Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 5 | Invading Germans Menace Capital

i INV INVADING T i 1 GERMANS f MAN MENACE CAPITAL Al Urge Defense o of f City but hut People Regard lest Conquest e 1 oil v Y nest With Yit i Relief 4 I Gere Ger Ger- r man Pel Demands s Increased UNOPPOSED IY ENEl T CONTINUES ADVANCE Kaisers Kaiser's Forces Enter Walk and Dubno While hiIe United Austrian Ukraine kraine Army Draws Nearer to Kiev p PETROGRAD Frida Friday Feb 22 1 The Tho allied allie embassies will leave Petrograd if it is seen that the German German Ger Ger- man advance undoubtedly threatens the city cily They are ready however to aid Russia to fi fight ht the thc Germans The Tho embassies art ar unanimous in a decision de de- not to break relations in any e cn event 1 If Petrograd is actually endangered the thc embassy staffs probably will proceed pro pro- cee inland with ith the Bolshevist government gov gov- wherever it may move The Tho Bolshevist headquarters has hu re received received re- re a n. wireless messa message e signed by General Hoffman saying sl that the German German Gorman Ger- Ger man answer had been handed to the tine courier of or the Russian government who Immediately started on his return to Petrograd The Tile message gave save no intimation inti mation matlon of or tho the contents of or the tho reply Au Austria Seeks Conclusion A second wireless message addressed to Leon from the Hun Austro-Hun- farlan garlan government fo has bas been received e announcing that Hungary Austria Is read ready with her allies to bring the tho ne negotiations to a final pico D pico D sion U Germany German s 's l' l Icaco ca Terms Term The peace terms submitted at nt the Brest rest conference by the central central cen cen- powers were as follows Russia Russin should surrender square miles of ot territory having a population populations of ot and pay pa an In Indemnity Indemnity In- In subsequently subsequent modified to rubles Tine Thc central powers were prepared to return to Russia 1000 square miles Inthe In Inthe the tho government province of ot Lithuania Russia should agree aree not to spread revolutionary re propaganda In the tho central cen- cen jt empires mp les The commercial treat treaty which was abrogated at the beginning of or the war wal should be e reconstituted and extended thirty years to Reports r reiching Petrograd arc are the tho effect that the newest German Gorman demands demands de de- mands Include the thc policing of ot all the principal cities of ot Russia 0 the tho A dispatch from Petrograd under date dale of t lc February ru r 13 li quoted Leon Trot Trot- k the tho Bolshevik ik foreign minister as ns declaring in his ills report upon tho ending of oC tine the Brest Brest negotiations that the he German terms included the tho reten- reten retention tion lon of ot Poland Lithuania Riga and Moon loon Island Island with an nn indemnity of or presumably in gold goM It will bo lie seen from tho the foregoing dle- dle Continued on Page Pago 2 J ALLY DIPLOMATS I READY TO FEE FLEE Continued From Page Pago Palo 1 1 patch that the T Teutonic demands both hoth In territory and Indemnity wore much lc less lees s than those reported b by M. M 11 Weaken Tho The Bolshevist ln authorities are arc r ready ad to accept tho tiu peace terms originally outlined h by 13 the central powers and also Mso alsoto to accede to a n demand that Hu Russia the small portions of or AustrIan Austrian Aus Aus- trian territory still held hell as well as Armenian and alt all other al territory captured cap cap- from Turkey Turey The Tho Germans In their thel Invasion of Russia ar are advancing al In three groups according to a report from froni Ium the corn com ln mander of ot tho the Russian ann army on the northern front who says sas Tho Germans Germann are arc advancing with I great cauton caution The They are arc marching in In II I three groups First In the thc Walk alk re region rc- rc gion Klon second In the region and tho the third between these two sec see tons In tho the sector all al Is I quiet