The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-20
RUSSIA YIELDS PART OF
TERRITORY AND WILL PAY
INDEMNITY TO GERMANY
BOLSHEVIKI LAY DOWN
ARMS AGAINST GERMANY
DECLARE COUNTRY HELPLESS

DECLARE COUNTRY HELPLESS
Allies Are Not Surprised at Russian
Action in Accepting Degrading
Terms of Peace-Releases Many
German Troops for Western Front
London, Feb. 19.-Defiant, even in
surrender, Lenine and Trotzky have
officially declared that they are now
forced to sign German peace which
they denounce in the bitterest terms,
because its conditions include:
l. Virtual annexation to Germany
of Poland, Courland, Lithania and
parts of Euvonia and Livonia, under
the guise Of "independent states"
z: The retention of the Mood islands,
strategic-of the Gulf of Riga and
practical domination of the entire
Baltic sea. (Riga to remain a German
city as per number one, since it is the
capital Of Livonia)
3. An indemnity of $4,O0O,OO0, 900 to
be paid, it is presumed, in the form of
food and raw materials:
Preceding and following a Petro-
grad dispatch roughly outlining the
above facts, there came from the Rus
sian sapital steady stream of widely
them were dated as far back as ten
days ago.
Out of the tumble of unconfirmed
reports contained in those filed within
the last hours two were "important
if true"
/. The bolsheviki regime was said
to have been overthrown by the So
cial revolutionists. Tchernoff, who
was chosen president of the. recent
short-lived constituent assembly over
his bolshevist opponent, was said to
nave taken the reins of the govern
ment in hand as premier.
2. Lenien and Trotzky were said to
be fleeing, to Riga, one report had
it; anywhere inside the German
lines" said another.
Up to late this evening the official
announcement Of the bolshevki will
lngness to sign, under pressure, the
extortionist German terms, seemed to
stand authentic and superseding all
other dispatches.
Germans Take Cities
The pressure to which the bolshcvi-
kl were finally forced to yield was
manifold. First and foremost was the
resumption by the Germans of the in
stronghold on the Dwin, 14O miles to
the southeast of Riga, fell to one Ger
man army without cannon shot
few hours after the campaign had
been resumed. Dwinsk had deficd the
invaders ever since Sptembcr, 1915.
Thy crossed the Dwina early TODAY
by bridge the Russians had planned,
but failed to destroy. Little resist
ance" was offered, the official Berlin
announcement says.
At the same time another German
army. under General Won Linsingcn
practically walked into Lutzk, the Vol.
hynian fortress taken and rctaken
many times in some of the bloodicst
battles of the Russo-Teuton war. On
both sides of this stronghold they now
are marching eastwards, in the direc-
ton of Kicv, the Ukranian capital.
TWO ,strategical roads are at their dis
posal, to bring up supplies and artil-
lery. Kiev lies 240 miles to the east.
That. ancient city is in the throes Of
bloody orgies, the bolsheviki having
1or the time being The upper hand.
From Berlin today was spread
throughout the world heartrending
appeal by the UkranianG for German
aid, an appeal manifestly dictated
from Wilhelmtsrasse since it gives
the desired pretext for the new inva-
sion.
Besides being threatened with a
land and sea drive on Petrograd, the
nolsheviki were. and are, faced by
terrific pressure from other causes.
The capital itself and the whole of
northern Russia is starving. Typhus
has broken out and pestilcncc threat
ems. From the south large Ccssack
forces are reported marching on the
capital. Country-widn discomfort with
the bolsh aviki rule grows hourly.
thousands CT peasants injured
wrathfully why land was given them
IL it is to be taken away by the in
vader.
Russians Duped
So Trotzky and Lenine saw no 9TH
er course than that which in gloomy
hours they have hinted they might be
forced to take.
If. we are after all forced to make
an imperialistic peace, 1--WE will not
tell our people it is Il good peace;
signing it we will tell them it is a
shameful peace and our war on i'm
perialism will go on until the wrong
is righted."
Two political factors aggravated
the >bolsheviki position and hastcned,
if they. did not actually lead to, their
surrender. Rumania, 1t appears now,
betrayed them. They had counted up-
on the Kingdoms sustained defiance
to the Teutons and active aid against
the Raaa: in the erevento nour, It
seems, the Rumanians yielded to Ger
man intrigue, and peace conference
is about to begin at Focsani.