Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-05
Tuesday Morning, March 5, 1918.
GERMANYs HOLLOW VICTORY.

Hun hordes are overrunnIng Russia. Bolshevik leaders have been forced into disgraceful peace pact, which has availed them nothing. Teuton armies have pressed past Pskov, and are hurling their forces forward upon Petrograd. Railroads to the capital city are being torn up to starve out the Bolshevik resistance. And Germany bids fair to take that great slice of Russian empire between Petrograd and the kaiser
 domain.
 The Hun has accomplished victory of arms He has beaten back demoralized Bolshevik armies He has storrned and cap tured city after city. He has taken great supplies of cannon. small arms, ammuni- ton and motorized war material. He has captured territory and extended his frontier
 But what has he gained? His reported terms of peace offered to the Bolsheviki confess two overpowering greeds: greed for raw materials in four billion dollar indemnity; and still rampant territorial greed His peace with Ukraine has con firmed his need of grains and foodstuffs. He has dealt with the Bolshevil<i, repre- senting less than ten per cent of the popu- lation of Russia He has bartered, bullied, bruised, abused, and betrayed to rush his armies up to Petrograd.
 He has reckoned without the great mass of Russia, however. The real Russia IS 05 per cent living on the land. the peasant proprietor, the peasant communities whc own communal lands, their own horses, cattle, food They have a stake in the country to lose. With the advance of the Huns they are realizing the real issues preached by the Bolsheviki They are turning away from socialistic and anar- chistis theories. They have already refused to let their stores of food stuffs go to the Russian cities Is it likely that they will readily send them to Berlin and Vienna, whence come those who would deprive them of their dearly purchased freedom and their lands?
 And what of the reaction of this peasant proprietor? They will not accept peace of the Bolshevik type, or submit They have already begun guerilla warfare of obstruc- ton, fighting in defense of Petrograd Many of the nation millions ere rising up to harras the rear of advanced columns, or block these columns marching toward their capital. Always impervious, emerged iron. a Hun autocracy to undergo an anarchistic autocracy, swayed by crazy excesses and unwholesome impulses. and suddenly brought to realization that they have been duped by Bolshevik visionaries and cats paws, they will remain impervious Hun generals and diplomats will have no easy time in sohdifying or securing the fruits ot either peace pact or conquest.
 Hun greed for raw materials and food stuffs will not be, slaked so long as the Rus sian peasant remains awake to the danger threatening. Greed of territory may be slaked in spite of the Russian peasant, but only through cruelty and excesses against the peasant more drastic than those prac- ticed by the Hun in Belgium And with neither of these hungers satisfied, Teuton victory in Russia, so dearly bought, must be as hollow as those earlier victories of arms.
 And in Germany? Political flames of unrest are given added material on which to flare up. Teuton soldiers and worknen have fraternized with Russians, have heard of the Russian freedom, read Russian propaganda, talked of Russian democracy. How does Teuton demand for four bil- lions indemnity and rich Russian provinces comfort with the principle of no annexa- tIons and no indemnities and consent of the governed2 Can a surrender of Russia agreed to by Bolshevik minority, or the l. exploitation of 1t. be easy or dependable.
 To the world and the Allies. Germany