[Telegram]
PETROGRAD, February 19, 1918, 9 p.m.
[Received February 94, 3.46 a.m.]
2393. Smolny wired Berlin last midnight offering to accept peace terms demanded at last conference. This given out 5 this afternoon. German reply not yet received. Some doubt German acceptance now. No successful resistance can be made German advance and if railroads unbroken they can reach Petrograd in forty-eight hours More later.
FRANCIS