Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-27
PEACE Pc, BOARD
IS ON WAY TO
BREST-LlT0VSK
Russians Believe Germans
Do Not Want Peace at
This Time.
STRENGTH IS IN
WIDE TERRITORIES
Uncertain Whether Ger
mans or Russians Now
ll4~ Hold Pskov. &

= LONDON, rep. 2i.-lne RUSSIAN
revolution will defend itself against
statement sent out by wireless and
which announces that Germany has
refused to grant an, armistice. The
announcement reads.
"a peace delegation Is now on the
way to Brest- -Ltovsk. We expect
any moment news that it has arrived
at the place appointed for peace
negotiations. but there is no armistice.
The German government has formal
ly refused an armistice and German
detachments continue to advance.
I'VE are prepared to sign their
peace of usurpation. We have already
declared this but there are many in
dications that the German imperial
lists do not desire peace at the pres
ent moment. but rather an immedi-
ate strangling Of the workmen's and
peasants revolution.
Resistance to the German hordes
thus becomes the principal tasks of
the revolution-brave. heroic, obstin-
ate and pitiless resistance. Every
position, every railway station. every
possible obstacle" must he put in the
way, of thy enemy. a@v n ny, =
!. "0ur greatest strength is In our
wide territories. Enemy detachments.
'sttIl very. small. have occupied ReNal
and Pskov. n Even. Petrograd itself
which is4still far distant, can no way
decide the destiny of the revolution.
The government sof the peoples COM
missaries can and if needs be must
retreat. must gather it's forces and
must appeal to the country to use
it's whole strength for the defense
of the revolutions. Should the threat
to Petrograd increase the govern
ment will remove to Moscow or any
other city Of Russia.
"If Germany's plundering raid
should advance the task of the gov
ernment would be to destroy the pos
sibility of a simultaneous catas-
trophic decision by the Germans.
They are attempting to crush the an-
search Of it on the routes leading to
Petrograd
I'VE will bar these routes by ev-
erything we can interpose as OBJ
stacles. This at the moment. is the
principal task of the heroic Petro-
grad proletariat and its revolutionary
staff. But at the same time we must
act in. such a manner that the Ger
man generals may declare they rec
ognize the authority, north. south
and on both sides of the Urals. Even
IL -buSA tIAAiiN- tAes Sah 'SoSAA = ~e' y
grad by a mere military promenade,
we will prove to them that they will
have to disperse themselves all over
Russia before they can reach, and
crush the authority of the councils.
''Will they have, adequate forces
to carry out such task it we defend
ourselves heroically? No. They
! never will have forces enough. Such
an enterprise, inevitably will resolve
itself into an adventure and will fail
However deeply they penetrate Rus
sia. then the more surely will they
bring about the outbreak of a revolu-
ton in Germany. Patience and firm
ness is necessary.
The first symptoms of panic Gre
ated by the Germans plundering raid
have become bygone events. The
towards are in flight and have made
| themselves in hundreds and thou
sands for the defense of the Socialis,
! iLfatherland.
+: ..rf peace with the revolution Is
mot the aim OF the German imperial:
lists, they will see the revolution
knows how to defend itself"
| london. Feb. 27.-It is uncertain
| whether the Germans or the Russian.
inow hold Pskov. An Exchange tel.
egraph dispatch from, Petrograd un-
! der, Tuesdays~ date. hut bearin. nj
time, Gays that, the Bolsheviki an
nounce Pskov has been captured
All reports confirm the earlier state
ment that the town frequently chang
ed hands.
Another Exchange telegraph dis.
patch says that Borisoff. sixty mile.
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