The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-22


demanded occupation of Petrograd as
guarantee of its peace treaty with
Russia and thirty year trade agree
ment, according to a despatch from
Petrograd, dated Thursday. received
here today.
Pskoff and PoIotsk.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 21-(night)-
Russian forces are evacuating Pskoff
and Polotslk, it was reported.
The capture Of Minsk gravely en-
dangers Homel and Mohilen, where
huge supplies of ammunition and food
stuffs are stored.
The Austrians were reported to
have taken Lutsk and Dubno.
[Pskoff is 1876 miles southwest of
the capital on the Riga-Petrograd
railway. 1t is about the half way
point and is more than 100 miles be-
yond Volmar, before which the Ger
mans were reported in yesterday 8
Berlin official statement.
Polotsk is sixty miles northwest OF
Vitebsk, capital Of the province where
the Russian armies were reported to
be concentrating under General Bon
chbruyevitch.
Minsk is 125 miles southwest OF
Vitebsk. Mohileff is fifty miles south
of Vitebsk and 100 miles east of
Minsk
Homel is 125 miles southwest of
Vitebsk.
Lutsk and Dubno are cities in Vol
hynia, born a short distance west of
Rovno, which the Germans claim al
ready IN have captured
Retreating in Disorder
by Joseph Shaplen, United Press
Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD. Feb. 21-(noon)-
The Germans have occupied the en-
tire northern portion Of the Russian
front, it was reported here today. The
Russians are retreating in disorder.
Russian cavalry is being rushed north
ward.
Evacuation OF Finland.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 21.-(night)-
The peoples commissaries have Or
dered Russian forces to evacuate Fin
land.
This is accepted as meaning that
the Bolsheviki. in concentrating their
forces to resist the Teuton invasion,
have abandoned their attempt to con-
uuer the new republic of Finland,
which has been fighting for its inde
pendence.1
Betrayed by Germany.
NEW YORK. Feb. 22.-"The Boil.
sheviki have betrayed no che. rather,
the German people have betrayed the
Bolsheviki which is the same as say
ing the German people have betrayed
the world, for the Bolsheviki are do
ing more than anything to bring about
a world stability
Miss Bessie Beatty, writer for the
San Francisco Bulletin, said this in
New York today. She has just return,
ed from trip, which she character
ICES as "a trip around the world in
war time"
She left San Francisco before the
United States declared war and she
has been travelling ever since She
was in Petrograd when the Bolsheviki
overthrow Kerensky. She has visit
ed the Russian front.
Miss Beatty has deep-rooted con-
viction that the Bolsheyiki will yet
convince the German people thai they
have been betrayed by the German
militarists and that the German peo-
pie in turn have betrayed the Boil
sheviki. That the Bolsheviki will de-
fend Petrograd, she is certain.
1T is hard to explain to any one in
this country just what the Bolsheviki
amounts to in Russia" Miss Beatty
said. But it is my belief they are
doing mare good in the world than
anything. Germany's defeat lies in
the hands of this faction. believe, for
eventually it is possible they will sup
by the wedge that will overthrow Ger
man mi]itarism.
ut is hard for me to believe that
the German troops are marching
against Petrograd, for l had come TO
believe nat the Germans would not
fight Russia again. l was Of the belief
that the Bolsheviki propaganda and
events in Russia were having an effect
in Germany. I imagine that as the
way the Russian people feel about 1t.
and I believe there is the same sort
of feeling within the German army.
Great events are impending in Ger
many. Some day I truly believe the
war lords of Prussia will be over
thrown"
Miss Beatty told of talk she had
with a man in Stockholm. He acted
as an interpreter for her and when the
talk was over he whispered to her that
he was a German on leave and would
have to return soon to the front.
81 don't want to go back and fight
the Americans and Englishmen,' she
says he told her. After the war
want to go to America. but ] suppose
the people thSre will hate US"
'I told him we wouldn't; that we
hated the Prussian military
system and felt sorry for the German
people," she said. Il asked him why
he went back IL he didn't want to
fight and he told me that in Germany.
# the men didn't fight they Were
shot"
viii Resist Sometime
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Russia
will form a fighting line to resist the
German invasion, according to the