Evening star., 1918-02-28
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February 28 British
Admiralty per Wireless Press).-
Germany's military operations on
the northern Russian front are
taking their normal, course, the
German general staff announced
today. Another Esthonian regi-
ment has placed itself under COM
mand of the German staff.
In Minsk the Germans cap-
tured $4,000 rifles and 1000 ma
chine guns.
LONDON. February 2s--The
German army has received orders
to stop its advance into Russia,
according to the Petrograd corr
espondent of the Exchange Tele-
graph Company, who has re-
ceived information to this effect
which he regards as reliable.
Inquiry Made by Russ.
(when the bolshevik government
agreed to accept German peace terms
last week, the commander-in-chief Of
the Russian armies inquired of the
Germans il the previous armistics
would be renewed and the German in
vasion halted. He did not receive an
immediate reply and the German adj
vance continued. A dispatch from Pe-
trograd Wednesday said that Gen. Hof-
man. the German military represents
tive at Brest-Litovsk. had replied to the
bolshevik communication by declaring
that the German advance would con-
tinue until treaty of peace was signed
and carried out along lines laid down
in the German peace terms.)
Another Call to Arms.
The council of peoples commissaries.
according to a Reuter- dispatch from
Petrograd. has issued another call to
arms. in the course of which 1t Is de-
clared the German invaders are arrest
ing the workmen's and soldiers coun-
ellis shooting captured red guards ana
arming German and Austrian prisoners
in the Ukraine. The proclamation as
serts that the troops at the front have
now pulled themselves together and are
resisting the 1nVaSlOH II CoHSiuoSS>
sMay the blood spilled in this hn-
equal struggle fall on the heads Of the
German socialists who are aNowing the
German workmen to be ranked among
the Gains and Judas.
Regiments Going to Front.
Enrolment of the new Army is pro-
ceeding successfully, an Exchange Tel
egraph dispatch says. Cossack regi-
ments in Petrograd are being sent in
&la nf PSk0y- and other rS21-
ments formed of mixed detachments
are marching to the front Several de-
tachments of sailors have arrived in the
capital from Finland. Women, children
and inya lids have been given permis.
sion TO leave the city.
Nothing has been received in London
of a later date than Tuesday in refer
ence to the situation at Pskov or the
German advance toward Petrograd.
Nav Attack Petrograd.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph from Petrograd says:
THE reports that Pskov has been re- y
occupied by the Russians came from
Luga (eighty-fise miles southwest of
which apparently is still
in Russian hands. Events seem to show
that the Germans have decided to at
tack Petrbgrsd
IAN attempt by the Germans to take
met with strong resistance, and
The enemy was forced to retire The
near that place were successfully re-
moved The railway bridge across the
River Beresina has been destroyed"
German Aid for Finland.
Twelve hundred Finnish so:S~ss-. esom
Germany and large transport load
I'd with German weapons and muni-
ions arrived at Nasa, Finland Wednes-
law according to an Exchange Tele-
graph from Copenhagen. A Berlin teie-
sram received in Copenhagen says
hat large, German naval force has
eft a Baltic port and is supposed to be
going to Finland.
(It was reported some days ago that
soldiers of Finnish descent in the Ger.
nan army were being permitted and
lided in returning TO Finland to help
he government forces against the rev.
- -
Claim Novo Tcherkask.
Noyo Tcherkask. capital of the terri
ory of the Don Cossacks, has been
aptured by the revolutionary troopA
rhis announcement was made officiaiiy
oday.
.