PROSPECT OF MILITARY ACTION
TROTSKY EXPECTS GERMAN
SOLDIERS.
(AUSTRAItAN-NEVT ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 15th February.
It is reported that at a German military, and political conference it was decided that in view of M.. Trotsky's evasion, Germany was quite "free, to renew the war against Russia. The first operation will probably, be in support of the Ukraine. One well-informed authority states that M. Trotsky returned to Petrograd and told the- people that he had cleveriy avoided the German conditions, but that the German troops would follow him. .
AMSTERDAM,. 15tfr February. All reports from .Germany suggest that the Government is seeking an excuse and . an opportunity to' renew the attack on northern.Russia, in order to ensure peace in the Ukraine, which will secure supplies, of wheat. Inspired messages to this effect have been published in. the German newspapers. (REUTERS TELEGRAM.) LONDON, 16th February. There are indications that Germany is preparing a move against the Bolsheviks. . All the- German Commissioners have left Petrograd.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 42, 18 February 1918, Page 7
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