The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-03
WORDING OF RUSS
TREATY WITH HUN
CAUSES FRICTION
Provision Relating to Russian
Warships Causes Constant
Exchange of Protests.
(By Associated Press)

MOSCOW, May Via Viadivostok).
The ambiguous wording of the Brest-
Litovsk peace treaty is causing consid-
cradle friction and a constant eX-
change of protests.
The provision relating to Russian
warships STIMULATING their transfer to
Russian ports or their disarmament.
Germany interprets as obiiging them
not to leave ports and not to cruise in
territory waters. M. Tchitcherin. the
foreign minister. objected to this inter
probation and suggested that COM
mission be appointed to settle the dis.
pute. This was accepted by Germany
and the commission will meet in Ber-
lin At the same time Foreign Minis
ter Tchitcherin demanded a guarantee
that the Black Sea feet, a report OF
whose capture by the Germans has
not been confirmed, be given immunity
in the Crimea.
Germany has refused to admit into
the territories occupied by her 100000
starving refugees who are gathered
near the frontiers, as requested re-
peatedly by the Russian foreign min
lister.
China Claims Territory
China is claiming territory near Chita.
The Siberian soviet government has
protested to the Chinese government.
Germany's barbarous treatment of
the inhabitants of occupied territories
and constant requisitioning of food are
provoking great resentment and caus-
ing armed clashes. In village in the
Kiev district, the inhab itants resisted
the Germans for three days with ma
chine guns and rifles and were sub
dued by the use Of armored cars.
In the government of Minck, the
Germans seized persons in the streets
and in their homes and are sending
them to Germany in locked cars.
Those trying to escape are shot. The
inhabitants, panic stricken, have gone
into hiding. Streets in the cities are
armed camps with patrols and troops
and machine guns everywhere.
Discuss Reorganization.
Discussing recognition of the Rus
sian government by the allied powers,
the Bolsheviki newspaper Izvestia,
says:
Recognition of the soviet power by
the allies will help Immediately to es-
tablish business contact by Russia
with America, England and France,
relative to the equipment and the fl
"ancing of the country, coordination
Of action and settlement of questions
and international policy. All that
would be direct blow at German i'm
perialism and oriention in Russia Not
for nothing do German official circles
regard seriously the expected recogni-
ton of the soviet government by the
allies"
NJ. Noulens, French ambassador to
Russia, in an interview recently said
that Germany was trying to gain econ
omic control Of all Russia and that if
the allies, in response to that menace,
were constrained to take military &C
ton, 1t would be friendly assistance
without thought Of conquest or inter
ference in the internal affairs of Rus
sia. Foreign Minister Tchitcherin. in
statement in reply, declared that
such assistance was not desired by the
Russian masses who would regard it
IS an armed invasion. NJ. Tchitcherin
added:
Real friends of the Russian people
can assume but one task-to help the
Russian people in it's har dwork of
internal regeneration on an entirely
new basis of domination by the labor
ing masses themselves, that is, to rem
der all possible assistance to support
the soviet power in its UNNECESSARILY