Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
Despite Acceptance Of leu
ton Peace Kaiser's Men
Push On in Drive.
Berlin, Feb. e (via London.)-

Berlin, Feb. e (via London.)-
A~regiment Of EsthOnian troops
has gone over to the Germans,
the war Of(ico announces.
Further south, the Germans
pushed ON to LOuzin. Ninsk also
was occupied. At Nov0grad.vOl.
hynfnsh the Germans came Into
touch with Ukranian and other
columns marching on the volhyn.
ian fortress Of DubnO.
EsthOnia Is one Of the Baltic
provinces Of Russia into which the
Germans began advance ON the re-
sumption Of hostilities, giving the
official explanation that these
provinces were largely German
and that the BOlsheviki were per.
scouting the Inhabitants. Troops
from Moon island crossed to the
mainland and captured several
Esth0nian towns and another force
was taken by boat to Reval.
The German troops advancing in
Esthonia have captured Hapsal on the
coast near the entrance to the Gulf Of
Finland and advanced beyond Rome
burg, Wolmar and Spandau. They
marched into Rieshitsa, about 100
miles southeast of Riga, and were re-
ceived with rejoicing b. the inhabi-
tants, the statement says.
| London, Feb. 22.-The German ad-
vance into Russia is not the march OF
conqueror, for nowhere up to the
present have they met any serious OPP
position. The comparatively rapid
progress is ascribed to the fact that
the Germans found a clear passage.
Special dispatches from Petrograd.
none of which is dated later than
Wednesday, indicated that the invad-
ers are making their own pace in col
lecting immense stores of weapons.
munitions, food and other valuable
property, which the disorganized Rusf
sian armies abandoned IN their bur-
lried flights. The strength Of the Ger
man advancing army 10 not believed
to be great A Petrograd dispatch to
the Morning Post says that there IL
only one division Of cavalry and one
division Of infantry.
Can Reach PetroefaA
Germany's ultimate objective, OF
course. can only be specialized upon.
but according to the correspondent,
there is nothing whatever to prevent
them from reaching Petrograd II they
wish, for the decentralization Of the
Russian soldiers is so complete that
orders to resist the invasion would be
impossible of execution. Moreover the
enemy could easily reduce the capital
to famine. which already is closing its
grip on the people.
The Bolsheviki capitulation to
German peace and news Of the Ger
man advance was received in Petro-
grad In various ways, according to
Wednesdays reports. The cores
pondent of the Times says that pro-
found disgust and shame was felt and
uttered by serious and intelligent peo-
pie and as reflected in the nom Boil
; sheviki newspapers. A report to the
Morning Post says that the saner ele-
ment of the population call for closer
relations with the allies, looking tc
the unification of Russia and the
abandonment of the dreams of anna.
teur statesmen.
i = May Appeal To Allies.
1t is reported in this connection
that the non-Bolshevik: and non-So-
cialist parties will try to reassemble
the constituent assembly with a view
Of appealing to the allies.
The Petrograd correspondent Of the
Daily Mail describes the attitude OF
) the people as mostly one Of apathy and
fatalism- He says that a majority
would welcome the arrival of the
Germans in the hope that they would
restore order. the feeling being that
anything is better than the present
condition. As to the decision to sur.
render to the Germans, accounts DIFF.
fer Some say that Premier Lenine
and others that Foreign Minister
Trotzky was responsible for the capt.
: ulation.
The correspondent of the Daily
News. who has been in close rela
tons with the Bolsheviki. says that a
the meeting of the council of people,
commissaries which voted on tn,
question Trotzky. who had been ii
favor of fighting to the last, unexpect
eddy went to the other side. Thi
caused Indignation in hisparty and b.
probably will resign.