Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-20
TROOPS OF KAISER
PENETRATE RUSSIA
ON 4OO-M|LE FRONT
Leninc Protests Against At
tack on Country Which
Is Demobilizing.
ENSIGN KRYLENKO ORDERS
ARMY TO RESIST INVADERS
Trotzky Appointed Food Con-
troller and Given Unlim-
tied Powers.
GERMANS CROSS THE DVINA
tnconfirmcd Report Comes of Down
fall OF Bolshcvik Gov
crnmCnt.
ENSIGN KRYLENKO ORDERS
ARMY TO RESIST INVADERS
GERMANS CROSS THE DvIN.A
.LRN Associa,ch Press

BY Associated Prcss.'
LONDON. February l9.--Russ,a Is
now forced to sign peace upon the con-
ditions proposed by Germany. says an
official Russian statement received here
to-day.
Notwithstanding this fact. Tcutonlc
troops arc advancing eastward into
Russia over front OF 100 miles. from
Riga. in the north. to Lutsk "A scaut
hlty miles from the East Cialician bor-
der. on tho south. Apparently, thus
far the operation has met with no ob-
position. The northern reaches cf the
Dvina River have been crossed by the
enemy: the important railroad town
of Dvinsk, whence roads run north
eastward TO FetroGrad and eastward to
SmolenSk. has been captured and
hutsk. ono of the famous fortrcsscs
OF the Noihynian triangle and form
ing the gateway leading eastward to
klcv, has been entered without tho
Russians attempting to stay tho foe
The official announcement OF tho
capitulation was signed by Nikolai Lc-
nine and Leon Trotzky on behalf OF
the peoples commissaries OF Russia
II protests against Germany attacking
IA country which has declared the war
AT an end. and which is dcmcbilizng
It's armies on all fronts. but under the
circumstances, it says. the government
regards itself as forced formally to de-
clare it's Willingness ito sign "A peace
upon the conditions which had been
dictated by the delegates of the quad
ruple alliance at Brcst Litovsk."
TENT OF RUSSIAN
OFFICIAL.
Tho statement WAS transmitted
through the wireless ,clegraphy sta
ions of the Russian government to the
government or the German cmpirc AT
Berlin. The text reads
The Council OF Peoples Comm issarics
protests against the fact that the Ger
man government has directed its troops
against the Russian councirs republic
which has declared the war as A, an
end. and which is dcmoblizinC its army
OH all fronts.
ARMIsTICE CONCLUDED
WITHOUT PROPER NOTICE
ne workmcn's and peasants gov
erhment of Russia could not anticipate
Such II step, because neither directly
ncr indirectly has any one of the por
ties which concluded the armis,ice
given the seven days notice REQUIRED
cembcr IL for terminating it,"
The only indication that the enemy
VIII meet with hindrancc comes in an
announcement by Ensign Krylenko. the
Bo!SheNik commander in chief In his
order, he instructs the Russians whom
thcy encounter German troops to en-
dcaNor 10 persuade them to refrain
from hoStilitics. If the Germans re-
iuSe' he adds then YOU must cltcr
thrm every possible rcsistance"
AS yet there is no indication from
German sources concerning the full, in
'entIonS OF the Invaders but it has hrcu
assumed that in the north the captur.
ol the provinces of Livonia and .s-
thonia is contemplated, and that in the
S"uth-in little Ruesia-aid is TO bc
lent tho ukrainians in stcmmi,s The
tid" Of the Rolshcvik movement
against them.
Apparently. all is still chaos in Rus
Sia' with civi! war in progress al varl-
Gus points. End the food situation daily
growing worse So serious has become
the latter factor that Trotzky has been
appointed food controller. and Siyen
unlimited rowcrs. Already he has or
dcrcd the arrest OF Spectators in food