Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-03-02
TEUTON DRIVE IN
RUSSIA STILL ON
RoLSHEVIkI ACCEPT GERMAN.
MADE PEACE TERMS, BUT THE
ARMY STILL ADVANCES.
TAKE men AND GUNS
Martial Law Is Declared In Petroarad
and Severe Regulations Are
Anuounced-on Other
Fronts.

4uO bOISuSF4h1 government III rus
sia, represented by Nikolai Lenine an
Leon Trotzky, has acceded to the dc
mands of Germany and announced it
readiness to accept the hard peac
terms which Germany has laid down
Thus, apparently without furthe
hesitation, the Russians are prepared
in an effort to stop the inroads thu
Germans now are making into theil
country, to add to the enemy's already
vast holdings more of Russia's mos
valuable western territory, extending
from the Gulf of Finland southwark tC
the Black Sea, and even to withdraw
her troops from Finland and give back
to the Turks what has been taken
from them in battle.
A Russian wireless government
statement received in London says:
Germany will renew the peace ne
gotiations and will conclude peace on
the following conditions:
Both to declare the war ended.
"AlI regions west of the line indi-
Gated at Brest-Lftovsk to the Russian
delegation which formerly belonged to
Russia to be no longer under the ter
ritorial protection of Russia.
In the region of Dvinsk this line
must be advanced to the eastern from
tier of Courland.
''The former attachment of these re-
gions TO the Russian state must in no
case involve for them obligations to-
ward Russia. Russia renounees every
claim to intervene in the internal af-
fairs of those regions.
Germany and Hungary have
the intention to define further the
fate Of these regions in agreement
with their populations.
Germany is ready after the compile
tion Of Russian rehabilitation to evac-
uate the regions which are east of the
above line. So far as it is not stated
otherwise. Livonia and Esthonia must
Immediately be cleared of Russian
troops and Red Guard"
The surrender seems abject. Rus
sia is Immediately to send delegation
to Brest-Litovsk, there to discuss with
German representatives the finad de-
tails Of the peace and sign the COM
pact.
At last accounts the German armies |
Ia the cas- were giving no heed to talk |
OF peace, but, en- the contrary, were |
methodically pushing forward their
Inc over the more than 500-mile front |
from the Gulf of Finland region to
Volhaynia, and still nowhere meeting /
with any systematic attempts to him /
der their progress.
Numerous additional towns have |
been captured and several thousand t
mere Russians made prisoner. In ad-
dttlon, nearly three thousand German
and Austrian prisoners of war have
been liberated BY the invaders. Reyal,
principal port on the Finnish
salllf u rapidly being approached, not
nding the snoW-covered roads
. - troops here are being pushed for
SEa forced marches, the desire of
German high command evidently
81 capture the port, which would
y be II necessity arises as .
1ass Tor operations by a fleet of war
sessels against Kronstadt and Petro-
sfaa
fle ths internal situation In
zllsaia 1htInne chaotic. So bad have
iszi i1ns become III Petrograd that
kaSe uf lesa has been declared by the
as taes Looting and other
sHsa deeds win result in SEN
snees IL dsatns u u announced by the
olslsesI horikies, and all explo-
lguat ~ Immediately turned In
tie a1khozl ties on pain of the hold
besng declared outlaws Opposi-
Ian i Al pars 1ayo been suppressed
na otner ii have been warned
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