OCR Text |
Show LEADERS OF SLAVS YIELD TO INVASION The Russian Bolshevlkl government govern-ment has capitulated and announced announc-ed its readiness, although protesting-ly, protesting-ly, to sign a peace compact under the hard terms Imposed by Germany, which are said to Include the retention re-tention of Poland, Lithuania, Riga and Moon Island and an indemnity of 84,000,000,000, presumably in gold. , Notwithstanding this abject surrender, sur-render, Teutonic troops are advancing advanc-ing eastward into Russia over a front of 400 miles, from Riga in the north to Lutsk, a scant fifty miles from the east Gallclan border, on tin south. Apparently, thus far the operation op-eration baa met with no opposition. I The northern reaches .of the Ovlna river have been crossed by the ene- my; the Important railroad town or Dylnsk whence roads run northeastward northeast-ward to Petrograd and eastward to Smolenssk, has been captured and Lutsk, one of the famous fortresses of the Volhynlan" triangle and forming form-ing the gateway leading eastward to Kiev, has been entered without the Russians attempting to stay the foe. As yet there are no Indication from German sources concerning thejr full Intentions of the invaders but iV has been assumed that 1 the north the capture of the provinces of Livonia Liv-onia aad Elthonla is contemplated and that In the- south, In Little Russia, Rus-sia, aid is to be lent the Ukrainians , la stemming the tide of the Bolshtv- I 1st movement against them. 1 |