The Ukraine Rada made peace with the enemy at Brest-Litovsk
last Saturday. The same day the Petrograd Anarchists announced that their troops had occupied Kieff, and that " nothing remained of the Rada but a sad memory." The enemy had, according to this report, made a peace with delegates who, at the moment of signing the treaty, represented " a non-existent authority." Nevertheless, the moral effect of the Peace Treaty, whether valid or invalid, was so great that last Sunday M. Trotsky announced at Brest- Litovsk that Russia would fight no longer, and would demobilize her armies without signing a peace. In a wireless message -issued that day he bad the audacity to impute the blame for his miserable surrender to " the silent co-operation of the English and French 'boiergeoiaie" with the German capitalists, bankers, and landlords. That, of course, is the very reverse of the truth. The Allies would have supported any Russian Government which would fight, but the Anarchists destroyed the Army, and made an armistice without consulting us. They ase now reaping the fruits of their folly.
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