RUSSIA
GERMANS RESUME HOSTILITIES. UNOPPOSED ADVANCE BEGUN IN DIRECTION OF PETROGRAD, AMSTERDAM, February 18. A Berlin official message states that the Petrograd Government's conduct has in effect terminated the armistice, and therefore the German Government claim that their hands are free in every Tespect. Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, February 19. _ German official: Hostilities on the Russian front began at noon yesterday. We crossed the Dvina towards Dvinsk without a fight. We also commenced an advance from Kovel (Volhynia) in response to the Ukraine's appeal. Eeuter's Telegrams. LONDON, February 18. Germany is attacking Livonia and Esthonia (two Baltic provinces whose independence was recognised by the Bolsheviks).
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Evening Star, Issue 16663, 20 February 1918, Page 3
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