The Elbert County tribune., 1918-02-15
War WITH HUNS
ENDED BY RUSSIA
FORMAL PEACE TREATY DE-
LAYED. BUT AGREEMENT is
MADE AT BREsT-LITovsK.
ARMY is DEMODILIzING
UKRAINE SIGNS PACT WITH GER
MANY-ULTImATuM SENT RU-
MANIA BY TEUToNs.

Amsterdam, Feb. 13.-Russia has
declared the state of war to be at an
end and has ordered the demobiliza-
ton of Russian forces on all fronts,
according to dispatch received here
Monday dated Brest-Litovsk on Sun
day.
Although cutting little figure in the
war for nearly year past. Russia's
great, indeed, vital. part in the conflict
comes forcibly to mind as the circum-
stances leading up to her exit are re-
viewed. Becoming a belligerent on
Aug. /, 1914, through Germany's dec
laration of war upon her, her troops
were soon sweeping through East
Prussia, creating a diversion which
hampered the Germans in their first
dash through Belgium and upon Paris
Though disastrously defeated by
Hindenburg at Tannenburg, she raj
lied quickly and by winter was ham
mering again at the German borders
and her great armies, overrunning
Austrian territory in Galicia, were at
the crests of the Carpathians and
y.
1t took the bulk of the Austrian
armies an entire years campaigning in
1915 to break Russia's hold on Galicia,
drive her out of Poland and the lower
Baltic territory and force her armies
under Grand Duke Nicholas back to
the line of which Brest-Litovsk, the
scene of the recent peace negotiations.
formed the keystone. Beaten back but
not yet disorganized. she fought
through 1916, creating havoc among
the Austrian armies in Volhynia and
Galicia and in Asia Minor. driving the
Turks out of virtually all Turkish Ar
menia.
The opening of last year, however,
found Russia, under the old bureau
cratic regime. virtually at the end of
her tether. Her oppressed, war-worn
people were ripe for revolution, the
latest flames of which German propa-
gandists had skillfully famed, and in
March, 1917, came the crash, the depo-
sition of Emperor Nicholas and the for
nation of the first provisional govern
ment.
Amsterdam. A dispatch from
Brest-Litovsk via Berlin giving details
of the conference at which the peace
treaty between the Central powers and
the new Ukrainian republic was signed
has been received Eere. The treaty
is entitled "a Treaty of Peace Be-
tween Germany, Austria Hungary. Bull
garia and Turkey on One Part and the
Ukrainian Peoples Government on the
Other"
The preamble states that the Ukrai-
MAN people having in the course of the
present world war declared itself to be
independent and expressed a wish to
restore peace between itself and the
powers at war. the nations desire ito
take the first step toward lasting
worlds peace. honorable to all parties,
which shall not only put an end to the
horrors of war. but also lead to the
restoration of friendly relations of the
people in political, legal, economic and
intellectual realms"
The names of all the plenipotentia-
ries engaged in the negotiations are
then set forth. and they are declared
to have reached an agreement that
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria
and Turkey on the one hand aud the
Ukrainain peoples republic on the
other declare that the state of war he
tween them is at an end. The con
tracing parties are resolved hence
forth to live in peace and friendship
with one another.
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