Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-21
BOLL LSHEIIKI GIVE
IN To GERMANY;
AGREE TO TERMS
Foes Occupation of Dyinsk and
Lutsk Forced Action
TO GIVE 4 BILLION INDEMNITY
lenine and TrotzIy Reported Over
thrown by Social RevoIutonists-
Teutons Continue Drive Into
Eastern Russia.

London, Feb. 20.-Russia is now
forced to sign peace upon the condi-
tions 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
missioners is now forced to declare
its readiness to sign a peace as dictat-
ed by the delegation of the quadruple
alliance at Brest-LitOvsk 1t promises
to give detailed reply without delay
to the German peace conditions.
Russians Enter Protest.
The statement was transmitted
through the wireless telegraphy sta
tiOns 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 ut an end and which is dem0bil-
izing its army an all fronts
The wOrkmen's and peasants gov
ernment of Russia could not anticipate
such Il 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-
ccmber - 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 boil
sLeyiki TO accept the German terms is
not made cleaI by the adEices thus far
received.
Four Billion Indemnity Demand.
dispatch to the Times from Petro-
grad under date OF February 10 quotes
Leon TrotZky, the bolsheyild foreign
minister, rs 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
m indemnity OF S4,000O00,0O preSum-
ably in gold.
The IsuSSian government, according
to an official statement received here,
has addressed the following message
TO headquarters and all the fronts:
"The council of peoples commits
saries has offered to the Germans tC
sign peace Immediately. I order that
in all cases where Germans are en-.
countered massed pOurparlers viii
the 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 then
every possible resistance.
'KRYLENKO."
Germans Occupy Russian Cities.
Berlin, Feb. 20.-German forces have
entered Dvinsk, it was officially an
nounced by the German war office Th,
Russians unsuccessfully attempted tt
blow up the bridge across the Dvin,
river.
The official communication issuet
by the German war Office says tha
from Riga to us far south as LutSl
German armies are advancing east
ward 10 Russia.
Vienna Feb. 20.-The German arm.
group under command of Gen. AleNan
der Won Linsingen, according TO an OF
fetal statement issued by the Austrian
war Office, has occupied the Russian
town Of LutSk, in Volhynia, with0u
fighting.
BolsheVik in Flight, Report.
London, Feb. 2O.-Rumors are cur
rent in Vasa that the bolSheviki gnV
ernment in Petrograd has been over
thrown by the social revolutiontstS IN
der the leadership of VI. Tchernoff, HC
cording to the correspondent there Q
the Politiken of Copenhagen, says
dispatch TO the Exchange Telegrap
company. Nikolai Lenine and Leo
Trotzky are said to have escaped
Riga.