New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-29
TROTZi!KY To ISSUE; !.
MESSAGE TO WORLD
Will Ask Allies to Enter Into
Negotiations Looking for Peace

Petrograd. Dec, 29-Leon Trotzky,
the Bolshevist foreign minister, is re-
ported to be drafting a new note to
the Entente Allied embassies, again
asking them to participate in the
peace conference. Trotzky is also
said to be preparing a new message
to the peoples of the world.
The Russian delegates to the peace
turn to Petrograd today.
The Izvestia, the organ of the
Workmen's and Soldiers delegates,
dealing with the peace proposals of
Count Czernin. says: ~ 49,
Without attaching too much value
to the concessions in principle made
by the Central Powers, let us look for
the result In an acute crisis and dis
content among the masses Of the Cen
trail Powers. These conditions allow
us to hope for a democratic peace"
The Pravda considers that the re-
fusal of the Central Powers to discuss
the question Of nationalitieS which
were not Independent before the war
as an international question, proves
they are afraid to examine into the
question Of the position OF those ma
tiona1ittes from the point Of view of
the right Of nations freely to decide
their own destinies. y 'e'.
But them" the Pravda adds, how
can they bring forward the questions
of Courland, Poland, and Lithuania,
which. from their point OF view,
ought to be regarded as questions OF
the internal life Of Russia ?"
Brest-Litovsk, Dec. 29.-Discussion
by the Allies (Teutonic). and the Rus
sian delegate of. special questions con-
unued today at the peace conference.
The deliberations thus far have pro-
crossed to a stage where a brief in
terruption in the negotiations Isl ex-
pected In order to enable the dele
gates to communicate with their gov-
ernments. :.-- ~, 49,. -,
London, Dec. pa Russian Field
Headquarters communique issued at
Petrograd after a long interval men
tons only the WESTERN and south
western fronts. It ignores the north
ern front, but indicates that there is
still a Russian front in existence along
about two-thirds the length of the
Russian lines. ..,. - -. jas.
The .semi-official Russian news
agency reports general meeting Of
representatives of the Petrograd gar
rison to examine the international sit
uation. Leon Trotzlky, the Bolshevist
foreign minister, is quoted as declar-
ing to the assemblage in an address
that as peace had not yet been con-
Guided the front ought to be main
tanned intact and the Petrograd gar
rison ought to participate in holding
it, The re representatives of#the garri-
SON saws the agency dispatch, voted
in favor of sending detacl1ments to
points where they were needed.
The petrograd correspondent of
The Times describing the effect upon
the Bolshevist authorities of the ru-
mored proposal of the German and
Austrian delegates to the Brest-Lit-
ovsk conference that in certain con-
tingency various strategic points in
Russian territory should be occupied
by the Central powers, says 1t caused
CONSERVATION at the Smolny institute.
the Bolshevist headquarters.
Dr. Won Kuehlmann. the German
foreign secretary, is reported as hav-
regarding the refusal of passports to
German minority socialists by stating
that he did not see any hindrance to
between the Russian and German So
cialists.
Washington, Dec. 29.-Dispatches
from Berne today quote Berlin news
papers as saying that the peace nego-
tiations between the Germans and the
Russian Bolsheviki will be continued
at Warsaw because st-Litovsk docs
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