Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-11
PEACEPLANS
MADE DEC. Is
CALLED BACK
Action Comes as Lenine
Says accept Russ Con-
ditions or Fight"

Amsterdam, Jan. 1.-THE cen.
trail powers have Withdrawn their
peace terms made public at the
BreSt.LitOvsk conference ON Dec.
%, 1t was announced by DR.. Won
Kuehlmann, the German foreign
secretary, in his speech at the
Brest-Litovsk conference with the
Russians yesterday.
Owing to the n0n-acceptance by
all the enemy powers Of those
terms, DR.. Won kuehlmann stated.
that document had "becOme null
and void"
The central powers peace terms
Of Dec. % were voiced by Count Ger
min, the Austro-Hungarian foreign
minister. They expressed willingness
to conclude "a general peace without
forcible annexations and indemnitles"
and announced that it was not the in
tention Of the central powers to de-
prive of political independence those
nations which had lost 1t during the
war. but stipulated that the question
df the political independence of ma
tionalities not now possessing it
could not be solved internationally
but be left to each government and its
peoples.
Petrograd, Thursday, Jan. ION.
Tr0tzky requested adjournment of the
peace conference in order that the
Russian reply to the Austro-German
declarations might be prepared. The
next sitting was fixed for II o'clock
Friday morning. 1t was agreed that
the Russian and Ukrainian replies
would be ready at that time.
London, Jan. 11.-Nikolai Lenine,
the Bolsheviki premier, although he
has possibly gone on a holiday to Fin
land, also possibly may go to Stock
holm to confer with German and Aus
trian socialists, the Petrograd CORES
pondent of the Daily News says. In .
speech before his departure from Pet
rograd Premier Lenine said:
Il fear we shall have to stop the
Rehabilitation and prepare for war. II
Germany and her allies do not accept
our conditions of peace, we will de-
clare a revolutionary war on them"
The correspondent emphasizes the
Importance Of an agreement between
the Bolsheviki and Ukrainian negotia-
lions as the positions of the Rada has
lessened Trotzky's chances of obtain
ing satisfactory peace. He says that
if the Germans could buy off the
Ukraine, the significance within Ger
many of Trotzky's stand would be cut
in half. The correspondent adds that
nothing is more foolish than to sup
pose that because the Ukraine oppose
the Bolsheviki, it therefore favors the
Building New Army.
Confirming previous reports that
the BolsheviN are preparing to re-
establish the fighting power of the
army against a possible final break
in the negotiations with the central
powers, the Petrograd correspondent
Of the Daily News says they are not
attempting to re-animate the old worn
out army but to create new and
much smaller one. Concerning this
new army. Foreign Minister Trotzky
is reported to have said:
ut will wage not war but revolu-
ton. Its front trenches will be bar
ricades against oppress0rs."
Gerpans Won't Fight Belief.
The Bolsheviki doubt whether the
German soldiers will advance, but il
they do and take more territory they
will be no nearer an end of the war.
The correspondent says that the great
est difficulties of the Bolsheviki in
these preparations are transport and
supply, of which the former is the less
hopeful question. Ensign Kfylenko.
the Bolsheviki commander-in-chief, is
reported to be organizing volunteer
, army and has ordered all officers to
return to the posts they held before
the Bolsheyiki revolution.
In reference to the civil wars In
different parts of Russia the cores
pondent says they are not wars by one
part of Russian against another but
attempts to spread class warfare in
those parts where the proletariat has
not yet obtained the upper hand. Thus
the Bolsheviki are not warning against
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