The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-16
War On RUSSIA
WILL Be Relieved
Germany Decides to Resume
Military Operations.
WILL SUPPORT UKRAINE
Dispatches From Holland Bring It'd
ings of Decision at the Teuton I'M
periaI Headquarters.

periaI Headquarters.
London, Feb. 16.-Germany has re-
solved to renew military activities
against northern Russia
Northern Russia, or Russia proper,
excludes the Ukraine and Finland.)
This decision is said to have been
reached at a conference at imperial
Headquarters. Special dispatches
from Holland give the information.
The conference was attended by
Emperor William. the imperial chan
cellor, Count Won Hert1ing: Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg. General Won
Ludendorff, the foreign secretary,
DIR. Won Kuehlmann, and others.
The mo war, but no peace" plan
of Leon Trotzky (Bolzheviki foreie1
minister. was rejected at the confer
ence, according to the Amsterdam cor
respondent of the Daily Express. AS
Trotzky does not want peace, he will
get war.
Invasion of Great Russia, it is add
ed, will continue, at any rate, until
Petrograd is occupied by German
troops.
Russia's withdrawal from the war
was real withdrawal, and tho throw
ing away Of all agreements with her
former allies, said Leon TrOtzky, the
Rolshevilli foreign minister, in report,
ing to the All Russian wOrkmen's and
soldiers councils on the result of the
Brest-Litovsk conference
The despatch says the councils ap-
proved Trotzky's policy.
A despatch to the Daily News from
Rotterdam says the Germans take the
view that Trotzky's declaration,
though it did not end the war auto
matically ended the armistice. (The
armistice expired February 14) The
Germans now consider they have a
free hand and mean to use the op-
portunity.
This. according to the correspon-
dent, does not mean necessarily the
Germans will Immediately tryt to
reach Petrograd, but more probably
they will support the Ukraine by force
of arms. The Germans, he says, are
carrying on an active propaganda in
the Ukraine for the purpose Of sug-
costing to the rada (parliamenO the
new state is endangered by the Boil
sheviki.
1t is declared this is all part of Ger
manmanys scheme for breaking, up
the former Russian empire to extend
her own power over the new states, of
whom it is posing as protector.
1t is certain the Bolsheviki areSnow
moving troops against the Kuraine, a
Berlin despatch to the Cologne Volks
Zeitung says. The central powers do
not intend to allow themselves thus
to be robbed of the fruits of their
I lately concluded peace. The news
paper adds it probably has belnde-
e cid ea at the conference at ffnpe re.
headquarters to resume operations ION
the northern Russian front for the
protection of the Ukraine"
A statement from a well-infornaed
source given ee Vienna newspapers
says regarding the Bolsheviki atti-
tude:
"Trotzky and his government. re
cognizing the impossibility of contin-
uing the war, preferred to lay down
their arms with a certain eclat and
assume the pose of an oppressed peo-
pie Russian tactics appear ito be
the worst for them because we are
in nowise bound by their declaration
and from the standpoint of interna-
tional law We ae still in state Of
war with Russia, qualified at present
by the temporary armistice.
1.-THE Russian government gave us
opportunity to denounce the arms
tice and continue the war or to make
a similar peace declaration. The Aus
tro-Hungarian government has no rea-
son to denounce the armistice."
The stormy closing scene at Brest-
Litovsk February 9 are described in
Berlin kilograms. DR.. Won Kuehlmann,
in summing up the results of the long
discussions, said a continuation of the
debates appeared to promise no re-
concilement of the opposing views.
Count Czernin agreed a proloNga-
ton of the discussion offered little
prospect Of agreement. He suggested
an absolute agreement was not essen
tial from the standpoint of a conc1u-
sion of peace and some territorial and
other matters might be left open.
Trotzky replied from the Russian
standpoint the application which the
cent, bowers wished to give to the
princir'r of self-determnation was
equivalent to the rejection of this
principle Further discussion on such
a basis, therefore, was hopeless. He
also said that the new western from
tier proposed for Russia must be con-
demned from the viewpoint of strate-
gle consideration.
Trotzky protested at length against
the central powers concluding peace
with the Kiev Rada (the anti-Bolshe-
Wiki Ukraine governmenD, declaring
this man2er of procedure suggested
doubt whether the central powers de-
sired to reach an understanding with
the government of FEDERAL Russia.
He declared the treaty alleged to
have been signed with the Kiev Rada
cor!d h""o ~ validity whatever for
~ people and the Russian
government.