The Mena weekly star., 1918-03-07
DOLSHEV|KI SIGN
 TREATY OF PEACE
Make Great Sacrifice of Territory to the Teut0ns-Each Day of Delay Brought Increasing Demands
 Huns Halt Advance.

Huns Halt Advance.
 London, March 4.Supplementary treaties between the Central Powers and the Bolsheviki government were signed at Brest-Litovsk in addition to the main peace treaty, according Co telegram from Brest-Litovsk by way of Vienna and Amsterdam, which gives no details of the treaties.
 Formal official announcement of the signing has not yet been receiv- ed from the Russian side but a late radiogram from Petrograd said the treaty would be signed Sunday.
 As the German official statement of Sunday night mentions only the cessation of operations in Great Russia, it is inferred in some quar- ters here that the German advance in the Ukraine and Finland will continue, while the Germans re- serve for themselves A free hand outside the limits of Great Russia.
 Must Be Ratified by March F
 London, March 4.--A Russian off, cial announcement signed by Pre- mier Lenine and Foreign Minister Trotzky says that the Bolsheviki delegation, after signing peace with Germany, is proceeding toward Pet r0grad where the text of the agree ment will be immediately published.
 Ratification of the treaty has been fixed for Thursday next but the final decision rests with the all- Russian congress of councils of workmen's, peasants and Cossacks' deputies which will assemble at Moscow, March i2.
 Huns Halted by Surrender
 Russia's delegates at Brest-Lit- oysk have halted the German inva- sion of Great Russia by agreeing to the peace terms offered February 2i. Peace was made, they report to the Bolsheviki government, because every day of delay meant more de- mands by the Germans Added pro- visions require the Russians not only to retire from Turkeys Asiatic provinces, bat also from territory in the regions of Kars, Batdum and karabagh, taken from the Turks during past wars.
 Berlin also announces the signing of peace terms and the cessation of h0stilities. When the German for ward movement halted, the invaders were at Narva, 100 miles west of Petrograd, and approaching Luga, SS miles southwest The greater part of the Ukraine also has been cleared of the Bolsheviki. Much war material and more than 63000 pris- oners have been captured by the Germans in the Russian campaign.
 What Germany Takes
 Germany apparently is determin- ed to give the Bolsheviki but nar- row strip along the Gulf Of Finland and at the request of the Finnish government is to undertake the ex- pulsion of the Finnish revolutionists and BOlsheviki Red Guards from Southern Finland With Esthonia under German control and Finland freed from Bolshevik sway, the Bol- sheviki will have less than POO miles of coast line along the Finnish gulf German troops already have landed on the Aland Islands at the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia, and will make the islands the base of their operations in support of the Finnish government. Germany has assured Sweden that site has no territorial interest in the Aland islands.
 The Bolsheviki Whine
 The message of Bolsheviki del- egates to the peace barley at Brest- Litovsk, which was addressed to Premier Lenine and Foreign Minis ter Trotzky, follows:
 As we anticipated, deliberations on a treaty of peace are absolutely useless and could only make things worse in comparison with the ulti- matum of February 2i. They might even assume the character of lead ing to the presentation of another uitImatum.
 Tn view of this fact and in con- sequence of the German refusal to cease military action until peace is signed, we have attached our sigma lures, We, therefore, have request ed a train, expecting to sign today and leave afterward.
 Further Seizure of Land
 The most serious feature of the new demands compared with those of February 2i, is the following:
 "To detach the regions of Kara band, Kars and Batoum from Rus sian territory on the pretext of the right of people to self-determina- tion."
 In Interest of Turkey
 The new territorial claims upon Russia are apparently advanced in the\ interest of Turkey. Batoum, a strongly fortified seaport on the