The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-06-19
Council Of Workmen and Soldiers
Issues Proclamation Against
Separate Peace and Makes
Clear It Is Not Pacifist Body
AUSTRIANS BLAMED FOR
TALK OF MAKING PEACE
Swiss Consul May Be Expelled
From Country For Steps In
Spreading Of Propaganda;
Root Delivers Strong Speech
associated Press BY U. g. Naval Com
IA. Inunication Service)

III NNtoNhAIJ yuhS ~ III
i stirring proclamation adopt
cd yesterday the council Of work
men and soldiers has made it
clear that far from being advo-
Gates Of peace at any price, as
had been said of it, the council
is for a continuance Of the war
until PruSsian autocracy shall
have been crushed out. The proc
lamation in clear and forcible
language declares that the coun-
Gil is irrevocably opposed to a
separate peace. The peace talk,
it asserts is prompted by efforts
on the part of Austria.
The council OF workmen and
soldiers, which has been supposed
to he pacifst but which has now
Strengthened out the record and
changed that impression, may be
but small minority Of the pop
ulatiou Of Russia, five million out
of 100000, but it is organized
while the great mass of popula-
tion is unorganized and its repre-
sentatives are in Petrograd.
These add to the importance OF
the council and to the proclama-
ton which it has issued on the
question Of separate peace.
Disclosures of Austria 8. efforts to
bring about a separate peace with Rus
STA come from both without and within
the republic. Dispatches from Stock,
holm received yesterday say the Social
Demokraten, well.known Swedish news.
paper, publishes details of the latest
German peace offer to Russia,
The details are contained in q de-
ciphered telegram sent by Germany
through Swiss diplomatic channels, to
the Swiss minister in Petrograd, Swift
zerland transmitting the German offer
The offer promises restitution to Rus
STA of the provinces captured by the
Germans, and the establishment of g
friendly understanding in regard t.
Poland, Iithuania and Courland, but
Russia is to give Austria the province,
captured by the latter.
The government has received copies
of messages and of papers that have
been circulated in PetrOgrad and otheI
parts of the country that clearly show
the efforts made by Austria. These ex
pOsures are such that they are likel,
to lead to the expulsion of Rober
Grim, the Swiss consul, who is charged
with being active in seeking to spreaC
peace propaganda At the beginnin.
of the war he played an important par
and was the mouthpiccc of the Interna
tiOnalist Peace propaganda.
In a speech which he delivered Yes
torday Elihu Root, head of the Amer
lean mission to Russia, said that Amer
lea is fighting for Russia's dcmOcrac,
and Russia is fighting for America s
America sees no class, - he said, "bu
great Russia, mighty and aspiring dc
mOcracy."
NJ. Tereschtenko, minister Of foreigl
affairs, replying to Mr.. Root for tn
council of ministers, said: "0ur peopl
consider that this war was inevitabl
and will continue until its successful
end. We have no imPerialistic wishe
aud We know that you Americans hav
not. We, your country and my cOuu
try, shall fight together, side by side
for and on behalf of all the world"
Referring to the recent successful
revolution, the speaker said: "Our rev
OIution was based upon the wonderful
works Of America from 1875 to the pres
ent day. We have read and have bee
inspired by your Declaration of Inde
pendcnce. We admire the American
and their great country and the wa
that the cause Of liberty and freedom
has been Kept alive and fostered fror
the inception of the American idea a
set forth in that wonderful document
have referred to.