The Petrograd LAnarchists have _prostrated themselves at the feet of
the German Emperor, after vowing that they would never do so, and have declared their readiness to, wept a German peace -with annexations and with indemnities. K Trotsky had broken off the negotiations at Beast-Litovsk on February 10th, -declaring that Russia would cease from war but would not make peace. Germany announced that she would interpret this as giving notice to end the armistice on February 18th. -At moon on Monday the German armies began to advance on a wide front from Riga south' ward to Kovel, whence they were "called by the 'amine to help in their heavy struggle against the Great Russians." They occupied Dvinsk with little resistance and Luck without fighting, and continued their march eastward. M. Trotsky, after a futile protest by wireless, announced to the world on Monday evening that the Anarchist Council was "forced formally to declare its willingness to sign a peace" upon the conditions dictated by the enemy— conditions which include the cession of Poland, Lithuania, and C,ourland and a war indemnity of £300,000,000. His Commander- in-Chief ordered his troops to organize "massed pourparlers" with the German troops, and to propose that they should refrain from fighting, but to offer "every possible resistance" if they refused.
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