LENIN EXCUSES SURRENDER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 8

LENIN EXCUSES SURRENDER.

TO SAVE BOLSHEVIK REGIME. STILL DREAMS OF UNIVERSAL REVOLUTION. Received Feb. 27, noon. Pctrograd, Feb. 26. Lenin, in an article in the newsjtsper Pravds, expltins that the acceptance of peace is to secure the continuance of the Bolshevik regime. The refusal to sign is onlv possible to those intoxicated by revolutionary phrases. Tlie army is demoralised and refuses to tight. I ehvays tried to persuade the member's of our party to clear their minds of revolutionary cant.- One ■of the greatest present evils in phrase making. Lenin claims that ho warned Russia that refusal of this pence would result in worse peace terms, all the hourgeoise of Russia is jubilant at the approach of the Germans. Wo arc compelled to submit to a distressing peace, but this will not stop revolutions in Germany and Europe.

A CANDID STATEMENT. GERMAN WORLD-WIDE espionage, EVERY GERMAN A SPY OR PROPAGANDIST. Received Feb. 21, noon. Berne, Feb. 26. Adolf Friedmann, a German resilient in Zurich, openly declares that every German in neutral countries, including Switzerland, is required 3jy tli© German Government to work as spy or propagandist. He adds that * all Germans in Switzerland fulfilled that obligation very loyally for the pacification of thq Swiss. Newspapers indignantly reply that "Friedmann bs candid statement shows the formidable scope of espionage and propagandist organisation, inasmuch as there are approximately fortv thousand Germans at large throughout Switzerland. A GERMAN SOCIALIST PUNISHED. Berne, Feb. 26., Advices from Stettin state _ that the secretary of tli© local Socialist "League has been court-martialled and sentenced to five years’ imjirisoumonl on a charge treason during the strike.

RATIONING IN LONDON. A NOVEL SIGHT. London, Feb. 2.5. Rationing day was introduced ■with novel scenes in the restaurants :md hotels. The majority adopted a system of exchanging their ■vouchers for meat coupons and especially fish. There was a great demand for vegetarian dishes. FOOD CONCEALED IN GERMANY. IMMENSE AMOUNT DISCOVERED. Berne, Feb. 2G. Eighty million kroner worth of I'oodstuffs withheld from ratiouists was found concealed in various warehouses in Budapest.