Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-23
Call People to Resist.

felfograd, Thursday, Feb 21.-
 Mdnis'na -(By the Associated,
 Press.)-A proclamation ordering re
 slstance to the German advance, call
 ing on all Russians to defend the
 fatherland and declaring Petrograd
 in of siege was issued tonight from the Smolny institute, the Bolsheviki
 headquarters. The proclamation was
 issued at the order of sl!e peoples commissaries and is signed by Pe-
 mier Lenine and Ensign Krylenko,
 the Bolsheviki commander in chief 'sDefense to Deatb."
 i London, Feb. 22.-"Defense to the
 death' against Germany is ordered in 1 the proclamation of the Russian com
 missoners, Reuters Petrcgrad cor respondent telegraphs. The commits sioners appeal to the soldiers to de- stroy railways and provision and compel the bourgeoisie to dig trench es under penalty of death.
 Issue Proclamation.
 Petrograd Feb. 21.-In a procla- nation announcing that they had agreed to sign German peace terms the peoples commissioners declare they are firmly convinced that the German working classes will not per- init the Russian revolution to be crushed by the militarists. Appeal Is made to local councils to increase efforts to reorgauize the Russian army. The k1roclamation which is addressed to Russian workmen and peasants says:
 We agreed to sign peace terms at the cost of enormous concessions in order to save the country from final exhaustion and the ruin of the i revolution. Once more the German | working class in this threatening hour>has shown itself ins,lfficiently 1 determined to stay the strong crim- lnal hand of it's own militarism. We 1 had no other choice but accept the conditions of German imperialism until revolution changes CT cancels them. i.
 "Tne German government is not hastening to imply to us, evidently aiming to seize as many important positions in our territory as, possible. The enemy has occupied Dvinsk. Werder and Lutsk and is continuing 70 strangle by hunger the most i'm. oortant centers of the revolution. We even now are convinced firmly hat the German working classes will rise against the attempting of ne ruling classes to strife the revol. ltlon but we cannot predict with cer. alntv when this will occur.
 "The German imperialists may lesitate at nothing for the purpose 'f destroying the authority of the and taking the land from peasants.
 "The commissaries call on al! loy- l councils and army organizations to lse all efforts to recreate the army. Perverted elements of hooligans, larauders and towards should be ex. 'elled from the ranks an.l in the vents of resistance, wiped off the acc of the earth.
 'The hougeoisie, wlo under Keren. ky and the cZar evaded the burden f war and profited from it's mis- crtunes. must be made to fulfill heir duties by the most decisive and lerciless measures"
 Germans Delay Reply.
 London. Feb. 22.-Although the del- gates sent by the Russian commis- toners to inform tine Germans of icially of Russias equalization de- arted for Dvinsk on Wednesday. on ews has been received from them, avs an announcement made by the as forwarded in a leuter dispatch from Petrograd. ne announcement reads:
 Tt seems that the German govern lent is putting of its reply evidently } refusing peace and carrying out ne wishes of the capitalists of all ountries."
 The commissioners appeal to the ountry also intimates that the Ger lans plan the capture of Petrograd. { "The German generals" it says, { desire to establish their own order { l Petrograd and Kiev. The republic , in the gravest danger The duty ! Russian workmen and peasants in efense to the death of tho republic v gainst the masses of bourgeoisie . .. nd imperilists of Germany" An Exchange Telegraph dispatch 5 rom Petrograd says the evacuation [ nrlnw 1Xr hn