Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-14
RUSSIA DELEGATES ARE
SUSPICIOUS OF GERMANY

London, Jan. lS.-The Russian account
or the session al the peace conference at
hrest-l-ltovSh shows a considerable va
rance from the German version trans
united by the Wolf Bureau Saturday Tha
Russian version pictures the Russian dol
egates as acting throughout with more
than a suspicion-rather than an aetna,
conrictinn-that the German delegates
were virtually agents OF the military and
ahneNationist groups. one passage of
IrotzNs speech which the Wolf Bureau
Omits follows:
ne sincerity OF our aspirations for
peace are sufficiently proved by our al
t'ude regarding The free right of deve-
opment Of Finland Rumania and the
kfaife. Germany has only to show an
analogous attitude regarding the regions
occupied by IT,"
l'eieriihE to an early part OF Trotzky's
speech The German version speaks OF >,
certain telegram. about which II saws NJ
1fotzhy expressed regrets The Russian
version says nothing about regrets hut
introduces fiery passage asserting tha.
we German viewpoint regarding reoceu-
pea territories is merely that the will OF
'he people should he replaced by the will
Of = privileged group. Near the close j. 4
passage which the German version gives
thus.
The Russian government. however
note at the head OF it's program wor,J
peace. The great sympa thies Of the Rus
sian people for the peoples Of the Allies
strengthen II in its desire 10 attain the
speediest peace based on understanding
among the peoples
! The Russian account saws:
! our government placed at the head ~
Its program a world pAace. bu+ II n,or,-
iSed the people to sign only p democratic
ana Just peace. The sympathies of the
Russian people are with the working
''iSSeS ~ germany and her allies. Years
o. war nave not hardened the hearts ~
'he RUSSIAN soldiers who stretch forth
thelr hahds to the people on the other
side"
Regarding the proposal to remove tb,.
negotiations to Stockholm the Russian
version says in part:
I ne refusal % the Central Powers
/ TO transfer the conference to a neu-
/ 'ral site Is only eXpliCdble bv the de-
sli" or their governments and r.Ower-
ful anneXatloniSt groups to base their
meanings not on reconciliation OF prin-
/ rlpieS, hut on the war map. But war.
. maps disappear while peoples remain.
. We regarded as idle the assertions Of
TN" 'icl man press that the refusal IN
\, transfer The conference was in the ma
ture VI an ultima um. We were wrong
An ulfmatum was delIvered-parleys
at BreNt-l .itursk or none
The German annexationists regard
The rapture Of NEGOTIATIONS AZ prefer
ahle 10 conciliatory settlement Of the
future IF Poland. Lithuania, Courland
and Armenia. Semi-oliiciaI annexation
ist Sgitators IN The central countries
are trying to persuade the German
people that behind the open and frank
policy of Russia is a British-or 9th
en- stage manager Therefore we decid-
ed to remain al Brest -Litovsk so TINT
the slightest possibility of peace NAV
not be lost. 50 that il may he estab-
iished whether peac" is possible with
the central Powers without violence
10 TIE Poles, Let's, Almanians and all
other national.ties to which the Rus
sian resolution assures fun right of de-
NcIorm"nt without reservation or re-
Strctimt.
Rumanian Piotter at Petroerad
f"peEhaocn, Jan. ia RUmanian
Socialist leader named Nakousky has
arrived in Petro9rld to discuss the pos
siblitN of q revolution against King
Ferdinand Of Eumania and the mon
archlst government, Petrograd dis
patch t" the Svenska Dagbladet Of
. Stockholm reports. NJ Nakousky is
said to have been invited To Petrograd
br NiIlolai IcEin". the BolsheViki pre-
mier