Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-03-07
INVASION
CT RUSSIA ENDS
BoISheviki Delegates Forced to
Sign Treaty by Fear of More
0nerouS Conditions.
TURKS GET NEW REGIONS.
eatoum, karaband and Kars, in Trans
caucasia, Are SEQ
Officers and Men and Mass Of
Munitions Also Taken.

Berlin, via London.-"By reason of
the signing of the peace treaty with
Russia" says the official communca-
ton from headquarters, military
movements in Great Russia have
ceased"
The Germans in their advance
through Russia have captured, accord
ing to the official communication from
general headquarters, 6,S00 officers
and $1,000 men, 2,400 guns, 5000 ma
chine guns, thousands of motor We
hicles, 800 locomotives and thousands
of railroad trucks.
The official statement says:
Eastern Theater, Front of Prince
Leopold of acknowledgements ini-
tiated after the lapse of the armistice
treaty have LED to great successes.
Troops under Col. Gen. Count Kirch-
bach have FASTENED in their glorious
march through Livonia and Esthonia
to the support of the oppressed inhab-
ftants. They were accompanied by de-
tachments Of troops from the Baltic is
lands, which were advancing across
frozen Moon sound. and also by Es-
thonian regiments.
Reval and Dol pat have been captur-
ed. Our troops have arrived before
Narva.
The armies of Kirchbach and Eich-
horn continued in their uninterrupted
advance by way of Dvinsk and Minsk
and after hard fighting captured
Pskov, POlotzk and Borissoff. At Bo-
bruisk junction with the Polish divi-
sions was effected.
Detachments of the army group of
General Won Linsingen, with the ap-
proval of the Ukrainian government,
have opened fighting on the railway
line from Luncinica, via Roetschiza,
on the Dnieper, as far as Gomel, and
have had several engagements. Other
divisions under General Won KnowZen
have cleared the roads leading from
Kieff and the Kiev-Shmerinka railway
line of the enemy after breaking his
resistance. In cooperation with the
Ukrainians Kieff was captured. Ger
man and Austro-Hungarian troops
have entered Shmerinka.
The booty taken from the enemy
cannot as yet be approximately esti-
mated. According to reports at hand,
there are in our possession $500 Off
GERS and $1,000 men. In booty we
have taken 2,400 guns, over 5000 ma
chine guns, thousands of vehicles, In
Guiding 5000 motor cars, II armored
automobiles, 100000 boxes of artillery
ammunition, 1880 rifles, 800 locomo-
'tives and 5000 railway trucks.
The booty taken at Reval was go
guns, % airplanes and lot of rolling
stock. Thirteen officers and 500 men
were taken prisoners.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen's ar
mistice with Rumania lapsed. The
Rumanian government thereupOn de-
clared itself ready to enter upon fresh
negotiations for a further armistice on
the basis of conditions laid down by
the central powers. With these arms
tice negotiations peace parleys may be
commenced.
The Bolsheviki delegation at Brest-
Litovsk wired to Premier" Lenine and
Trotzky that the most serious feature
OF the new peace demands compared
with those of February 81 Is the fol-
lowing:
To detach the regions of Karahand,
Kars and Batoum from Russian terri
tory on the pretext of the right Of
peoples to self-determination.
Kars, also in Transcaucasia, los
miles northeast of Erzeroum in Turk
ish Armenia. has been in dispute be-
tween the Turks and the Russians for
nearly century and finally was coded
to Russia at the same time as was
Batoum.