Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-03-07
MOSCOW WILL Be
CAPITAL OF RUSSIA
Government and Population Now
! Hastily Quitting City Of
PetrOgrad.
GERMANS STOP FIGHTING.
Roumanians on Verge of Making Sep
: aratc Pence-wiM Meet All the
TeutOns' Hard Demands.

Petrograd Tuesday, March o.
Moscow Is to be declared the new CAPT
tai of Russia, and the government
proposes to publish a statement to this
effect Immediately. Petrograd will be
proclaimed a free port
Notwithstanding the signing OF
peace the government Is determined
to transfer all the state institutions
to Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod and
Kazan The removal of the ministries
Of foreign affairs. communications ana
finance began to-day. The population
Of Petrograd is hastily quitting the
CITY. but there are many transporta-
tion difficulties and already the roads
leading orfm Petrograd are crowded
with all sorts of vehicles.
The Russian delegates returned from
Brest -Litovsk to-day and Will report
TO the executive of the Soviets as soon
as possible. According to the latest
reports here hostilities have been
suspended on all fronts, the Germans
having halted on the northern froh'
along the line comprising Narva
Pskov, Vitebsk, Mohilev and Orsha.
ASSOCIATED Press War Review)
Whether Japanese troops are to invade
Siberia and put down the disorder there
and also make secure the great stores
of all kinds of munitions that are in the
harbor of Vladivostok apparently has not
vet been determined. In Japan the politi-
cal parties are not unanimously in favor
of Jabanese intervention, the leader o!
the majority party in the Diet, for IN
stance, having declared that he and hi'
followers were opposed to the use O.
Japanese troops in the eastern part o.
the Russian empire unless conditions ther'
grow worse and prove menace to th'
status of the Far East.
RoUMANIA MAY SIGN PEACE.
Roumania evidently is on the point o
effecting a separate peace with the Teu
tonic allies by meeting the hard demand
which are to be eXacted in return for
cessation of the inroads into the littl
kingdom, which now is absolutely isolated
from its allies. The preliminary peac
treaty has been signed and the armis
tice extended so that discussion of
formal treaty may begin Immediately
Among the chief demands Of the cnen'
is the cession of the Dobrudia rectitica
tion of the Hungarian -Roumanian border
economic advantages for the central pow
ers and aid in the transport of troop
Of the quadruple alliance through Mol
davia and Bessarabia to Odessa.
GERMANS CARRY OUT RAIDS.
From Flanders to the Swiss border al
tillery duels of more or less violence ar
taking place aon various sectors and her
and there raiding parties of both side
are frequently in operation. The BIRTHS
carried out successful forays against tn
Germans east of Bullecourt and nea
Lens, in which latter sector the German
for the past few days have been heavil
Smelling them.
Although the snow ceased there hs
been but little activity on the chief Amel
ican sector northwest of Toul. The men {
both sides have kept to their trenches an
there have been only spasmodic exchange
Of shells.
German reinforcements contiue to
sent up behind the lines in Belgium ar
France, according to General Mauric
director of military operations at the Bri
ish war office. At present, he says a
though the enemy has 16 more division
than the allies along this front, the allie
troops are numerically stronger and all
hold the upper hand in rifles. guns al
aircraft, but this superiority is dminis
ing. The major preparations of the en-
my for a big offensive are now more
less complete and the allies must watt
for the local preparations which sigma
Ice the approach Of an attack. Gener
| Maurice said.