Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-02-26
BOLSHEV|k| GIVE
IN To GERMANY;
AGREE TO TERMS
Foes Occupation of Dvinsk and
LutSk Forced Action
TO GIVE a BILLION INDEMNITY
Lenine and Trotzky Reported Over
thrown by Social Revolutionists-
Teutons Continue Drive Into
Eastern Russia.

London, Feb. 20.-Russa is now
forced to sign peace upon the cOndi-
tons proposed by Germany. says an
official Russian statement received
here
The official statement was signed by
Premier Lenine and Leon Trotzky, the
foreign minister 1t protests against
the German resumption of the war
and says the councils of peoples com
missi0nerS is now forced TO declare
its readiness TO sign peace as dictat-
ed by the delegation of the quadruple
alliance at Brest-Litovsk. 1t promises
10 give Il detailed reply without delay
10 the German peace conditions.
Russians Enter Protest.
The statement was transmitted
through the wireless telegraphy sta
tons of the Russian government TO the
government of the German empire at
Berlin. The text reads:
The council of peoples commits
sarieS protests against the fact that
the German government has directed
its troops against the Russian cOun-
ellis republic, which has declared the
war at an end and which is deinObil
iziug its army an all fronts.
The wOrkmen's and peasants gov
ernment of Russia could not anticipate
such a step because neither directly
nor indirectly has any one Of the par
ties which concluded the armistice
given the seven days notice required
III accordance with the treaty of De
cember Is for terminating it,"
RuSsia's decision to yield to Ger
many comes on the day after the re-
sumption of military operations by the
Germans resulting in the occupation
by them of the DvinSk and Lutsk.
Whether it was the threat of German
military power or the chaotic domes-
tic conditions which induced the Dol
sheviki to accept the German terms is
not made clear by the adyices thus far
received.
Four Billion indemnity Demand.
4 dispatch to the Times from PetrO-
grad under date of February - quotes
Leon TrOtZky the bOIsheviki foreign
minister, as declaring in his report
upon the ending of the negotiations at
Brest-LitOvsk that the German terms
included the retention of Poland
Lithuania Riga and Moon island and
an indemnity Of $4,0O00OO.OOO. presum-
ably in gold.
The Russian government, according
10 an official statement received here.
has addressed the following message
to headquarters and all the fronts:
"rhe council of peoples commits
sGriPs has offered to the Germans to
sign peace immediately. | order that
in all cases where Germans are en-
cnuntcred massed pourparIers with
ihe German soldiers should be organ
lied and the proposal to refrain from
fighting made to them. If the Germans
refuse, then you must offer to them
every possible resistance.
''KHYLENKO."
Germans Occupy Russian Cities.
Berlin, Feb. 20.-German forces have
entered Dvinsk. it was officially an
nounced by the German war office. The
Russians unsuccessfully attempted to
blow up the bridge across the Dvina
river.
The official communication issued
by the German war Office says that
from Riga to as far south as LutSk
German armies are advancing east
ward to Russia.
Vienna, Feb. 20.-The German army
group under command of Gen. AIexan-
der Won LinSingen, according to an of
tilial statement issued by the Austrian
war office, has occupied the Russian
town of Lutsk, in Volhynia, without
fighting.
BoIsheViki in Flight, Report.
London, Feb. 20-EumorS are cur
rent in Vasa that the hosheviki gov
eminent in Petrograd has been over
thrown by the social revolutionists I'M
der the leadership of NJ. Tchcrnoff ac-
Cording to the correspondent there of
the Politiken of Copenhagen, says a
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company Nikolai Lenine and Leon
TrotZky are said to have escaped to
Riga.