Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1918 — Germany Considers Herself Still At War With Russia [ARTICLE]

Germany Considers Herself Still At War With Russia

Amsterdam, Feb. 15. —That Germany and Austria were still at war with Russia was the belief expressed by Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, the German foreign secretary, at the concluding session of - the recent peace conference at Brest-Litovsk after Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, had made his final statement that Russia was out of the war and her armies would be demobilized, but that she would desist from signing a formal peace treaty. The acts of war, Dr. von Kuehlmann said, ended when Russia and the Teutonic allies signed the armistice, but when armistice ended the warfare must be revived. He added that because one or two of the contracting parties had demobilized their armies, this fact would in no wise alter the situation. London, Feb. 15. —Russia’s withdrawal from the war was a real withdrawal and the throwing away of all agreements with her former allies, said Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, in reporting to the all-Russian workmen’s and soldiers’ councils on the result of the Brest-Litovsk conference according to a .Russian wireless dispatch received here. The dispatch says the councils approved Trotsky’s policy. Amsterdam, Feb. 15.—8 y virtue of the treaty with the Urkraine, by which the status quo ante of the frontiers between Austria-Hungary and Russia were established, AustroHungarian troops Wednesday entered Brody and took peaceful possession of the town, says a dispatch from Vie Ana. Thus the big town in east Galicia was returned to Austro-Hungary.