Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-10
LEN|NE STRIVES
FOR APPROVAL
OF HIS TREATY
Leon Trotzky, BoIshevik
Commissioner of Foreign
Affairs, Resigns Seat.
SOCIAL REvOLUTIONARIEs
SEEK MAXIMALIST FALL
Organize Large Army in Don
District With Support
Of Cossacks.
HOUMA MA SIGNS TREATY
Agrees to Evacuatc Bcssarabia.
but VIII Retain Detachments to
Protect Her Nationals.
SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES
SEEK MAXIMALlST FALL
Eo UMANIA SIGNS TREATY
Agrees to Evacuatc Bcssarabia,
but VIII Retain Detachmcnts to
Protect Her Nationals.
tBy Associated pse.s.l

BY Associated psessl
While Nikolai Leninc, the Bo!sheyik
Premier Is bending every effort 10 in
sure ratification by ;hc Russian Con-
Srcss, TO meet in Moscow Thursday. Of
tho neace treaty signed with the cen
tEal powers, his colleagues in Bolshcviil
authority are dropping away from him
or arc being dropped b. him.
The latest to 20 IS the man who. BY
virtue OF his post as spokesman, has
been more In the public eye than Leninc
fimself-Lcon Trotzky the Commits
sioncr OF Foreign Affairs. rro,zky's
resignation, announced at a Maximal-
ist party meeting in retroSrad. quickly
followed that OF Ensign krylenko the
Ho!shevIk commander in-ch!cf.
Meanwhile. there are reports from
Russian sources through Copenhagen
that movement hy tho Social Revolu-
'ionists launched at a Moscow confer
cncc has as It's aim the ousting OF the
Bo!shevik government and the repudia-
ton Of tho peace treaty. y large army.
with Cossack support. is being organ
lied in the Don district. II Is declared
The setting UP Of republic with a
coalition government IS proposed
PetroGrad has announced the sign
ii- OF II peace between Russia and
I;ouman.a. Under its terms. Rouman!a
il 10 cvacuatc Bcssarabia. This IS the
Russian province which Eoumanian
troops invaded last fan when Russian
forces. dsorganizcd by the Bolshcyik
peace propaganda, were reported to
have begun loot!ng both in Roumania
the population Is largely OF Eoumanian
ru:iopality The treaty provides, how
rycr, Tor Doumania leaving detach-
mcnts in Dessarabia FOR the defense
-. Eoumanian property and inhab-
tan,s."
\ decree signed by Premier I.eninc
announces the evacuation or the state
| institutions a, FctroSTad The peoples
commissioners are leaving for Moscow.
" hich is 10 bc tho new Russian capital.
Al least temporarily. The comlms-
siohcr OF education. NJ I.unacharsky.
will remain in rc,rograd as the repre-
sentative OF tho government. and vii!
be invested with cxtraordirary powers.
The official organs OF the So.ict,
! lavcstia and rrayda, will apopar to-day
for the last time in PctroSrad. Both
will be published thereafter at Moscow.
rCItIrCHERIN WILL. RE
NEW FOREIGN MINISTER
The pctrograd papers confirm tho re-
mort of Leon Trotzky's rcslG Gnatiol IS
Foreign Minister. Ills duties now Will
rall upon his deputy NJ. Tchtchcrin.
As the Bolshcvik Foreign Minister.
Leon Trotzky, whose real name is
n l.cber Braunstcin. was the mos, i'm
ttr,,,.,
government formed after the over
throw OF Kcrcnsky last November, al
though Nikolai Lcninc. as Premier.
was the nominal head or the govern
ncnt, Trotzty virtually controlled RUS
sla's destiny up TO tho second peace
conference at Ercst Litovsk.
TROTZIIY FIRST
SUGGESTED ARMISTICE
IT was Trotzky who made public the
text of secret documents exchanged
between former Russian governments
and foreign governments. and it was
he who proposed the armistco TO tho
ccntral powers carly in December which
eventually led to the abOrtivc con-
ference at Brcst I.!iovsk. Tho ncgo-
tia;ions were disrupted in mid-Feb-
ruary and hostilitics were renewed.
The Germans then submitted partial
pcaco terms. but Trotzky took no part
in the conferences.
Trotzky's resignation is the second
among tho Russian leaders forecast
by Berlin. On February ID Berlin re-
ported that Ensign krylcnko. COM
mandcr OF the Russian armies. had
boon superseded. 4 dispatch received
in London Thursday said krylcnko had
resigned owing to differences with the
Council OF Peoples Commissarics.
Trotzky's resignation was forecast by
Berlin last Tuesday. The Withdrawals
OF Trotzky aud Krylcnko leave Leninc
as tho survivor of the Bolshcvik rul-
ing t-iumviratc. Trotzky also is pres
idcnt OF the PctroErad Council OF
Workmcn's and Soldiers Delegates and
was appointed food director with un-
limited authority on February 20.
Having escaped from Siberia, where
he was sent for political ofrcnscs.
Trotzly was an exile at tho outbreak
OF the war He was expelled from
Europe for preaching peace. an @arrivcd
in New York on January II, 1917, but
returned to Russia last April. after the
Ioverthrow OF the imperial governments
D.
Lieutenant ChjIdn Dead.
WASHINGTON. March o.-Tho NAVY