The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-14
SEPARATE PEACE
NOT YET SIGNED
No Explanation of Move on Part
Of BOISheviSt Government
Contained in Late
Dispatches.
UKRAINE BREAK THE CAUSE
Events Long Have Been Moving
Toward Complete With
drawal of Muscovites
From War.

Amsterdam, Feb. 11.-Russia
has declared the state of var to be
at an end and has ordered the
rehabilitation of Russian forces
on all fronts, according to a dis
patch received here today, dated
Brest-Litovsk on Sunday.
The dispatch follows:
"The president Of the Russian
delegation at today's (Sunday's),
sitting stated that while Russia
was desisting from signing a for
NAL peace treaty, it declared the
state of war to be ended with Ger
many, Austria Hungary, Turkey
and Bulgaria, simultaneously Civ
ing orders for complete demobili-
zation Of Russian forces on all
fronts.
London, Feb. 12.--The version of the
Russian announcement at Brest-Litovsk
on the subject of peace sent by the
Central News correspondent at Ans
terdam represents Leon Trotzky, the
bolshevist foreign minister, as declar-
! ing that Russia now felt obliged to sign
a separate peace and that the state OF
war between Russia and central powers
would be declared terminated.
Russia steps formally out of the wal
by act nf the bolshevist government
which seized the reins Of power in
Petrograd last November and almost
Immediately opened peace negotiations
with the central empires. The author
,ty Of this government seems virtually
unquestioned at present in northern
Russia and the Teutonic powers have
already assured the cessation Of even
nominal hostilities along virtually all
the remainder Of the original long line
In the east by ~sign.ng a peace with
the Ukraine aid isolating Rumania.
Played Great Part in War.
Although cutting little figure in the
war for nearly a year past. Russia's
great, indeed vital part in the conflict
comes forcibly to mind as the circum-
stances leading up to their exit are
reviewed. Becoming a b~elligerent on
August l. 1914, through Germany's
declaration of war upon her, her troops
We're SOC sweeping through east
Prussia. creating a diversion which
hampered the Germans in their first
dash through Belgium and upon farls.
Though d~isastrously defeated by HIM
denburg at Tannenberg she rallied
| quickly and by winter was hammering
again at the German borders ana her
great armies ~oyerrunning Austrian ter.
ritory in Galicia were - the crests or
the Carpathians and threatening an
INVASION of Hungary
1t took the bulk of the Austrian
armies and a large proportion of Ger
many's virtually an entire years cam
paigning IN 1915 to break Itussia's
hold on Galicia drive her out of Poland
and the lower Baltic territory and force
| her armies under Grand Duke Nicholas
back to the line Of which Brest-L itovsk.
the scene Of the recent peace nesotla-
tons, formed the keystone. Beaten
back, but not yet d~!sorganized, h
fought through 1916, creating havoc
and Galicia and in Asia Minor, driving
! The Turks out OF virtually ali Turkish
Armenia.
Conservatives Lost Power.
The opening of last yea however,
found Russia, under the old bureau
cratic regime, virtually at he end or
her tether. Her oppressed, war worn
people were ripe for the revolution, the
latent flames OF which German propa-
gaudists had skilfullly famed, and in
March, 1917, came the crash, the depo.
sition OF Emperor Nicholas and the
formation Of the first provisional gov
ernment The conservative element
among the revolutionists first held
sway and the determination of Russia
to remain in the war was frequently
affirmed. Indeed, under kerensky as
minister of War. her armies in July,
1917. began an offensive in Nolhynia
and Galicia which was in the fall tide
OF success under General Korniloff.
when the fatal disease of disatfectiou
among her troops, which for some time
had been manifest, broke out endemic
ally n stopped the effort.
Rise Of the solshevists.
Since August last Russia has figured
in the great world conflict as a mill
tary factor only by reason that she
still held numbers of German and Aus
trian troops On her frontiers. await
ing tho forces of Reorganization with
in to bring about her ina disintegra-
ion This process, struggled against
in vain by kcrensky as premier.
through the summer and early fail of
last year, was constantly accelerated
b! virtue of the divided authority set
1p at P~etrograd The council of sol
dier% and workers, representing the
proletariat, and claiming virtually SUI
pre.ne power, Systematically antagon
lied the constituted government, clam
orin2 for the opening OF peace ncgotia-
tons and finally in November last.
formally took over the power it had
long in fact exercised.
The rest is comparatively recent his
tory. Under Lenine ard TrotsIy an
armisticc was brought about on all
Russian frontS on December I and
peace negotiations with the central
powers Were opened at EreSt Litovek
On December %. The central empires
creed 10 adhere t. The genera prin-
CipleS of no a~nneXutiuns, no indemni-
lies and self definition OF peoples. and
there was held open TO the entente
powers the opportunity Of joining IN