Germany, having denounced the armistice with Russia on Feb- ruary
18th, resumed the war against an enemy who could not and would not fight. While Austria ostentatiously proclaimed that she was not at war with Russia, the German troops began their advance. It was, and still is, a military promenade, not merely by road but also by rail. Moving on a front hundreds of miles wide between the Baltic and the Ukraine, the small German detachments rapidly occupied vast stretches of country. On Thursday week they entered what the German Emperor has described as " tortured" Esthonia, and by Monday had occupied the great port of RevaL Dorpat fell the same day to a company and a squadron who had covered one hundred and twenty-five miles in leas than six days. On Monday also the enemy were in Pskoff, further to the south-east, which is one hundred and seventy-five miles from Petrograd. On Tuesday General von Linsingen's detachments, having advanced one hundred and eighty-five miles in a few days, were skirmishing with Bolsheviks far to the east of the Pinsk Marshes on the Ukraine border.
