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Show RUSSIANS ACCEPT GE1A1TS TERMS LENINE AND TROTZKY YIELD TO HUN DEMANDS AND ABJECTLY AB-JECTLY SURRENDER. The Bolsheviki Government Has Announced An-nounced Its Readiness to Accept Hun Proposals, Parleys to Begin at Once. Lpndon. The Bolsheviki government, govern-ment, represented by Nikolai Lenine and Leon Trotzky, has acceded to the demands of Germany and announced its readiness to accept the hard peace terms which Germany has laid clown. Thus, apparently without further hesitation, the Russians are prepared, in an effort o stop the Inroads the I Germans now are making into their I country, to add to the enemy's already vast holdings more of Russia's most valuable western territory, extending from the gulf of Finland southward to the Black sea, and even to withdraw her troops from Finland and give back to the Turks what has been taken from them in battles. The surrender seems abject. Russia is immediately to send a delegation to Brest-Litovsk, there to discuss with German representatives the final details de-tails of the peace and sign the compact. com-pact. At last accounts the German armies in the east were giving no heed to talk of peace, but, on the contrary, were methodically pushing forward their line over the more than 500-mile front from the gulf of Finland region to Volhynia, and still nowhere meeting meet-ing with any systematic attempts to hinder their progress. Numerous additional towns have been captured and several thousand more Russians made prisoners. In addition, nearly 3000 German and Austrian Aus-trian prisoners of war have been liberated lib-erated by the invaders. |