The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-22


Amsterdam. Feb. si.---sn THAR wiA
race against compromise with the BOZ.
sHeViki' the German armies are pu sh.
Ing forward on front of 400 miles.
1ne resistance to their iawasien ae4
f@aole. unorganizad
From Pstrogrsd the Boixhsvfki min
listers are sending frantic APPEALS Zoe
restoration of the discipline ana orday.
which they themselves have xvstA
ma ticaiiy DESTROYED
IN the Held Boishevikd commanders
are urging their troops to defend the
revolution. fight TO the 6nfsh."
me PrussiAn military maahtns h
sruAhing an attempts at eleventh.
nour defense. In the North the in~
vaders have taken Mtnsk. Hapaai. IaaL
Wenden. and at last accounts we're
some $50 miles south of Petrograa.
German forces have been landed in
Finland. presenting q grave nankinx
menace to the Russian capital In ths
south Rovnc. the volhynian fortress
saultS has besn occupied Here the
invaders are now less than 400 miles
west OF Kiev.
More than 5000 prisoners have been
taken. Everybody in the occupied
towns who talks, acts or looks IKE n
Bolshevist official or agitasor. ID ar
rested and sent to the rear under
guard
Every lima gfnable precautson La
taken by the German high command
TO guard against "Bolshevist eontan-
nation" as Prince Leopold called IL
in his address TO the troops
The booty 80 tar enumerated In
ciudes:
One thousand three hundred and AZ
ty-three guns, $500 motor trucks, hum
dreds OF food-iaded trains and "fncal-
culabis other material"
Food Txasns for Ukraine.
The food lie distributed as quickly
"a it can be gsrnered in. The motor
trucks and trains are sent into the
Ukraine. where facilities fer transpor~
tat!on of the peace food" are sorsly
lacking.
Among the prisoners were enc ran.
eral, several divisional commander.
&26 officers and 800 men. Berlin
does not specify whether the high Of
nosrs captured are hofd-overs from
ths old regime or Bolshawtki-mAda
Starving Petrogrsd In In the throsa
of indeacribaeis turmoil. Two-thirds
Of the capitals population Is panic-
stricken The other third. Consisting
mostly OF radicals, persist In believing
that the Teutonic peoples will halt the
invasion by revolt Forty thousand
German prisoners in Petrograd are
awaiting the boom OF the irst attack
ing guns to DO their share Thoroughly
out by the recent German COM
mission in the capital
Whether the Bolshevise faith In a
forthcoming Teutonie home revolt 10
justified forms the question Of oues-
tions IN all political speculation here.
Signs are plentiful that 1t ia but 50
far they are only signs.
Emperor Charles Militant.
From Vienna came q despatch late
this evening indicating Emperor
had cast away the xarb OF
benevolent, democratic ruler" and
donned the armor of military tyrant.
He Is said to have threatened this
reichsrath, the Austrian parliament.
with a. proclamation of empire-wids
martial law IL the war budget Is noe
Radicals appear to be holding cut for
of Count Csernin's promises
Of immediate peace In the East
There were also further reports from
German sources OF . brewing strik&.
Rut every direct dispatch from both
Teutonic capitals confirms that the
are In full control aud mean
to exploit that control 10 the uttsr-
most limit Diplomacy has beeu 70.
ducad for the time to military hand.
strapper. This lie clearer Tonight.
when 1t IL learned that In reply TO the
Lentne-Trotsky declaration Bsrfin viii
make demands which IL viii he im-
possible for the Bolsheviki 10 4Yan&
unless they wish to lose All bald cm
the Russian masees.
Demaads Of Enemy.
These demands include two sArswa
attempts: s-s.. ia q