Evening star., 1918-02-17
GERMANS MASS|NG
.TOATTACK RUSSIANS
Feared BoiSi1eviki win Resort
to.WholesaIe Butct1ery
of TeutonS.
AUSTRIA NOT TO FIGHT
AUSTRIA NOT TO FIGHT

Blythe Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, February 16-German
forces already are being concentrated In
Ukraine to attack the bolshevfId, accord
ing to a Berlin dispatch to the T1jd, and
declarations looking to the active prose
cution of the war against the bolsheviki
in north Russia also will be made at Ber-
lin next week
The German authoritieS are anxious re-
garding the fate of German prisoners In
north Russia, whom the bolsheviki are
holding as hostages and who. Berlin dis
patchessay, may be killed II the bolsheviki
are driven to desperation. Germany al
ready has served notice on the bolshevik
authorities that she will. enforce reprisals
Austria VIII Not Aid.
Count Czernin, the Austro- Hungarian
foreign minister, has notified Berlin that
Austrian troops must not be used against
Russia to support any policy which Aus
tria has not approved, but only for pur-
poses OF self-defense against marauding
bands
The bolsheviki are making wholesale
arrests of Germans in Russia and hold
ing them as hostages, according to a
Riga dispatch received by way of Ber-
pro-Germah Esthonians at Dorpat have
been arrested and transferred to Kron-
stadt- All the food in the Dorpat dis
trict has been confiscated. and 1t is al
most impossible to feed the German
women and children.
The lives of those arrested. as well as
Germans and German supporters VINO
have not yet been arrested, are hourly
in great danger. adds the dispatch. as
the bolsheviki threaten wholesale
butchery. The bolsheviki have official
ly declared the. Baltic nobility~ouuaws.
Resume Relations.
Bulgaria has resumed diplomatic re-
1ations with Russia. according to a
Sofia telegram published in German
newspapers
News has been received in Berlin con-
frming reports that Russia had not
begun the demobilization which her
representatives at BreSt-Litovsk an
nounced had been ordered. according to
a dispatch from Berlin to the Weser
Zeitung of Bremen.
On the other hand. the Vienna cor
respondent of the Vossische Zeitung re-
ports he had beeen informed by Talaat
Pasha, the Turkish premier, that Rus
sia was demobilizing in the Caucasus
and that the portion of Armenia occu-
pied by Russia in the process OF
being evacuated.
Sees Fall OF BOlShEH1k1.
Correspondence OF The Sunday Star
and New York WORLDLY
LONDON. February 16.-Constantine
Go1oubkofr, minister of public welfare
in kerensky'S government, who has ar
rived here, predicts the fall OF bolshe-
vik rule in the spring. 1t is supported,
he says. wholly by the bayonets of the
peasant soldiers, who with spring will
be irresistibly drawn to work on the
land. leaving the bolshevik leaders
without protection. He added:
Deprived of the purely mechanical
support of the bayonets, the boil
sheviki will fall surely, as that sup
port pitched them into power. 1t is not
particularly important which party re-
places them. The tragic experience of
bolshevist rule has divided the country
into two camps, bolshevist and anti
bolshevist, the latter embracing all the
most important parties"
He says there is no possibility of the
restoration of the monarchy. because
even moderate monarchiSts, after what
they have gone through. would rather
support even socialist government
than attempt the coup which would
mean another civil war.
Teuton Commissioners Leave.
BERLIN. February is. via London
The commissioners representing the
central powers left Petrograd yester-
day and crossed the German lines this
morning. it is announced officially.