hourly in great danger. adds the dis
patch, as the Bolsheviki threaten
Wholesale butchery. The Bolsheviki
have officially declared the Baltic no
bility outlaws.
The Lokal Anzeiger (Berlin) says
there is great excitement at Warsaw.
Cracow and Lemberg as result of
the Ukraine treaty. At Cracow the
clare a one-day general strike. A gen.
eral strike has been called at Lem
berg.
Embittered by the tearing off of a
strip of their territory to be given the
Ukraine for breaking away from the
Bolsheviki and signing peace with
the central powers, the Poles are in
what appears to be virtually a state
Of revolt.