The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-28
Hoffman, Declared 1t Would
Continue Until Terms Signed.
Order To Stop Possibly Due to
Growing SIav Resistance.
FRANCIS GOES TO V0lOGDA
American Embassy Moves to
City 375 Mi. East of Capital.
COssacks From Don Country
Hurrying To Fight Germans.

Londcn, Feb. 2s-The German
army has received orders to stop its
advance into Russia, according to the
Petrograd correspondent OF the Ex-
change Telegraph company. who has
information to this effect which he
regards as reliable.
When the Bolshevik government
agreed to accept German peace terms
last week the commander-in-c chief of
the Russian armies inquired of the
Germans if the previous armiStice
would be renewed and the German in
vasion halted. He did rot receive an
immediate reply and the German ad-
vance continued. A dispatch from
Petrograd Wednesday said General
Hoffman. tie general military repre-
sentative at Brest-Litovsk, had replied
to the Bolshevik communication by
declaring that the advance would con-
tinue until a treaty of peace was
signed and carried out along lines laid
down in the German peace terms.
U. S. Diplomats Leave Petrograd.
Petrograd, Feb. 27.-(Morning.)-
The American ambassador left Petro-
graz. last night for Vologda, accom-
| panied by the Japanese, Brazilian and
, Siamese ENJOYS.
| (Vologda is the principal city of the
province of that name, 315 miles east
of Petrograd and 275 miles north of
Moscow From this point the ENJOYS
can travel by rail either to Archangel,
/ 400 miles north, or to Moscow. where
they can take the Transsiberian rail-
way to the Pacific coast The former
place is ice-bound and practically un-
/ tenablc until late spring. The Ameri-
can embassy's affairs are believed to
be in the hands of the Norwegian
envoy.)
The German invaders are reported
to have advanced one station above
Pskov.
Pskoy is 1s2 miles southwest OF
/ Pe.rograd. The next station of any
/ inheritance on the railway leading to
the capital is Bielaja. fifty miles
| nearer.
RUSS Destroy Railroads. Highways
Retiring from Reval. 200 miles west
of Petrograd, the Russians are pre-
pared to. destroy all railways and as
phalt roads as they fall back upon the
CAPITAL.
The loyal Cossacks are rushing from
the Don region towark Pskov to aid
III the uefense of Petrograd-
Partisan warfare on serious scale
| has broken out at Minsk, 400 miles
southwest of Petrograd
Replying to Ensign Krylenko's
query as to why the Germans ad-
var ced in the face of Russia's ac-
ceptance of peace proposals. General
Hoffman, replied that Germany
would continue to advance on the ba-
sis of the German proposals-defense
of Finland. Livonia, Esthonia and Uk-
raine-rntil peace is signed.
Peace Envoy at Brest-Litovsk.
The Russian delegation arrived at
Brest-Litovsk yesterday to renew the
peace conference.
| Rofflnann's reply strengthens the
belief De the Bolsheviki that the Ger
ma ms 10 not intend to capture Petro-
grad. instead, it is believed they in
tend to occupy a line from Narva
! (1uO miles west of Petrograd to
Vitebsl< $3.50 miles south of Petro-
gradl uader the pretense of protecting
! small rationS
Has No Word From Francis.
Washington, Feb. 2S-No further
word from Ambassador Francis as to
his plans for leaving Petrograd had
been received early today and Secre-
! tary Lansing, when asked about unof-
| ficial reports that the ambassador and
some of the other embassies had de-
parted, declared the state department
| had no information whatever