The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-12-13
RUSSIANS OFFERED
HARD>PEACE TERMS
Kaiser Demands Retention OF ALL
Captured Land.
WANTS TO CONTROL WHEAT
Also Demands Free Hand in Russian
Trade-Bilsheviki Leaders Despair
of Making Progress Toward
Separate Peace.

Washington. Dec. Herman greed
has overreached itself again. Su-
premely arrogant over the manner In
which the Russian bolsheviH fell In
with its proposals for an armistlce,
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 70 get from the German Of
ficials any promises that will appear
TO the Russian people.
Instead, all of the German claims
emphasize the intention OF creating In
Russia German vassal state. AS
result, even the bolsheviki leaders adj
mittedy 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 lnsstent.
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 hano
in Russian trade with preferential
status on German manufactures. ana
on obtaining a certain percentage OF
war supplies and foodstuffs from hus-
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 to
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 idealiSm.
Won't Repudiate Russia's Loans.
London. Dec. 12.-The Petrograd
Telegram bureau says that there Is no
truth in the report that the bolshevild
government has decided upon the re-
pudiation of Russia's foreign loans,
according to n 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 he grave, according to Times dis
patch from Petrograd The bolshevi-
! Xxi, according to Petrograd newspapers
have placed machine guns In the
streets.
The garrison, however, shows signs
of insubordnation and is reported to
be disobeying the bolshevih 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-
! ions.