Evening star., 1918-01-23
GERMANS REFUSE
GUARANTEE TO RUSS
Evacuation of Occupied Terri
tories Still Denied, Says
BoIsheviki Agency.
SEES TEARING OFF OF MASK

Trotsky, the bolshevik foreign min
lister, who returned to Petrograd ON,
Monday night from Brest-LitOvsk,
is quoted by the Exchange Tele-
graph correspondent Mt Petrograd,
In n dispatch dated Tuesday, as
saying that the German terms pre-
ponderatinsly favored annexations.
their object being to strangie Rus
aia economically and politically. The
Austrian delegates, the foreign min
lister added. played NO very active
role In the negotiations. merely as
sentinS to every German proposal.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. January ga long state
ment dealing with the Brest-Litovsk
negotiations, issued through the boil
shevik telegraph agency at Petrograd,
emphasizes the absolute German re-
fusal to give any sort of a guarantee
of the evacuation of occupied terrific
ries.
In such circumstances" says the
statement, 1.-The words .self-determina-
ton sound like mockery of principles
and the people concerned"
The statement then asks what object
the Austro-German imperialists had on
December 25 in recognizing the princi-
pie of democratic peace, and an
swers:
The same object as was followed by
Wilson, Lloyd George and other i'm
perialists in exhibiting their demo-
cratic program and throwing humanity
under the complete control of capital"
Foe Stripped of False Coats.
Z. After wordy speculation as to what
prompted the Germans to take the
course they took in the negotiations,
the statement continues:
1.-The revolution cannot live in an at
mosphere Of deceit and falsehood. The
revolution may not at a given moment
be in a position to repudiate the an
nexationists. but it will never humili-
ate itself to call black white and won't
cover up the brutal annexationist pre-
The significances Of the Brest-
Litovsk pourparlers are they stripped
from German imperialism it's false
coats temporarily borrowed from the
democratic wardrobe and exposed the
cruel reality Of annexationism of own
more to be demanded from the. pour
"a N F2 sf$-3
Russians Make Protest. ---~--
NJ Karakhan. Secretary of the Rus
sian delegation at Brest-I.itovsk, has
announced. says an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Petrograd, that
fcial protest to DR.. Won Kuehlmann
and Count Czernin. heads of the Ger
man and Austrian delegations. regard
ing the omission from the offlcial Ger
man reports OF the, declaration of Leon
Trotzky at the latest sitting of. the
tude of the central powers. M. Trotzky
said that after a fortnight's negotia-
tions Germany and Austria were in
sisting upon terms contrary to the
principles they acknowledged in their
December 25 respecting
peace without annexations or indemni-
ties
Germans Make Threat.
Under penalty of recalling the dele
cations now in Petrograd for discus
sion of the question of prisoners of
war. the central powers are demanding
preferential treatment for officer pris-
oners
A much more cautious account of the
result of the negotiations between the
central powers and the Ukraine at
Brest-Litovsk than was given in the
which reported what appeared to be a
virtual settlement. is contained in an
official statement from Vienna received
through Amsterdam today. The Vienna
statement speaks of ''the well founded
hope of the negotiations leading to an
agreement on the basis of a peace
treaty.
Economic Sessions.
AMSTERDAM, January 23.-At Brest-
Litovsk on Monday the Russo-German
economic commission continued its dis
cussions, and yesterday work prelimi-
rary to further deliberations was re-
ferred to subcommission. which be-
gan it's sittings in the afternoon.
Foodstuffs Lacking.
PETROGRAD. January 23-Since the
of the constituent assembly
and the disappearance of any immedi-
ate hope of reconci1ing the striving no
litical parties. public attention in north
Russia is centered on the bread short
age, the lack of practically all food
stuffs, the breakdown of Transportation
and the commercial stagnation as the
result of the closing Of the banks.
Moscow. Petrograd and all the larger
cities of north Russia have little bread.
A general suspension of passenger
trains began today in an effort to speed