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Show ID IS TIE! If EEfiiii TROOPS Forty-five Teuton Warships War-ships in the Gulf of ; Finland and Soldiers Landed at Reval; Russian Rus-sian Acceptance of Peace Terms Passes Through Lines. IMMENSE STORES FALL TO VICTORS Berlin War Office Announces An-nounces the Capture of 1353 Guns and Between Be-tween 4000 and. 5000 Motor Cars; Also a General and Nearly 10,000 Men. AMSTEF.DAM, Feb? 21. A Berlin Ber-lin dispatch states that the Russian Rus-sian written confirmation of the acceptance ac-ceptance of peace terms has passed the German lines. This disposes of rumors here of the fall of the Lenine-Trotcky government. LONDON. Feb. -JL Forty-five German Ger-man war-hipi Tre approaching Eeval, on Wednesday, according to a message received by the Expr6 from its Pct-rograd Pct-rograd cerrer:ondent. Troops have been landed at EevaJ and tho Daily News's Bolshevik correspondent cor-respondent teleoTaphs that Leon Trot-zky, Trot-zky, Bolshevik foreign minister, probably prob-ably vrill resign. When the Russian delegates to the Brest-Litovsk pac-e conference refused to agTee to the conditions laid down by the German delegates, G-enera! Hoffmann, Hoff-mann, head of the German delegation, is reported to have said: ii Within a week after the ending of the armistice, we will occupy Reval." The .lOregoing dispatch would indicate indi-cate that the investment of Reval has actually begun. On February IS the German army resumed re-sumed operations on the Russian front. RUSSIAN TOWN OF ROVNO IN HANDS OF THE TEUTONS I I BERLIN". Feb. 21, via London. Tha Russian town of Kovno has been cleared of the RusiaiiS. the war office reports;. Trains villi about 10? .ars, many laden with food, have been CHpfred, as well as airr-lanes and an incalculable amount of war material. Rovno is the most easterly of .the tri-ar.gle tri-ar.gle of Russian fortresses in Volhynia. Lutsk, the western citadel in the triangle, capitulated to the Germans without fighting:.. The third fortress in Volhynia, Vol-hynia, Dubno, lies about midway between be-tween Rovno and the town of Brocy on the Galician frontier. GERMANS CAPTURE HUNDREDS OF GUNS FROM BOLSHEVIKI BERLIN. Feb. CI, via ' London. Tbo war office announces that lS-D iruns and between 4000 a ntl i0v0 motor cars have been capture.! from the Russians thus far in the new campaign. The Germans have made prisoner a general, commanding command-ing an army. -1-5 officers ar.'l S7i 0 men. Ue twee ii L ir.sk and Fins: the Germans Ger-mans are pressing eastward. General von Linsir gen's movement continues. Imiortant railway and highway junctions have been occupied. The Germans have passed through Weudcn, fifty-five miits no; iheast of Rica, .arc now before Wohr.ar, seventy miles nor; he?. it of Rh-a. German lOj-htu -jus ir.-ni Moon island crossed IV !o n so;; -.id and ir ar-'hed into Est hoi ii a. o'cu;iyii. Leal. Ot her forces, advancing ;:Vr.g ihe shnre of ihe Gull of Riga, i cached F.-rniga: and moil. GERMANY SENDS TROOPS TO HELP THE FIN LANDERS HAPARAXDA. Swe'.en. Feb. Four steamships have arrived at Yasa. in the Gulf of Bothnia, from Gt-rn ,t:iy. carrying carry-ing Finnish soldiers who had served in the German army and a number of German Ger-man volunteers. The vessel also carried (Continued on Page Two.) 9 Mis Si er THE BEBMffl TROOPS (Continued from Page One.) a larqe number, of guns, machine guns, ' ; rifle?, and munitions. It. iy reporttrd a t-tmnp offnsive will he' I rakt-n by t!ie.ce troops against Tammers-lui Tammers-lui s and Viborjj. Va wa, also called Nikola Utud, Is the ' capital of the province of Vaa in west- ! ei n Finland. The province lias an area I of HI. 084 square miles and a population i of about 4'o,000. Vasa, the town, is 'Vll I ruilea hy rail northwest of Hel&ingfors a i id h;; s stea rr.er corrimurjica tion wit ii ! Hernosand, rtwe1en. The town has aj population of about 11,000. |