Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-03-13
ALL RUSSIANS
ORDERED TO ARM
Peace Pact With Kaiser Only Boil
Shevik Bluff.
PLAN RETREAT TO THE URALS
Will Withdraw Army to Mountains
Rather Than Submit to Defeat OF
Revolution-Gain Time to
Reorganize.

Petrograd. March THE official
news agency announced that supreme
military council had been formed for
defense of the country. The commits
sioner for military affairs has issued a
decree ordering that the entire people
be armed.
Commenting upon the signing of the
peace treaty, the Izvesta, organ of the
workmen's and soldiers deputies, says
the purpose of the Lenine government
in agreeing to the German terms was
to give respite to the socialist revolu-
ton so as to enable 1t to reasSemble its
forces for the,supreme struggle against
imperialism and to assist the probe
tariat of other European countries to
revolt against it's Oppressors.
The Pravda comments in similar
vein.
Reds Refuse to Submit.
The bolshevik leaders are prepared
to withdraw even as far as to the Ural
mountains rather than submit to the
defeat of the revolution, said Leon
Trotzky, bolshevik foreign minister,
in an interview with a correspondent.
M. Trotzky said that if the bolshe-
wiki couiS go back to the state of af-
fairs which existed last October just
before they overthrow the Kerensky
government they would repeat the
whole program which has been put
through since that time.
SIN October we did not exclude the
possibility of a holy war;" he de-
clared. "Now we consider such
war possible. The workmen's and
soldiers delegates must now fight for
organization and order"
Moscow to Be Capital.
Moscow is to be declared the new
capital of Russia, and the government
proposes to publish a statement to this
effect Immediately. Petrograd will be
proclaimed free port.
Notwithstanding the signing of
peace, the government is determined
to transfer all the state institutions to
Moscow, Nizhni-Novgorod and Kazan.
The removal of the ministries of
foreign affairs, communications and
finance began on Tuesday. The pOpu-
lation of Petrograd is hastily quitting
the city, but there are many transpor-
tation difficulties, and already the
roads leading from Petrograd are
crowded with all sorts of vehicles.
Francis Fights Hun Pact.
Vologda, Russia, March David r.
Francis, the American ambassador,
published a statement declaring that
| the United States did not desire terri
| torial conquest in Russia. He said
| he already had recommended to his
government that it recognize any gov
| eminent the Russian people might
| choose, and he sincerely hoped the
| Russian people would refuse to ratify
| the separate peace treaty with the cen
| trail powers.
Bolsheviki Agree to Peace Terms.
Berlin, March 4-"By reason of the
signing of the peace treaty with Rus
sia," says the official communication
from headquarters military move
ments in Great Russia have ceased"
Russ KneeI to Kaiser.
Petrograd, March An the fear
that argument would result in even
more onerous terms, the Russian dele
| cation at Brest-Litovsk has accepted all
the German peace conditions and is
about to sign an agreement, according
| to telegram from the delegates re-
ceived at the Smolny institute, the boil
shevik headquarters. The demands
already have been increased, they re-
ported.