Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
RUSSINCALL
FOR ARMY TO
DOWN KAISER
Bolsheviki Curse Hun EN-
peror as Troops Near Cap
ital-War is On.
tBy Associated Press.)

II Is rumOred that the GermanS
have reached LHga, midway be-
tween Pskov and Petrograd. This
Is uncOnfirmed as Is a report that
the enemy has advanced to a point
halfway between Lugn and Pskov.
Meanwhile the street fighting In
Pskov goes on, the city changing
hands alternately.
WOrkmen and troops from
Petrograd and troops from Mos.
COW are being sent to check or
stop the advance on Petrograd.
Women and men are busily build.
ing trenches for defensive posi-
lions around Petrograd. The Boil
sheviN government, 1t Is declared,
will retire to Moscow II the Ger.
mans take the capital.
London, Feb. 27.-Luga, half way
between Pskov and Petrograd. has
been occupied by the Germans, accord
ing to an unconfirmed rumor. a Reu-
ter dispatch from Petrograd says.
The Bolsheviki continue extremely
busy enrolling men, gathering and
shipping arms and supplies and In
other defense activities. A dispatch
from Moscow says that 1000 revolu-
tionary troops have been sent from
Moscow toward Bologoie.
Will Defend Revolution.
The Russian revolution will defend
itself against Germany. says an OFF,
cial Russian statement sent out by
wireless and which announces that
Germany has refused to grant an ar
mistice. The announcement reads:
"a peace delegation Is now on the
way to Brest-Litovsk. We expect any
moment news that it has arrived at tho
place appointed for peace negotiations,
but there is no armistice. The Ger
man government has formally refused
an armistice and German detachments
continue to advance.
I'VE are prepared to sign their peace
OF usurpation. We have already de-
clared this but there are many indica-
tons that the German imperialists do
not desire peace at the present mo-
ment but rather an immediate strangl-
ing of the workmen's and peasants
revolution.
Must Stop Hun Advance.
Resistance to the Germans thus be-
comes the principal task of the revo-
lutionists-brave, heroic, obstinate and
pitiless resistance Every position,
every railway station, every locomot-
i've must be defended. Every possible
obstacle must be put in the way of the
enemy.
Our greatest strength Is In our
wide territories. Enemy detachments
still very small, have occupied Reval
and Pskoy. Even Petrograd itself
which is still far distant, can no way
decide the destiny of the revolution
The government of the peoples com.
missaries can If needs be must retreat
must gather its forces and must ap-
peal to the country to use its whole
strength for the defense OF the revolu.
ton. Should the threat to Petrograd
increase the government will remove
to Moscow or any other city d
Russia.
VIII Destroy II Necessary.
III Germany's plundering raid
should advance, the task Of the gov.
eminent would be to destroy the posi-
bility Of simultaneous catastrophe
decision by the Germans. They are at
tempting to crush the authority of thu
councils and are in search Of 1t on thu
routes leading to Petrograd.
I'VE will bar these routes by every
thing we can interpose as obstacles
This at the moment, is the principa
task of the heroic Petrograd proletar
lat and its revolutionary staff. But q
the same time we must act In such