The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-22
LEN|NES PL!..:. :: ::::.: IS:
mot ACCEPTED
BY GERMANS
Halt in Peace Negotiations
is Adopted
GERMANS ARE ACTIVE
Conditions in Russia Chaotic and
Germans Trying Hard to Gain Con-
~ s4sA,, troll Of Affairs.

London, Dec. 21,--The peace terms
offered TO the Central Powers by the
Russian BoIshevist negotiators have
been rejected, according to an unoffi
cial, report current in Petrograd and
forwarded here by the correspondent
Of The Exchange Telegraph Com
pany.s
Dr.. Richard Won Kuehlmann, the
German Foreign Secretary, with an
important staff Of officials left Berlin
Yesterday for Brest-Litovsk amid
scenes OF enthusiasm, the crowd
singing the national anthem and rails
ing shouts OF Bring us a strong
peace.
1T. is said that the peace negotia-
tions will be under the presidency OF
Ibrahim Hakki Pasha, the Turkish
Ambassador to Berlin and dean OF
the Berlin Diplomatic Corps. The
Bulgarian delegates include Minister
OF Justice Popoff and NJ. Kosseff'
chief OF the Foreign Office.
While the peace delegates are as
sernbling the activity at Petrograd of
einuInber of German and Austrian OF
fcers apparently is causing heart
burnings. Circulars have been spread
alleging that the Council of Work
mems and Soldiers Delegates is in
negotiations with the officers. The
Pravda, the Bolishevist organ, prints
All unqualified denial and makes q
cotirtercharge against the Constitu-
tfonal Democrats, claiming that they
are trying to undermine Trotzky and
Ienirc .rtrr
The Pravda further appeals to the
workmen to defeat the attempt of
the Unconstitutional Democrats to
place Russia under the control of
German imperialism The Bolshevi-
kig also accuses the Constitutional
Democrats of being responsible for
tho lopting Of wineshops, which
caused serious riots in Petrograd,
and claim the possession OF docul-
mentary evidence, which they
threaten to publish later,
Petrograd. Dec. 20, delayed. j.
Under the heading, Secret Treaty
Between Japan and Russia for Joint
Armed Demonstration Against Amer
lea and Great Britain in the Far
East" the Bolshevist organ. the
Iztestia, publishes what it says in
the. text of the secret treaty drawn
up last year providing for joint ac-
tion by Russia and Japan to prevent
any third country from achieving po-
litical dominance in China. The
agreement, dated July 8, 1916, runs
for FIVE years, automatically extend
inglitself until year after one party
expresses the desire to annul it. 1t
is signed by Sergius Sazonoff, then
Russian Foreign Minister, and Wis
count Montono, Japanese Foreign
Minister?
The treaty stipulates that the
agreement shall remain a deep sec
ret for all except for the contracting
parties. II opens with the state
ment that 1t is designed to supple
ment and strengthen the secret treat
les OF 1907, 1910, and 1912. Article
Lis given as follows:
The contracting parties recognize
that the interests of either side de-
rnand the defense of China from
political domination by any third
power whatsoever cherishing hostile
intentions toward Russia and Japan,
and therefore, undertake, whenever
circumstances uecessitate to enter
into open relations based on full
confidence in order conjointly to
take the necessary steps to prevent
the advent in China of such state
ofgaffairs."