The sun., 1917-11-25
Foreign Office Exchanges
With France and Great
Britain Made Public
DEMANDS APPROVED
Sazonoff Objected to Sepa-
rate Mussulman Govern
ment in Near East.
DESIRE FOR DARDANELLES
Discussions as to Eastern and
Western Boundaries of Ger
many Also Revealed.

PBTRooRAp, Nov. :4.--By the order OF
Leon Trotzky. Bolshevik Foreign Min.
ister. tho publication Of the text Of con
hdential communications between the
Russian Foreign ONCE and Foreign Gov.
ernments. was begun yesterday in Boil
shsvik and Social Revolutionlst news
papers In all seventeen documents,
including secret treaties and telesrams
sent by the Foreign ONCE. Ambassadors
abroad and Ambassadors in petrograd
and dealing with the problems Of tn,
war, have been made public.
The first state document published
deals with the desire Of Russia to Ar-
quire the Dardanelles, Constantinopls.
the west shore of the Bosporus an0
certain defined areas In Asia Minor. !,
sets forth the demand Of France and
Great Britain that Russia agree to the
freedom Of Constantinople for cargoAs
not from or to Russian ports, the reten-
tion Of the hold on the Mussu!man In
places In Arabia under separate Mus
sulman Government, and the inclusion ci
certain portions OF Persia IN the sphere
Of British influence.
This document indicates that Russia
agreed on the whole, but proposed an
amendment demanding a clearer dehni-
ton in regard to the Government OF
Mussulman territory and the freedom OF
pilgrimage 1t defines the Russian sphere
Of influence and indicates her concern
about the northern boundary of Afghan
istan, and also sets forth Italy's agree
ment provided her claims in tho east
arc recognised.
Recognized ny France.
The second document is a telegram
from M. lxvolsky, Russian Ambassador
to France, dated March Ii, 1917, and
stating that France recognizes Russla's
freedom to define her western bound
aries. This was followed by a telegram
Sfrun- Scr gus SaZonor. then Minister Of
| Foreign Affairs. assuring NJ. fZvolsky
that the agreement with France and
! Great Britain IN regard TO the Con
stantinople Straits need not be ree1-
amined. and stating the willingness OF
Russia to give France and England the
! freedom of defining the western bound
aries of Germany in exchange for the
freedom allowing Russia TO define the
eastern boundary of Germany. but in
sisting on the exclusion of the Polish
question as q matter of international
discussion, and instructing NJ Izvolsky
to counteract any attempt 10 place the
future OF Poland under control of the
Powers.
|
says Russia must preven. sweden from
becoming unfriendly. and by all means
| must earn the friendship OF Norway
and said that all political efforts to in.
| nuence Rumania already hao been made.
| The telegram touches on the exclusion
Of Germany from the Chinese markets
but says this must be subject 10 an eco
nomical conference at which japan
should be represented.
| q. :. Declines TO JOIN.
One of the documents published Is .
letter. dated September IS last. from NJ
Terestchenko. then Russian Foreign
| Minister, to tho Russian Amoa ssa dor al
Washington. The latter instructed the
| Ambassador to express to Secretary
Lansing high appreciation Of the fact
that the American Ambassador AT Pstrc-
| grad. David r. Francis, refrained from
joining in the representation by the
| British. French and Italian amba adors
that some measures must be taken to
increase the fighting capacity of tho
Russian armies The letter added that
| this action had a depressing effect. mas.
much sthe Allies knew the enesy which
the Russian Government was exerting
toward carrying on the war
Another letter published was from tina
| Russian Amha ssador at Stockholm. In
| II bJdiiuhl tpl Iilt CpCl3llSf
| leader. was represented as having said
IN a confidential conversation regard
Ing the proposed internationa, Socialist
| conference that II NJ kerensky, then
Premier. did not reject the idea Of p
conference but entered objections on the
grounds that it was ipopportune. the
| Dutch Scandinavian COMMITTEES would
have to conform,
Trotzky defines the documents pub
lished as those OF the "Csar ristic, bour-
Seois and coalition Governments" and
from them tine Russian nation and all
nations In the world must learn the
truth of the plans secretly made by
ana anciers and traders through theil
parliamentary and diplomatic agents"
German and Austrian n politicians. Trotzky
asserts. may try TO make capital out o.
theee documents. but he warns them that
| when the German proletariat by nean'
Of q revolution obtain access 10 tbeiI
chanceller1es they will hnd there docu
ments which will show Up In 10 L.
light than those now published