Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-02-05
NO COMMUNICATION
WITH RUSS CAPITAL
Wires Cut and U. S. Is Unable to
Reach Francis.
GERMANS BREAK RUSS TRUCE
Washington Says Kaiser Is With.
drawing Troops From Eastern
Front-Bolsheviki May Resume
War Against Central Powers.

Washington, Jan. 30.-Cable and
telegraph lines to Russia have been
cut, American Minister Ira Nelson
Morris at Stockholm reported, and the
only remaining routes of communica-
ton with Petrograd now are through
Persia and Vladivostok. The land tele-
graph lines were severed, Mr.. Morris
reported, at Haparanda, Sweden, and
the cables at Viborg, Finland. He
gave no indication of the significance.
Kaiser Breaks Truce.
Washington, Jan. 30.-Charges that
Germany is violating the terms of the
Russian truce by withdrawing troops
from the eastern front and transfer
ring them TO the western battle lines
were made by the war department. The
war department made this statement:
The general staff of the United
States army announces that the Ger
man military authorities are evading
the terms of the Russian truce which
provide that German troops were not
TO be withdrawn from the eastern
front for use in the west, during the
peace negotiations. German troops on
the Russian front are being allowed to
go home on furloughs. These soldiers
are then transferred to recruiting sta
tons and sent to the western front.
The troops are taken in this way,
man by man, for two reasons-first be-
cause it deceives the Russians, and sec
Ond, because the eastern troops have
been so influenced by the Russian rev.
dictionary propaganda that the Ger
man military chiefs have decided to
separate the men and scatter them In
unaffected western regiments"
Reds Split on Peace.
London, Jan. 30.-The bOlsheviki
have split on the question of peace, a
majority being against the conclusion
of peace on the German terms and in
favor of a holy war, an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Petrograd says.
As the present government is I'M
able to carry on the war, the fOrma-
ton of coalition of all socialist fac
lions was proposed.
UkraIn!anS Ca oture LutSk.
After three days of fighting the
Ukrainian Rada's troops have defeat
ed the bOlshevik army and taken pos
session of Lutsk according to a wire
less message from Kiev to tile Ukrain-
ian committee at Geneva.
The fighting was extremely severe
and the losses on both sides were
heavy. Airplanes, the message adds.
greatly aided the Ukrainians in gain
ing the victory.
Seize $612,ooo,ooo.
The bolshevik foreign minister, Leon
TrOtzky, announced to the congress of
Petrograd the decision of the govern
ment respecting reprisals against Rou-
mania.
These include the breaking off of
diplomatic relations, the seizure of
Roumanian gold reserves in Moscow
and the Outlawing of Lieutenant Gen
eral Stcherbatcheff, the former COM
mander in chief on the ROumanian
front.
NJ. Trotzky said that the Roumanian
gold reserve amounted to 1,200,000,000
rubles ($612, 000,000), and that the Gus
todian of this fund had been placed
under arrest.
1t Is understood that General Stcher-
batcheff has been cooperating with the
ROumanians in disarming Russians in
Roumania and Bessarabia.
Trotzky May Hang Back.
According to reports received from
Berlin by way of Amsterdam, peace
negotiations will be resumed at Brest-
Litovsk Tuesday. Count CZernin, the
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister,
and DIR. Richard Won Kuehlmann, the
German secretary of foreign affairs,
arrived there Monday, and M. TrOtzky
is expected at an early date. Later
dispatches, however, denied that the
Russian foreign minister intended to
proceed to Brest-Litovsk.
Before leaving Vienna Count Ger
min had an audience with the emperor,
and he is quoted as saying that he
might be compelled to return shortly
on important business.
Most of Troops Shifted.
Almost three-quarters of the German
troops have been withdrawn from the
Russian front, according to the news
paper, Nasty VedOmesty. No heavy
guns or armored cars are left, while
the number of light guns has been
greatly reduced.
Young soldiers are being removed
daily, and their places are being taken
nv old men and semi-invalids.
The German northern front in
strongest. There are no Germans o!
the southwestern front, and, althoug&
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