The Washington herald., 1918-02-20
Indemnity Of $4,000, 600.
600 Among Terms Pre-
seribed by Huns.
'LENINE AND TROTZKY
BITTER OVER RESULT
Reports from Petograd Say
Boshevist Leaders Have
Fled to German Lines.

IN surrender. Lenine and Trotzky
have officially declared that they
are now forced to sign a German
peace, a peace which they de-
nounce in the bitterest terms, be-
cause its conditions include:
!. Virtual annexation to Ger
many of Poland. CourIand. Lithu-
ania and parts of Esthonia and
Livonia. under the guise of "inde-
pendent states"
2. Retention of the Moon Is
lands. which means control-eoo-
nomic and strategic-of the Gulf
Of Riga and practical domination
Of the entire Baltic Sea. (Riga to
remain a German city. as per No.
!, since it is the capital of 1.-Two
MA
3. An indemnity of $4,000. .00O.-
900. to be paid. it is presumed. in
the form of food and raw mate
rials.
Information Conflicts.
Preceding and following a Petro-
above facts there came from the
Russian capital a steady stream of
widely contradictory dispatches,
some OF them were dated as far
back as ten days ago.
Out OF the tumble OF unconhrmed
reports contained in those filed
within the last forty-eight hours
two were Important IL true"
!. The Boishevflxi regime WIS said
| to have been overthrow by the
social revolutionists. Tzernon. who
was chosen president OF the recent
I, short-lived constituent assembly
over his Bolshevist opponent, was
said to have taken the reins OF gov
ernment in hand as premier.
.. Lenine and Trotzky were said
70 be fleeing to Riga. one report
had it: anywhere inside the Ger
/ tlan lines" said another; late this
evening the official announcement OF
hBolshevists' Willingness to sign. un-
Tder pressure, the eKtortionate Ger
: man terms. seemed to stand au-
I thentic, and superceding all other
dispatches.
Pressure EHerteJ.
The pressure > which the Boil
sheyiki were finally sorced 20 yield
was manifold. First and foremost
was the resumption by the Germans
Of the invasion. DViuS6, the Er,as
strategic stronghold OF the OviHs,
I4O miles TO the southeast Of Riga,
! fell to one German army without a
cannon's shot q Few hours after the
campaign had oeen resumed. Dviusk
had detied the invaders ever since
September. 1915.
They crossed the OWNS early TO-
day by a bridge the Russians h1d
planned. but failed to destrov. lit
tie resistance" was offered the offI-
cial bulletin announcement rays.
At the same time another Gernan
army under Gen. Won Linsingvn
practically walked into Lutzk, the
Volhynian fortress taken and re-
taken many times in soms OF the
bloodiest battles OF the Russo-TCu-
ton war.
On both sides OF this stronghold
! they are now marching eRstwsrds, In
| the direction of Kiev, the Ukrania CAP
ital. Two strategical reads at their
disposal TO bring up supplies and ar
tillery.
Kiev lies $40 miles TO the East. That
ancient city is in the throes Of blood
hn I'll h1r Il. h.
time being the upper hand. From
Berlin today was spread throughout
the world a heart rending appeal by
the Ukranians for German aid. an sp-
! peal msnffestiy dictated from VIII
helm Strasse since il gives the de-
| sired pretext for the new invasion.
Many starvInE.
Besides being threatened with a
! land and sea drive on Petrogrsd. the
Bolsheviki were, and are. faced by
terrific pressure from other causes.
The capital itself and the whole OF
Northern Russia is starving and pes
thence threatens.
From the south, large Cossack
forces are reported marching on the
capital Country-wide discomfort with
the Bolsheviki rule grows hourly.
Thousands of peasants inquired aw-
fully why land was given them ~ IL
is to be taken away by the invader.
So Trotzky and Lenine saw no
other course than that which in
gloomy hours they have hinted they
might be forced to take.
''If We were after all forced to
make an imperalistic peace, we will
not tell our people IL is a good peace:
signing II we will tell them Il is
shameful peace and our war on i'm
perialism viii 80 on until the wrong
is righted."
Two political factors aggravated
the Bolshevist position and hastened.
IL they did not actually lead 70, their
surrender. Rumania, IL appears now.
betrayed them. They had counted
upon the Kingdoms sustained de-
hance 20 the Teutons and active aid
against the Rada: in the eleventh
hour. IL seems. the Rumanians yielded
to German intrigue. and a peace con-
ference is about to begin at Focsar'
Jsst n Fhrtaciep.
Then there was Austria. W n her
WHY fiirtafion thai made t.e. Rus
sian radicals believe the Eal mon
archy woslid never ALLOW resunrp-
ton of war; Vienna had la6s fhen
believe an open break IN ae central
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