RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

DRIVEN LIKE CATTLE. SWIFTNESS 01'' HERMAN ADVANCE. INTENSE FOLLY OF EXTREMISTS. London, Feb. 27. Mr. Rniwoini", from Petrograd, savs thai, (lie suddenness of ttn> ( ;<m innii advance lias upset (tic Russian ciilculations. I.enin always favored a peace signed at firesi l.itovsk, luit Trotsky was convinced thai a western revolution wao !imeii nearer, and v.lien lie found lie was wrong il was too late to stop t.lie Hermans ami I here was no time to eali a meeting of the central executive. When 1 lie news of the capitulation was published (here was a storm of indignation, anil the l'xl reniists attacked (lie Soviets lor slopping I lie war, ami others attacked them for failing to conclude peace. Generally the soldiers are against the war and the workers favor fighting. Trotsky had some ground for his belies that the Germans could not advance, a.4 it was reported that ,i Ocrman regiment shot 42 officers when ordered lo advance AT. Radek in leader of the war party, which is composed of ex I ;;emists, who iovfully contemplate guerilla wav against the Oermans.. Many violent party meetings have been held. The Leninists are arguing that the Russian revolution must, he pieservp'd until the bourgeois power in Europe bleeds to death. The Oerman.s are now driving the Russian armies like stampedim.' cattle. When the armies are dispersed the Soviets will be forced to fight ficrmany, an the latter's terms are such as no country can five under.

WILD TALK OF RESISTANCE. THE GERMANS MUST DISPERSE. London. Feb. 27. Wireless Russian official: The German Government liar! formally refused an armistice because iliey desire not peace hut to strangle the revolution. Obstinate and pitiless resistance to the Germ in hordes is tjinis the task of 11m revolution. Our greatest strength is our wide terrilories. The occupation of Ueviii, Pskov, and even Pet rograd. which is still .distant, will in no wise decide the destiny of the revolution. Should the threat to Pet rogriul in - erea.se, the Soviet Government will retire to Moscow or elsewhere in Russia, hut the chief present task is to bar the roads to Pet''ograd hv everv obstacle. We will prove to the Ormans Ilia! they must disperse throughout Russia before tVy tan crush the authority of the Soviets. I'hey have never had the forces necessary and the more deeply they penetrate the more surely will they bring on a revoiutio.i in Germany. FIGHTING IN BESSARABIA. BETWEEN BOLSHEVIKS AND ROUMANIANS. Received Feb. 28. 5.5 p.m. Berne. Feb. 27. The Frankfurter Zeitung's Vienna correspondent reports continuous lighting between the Bolsheviks and Roumanian troops in Bessarabia, in many parts of which the Bolsheviks are conducting guerilla warfare against the. Roumanians. There is severe fighting iround Kishineff. IMPORTANT JUNCTION CAPTURED. SOVIETS ROUT COSSACKS. Times Service. Received Feb. 28, 5.5 pm. Petrograd, Feb. 2i*. It is reported that the Germans have capture 1 T)no, an important l lilwny centre, jußclioiiinjr direct with the Petrograd, Riga. Tazau lines. Civil war is going on sporadically. The Soviet forces routed the Cossacks at Rostofl' and arrested tlie leader, General .Vasarotl'. 1 i GERMANS WILL NOT HALT. UNTIL rEACK TEIIMS ARE CARRIED OUT. United Service. Received March 1, 1.50 a,.m. London, Feb. 2S, Russia has been notiiicd that the German advance will continue until peace terms are signed >id carried out. FURTHER GERMAN CAPTURES. Received Feb. 28, 10.-10 p.m. London, Feb. 27. Wireless German official: We captured two Russian regiments northward of Doij.at, and dispersed a battalion opposing us thirty kilometres eastward of Jitomir. We reached Be-ditched', southward of .litomir, and captured at Kremenetz a Russian commander's stall'. A CAPTURE BY REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS. Received Feb. 2S, 10.-10 p.m. i London. Feb. 27. Wireless Russian oliieinl: Revolutionary troops have captured Novoteherask. The Cadet oflieial's lied. i TROTSK Y'S 1 i J-ITI RE MICN T. -Petrograd, Feb. 27. Only two cavalry squadrons and six armored ears entered Pskov. The defenders took panic and tied. The Lets recovered soonest and. offered resist.-im.--when they learned- that, the enemv tfas so ! few. There WHs '-Ollic street lightin;: till ' the German reinforcements arrived and the invaders soon pushed beyond thetown. The People's Commissaries in Petrograd are torn by dissensions. It is. understood Trotsky has retired.