The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1918-02-27
RUSSIANS AGREE TO TERMS
LAID DOWN BY GERMANS
Agree to Add to Germany's Vast
Territory Holdings-Mean-
while Invaders Push Oh
Over 5O0-Mile Front.

new YORK, rep. "a ne BOlSHe>
vik government in Russia repres ented
| by Nikolai Lenine and Leon TrOtzky,
has acceded to the demands of Ger
/ many and announced it's readiness to
accept the hard peace terms which
Germany has laid down.
Thus apparently without further
/ hesitation the Rus SLAMS are prepared
in an effort to stop the inroads the
Germans now are making into their
country to add to the enemy's already
vast holdings more of Russia's most
valuable western territory, extending
from the Gulf of Finland southwark
to the Black sea, and even to with,
draw her troops from Finland ant
give back to the Turks what has
been taken from them in battle.
| The surrender seems abject. tRussia
| is Immediately to send a delegation to
Brest-Litovsk, there to discuss with
German representatives the final de-
tails of the peace and sign the COM
pact
At last accounts the German armies
in the east were giving no heed to
talk of peace, but were methodically
pushing forward their line over the
more thcn 500-mile front from the
Gulf of Finland region to Volhynia
and still nowhere meeting with any
systematic attempts to hinder their
progress.
Many Russians Taken.
Numerous additional towns have
been captured and several thous nt.
more Russians made prisoner In ad-
dition, nearly 5000 German and Aus
trian prisoners of war have been liD-
Grated by the invaders. Reval, Rus
sia's principal port ON the Finnish
gull, is rapidly being approached, not
| withstanding the slow-cOvered roads.
The troops here ere being pushed for
ward in forced marches, the desire of
the German high command evidently
being to capture the port, which
would be available, if necessity arises,
as base for operations by a fleet Of
war vessels against Kronstadt and Pc
| trograd.
Meanwhile the internal situation in
Russia continues chaotic So bad
have conditions become in Petrogrsd
that state Of seige has been declared
by the military authorities. Looting
cnd other reprehonsible deeds will re-
suit in sentences of death, it is an
nounced by the Bolshevik authorities
and all explosives must be immediate.
~ turned into author titles on pain
/ OF the holders being declared outlaws.
Opposition newspapers have been sup
pressed and other organs have been
warned that inaccurate information
published in them will lead to the ar
rest OF editors and their staffs
RuEania Asks for Peace.
Rum2nia, cut off from her allies
through her disaffection, at last has
entered into formal peace negotiations
with the central powers, according to
advices reaching London. Those pas
| masters in Teutonic allied policies.
| Won kuehlmann and Czernin, respec-
lively the German and Austrian for
eign ministers, and Radoslavoff, the
| Bulgarian premier, are treating with
M. Averesco, the Rumanian premier,
at point near Bucharest Doubtless
as were the terms imposed on Russia,
the peace conditions that will be Of
fered Rumania will be hard ones.
Already they are said to embrace
territorial acquisitions for Bulgaria
and economic preferences for Germany
and Austria.
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