RUSSIA.
TROTSKY'S POWER CRUMBLING. GERMANY REPUDIATES PEACE TREATY. CIVIL WAR'S PROGRESS. GOING AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS. Admiralty per Wireless Press. v ■ « • LONDOX > February 17. Russian official: M. Trotsky has asked concernir n ti?° Vernment *>' "formation concerning the message from Gpi-mnl* Hoffmann and wLich they Itete that war will be resumed at midday on Monday M. Trotsky chim% that there mould be seven days' notid before the resumption of hostilities. Tv, .r* ,- February 17 x The Berliner Tageblatt' and the'Hf.'ft with the German General Staff, state that it is Germany's bounden duty to protect the unfortunate nhabitants of fLE Lithuania, Esthon.a, and Northern Lfvonh against Bolshev.k excesses; also th,™ Centra Powers will not renew the armis" tice with Russia. b The ' Neus Tageblatt's' Berlin correspondent asserts that Germany will minate the occupation of Coin-land, Livo-ni-. Lsthoma, and Finland; that the S may prpeW the annexation of these rich -ferntories. He also states that the General .Staff are planning the occupation of Keval and Petrograd.
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Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 3
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