New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Krylenko Is Told Teuton
Drive Is Necessary to
Break Resistance
hamburg Retaken,
Says Petrograd
Rolsheyiki Also Assert Kiev
Is Still Held by Red
Troops


british Admiralty per Wireless Press).
The imperial headquarters, replying
to radiogram sent by Ensign Kry-
lenko, the Bolshevik commander-in-
chief, protesting against continual
ton of hostilities. says that the Aus
Hungarian troops, in lending their
aid to Ukraine, have engaged in fight
ing at places where the enemy's re-
sistance has to be broken.
LONDON, March 6.-A Russian rev.
olutionacy army recaptured Jamburg,
GS miles from Petrograd, OIL the morn
rg Of March 5, according to an official
announcement made in Petrograd
Thursday and forwarded by the cor
respondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company.
Kicv, the capital of the Ukraine. is
still in the hands of Russ ian revolu-
tonary troops and has not been occu
pied by the Germans, according to
statement issued Wednesday by the
Russian official news agency in Pctro-
grad The previous message saying
Kaev had been lost to the enemy, the
statement a6ds, was due to the receipt
CT a wireless message, when must have
originated from enemy sources.
The German War Office. in its Off
cial statement of March g. said that
Ukrainian and German troops had capt
ured Kicv. Since then, however. there
have been no claims Of any advance
beyond Kew by the INVADERS
Ensign n. V. Krylenko, Commander n
ir chief of tn Bolshevik army, has re-
signed according to an Exchange Telc-
graph dispatch from Pctrograd. The
resignation was brought about owing
to differences of principle between
krylenko ana the Council of People, s
Commissaries, as we'll as a disagreement
with the latest actions of the Council.
A Berlin dispatch received in London
On February 25 reported that General
Bonch Brujevitch had been appointed
to succeed Krylenko as commander in
chief, but there was no confirmation
OF this report from Russian sources.
Petrograd, according to direct ad-
vices under Wednesdays date, is calm
ly awaiting news of its fate during the
quiet offered by the temporary armis-
ticc pending consideration of the peace
treaty by the Soldiers and Workmen' 5
Congress at Moscow. Evidence that
the city is heing evacuated is seen
everywhere. The Ministry of Marine is
sending its archives to Nijni-Novgorod
The Bolshevik delegation returned
to-day from Brest-Iitovsk NJ. Alexieff
a member of the delegation, said the
delegates were forced to sign under
pressure of arms. He stated the term
Of the treaty differ from the terms
offered on February 81 only in the sur
: render of the Caucasian districts O.
Batoum, Kars and Karaband under con
ditions which make it impossible fol
Russia to regain the districts from
Turkey. He stated that it was the Rus
sian understanding that the army wa
to return to the pre-war basis.
M. Alexietf said tiat peace accept
ed so unwillingly by Russia must in
evitably be short lived
German military movements in tn
northern districts of Russia have ap
parently stopped, but the enemy is S
close that it is difficult to retain tn
government in Petrograd. It's rcmova
to Moscow is generally expected befor
the Congress- opens. on March II.
The Ministry of the Interior is NOV
ing to Moscow. M. Dibenko, Commits
sioncr of Marine, has been missing 70
several days. Crowds are trying t
leave the city, bu the regular train
have been suspended and permission t
secure special trains is difficult to oh
: tain. Fabulous prices are paid fo
sleighs, while thousands are walking ou
: along the highways and railroads. TIL
theatres, opera and ballet are open q
, usual, the public being indifferent q
the result of the long strain to whic
it has been subjected