Evening star., 1918-02-21

hans were advancing on q solid front
from the north to the south.
- The announcement OF Russtas oe-
.Sision to accept the German terms was
Sent by wireless at O'Clock Tuesday
.norning. At first the German wireless
station showed a disposition to re-
fuse to take tho message. but finally.
four hours later. acknowledged 1t.
res Repeated Conferences.
s.,Bolshevik leaders held repeated con-
fArences throughout Tuesday, and
later in the afternoon received the
German reply. refusing to accept tho
wireless message as official and re-
spvinsk to confer with regard to peace.
aa The Russian press Is divided as TO
THE wisdom of the councils action. The
sravda says the soldiers and work
t&illingness to make peace and carry
sHut their pledges. and that. whether
Germany accepts the offer or not, the
tbolsheviki have won a moral victory:
.The Nova Jien says the bolsheviki
s&ave brought the affair to an igno-
sHinious end and have proved themselves
ito be adventurers who are willing to
Keep themselves in power at any price
ra Will Defend Petrograd.
e. Bolshevik leaders declare that II the
German advance continues they will
-Aefend Petrograd with the red guard
sSud narass the German advance by
:Suerrilla warfare. No plans Isa s,,n nad 0een
,.ss The bolsheviki say this is new war,
hot the old war, and that they will
.spresent a united front against the Ger.
'.nans. They believe the proletariat OF
Russia will be able to continue the
.struggle.
). Newspaper opinion as to the German
-flans is divided. Some of the papers
Believe Petrograd will be attacked, but
this improbable.
:: Advance Toward Pskof.
e. LONDON, February 21.-German
troops. having occupied Dvinsk. are ad-
svancing toward Pskoh. $50 miles south
southwest of Petrograd. according to a
.Reuter dispatch from PetroSrad Ihey
:8iso have occupied Hapsai, Esthonia'
And their cavalry is pushing toward MO-
ihilev, the former Russian general head
quarters
=. q. The Novaia viedomsty. the dispatch
adds, says the Germans have occupied
.Molodechno. an important railway JUNG
Hon northwest Of Minsk. According 10
,the Pravda, the Austrians have begun
Jan advance on the Ukrainian front
a., Great Britain's Stand.
;. The British government has in
,Xtructed its agent at Kiev to make the
declaration that Great Britain will not
Recognize any peace in the east which
Involves Poland. without a previous
consultation with Poland.
1.-THE news that Leon Trotzky. the boil
xhevik foreign minister. sent wire
AesS message to the German Imperial
thancellor, Count Won Hertling, accept
&g the peace terms of the central pow
Ars. has caused great excitement In
'Derlin, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Amsterdam. Chan
~eelior Won Hertling is expected to make
"a statement in the reichstag tomorrow
Clearing on Germanys reply.
Demand on Rumania-
It is asserted that on being asked by
-Rumania that he allow the proper time
.for the formation Of a new Rumanian
acabinet. Field Marshal Won Mackensen,
the German commander in Rumania, re-
piled dictatorially that he expected the
cabinet to be formed within forty-eight
.hours. and that it was to include no
statesmen conspicuously hostile toward
Germany or Austria
An intercepted German wireless mes
.sage. according to Reuters dispatch
.from Petrograd, quotes Prince Leopold
.of Bavaria the Austro-German COM
snander on the eastern front, as saying
sto his troops:
ss"Russia is sick and is trying to con-
with a moral infection. We must fight
sagainst the disorder inocu'ated by
sTrotzky and defend outraged liberty.
sGermany is fortunate in being the in
.carnation Of the sentiments of other
.osder-loving peoples" -
-, Russ Quit Austrian Soil. 3
VIENNA. February 20. via London
,.Russian evacuation of occupied Aus
stfo-Hungarian territory has been COM
spfeted. The following official announce
sment was issued today:
I'm conformity with the peace treaty
with Ukraine the provision regarding
srestoration of the frontiers as they
sexisted before the outbreak of the war
sbetween Austria-Hungary and the Rus
.sian empire has been fully carried out.
.sOur troops have occupied without in
zcfdent the region extending to the orig
.inal Austro-Hungarian frontier"
= AMSTERDAM, February 21-A Buda-
.pest dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung
'sfBerlin) says that the Russians have
-evacuated the last section of Hun
.garian territory which they occupied, in
sthe east corner of Transylvania-
= Germania learns from Ukraine that
sbolshevik guerrillas are setting fire to
the wheat stocks in many sections and
.are also systematically destroying
sgrowing crops by plowing them out
State Department officials said today
that the renewed German offensive in
Russia had not progressed to a point
where the departure of Ambassador
Francis and the allied diplomats from
Petrograd was being considered, and
that so far as official reports showed,