The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-06
Population and Officials Are
Evacuating PetrOgrad.
Russians Continuing To Pre-
pare for War on Huns.
.RUMANIk COMEDIES DEMANDS
No Alternative Than To Sur
render DObrudja to Bulgars.
Economic Concessions Are Die
tated by AustrO-Germans.


PetroErad is being evacuated by the
Bolshev.ki government. Moscow, the
ancient capital is to again become the
seat of the Russian government while
Petrograd is to be made a free port.
The population of Petrograd is
quitting it hurriedly and various gov
ernment departments are removing
further inland away from the Ger
man invader. Bolsheviki councils in
Moscow and the provinces are said
to be more opposed to the Germans
and a separate peace than those in
Petrograd. Previous reports that the
hard tie; ms of the German peace treaty,
square miles in Europe and Asia,
would not be accepted by the all
Russian congress of workmeE and
soldiers delegates, indicated also that
the non peace elements in the Bolshe-
Wiki ranks were gaining the upper
hand
Predict Lenine-Trotzky Downfall.
Evacuation of Petrograd was men
toned as one of the measures the war
party proposed. Refusal of the peace
treaty by the congress, when it meets
at Moscow next week, probably will
cause the downfall of Lenine and
Trotzky if they do not resign before
hand.
section of the Bolsheviki is said
to lean toward the social revolutionists
of the left who have been opposed to
the Lenine regime and inclined to be
friendly to the entente allies altho fa-
vcrable to an Immediate general peace
Apparently, Germany unwillingly
played iEto the hands of the aII-Rus-
sian congress by granting. a respite
before the treaty should be ratified.
Reports from Petrograd indicate
that congress and allied organization
viii use the intervening days in re-
Gruring an army and preparing for a
defenSe against the Germans. Ameri-
can Consul TredwelI has returned to
Petrograd, along with Raymond Rob-
ms, head of the permanent Red Cross
commission to Russia Removal of
the government to Moscow proba bly,
will compel them to go there also.
On the fighting fronts in France and
Italy there has been little activity ex-
no further details of the American
repulse of an enemy attack in Lor-
ralne.
Rumania Gives Up Dobrudja.
Amsterdam, March en-. Toncheff,
Bulgarian minister of finance and
neal of the peace delegation, has re-
turned from Bucharest to report to
his government on the negotiations
with Rumania- He explained in his
armistice Saturday, the Rumanian
delegates announced that the crown
council at Jassy had decided to accept
the conditions offered by the central
powers, including the cession of the
Dobrudja, readjustment of the from
tier between Hungary and Rumania,
and the granting of economic conces-
sionS.
The Rumanian government was
then informed that it must sign before
, noon of March 5. a preliminary treaty
embodying these terms and that nego-
tiations would be resumed Immediate
" with a view to further armistice
and the final conclusion of peace.
NJ. Toncheff said that the prelimi-
nary treaty between the individual
countries would be drawn up in iden-
til terms, but in the final treaty.
which would require some alterations
in the wording, it would expressly
Stipulate that Rumania cede the
Dobrudja to Bulgaria
The economic concessions, also,
would be set forth clearly, the work
of defining them probably occupying
some time.