The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-02-24
LAST MESSAGE FROM
FRANCIS DATED FEB. 18
Under the Peace Terms at Brest-
LitoVsk Russia Would Surrender
10000 Square Miles of Territory
and Pay an Indemnity of Three Bill
lion Rubles.

Washington, Feb. 23.-Occupation Of
Petrograd by Germans will involve the
! flight from that city of $50 Americans,
including fifteen members OF the Dip
lomatic and consular staffs. Informa-
| ton at the state department indicates
that of the $50 there are thirty women
The number of French and British na-
tionals in the menaced capital is lar
ger. Ambassador Francis has not re-
ported to the department the details
OF any plan for the departure of ma
uonals OF the co-belligerent govern
ments, but it has been assumed that
practically all will leave with the al
lied diplomats.
No new instructions were sent to
him and none will be Even the ques-
ton of leaving the country has been
left to his judgment
The message from Ambassador
Francis today was dated February IS
and it credited Foreign Minister
Ttotzky with saying he did not an
ticipate an early occupation of the cits.
since he had been given to understand
that it would be given EIGHT days no
tice by the Germans Such notice had
not been received at the time Mr..
Francis filed his dispatch.
PetrUerad Wednesday, Feb. 20
peace terms submitted at the Brest-
Litovsk conference by the central
powers We're as follows:
Russia should surrender IG0 600
square miles Of territory, having 4
population of eighteen million, and
pay an indemnity subsequently modi-
fled to three billion ru5les.
The central powers we're prepared
to return to Russia seven thousand
square miles in the Grodno govern
ment, province of Iithuania.
Russia should agree not to spread
revolutionary propaganda in the cen
trail empires
The commercial treaty which was
abrogated at the beginning of the
war should be reconstructed and end
ed in thirty years.
Reports reaching Petrograd are TO
the effect that the newest German
demands in connection with the DO
Icing Of all the principal cities OF
Russia.
The B0lsheviki authorities are
ready TO accept peace terms origin
ally outlined by tn ecentral powers
and also to accede to demand that
Russia evacuate the small portion of
Austrian territory still held as well
as Armenia and all other territory
captured from Turkey
"A dispatch from Petrograd under
idate of February IS quoted Leon
lNbHky, the BolsheiH minister as
declaring in his report on the end
ing Of the Brest-IItoysk negotiations
that the German terms included the
retention of Poland, Iithuania, Riga
and Moon Island with an indemnify
of 4.00900J000 pounds, presumably
in gold 1t will be seen from the
foregoing dispatch that the Teutonic
demands both. in territory and indem
nifty were much less than those re-
ported by Trotzky.
The Germans in their invasion of
Russia are adancing in three groups
rlrding to report from the com
mander-in-chiefo OF the Russian army
on the northern ront, who says:
THE Germans are advancing with
great caution. They are marching IN
three groups. First in the Walk re-
gion second in the Rieshita region
and The third between these two sec
tons.
in the Mohilev sector all is quiet