GERMAN ARMIES IN THE EAST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11474, 1 March 1918, Page 5

GERMAN ARMIES IN THE EAST.

CHINA ALARMED. PARTICIPATION-IN THE WAR IMMINENT. CAust and N.Z. Cable Association.) Tientsin, Feb. 27. Important Government conferences are going on at Pekin for the speeding up of China’s participation in the war in view of Germany’s Eastern aims. Special mandates are momentarily expected.

DIVIDED COUNCILS. TROTSKY’S MISCALCULATIONS. London, Feb. 37. Mr Ransome, telegraphing from Petrograd, says that the suddeness of the German advance has upset the Russian calculations. Lenin always favoured peace being signed at Brest Litovsk, but Trotsky was convinced that the western revolution was much nearer. When he found he was wrong it was too late to stop.the Germans, and there was no time to call a meeting of the Central Excutive.

When the news of the capitulation was published therb was a storm of indignation. The extremists attacked the Soviets for stopping the war and others' for failing to conclude a peace.. Generally speaking, the soldiers are against the war and the workers in favour of fighting. Trotsky had some ground for his belief that the Germans could not advance, as it was reported that a German regiment had shot 43 officers when ordered to advance. Radek is the leader of the war party, which is composed of the extremists, who joyfully contemplate a guerilla war against the Germans. Many violent party meetings were held, the Leninists arguing that the Russian revolution must be preserved until the bourgeois power in Europe bleeds to death.

The Germans are now driving the Russian armies like stampeding cattle. When the armies disperse, the Soviets will he forced to light the Germans as the latter’s terms are as no country can live under.

IMPORTANT CAPTURE BY GERMANS, CIVIL WAR STILL PRO CEE DING. Petrograd, Feb. 27. It is reported that the . Gormans nave captured Duo, an important railway centre functioning direct with the' Petrogracly Riga and Tuziu lines. V Civil war is going on sporadically. Soviet forces routed Cossacks at Kostoff and arrested the leader, Nasaroff. . >