Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-28
DRIVE 0N RUSSIAN CAPITAL GOES ON
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"Let Them Take Cs."

London, Feb. 27.-f special dis patches from PetroGrad gauge ac- curately the situation there, the Ger mans are likely to find little diff culty in occupying the city with trained troops. Russian soldiers quite frankly refuse to fight, and say We have had enough of fighting. If the Germans come let them take us."
 There is a stiffer attitude among the worlsmen, from whom, if at all, resistance to the Germans must come. Even though for lack of training their resistance should prove of little value, they are said to be en- rolling with enthusiasm ill response to the call of the Bolsheviki lead CTS. The correspondent of the Daily News, writing under Sundays date, says: Russian troops almost with out exception have refused flatly to fight. :. A division. which was sup posed to be defending Narva 1as ar rived at Gatchina. Ensign Krylenko protested. They replied they did not intend to fight.
 Immediately the first few Ger man troops appeared the Russian peasant soldiers, who, being peasants and not industrialists, were interest ed merely in the land questoin and cared nothing for the revolution, started eastward in an uncontroll. able wave, threatening to sack all the towns on the way. The Russian army was Germany's strongest weap- on. In driving it towards Petrograd they were driving herd of stamped- ing cattle which would trample down everything in it's way. The revol- utionary workmen could have put up real fight against the Germans, but they could do nothing against the Russian army, which must disappear before the revolution can begin to create any real military force for it. self. The workmen of the towns are eager to fight"
 Some correarlondents describing the bulk of the population as lost in bewilderment and apathy think such resistance as may he offered will amount to little. They say TO amount of talk by the Bolsheviki leaders can cover the plain facts of the situation.
 "All sorts of preparations are in progress" says the correspondent of the Daily Express. "One cannot help thinking. however, that the state of siege in Petrograd will be merely technical, as Germans. with or with out uniforms, are already i,. the capi- hal. A great many Austriahs tare here too. The demeanor of the Ger mans thus far has been exemplary. They go about avoiding ceremony, and the officers, following the Rus sian customs, carry no swords. They speak German in an undertone."
 The Germans in Petrograd have been organized to police the city, the correspondent of the Morning Post reports.
 Heavy Fighting, in Bessarabia.
 Berne, Switzerland, Feb. 27.-Con- tinuous fighting is taking place be tween the Bolesheviki and Rumanian troops in Bassarabia, according to a Vienna dispatch. There has been se- were fighting around Kischinoff.
 Petrograd Reports Pskoy Retaken.
 London, Feb. 2l.-A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Petrograd says:
 "The report that Pskov has been reoccupied by the Russians came from Luga. S5 miles south of Petro- grad, which apparently is still in Russian hands.
 Events seem to show that the Germans have decided to attack Pe- 
 "An attempt by the Germans to take Vitobsk met with strong resis- tance. and the enemy was forced to retire.
 ''The supplies at Orsa and other stations near that place were sue cessfully removed"