New-York tribune., 1918-02-20
Dvinsk and Lutsk Are
Captured; Bolsheviki
Offer No Re-
sistance
Bolsheviki Agree to
4 Billion Indemnity
Willing Also to Cede
Poland, Lithuania,
Riga and Moon
Island

LONDON, Feb j9 Russia is now
forced to sign peace upon the con-
dltions proposed by Germany, says an
official Russian statement signed by
Premier Lcnne and Foreign Minister
Trotzky received here to-day.
Meanwhile, the German advance into
Great Russia continues on 4OO-mile
front from Utsk to the sea- Dvinsk
and Lutsk have been captured without
resistance.
The statement from the Bolshevik
heads protests against the German re-
sumption of the war, and says the
Council of Peoples Commissaries is
now forced to declare it's readiness to
sign peace as dictated by the delega-
tions of the Quadruplc Alliance at
Brest-Litovsk. 1t promises to give a
detailed reply witnout delay to the Ger
man peace conditlons
Bolshevik Statement
The statement was transmitted
through the wireless telegrarhv sta
tions of the Russian government TO the
government of the German Empire at
Berlin. 1t reads:
The Council Of Peoples Commits
saries protests against the fact that
tne German government has directed
It's troops against the Russian conn
cils' republic, which has declared the
war as at an end and which IS de-
monlilz1ng @ its army on all fronts.
Inc orkmen's and Peasants
government Of Russia could not an
tlclpate such a step, because mother.
directly nor indirectly has anv ons ~
the parties which concluded the
armlstlce given the seven days' no.
tice required IN accordance with tho
treaty OF December 10 for terminal
ing it.. - '''S'
The Council OF Peoples Commits
~ ~olies IN the present circumstances
regards itself as forced formally ia
oeclafe It's Willingness to sign peace
upon tne conditions which had been
0o,ela.eo py the delegations of the
euMruiup!e ..r Alliance at Brest-Litovsk.
sarles further declares that do
,alied reply will be given without de-
lay 10 the conditions of peace az nro-
poseo oy the German government
r'I lne council of PEOPLES Com
'''''s"'ies' LENINE.
"TROTZkY."
Fraternization Urged
ne RUSSIAN government. accordinp
20 another official statement recei,,ad
mere mas addressed the FOLLOWING mos
fronts: '' "l' '"e
The Council of Peoples Commits
saries has offered to the Germans 70
sign peace immediately. | order that
III All cases where Germans are ON
couhtered massed that pourparlers
with the German soldiers should he
organized and the proposal to refrain
rom hghtlng made to them. If the
Hermans refuse. then you must offer
70 them every possible resistance
Signed). "KRYTFNK0v
A dispatch to Tine Times" from
petrograd under date OF February *
quotes Leon Trotzky. the Bolshevik
rorelSh Minister. as declaring in his
report upon the ending of the negot;a.
tions at BrestLitovsk that the German
terms included the retention of Poland.
Llthuana, Riga and Moon Island and
an indemnity of $4,000, 100000, pre-
sumably in gold.
Protests to Vienna
According 10 Vienna dispatches by
way OF Berne, Trotzky has forwarded
wireless message TO Count Czernin.
'he austrian Foreign Minister. reading:
ne German government having
feestabilshed state of war with
hussla without even giving the seven
days previous notice, | have the
honor to ask you to inform me wheth-
ef the Austro- hungarian government
also considers itself in "a state of war
with Russia. and, if not, whether It
oeheVes 1t possible to reach prac-
tical realization of the agreements
worked out at Petrograd."
Rumors are current in Stockholm, ac.
cordlng to dispatch from Copenhagen
to the Exchange Telegraph Company,
that the Germans intend to intervene
at once in Finland. The belief pre-.
walls at the Swedish capital that the
German action Will be directed against
the unoccupied districts of Courland
and Esthonia. in conjunction with
great naval attack in the Finnish Gulf.
Guerilla warfare is to be Russia's
method of opposing Germany should
that nation invade Russia further. ac-
cordlng to intimations from Bolshevik
sources. says a Petrograd dispatch
dated Sunday. In an address to the
Central Executive Committee of the
Souncli OIL Soldiers and Workmens
Delegates, Leon Trotzky, me Bolshevik
Foreign Minister, said:
I'VE are not followers of Tolstov.
We do not say we Will not resist the
German invasion.
"Bushwhacking" Campaign
Trotzky proceeded 10 outline piaE
by which the Socialist army would con-
duct a bushwhacking campaign. ham
perins the efforts Of the Germans
should they endcavor to conduct COM
nerec along the border, especially
should they try to secure grain from
the Ukraine under what he alluded to
as the screen of their so-called peace
with the bourgeois Rada of Kiev.
Renewal of the German attack on
Great Russia fulhls the expectation
widely held, here since Germany cor.
sen'ed to negotiate with the Bolshevlki