NEW RUSSIAN RESOLVE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 5

NEW RUSSIAN RESOLVE.

TO FIGHT TO THE lisi. A DICTATOR APPOINTED. Reuter. New York, Feb. 26. A despatch has been received in Berlin from Petrograd, stating that General Brugevitch has been appointed as Dictator in Russia, and also commander of the armies, which ho orders to light to the last! A wireless German official report states: We occupied Reval after a battle, also Pleskau, southward of Lake Pripus.

GERMANY’S EASTERN AIMS. AN INDEPENDENT ROUTE DESIRED. TO WHERE SHE WOULD BE DANGEROUS. United Service. Received Fob. 27, 0 a.m. London, Feb'.* 20. Germany’s terms are interpreted to mean Unit it desires to make tiie Baltic a German lake, establish a chain of buffer States beweeu Russia and Germany, and secure a footing on the Black Sea across the Ukraine. The last-mentioned would have an important bearing on the Eastern situation, making Germany iudopenden of Turkey and Bulgaria, because it would then have a new line of communication from Berlin via Odessa and Tr.ebizond, bringing Germany deep into Persia and close to India.

A QUEER THING. GERMANS DO NOT DEMAND RUSSIAN FLEET. London, F eb. '26. The Manchester Guardian says that tWo strange thing about Germany’s terms is that there lias been no demand made for tiso Russian Flee t. Presumably the Germans feared the Russians' would destroy it and they hope to get it later.