The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-02-22
BOLSHEv|K| GIVE
IN TO GERMANY
Foes Occupation of Dvinsk and
LutSk Forced Action.
TO GIVE a BILLION INDEMNITY
Lenine and Trotzky Reported over
thrown by Social RevoIutionists-
Teutons Continue Drive Into
Eastern Russia.

London, Feb. 20.-Russia is now
forced to sign peace upon the cOndi-
tons proposed by Germany, says an
official Russian statement received
here on Tuesday.
The official statement was signed by
Premier Lenine and Leon TrOtzky, the
foreign minister. It protests against
the German resumption of the war
and says the councils Of peoples COM
missiOners is now forced to declare
it's readiness to sign a peace as dictat-
ed by the delegation of the quadruple
alliance at Brest-LitOvsk. 1t promises
to give detailed reply without delay
to the German peace conditions.
Russians Enter Protest.
The statement was transmitted
through the wireless telegraphy sta
tons of the Russian government to the
government of the German empire at
Berlin. The text reads:
"The council of peoples commits
saries protests against the fact that
the German government has directed
it's troops against the Russian cOun-
cil's republic, which has declared the
war at ain end and which is demObil
izing its army on all fronts.
''The 'wOrkmen's and peasants gov
eminent of Russia could not anticipate
such q step because neither directly
nor indirectly has any one of the par
ties which concluded the armistice
given the seven days notice required
in accordance with the treaty of De-
cember 10 for terminating it,"
Russia's decision to yield to Ger
many comes on the day after the re-
sumption of military operations by the
Germans resulting in the occupation
by them of the Dvinsk and Lutsk.
Whether it was the threat of German
military power or the chaotic dOmes-
tic conditions which induced the boil
sheyiki to accept the German terms is
not made clear by the advices thus far
received.
Four Billion Indemnity Demand.
A dispatch to the Times from PetrO-
grad under date of February 10 quotes
Leon TrOtzky, the bOlsheviki foreign
minister, as declaring in his report
upon the ending of the negotiations at
BreSt-I4itOvSk that the German terms
included the retention of Poland,
Lithuania, Riga and Moon island and
an indemnity of $4,000 600 900, preSum-
ably in gold.
The Russian government, according
to, an official statement received here,
has addressed the following message
to headquarters and all the fronts:
"The council of peoples commits
Saries has offered to the Germans to
sign peace Immediately. 1 order that
In all cases where Germans are en-
countered massed pOurparlers with
the German soldiers should be organ
lied and the proposal to refrain from
fighting made to them. If the Germans
refuse, then you must offer to them
every possible resistance.
"KRYLENKO."
Germans Occupy Russian Cities.
Berlin. Feb. 2O.-German forces have
entered Dvinsk, it was officially an
nOunced by the German war office. The
Russians unsuccessfully attempted to
blow up the bridge across the Dvina
river.
The official communication issued
by the German war office says that
from Riga to as far south as Lutsk
German armies are advancing east
ward to Russia.
The German army group under Gen.
Alexander Won Linsingen, according TO
an official statement issued by the
Austrian war office, has occupied the
without fighting.
BoIsheviki in Flight, Report.
London, Feb. 20.-Rumors are cur
rent in Vasa that the bOlSheviki gov
eminent in Petrograd has been over
thrown by the social revolutionists I'M
der the leadership of NJ. TchernOff, ac-
cording to the correspondent there of
the Politiken of Copenhagen, says a
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company. NikOlai Lenine and Leon
Trotzky are said to have escaped to
Riga.
1000 Killed in Battle at Kiev.
Petrograd, Feb. 19.-Kiey. one of the
principal cities of the Ukraine, was
captured by the bolsheviki on Febru-
airy 8, after sanguinary fighting.
The casualties were estimated at
1000 killed and 1000 wounded.
While the fighting was at its height
on Thursday the city was bombarded
by bolsheviki agitators.
Polish troops have defeated the boil
sheviki at Boghuisk, So miles southeast
of Minsk.
Counter-reyOlutionary Polish legions
were defeated by the bolsheviki at
Minsk on February 6, the Polish forces
suffering heavy casualties according