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WRANCLE OVER
PEACE TERMS
The Russian German hegOtIa-
tiOnS Halt.
SAYTROTzkYY YIELDED TOO MUCH
While the Conferences Go on at Ber-
lin Petrograd Feels Final Break is
Likely.


London. Jan. l5.-Warning of the
possibility OF a final breach III the
Russo-German peace negoiiau rs Is
the outstanding feature Of the W.
from Petrograd.
In the meantime, according to the
CORES pendent of the London Daily
Mail. the armistice has been tN>enl
ed until February IS. The invest ga
ton will be resumed after an int va
at Warsaw.
Lenine, the Bolsheviki premier, ha
returned to Petrograd He is repo t
90 to be taking an important part III
Suiding the negotiations with TIE &C n,
trail powers. although avoiding the
limelight Some extremists, l. Is said,
are dissatisfied with the conduct OF
The negotiations by Trotzky, the for
eign minister, thinking he is too VII
suggest Lenine take his place at fu-
ture conferences.
The correspondent Of the Daily
News reports the Germans are doing
their utmost to stop determination at
the front He interprets this to mean
the Bolshevih propaganda is having
its effect among the German soldiers
The Germans conflscated all copies OF
the Facksl, Russian newspaper
printed in German, containing full
account of the Brest-Litovsk negotla-
tions, and other gandist litera-
ture. Notwithstanding this, German
soldiers crawl across the Russian
lines every night to obtain copies OF
the paper secretly.
Immediate repatriation OF deported
Poles and Lithunians and the liberia
ton of all Bohemians, Czechs and
others arrested by the central powers
for their connection with pacif1st prop
uganda. were among the demands
made by the Russian delegates at
Rrest-Litovsk on Friday, according to
the correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph company.
THE return Of refugees to Poland
and Lithuania is of the utmost import
ance in the question of self-determin-
alton" declared Trotzky.
To this the German delegates re-
piled:
"These demands involve questions
of internal policy which cannot posi-
l.y be discussed in the peace par
leys."
Trotzky declared the Russians will
not abandon their demands.
Reading between the lines in the
German newspapers it becomes appar-
ent that the conferences of military
end political leaders now taking pace
ct Berlin are regarded as an effort 10
btain some sort of an age 7ment
among the German parties as to war
aims At present all signs point TO
the triumph of the miiitarists al
tho 4 evident the OPP 5siiffi
forces are making a strong fight. The
Munich Post says:
a death struggle Is now proceed
ing between the reichstag peace MI
jority and the military anneXationist
party. We do not yet know which
side the government will support and
Egyptian darkness enshrouds the ma
TONS peace aims"
The minister of finance Of Baden,
DR.. Won Rodman, said in the lower
house on Saturday:
"The reichstag resolution is no
longer valid because it was based
upon the supposition that the desire
for peace would be shared by our OPP
ponents. That is disproved by the
speeches of the British premier, Lloyd
George. and President Wilson. Peace
now mast be guided strictly by Ger
many's interests"
The Tageblatt, of Berlin, reports
that violent scenes were enac' ed at a
sitting of the reichstag main commit
tee when a Polish deputy warned the
government against yielding to the
nilitariSts.
"The present Prussian regime" he
said. "is deeply hated by the Poles
for it has been the most repulsive
type of rule that any people have ever
had to bear | warn you that the
people will at length come to their
senses and the war will prove the
graveyard of German militarism."
Speaking at a Socialist meeting at
Iiclsfeld, Herr Severing. a former
member OF the rechStag, said:
"A majority of the German people
would not shed a single tear over the
resignation of Hindenbu g, I-ud
dorff, or any general who opposes
peace by understanding. The German
people will pay most homage to the
man who does most in the cause OF
peace"