Show u SPEECH UTTERLY INSINCERE AND r Ii GIVES GIVES NO PEACE BASIS WASHINGTON VIEW I SS S ROUSE TO 10 RESISTANCE ANCE REI RETAKE AKE Ii t fROM r avs avs FI Fight b Desperately to Halt Invasion Germans Have Refused Armistice and Ex- Ex lort rt Rc Revolutionaries oli to FIb Fight Until Last Government ilav t ay ay Be Be Ren Removed to Moscow l Americans to Flee J f I Feb 2 20 Germany has formally refused to grant graut an all and German detachments continue to advance sa says s an anal Resistance thus becomes the principal II vial al statement issued to today ay klof f the revolution lc RU Russia's sias sia's great greatest cst strength lies in ill her wide terri terri- fe 1 and the tho ft government go w l 1 0 P T n vf t can and ul din din- 1 enl if JC will retreat B me the threat against iLus V v ogra u will to tow its n II the tho government remove c ow w or another city e Ru u. u Recapture l adon adon Feb 25 5 1 i miles of oC Petrograd has been re- re lured b by the ID Bolshevik and antI street lg c ting Is going on there a according in ta Exchange Telegraph dispatch a Petrograd d dated Monday The red redI redi i a I 1 ar ate resisting r the German ad- ad where Petrograd s d dispatch to to the Ex- Ex te Telegraph company compan dated Mon Mon- Irs That at resistance to the German ade ade ad- ad e Is growing Is s shown b by the re re- re ts is of d fighting which continues in n vicinity of This town has hands several eral tines times The rhe Ger- Ger detachments which first entered cov or 0 were very err small but they have te to e been reinforced There here is a R. general belief belle that the mans are ire moving forward ha hastily Pause fause Tau e supplies of ammunition worth rubles are concentrated In Ine Ini e i neighborhood of or The Ilus- Ilus ns it ni bp eHr are taking measures to tord rd the railway an and tire sending I e Soviet troops troops troops' to I There ere h has been a disagreement lea In I council of workmen's an and soldiers soldiers' le tu regarding the evacuation of and that the retirement of ot n the Bolshevist foreign y t t ter r is Imminent I rt i i ter advices ad say pay that the Soviet Its lu are arc now everywhere resisting Invaders n At Nava Xava the garrison workmen have formed an army of ot WO and gone to Roval Roveal There arc are I r reports from Walk Great ac- ac tr IT Is manifested at the quarters In lit Petrograd and arms ammunition ar are aro being Ing distributed k e e Bolshevist headquarters have e haven n tran transferred from rum the ln Into in ln- ln ute uio to in tn Petrograd to mill a military tan camp fains to an Exchange Telegraph ch from Petro Petrograd rad dated Monday Ion a his camp the dispatch reports the theof kmen of the elt city are a assembling en red banners and fight fight- d d are being formed ormed cona con- con a j Xo o re It d n a Official l n 1 Russian statement sent c wireless yesterday announced no reply had hall been received from fromy any an y to tho the Russian aCCepting SR s the tho German penco con- con n. n r The announcement which was td b by Premier 11 I and md Foreign inter again inquired when ply ph K would 1 lH be given and hostilities II e announcement eat was a addressed Jill and to o Berlin Borlin III D lc Sofia Sola It said sald that the tho Ut eat authoritative e I decided bod body In ln to accept lh the tho new ew peace Ideas o of the G mans mans- anti and that decision had been transmitted to German K government while Ensign insign lenko the f 6 a Bolshevist commander in n had with the Gern Gerthe Ger- Ger headquarters rB Sunda Sunday the belief bellet of oC that tha tics would end It II a in an n armistice would auy authe au- au y ensue upon the same Harne basis th that t no reply hall Irad been ro- ro or elther from the tho German gov- gov O headquarters I the and that m mean man an anI Germans It were still asks fora or reply A a s skis alls F hi Fight 1st Ger Germans but Fail to Check March arch rUn Peb cb 26 G 6 via vla London General s fo have reef op operating In Jn Vol- Vol Vold a captured d the lne town lown of oC K Kolan Kol- Kol of after atter i ral hl a battle batlle lh the German Germane staff an e announced today tolla statement nt follows group or of General l von Rich Y Yesterday morning ng four Crol Crossing Moon days s 's sound the had troops trooP batched on ne Royal neal al with ca 3 cy- cy ers at their machIne guns and sharp sharp- head under command General von on took the thc fortress after a a g s tw riu I hun out In L G 6 SPEECH I HELD PRETENSE a Continued from Page 1 1 In a a. few tew da days 8 through a nice ance ante with his terms term to homo home rule rulf French Comment nt Scornful French comment on the Von Henling Hertling Hen Hen- ling speech its lIS scornful Officials her toda today were much Interested in the editorial editorial edi edi- comment of or the time Paris newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers on the speech ch This was received 10 re- Inte late thin afternoon Th The Echo del de do l Palls Pails alls says saya a He lie accepts the general propositions in terms terns that take a away all the thc value alu cf cC this so called acceptance It must he be remembered 1 that the German gov government JO gov- made mado the tho same answer December December December De De- cember 2 25 on the general proposals to the tho Russians concerning the rights of or nations and that It hastened to annihilate annl- annl them It Is la the same again All AU the chancellor proposes Is a re restricted re- re cr conversation allon on the question of ur Belgium nellum for 01 example And in this conference he would demand of ot Belgium Bellum Bel- Bel gium lum Ium guarantees of or her hel neutrality neutrality- the Invader In deman demanding lnE that the th In Invaded Invaded invaded In- In should never ne I repeat peat his act O Overstep Goal Gool 1 Echo Ia 0 The Tho chanc chancellor llor nays bays the Echo de dc deParIs deParis ParIs in explaining German conquests ts tsIn In n the east cast despite the trine doctrine of tit no says as that the thc mill military tan goal has been heen overstepped o But will the conquered provinces pro be returned the paper a asks aska lc and anSWers with an emphatic No No Xo NoHe He lIe admits no Alsace question question ques- ques tion lon sa says 8 the tho paper no question of oC talla Halla Will Ill this speech be followed h by a Jenc al of the peace offensive of- of e In place of or the much adver- adver drive on the western front or willIt will It t be followed by bj another r Verdun as ab were vere wel- wel welthe the time peace proposals of a year car carago ago ago Hertling speaks peak of peace in terms of f moderation says SL'S the time Petit Journal but with an nn h hypocrisy In lu great reat contrast con- con with the tho facts Expect t to pI It was the general prediction that President Pre resident Wilson cannot afford to drop his ils long distance conversations con with the he It is h believed lIe etl he will make nake a statement to show s efforts to lo shift tho time burden hurden for continuIng lug Ing ng the war on the shoulders of tho the United States anI and the lire allies It Is not forgotten that thai the President alone alon o of all 1111 11 the statesmen arrayed against German Germany Ger- Ger man many has had a kind word to sa say for tOl Russia It I is predicted In ht man many quarters quarters ers that tho the Presidents President's next speech will point out how mow impossible It is forthe for tOl the he United States Stales to ahan abandon on the battle hattle with the fairest of or Russian provinces pro In n the grip of ruthless autocracy and with vilh no admission b by that autocracy I that an any wrong has been done lone either In ill n Russia or 01 in Belgium I |