The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-03-07
RUSSIA SUBMITS
To HUN DEMANDS
BUT THE PEOPLE PREPARE TO
REPuDlATE THE TERMS
WILL TEAR uP7lTHE TREATY
Conference of all Democratic Forces
Called to Moscow on March f2
at Which Time Holy War
May Be Declared.
(By Joseph H. Shaplen)

May BE Declared.
(By Joseph H. Shaplen)
Petrograd, March a. The peace
treaty with Germany which was sign
ed at Brest Litovsk Sunday afternoon
at FIVE p. m. is regarded by Russians
here only as a mere scrap OF paper.
The highest enthusiasm for fighting
is prevalent in Petrogr&d
The Petrograd Pan.Soviet executive
, council has called an extraordinary
session fthe soldiers, peasants and
Cossacks for Moscow, March 12, to
decide whether to accept peace or to
reject it.
/ Will Tear Up the Treaty.
! AS result of the recent German
advance this conference may decide
to tear up the treaty and, demand and
declare a wholly war"
The movement to rcunite all the
democratic parties for the purpose of
! fighting to the last is growing.
All Petrograd was somewhat dazed
Sunday evening at the Russian peace
delegates at Brest Litovsk signing the
German dictated peace. y
The city was like man armed
ready to strike, suspended in air, still
anxious but yet uncertain.
War To Continue, Says Russia.
"Eyen with peace signed at Brest-
Litovsk, the war will continue" the
agricultural commissioner told the
United Press today
"Thc sporatic revolutionary war al
ready begun throughout the whole of
Russia will not end" he told me today
"The country is unable to declare war
against the Germans, but partisan
life and death struggle against the
German Junkers and the White
Guards will continue. 1t will be q
civil and classic war similar to the
one in Finland.
German Soldiers May Fail.
81 am confident that the German ar
mics on the whole will not participate,
Only the German counter revolutions
lists and the White Guard win do the
fighting. We can handle them.
"Tho provinces occupied By the Ger
mans are breadless. The Germans
must feed the people in the occupied
territory just as they have to feed
their own armies. If the Germans
enter and occupy Petrograd, they
must feed three million inhabitants.
They will need bread and will not get
it."
Terms Signed On Gund2~
Basle, Switzerland. March 4-Peace
between Germany and Russia was
signed at s p. m. Sunday according to
official statements from Berlin, which
were rec led here today. In a dis
patch sent by the Russian delegates
at Brest Litovsk to Petrograd, they cX-
plain their action on the grounds that
they feared further argument would
make Germanys demands more oner-
Gus. The message which was address
ed to Premier Lenine and Foreign
, AhihAoINi 1i'Nohy, ioilO"p'
Deliberations Useless.
"As we anticipated, deliberations on
treaty of peace are absolutely use
less an dcould only make things
worse in comparison with the ultima
tum of Feb. 21. They might even as
sumo the character of leading to the
presentation of another untimatum.
"In view of this fact and in con
sequence of the Germans refusal to
cease military action unless peace is
signed, we have signed the treaty
without discussing it's contents.
"The most serious feature of the
new, compared with those of Feb. o1
is the following:
Take More Land.
"To detach the regions of Karaband
Kars and Batoum from Russian terri
tory on the pretext of the right of
peoples to self determination"
The new territorial claims upon
Russia are advanced in the interest of
Turkey, Batoum, "a strongly fortified
seaport on the Black Sea coast, in
lTrans-Caucasia, about twenty miles
north of the border of Turkish Armen-
ia, was one of the cities ceded by Tur-
key to Russia after the Russo-Turkish
war of 1877-78. Kars, also in Trans
0aucasia, ten miles northeast of Erze-
rum in Turkish Armenia has been in
dispute between Turkey and the Rus
slams for nearly, a century and finally
was ceded to Russia al, the same time
as was Ratoum. The other reguion
mentioned is that of Kal abafh, Trans
Caucasia, lying to the east of the
Kars region and north Of the Persian
border.