Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-18
RUSSIANS OFFERED
!. HARD PEACE TERMS
Kaiser Demands Retention of All
Captured Land.
WANTS TO CONTROL WHEAT
Also Demands Free Hand in Russian
Trade-BiIsheviki Leaders Despair
of Making Progress Toward
Separate Peace.
Washington, Dec. 12.-German greed

Washington, Dec. 12.-German greed
has overreached itself again. Su
premely arrogant over the manner in
which the Russian bolsheviki fell in
with its proposals for an armistice
the German high control, Washington
learned here, has demanded peace
terms which bid fair to unite all Rus
STA into a potent anti-German force.
Advices reaching Russian diplomatic
circles, entente and neutral embassies
and legations and American officials
all carried the same story in different
words.
Lenine and his followers have failed
entirely to get from the German of
ficials any promises that will appeal
to the Russian people.
Instead, all of the German claims
emphasize the intention of creating in
Russia German vassal state. AS q
result, even the bolsheviki leaders adj
mittedly are despairing of making any
substantial progress toward separate
peace, while the opposition forces are
said to be gaining in strength every
where.
Terms Are lnsistenS.
The German peace terms are de-
clared to have insisted on the retention
Of all territory captured, especially in
the North; on being given a free hand
in Russian trade with a preferential
status on German manufactures. and
on obtaining a certain percentage OF
STA.
Demands Russian Territory.
The following points are said to be
included in the peace negotiations:
Germany to have control of the Rus.
sian wheat market for fifteen years.
All German goods to be admitted 70
Russia duty free.
No territory now occupied by the
Germans to be surrendered.
The correspondent says the bolshe-
wiki were disappointed by the reserved
attitude of the German negotiations
and their lack of sympathy with pO-
litical ideaism.
Won't Repudiate Russia's Loans.
London, Dec 12.-The PetrOgrad
Telegram bureau says that there is no
truth in the report that the bOlShevilxi
government has decided upon the re-
pudiatiOn of RuSsia's foreign, loans,
according to a Central News dispatch
from Copenhagen.
Battle Raging in Moscow.
London, Dec. 12.-Street fighting
has occurred in Moscow, and the
Swedish consul there has advised all
Swedes to leave the city, according to
advices received in Haparanda, Swe-
den, and forwarded by the Stockholm
correspondent Of the Morning Post.
1t is added that starvation seems to
threaten Moscow. Most of the Swedes
there are said to have taken the con
sul's advice.
The situation in Moscow is reported
to be grave, according to a Times dis
patch from Petrograd The bolsheyi
XII, according to Petrograd newspapers,
have placed machine guns in the
streets.
The garrison, however, shows signs
of INSTRUMENTATION and is reported to
be disobeying the bolsheviki comman-
der, a private soldier named Mura-
noff.
Korniloff Advances.
The Cossacks are preparing to fight.
the Petrograd correspondent of the
Daily Mail reports. Three trainloads
of Cossacks are said to be at Bielgo-
rod and ahree at Sunny, commanded by
General Korniloff. Extremist red
guards to the number of about 1000
are expected at Kharkov (Ukrania)
from Moscow.
The correspondent says General
Kaledines, the Don Cossack leader, is
disbanding infantry regiments in the
Don territory and sending them home
on, account of their extremist opin-