Show lE LEADERS OF F Sl SLAVS VS YIELD T TO INV INVASION SIN Levine Lenine and Agree to Surrender Territory and Give Ghe Four Billion Dollars Dollars' Say 1 Resistance Impossible T IN INVADERS T ADERS CONTINUE FORWARD MOVEMENT l Overthrow of Bolshevik li B By Social Social-Dem Social Democrats Rumored Battles Civil Civi and Against Foreign Foes Rage Rag in Land Fr TilE Russian Bolshevik govern govern- government ment has lias capitulated an anti and announce announced announced an an- its readiness although pro- pro to sign a a. peace compact under Linder the hard lIard terms imposed by Germany which are said to include e ethe the retention of Pol Poland n Lithuania Higa Kiga and Moon island islan and ancl an indemnity indemnity indemnity of pre presumably in ill u gold gohl old Notwithstanding this abject surrender tier der Teutonic troops troops are are- advancing eastward Into RU Russia over o a a. front of oc tOO miles from Riga In the north to Lutsk a scant fifty miles mUes from the east border or cr on the south Apparently thus far tar the time operation has met net with no opposition Tho The nor northern reaches of the 1 river have been crossed b by the enemy the Important railroad town of ot D whence roads run tun northeastward to Petrograd d and und eastward to sk has been captured cap cap- captured turell and Lutsk ono one of ot tho the famous fortresses of ot tho the trl triangle an and forming the gateway leading east east- eastward ward to Kiev Kie has been entered without without without with with- out tho mho Russians attempting attempting- to stay tho the foe toe As yet et there arc are no Indications from German sources concerning tho the full tuB Intent in intentions In- In tent long of ot the thc Invaders n but It hrs has be been n assumed that in n tho thin north the capture of oC the thc provinces pro of oC Livonia and EH- EH I H- H thonia Is contemplated and that th Ii In n the the south In Little Russia aid nid is to be lent tho the Ukrainians In stemming th the tide of or ortho tho ho Bolshevist movement against them Russia's Surrender to I Germany Utterly Abject London Fc Feb 1 19 Russia Russia Is now forced to sl sign n peace upon the condl- condl proposed b by Germany German says an of official I cia 1 Russian statement received here today The statement was signed by Premier Lenine and Leon y the thc foreign minister It protests against tho ho German Germ re re- re of ot the war and says sas the tho council of ot peoples people's commissaries Is Isnow Isnow now forced to declare Its readiness to sign a peace as dictated b by bythe the lie dele dole delegations of or the thc quadruple alliance nt at Great lIle It promises to give a n detailed reply without dela delay to the Gorman German pence negotiations Tho The statement state state- ment was transmitted through the thc wireless whole s telegraphy stations of the thc Russian government to the thc government so of oC the thc German empire at Berlin Text of lit Statement The Thc text reads Tho council of oC p peoples people's commissaries commis commis- saries sarles protests protest tho the fact that tho the German Jermin government Jias has directed UK UN troops against tho the Russian councils council's coon coun ells cil's republic which has declared the time war at an nut end and which Is demobilizing ing Ins Its army on all fronts The workmen's s and peasants peasants' government government gov gov- of oC Russia could not anticipate neither directly such u n step because nor nur Indirectly has an any ono one of or the paries par par- parties tJ ties ies s which concluded the armistice given given en n t tin the seven days days' notice required In accordance ance with the thc treat treaty of or December Decem- Decem terminating It ber r 1 13 1 for tor The Tho council of peoples people's commissaries In n the present circumstance regards Itself It Itself It- It self elf as forced formally to tu declares Its willingness to sign a i peace upon the thc th conditions which had been dictated by LO Continued on Page 2 3 StAYS SLAVS AGREE AREE AREEf TY TREATY f Continued from Page 1 1 the delegations of or tho the quadruple alliance alit alli ance n e at Brest sk The e council of ot peoples people's commissaries further declares that a detailed reply will be given without delay to the conditions conditions con con- of peace as proposed b by the German government gO For the CO Council l of or Peoples People's Com Com- Commissaries missa rles LENINE LE I E m Orders in jo Parley The T-ime Russian government gO according to another official statement received e here has addressed the following message message mes mes- sage sago to headquarters and all nil the tine fronts The rhe council of Peoples People's Commissaries Commissaries ries has offered to the time Germans to sign I peace Immediately I order that In all cases where Germans are encountered massed that 1 pour ur with sith the Gc Gorman Guman Gor Gu- r- r man I soldiers should be or organized and the time proposal to to refrain from fighting made to them If It the thc Germans refuse then n OU must offer to them you er e every possible pos pos- sible sibie resistance I RYLE KO Rumors are current In Stockholm according ac- ac cording cording- to a dispatch from Copenhagen gen en to the tho Exchange Telegraph company com corn pany panr th that t the time Germans Intend to In Intervene In- In ter ene at once In Finland The belief be be- lief prevails alls at the Swedish capital that the German action will be be- directed against the unoccupied districts of or Courland and In conjunction with a a. great naval attack In tho the Finnish Finnish Fin Fin- nish gulf suIL |