The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-07
RUMOR RUSSIAN
HUN PEACE MEET
AGAIN IN SESSION
Wire Communication With
BreSt-LitOvsk Is Cut.
Outside World Now Getting
Only Vague Reports.
TROTzKY is AT CONFERENCE
PetrOgrad Declares Terms
Unanimously Turned Down.
German Strike Cuts Figure in
Peace Negotiations.
TROTzKY IS AT CONFERENCE
German Strike Cuts Figure in
Peace Negotiations.

London, Feb. THE resumption or
the peace negotiations at Brest-
Litovsk today if it occurs will take
place in fog of vague reports ana
contradictions as far as the outside
world is concerned.
Statements in many German news
papers indicate a probable breach
between the Germans and the Bolshe-
Wiki and the conclusion of a separate
ARRANGEMENT between the central
powers and the Ukraine. No light
on the situation comes from Russian
sources. A dispatch from the Petro-
grad correspondent of the Daily News
TUESDAYS date. says there has been no
direct .elegra phic news received there
from Brest-Litovsk for TOUR Gays.
The Germans alleged that the wires
were damaged, whereupon the Rus
slams similarly damaged" the direct
wire between Petrograd and Berlin
used by the Austro-German delesa-
lion. Foreign Minister Trotzky is re-
ported to be at Brest-IitoVsk' Out
nothing has been heard from hini'
BoIshcvili Claims Victory.
In the meantime the Bolsheviki con-
tinue TO circulate by means OF the
wireless. statements regarding the trl-
.lnph of the Bolshevik rada In the
Ukraine a statement yesterday salo
the seat of it's government was trans
ferred TO Kiev on Sunday ana that
agreements had been reached between
the Bolsheviki government in Russia
and the rada regarding federal union
with Russia and the complete unity
of foreign and internal affairs. It is
added that representatives OF all the
army fronts have recognized the Boil
sheviki rada as the sole authority in
the Ukraine. An authoritarian con-
Eress will be at Kiev in the next few
days. Claims are also made by the
BolsheVik government that all au-
thority in the Crimea is in the hands
of the Crimean council of workmen' S
and soldiers delegates. Elsewhere the
Bolsheviki claim to be winning and
they report the capture of Booruis,
near Minsk. 1t is added that the
Ukrainian soldiers are joining the Boil
sheviki armies.
Russian Plot in China.
NJ. lKasakoff, former chancellor OF
the Russian embassy at Toxic, has
been. arrested by the Bolsheviki. He
is charged with attempting to influ-
cnce the Japanese and British en-
baSsies and the Chinese legation
against entering into relations with the
Bolsheviki government.
Alexiff is reported to be marching
northward and has occupied several
railway stations in the direction OF
Kharkov and Voronesh. -
The Bolsheviki government accord
ing to a Petrograd dispatch to the
Times, is proposing to revolutionize
China by supporting the movement in
the. southern provinces against the
central Chinese government.
Turn Down German Terms.
Petrograd, Feb. 6.-(Delayed)-
Russian delegates to the Brest-Litovsk
conferences unanimously refused tC
accede to the Teutonic delegates de
mands that a separate peace be signed
Immediately, it was officially announc-
ed here today. The negotiations are
continuing.
The Znamiatruda, organ of the So
cial Revolutionaries on the left ha.
received an indirect wire from Brest
Litovsk stating the Russian delega
ton regards as "preposterous" thu
signing of any peace agreement at thi!
time.
The delegates are awaiting develop
ments of the German strike, it wa.
said and may. demand another recess
fox I'd that abd