The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-14
SEPARATE PEACE
No YE SIGNED
No Explanation OF Move on Part
OF Bolshevist Government
Contained in Late
Dispatches.
UKRAINE BREAK THE CAUSE.
Events Long Have Been Moving
Toward Complete With
drawal Of Muscovites
From War.
UKRAINE BREAK THE CAUSE.

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Rehabilitation of Russian forces
on all fronts, according to q dis
patch received here today, dated
Brest-Litovsk on Sunday.
The dispatch follows:
ssThe president of the Russian
delegation at today's Sunday -, I
sitting stated that while Russia
was desisting from signing for
NAL peace treaty, it declared the
state of war to be ended with Ger
many, Austria-Hungary, Turkey |
and Bulgaria, simultaneously CIV
ing orders for complete demoblll-
cation Of Russian forces on all
fronts.
London, Feb. 12.-The version OF the
Russian announcement at Brest-LitoVsk
on the subject of peace sent by the
Central News correspondent at Ans
terdam represents Leon Trotzky, the
bolshevist foreign minister, as declar-
ing that Russia now felt obliged to sign
a separate peace and that the state OF
war between Russia and central powers
would be declared terminated.
Russia steps formally out OF the war
by act Of the bolshevist government
which seized the reins of power in
Petrograd last November and almost
Immediately opened peace negotiations
with the central empires. The author
ity OF this government seems virtually
unquestloned at present III iioi lnein
Russia and the Teutonic powers nave
already assured the cessation of even
,,o,,ina, bos+iIit;es along virtually all
ioiiiiilei .los i...=,,.,,, ,a,,.r ,;ra
.iie ieiiiainue. " .'ie " e .''A. Icy,
In the east by slghlna IL peace WIN
the Ukraine aid isolating Rumania.
p,,ved Great Part in War.
.,.,r,, ,++in. 1;t+la figure in the
,yar for YEARLY a wear past. Russia's
m,a.,+ indaed vital mart in the conflict
.a,,,a. fnrc;hIv to mind as the circrrn-
stances leading up to their exit are
reviewed Recorning a belligerent on
dacIaration or war upon her, her troops
were soon sweeping through east
Prussia creating a diversion which
haYnpered the Germans in their first
dash through Belgium and upon Paris.
,rhouol, disastrously defeated by Hin
denb1rp. at Tannenberg she rallied
quickly and by winter was hanlmering
again at the German borders and her
great armies ovefrunning Austrian ter
ritory in Galicia were ct the crests of
| the Carpathians and threatening an
| invasion of Hungary
It took the bulk of the Austrian
| armies and a large proportion OF Ger
| many's virtually an entire years cam
! paigning in 1915 to break Russla
hold on Gallcia drive ner , onr o. and force
| her armies under Grand Duke Nicholas
! back to the line of which Brest- Litovsk,
| tn
! tons. formed the keystone. Beaten
| back. but not yet disorganized, she
| fought through 1916, creating havoc
| among the Austrian armies IN Volhyn1a
| and Galicia and in Asia Minor. driving
/ The Turks out of virtually ali Turkish
Armenia.
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li n see.l lllaliilest, piohe w el'iueiit'e
''iis a'io s'oppe'' 'iie Effort
Rise of the Bolshevists.
since A,,,rs+ 1ast pnssi. has fieured
IN the .rraat world conf1ict az Mill
tary factor onlv Nv reason that she
, sti1i ba1d o,,,,,,,ars, ~ cernoa,, and ams
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