| Show fhe e Hague ta e Feba eb 20 By y 13 United k d The Pressa ess the soc socialists introduced a resolution in an the Austrian parlia fit asking tie government to accept President Wilsons Wilson's peace peace program and to begin negotiations as Fn as possible according to Vienna dispatches received today n H DOSS T To DESIST R I T INVA I N I f H N Press Urges to Battle as Petrograd Prepares for Defense Demobilization tion of Army Stopped l By Joseph J U p t t tT T PETROGRAD 1 b De 20 De Demobilization mobilization o of the be Russian I army my f and hd fleet fleet Jias been The Th Russian troops have been een or ordered ere to to resist the thc th German GermanI ad d to toe e evacuate th their Ir positions positions only when necessary ary destroying property as as they fall back Preparations have haye been made nade for a aj stubborn defense lse o of Petrograd grad Th The entire press the ate le g government nt tc to fight Dy ay International l News Service LONDON DON Feb 20 Confusion Confusion exIsted existed ex ex- isted h here re today over over- the various ie- ie ports that have been cen coming out of 01 Russia for tor the past thirty-six thirty hours The general belief however was that the are now willing to makepeace make makepeace makepeace peace with Germany on any terms Advices from Petrograd to this effect effect effect ef ef- have caused suspicion in some same Circles Cir cir circles cles Iles as to the whole course tho Bolshevik Bolshevik Bol Bol- regime has adopted since NIcholi Lenine and Leon Trotsky cam cams Into control When the Bolshevik government was vas first established there were accusations accusations Lions that the chief leaders were pro- pro German aerman This was strengthened when an to armistice was effected on on the tho eastern eastern east east- ern front and l peace negotiations were begun at Brest Brest- Brest Li When the Bolshevik envoys rejected Germanys Germany's terms erms and announced they would parey parley par par- ley 13 ey no further hope stirred in the en entente entente en- en tente ente nations that Lenine and Trotsky while visionary were not dupes of the tho kaiser raiser Within twenty-four twenty hours after aftel the tho breaking of ot the armistice on the th theaster eastern aster front Germany announced the capture rapture of two Russian fortresses virtually virtually vir vir- without opposition while Petro- Petro rad announced the the- willingness of ot th the government to accept Germanys Germany's Gen Gel many many's nany's s CIVIL IVIL WAR RIFE At the tho th same same time domestic conditions conditions condi condi- ions in are such as to add to the he confusion collusion The area of civil chil war wars warIs waris Is s evidently enlarging and sanguinary battles attics are reported from various districts dis dis- between en Petrograd and the tie Black Dlack sea flea ea In many many- districts absolute an- an reigns with lands bands engaged in inI guerrilla warfare without an any fixed ob object object ob- ob I cot other ether than loot and rapine Germany has recognized tho the independence inde I of at Finland and the tle Finnish I White guard is engaged in warfare against the Bolshevik Germany is in ini Ina Rumania and a i state of war ivar against et pet Rumania and the ar art aret are lit t war Rumania and are arl having effected a treaty of of pt peace ace although and the the- are arc fighting each other The he whole situation presents a picture jf of f chaos and bloodshed that will in oba- oba bly ly require many weeks b before fore a definite nite ito outcome can n be seen seen even even if then hen By International Newt News Service W WASHINGTON ASHI Feb 20 The 20 The terms or t the German peace forced on Lenino Lenine and nd will do more to further furth r the he unified war program of the he allies and ind Inspire them to to an absolute and decisive victory than could nave have any other then development This is 18 the opinion unofficially fX cx- ex expressed pressed In official Washington circles today oday following the announcement that hat the Bolshevik leaders had been forced arced to subscribe to a peace carrying carry carry- ing rig with It annexations and ties les The terms terms' of pea peace e to which the Bolshevik leaders were forced to subscribe subscribe sub sub- scribe eribe included Virtual annexation to Germany of o i Continued on nano t. t lQ 2 3 i I I I I I I j j I i RUSS REARM Continued from page 1 Poland Courland Lithuania and parts of Esthonia and parts of Livonia Retention of the Moon islands carrying car car- with it economic and strategic control of the gulf of Riga and domination domination domi domi- nation of the entire Baltic sea An indemnity of to be paid presumably in foodstuffs and andraw andraw andraw raw materials Germany has shown her hand said one official The terms of ot peace forced upon Russia are indicative of the terms she would like to force upon the allies and which she would were she in a position to do so The state department today was without an any further official knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of the Russian situation than could be gleaned from the maze mazo of conflicting conflicting con con- reports that have filtered over the cables during the past patt sixt sixty hours The reports that Lenine and were in flight to t I Riga and that the tha Bolshevik regime had been overthrown by the central revolutionists aroused interest but in the absence of an any off 1 ci cial l or de definite word of such auth a development development develop develop- i ment meat officials today refused to credit ili them I 1 it is agreed on all ali sides that Berlin had bared Its hand in the term terms of peace forced foreE-d upon Lenine and and in the he course of ot events which led up to them The pressure brought to bear was marked chiefly by the re resumption resumption re- re of the German invasion of ot Russia and the subsequent invasion of the strategic stronghold on the I and of Lutzk the stronghold which had been the scene of many sanguinary battles before the overthrow of the Both cities were occupied without the firing tiring of a gun I |
