The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-28
GERMANS Still
Press ONWARD
Teuton Army Has Not Halted
Despite the BoIsheyist An
Ilouncement Government
Will Surrender.
HARSH TERMS ACCEPTED.
slav Peace Delegation to Brest-
Litovsk Does Not Include
Trotzky Loss Is
Staggering.
BY Associated Press.

German terms for second time within
9 week After the first agreement the
bo!snevists decided to fight, but the
military activity on their part appar-
emily did not halt by one step the Ger
man invasion. Germany, as result OF
the polshevlst attempt to wage war,
increased her terms in the last peace
ultImatum, which virtually cuts off
from Russian domination all western
territory added to Great Russia in the
time of Peter the Great.
Llvonia and Esthonia, where small
aetachments made slight resistance, the
along the entire line from the Gulf Of
Finland to the Ukraine In the north
they are approaching Reveal, the naval
base. and to the south Minsk is rs miles
behind the invading troops Tho Dol
sshevist commander, Ensign KrylenSo.
has asked the German staff il Russia'S
acceptance of peace terms does not re-
yive the.armistice. broken a week ago by
the German advance on Dvinsk. Ger
man reports say the internal situation
In Russia is most serious.
Berlin (via London) Feb. 264--tserman
troops have occupied Pernau, a Rus
sian seaport in Livonia. SO miles north
east Of Riga, and Dorpat, 157 miles
northeast of Riga the German war Of
flce announced today.
In the German advance to Dorpat,
5000 Russians were taken prisoner.
This flying detachment travelled 100
miles in five and one-half days.
The advance guard of General Won
Linsingen's troops in the south have
reached Zhitoir, So miles west of Kiev.
Petrcgrad Feb. 26.-The executive
scuncil of the pan soviets has agreed to
accept the German peace terms by a
| vote of 12G to So, with 26 not voting.
A Russian government wireless mes-
age addressed to the German govern
! 2Ient at Berlin announces that a par
| lamentary representative left Petro-
| grad Sunday at noon for Dvinsk for
| The purpose of transmitting to the Ger
| nan high command at Dvinsk Russia's
| official reply to Germany's peace condi-
| tons.
4 Another communication addressed
To all" announces that the following
4 message has been sent to the govern
4 flent at Berlin:
4 according to the decision of the CEN
i.ral executive of the soviets, taken at
/ !: SO Sunday morning, the soviets' and
4 people,S commissaries have decided to
| aceent8 Germany's peace conditions and
| will send delegation to Brest-
/ I4itovsK.'
YfTheira knees a-e on our chest and
t'1rr position is hopeless" declared Nj
| :.olai Lenine, the bolshevist premier,
4 Ii the course of his long speech to the
CENTRAL executive committee Of the all
| russian council of workmen'S and sol
4 ilefs' delegates. in which he insistent-
yurged the acceptance of the Austro-
iernlan peace conditions, however OPP
| Dressive and unfortunately they might
appear.
This peace must be accepted as Il
respite he continued enabling us to
prepare a decisive resistance to the
1ourgeoisie and Imperialism. The pro-
letariat of the whole world will come
10 our aid"
Leon Trotzky. bolshevist foreign min
lister, will not go to Brest-Litovsk to
sign the new pace terms, nor will any
other members of the Russian delega-
ton which conducted the earlier 1lego-
tiations there with the exception of NJ.
karekhan, secretary of the former dele
cation. The workmen's and soldiers
delegates today chose for the new dele
cation M. Zinovieff. president of the
Petrograd council of workmen's and
soldiers delegates: NJ AleXieff. acting
commissioner of agriculture, and M.
Sokolloff.
This delegation accompanied by naval
and military representatives will leave
tonight for Brest-Litovsk