GERMAN PEACE TERMS ACCEPTED
LENIN AND TROTSKY'S SUBMISSION. ARMY A CROWD OF COWARDS. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) London, Feb. 24.. A wireless Russian official message says: Lenin and Trotsky have sent a message to Berlin conveying Rus sias acceptance of the Gorman peace conditions. |S They are sending a delegation to Brest Litovslc. Lenin, in urging the acceptance of the German terms, stated that die retreating and demoralised army refused to < tight. He declined, he said, to remain in a Government which was relying on mere phrases. The Commissaries have suppressed die anti-Soviet papers and ordered their managers to continue to pay the wagesjof the staffs. Wild panic has seized the seventh and elevendi armies, which are retreating in disorder. Trotsky, in an interview, declared; “We have no army, it has been in a state of rebellion for three months. Crowds continued to live’in the trendies, but waited the hrst chanco to escape.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11472, 26 February 1918, Page 5
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154GERMAN PEACE TERMS ACCEPTED Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11472, 26 February 1918, Page 5
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