The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-17
GERMAN TERMS
 NOT ACCEPTABLE
Leon Trotzky, Bolsheviki Foreign Minister, Declines to Enter Trap Set by Teut0ns-TrOop With
 drawaI the Stumbling Block.

Amsterdam, Jan. i5.-The Wolfl
 Bureau, the semi-ofliciaI news agency of Berlin, publishes Brest- Litovsk dispatch as follows
 "A committee composed of Ger mans, Austro-H -Hungarians and Rus sians for the discussions of territor- ial questions held three long sittings on Friday and Saturday. It was agreed that the first paragraph of the peace treaty should be clause announcing that the state of war between the parties had been con- cluded.
 The Germans proposed clause reading that the contracting parties have resolved henceforth to live in peace and friendship
 Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik for eign minister, refused to endorse this, declaring that it was decor ative phrase which does not de- scribe the relations which in the future will exist between the Rus sian and German peoples.
 Delegates Fail to Agree.
 Tt was confirmed that the evacu- ation of occupied territory by both parties should take place on the basis of full reciprocity so that the evacuation by the central powers of Russian territory would syn ehronize with the evacuation by Russia of the occupied regions in Austro-Hungary, Turkey and Persia. Later Persia was struck out as not being belligerent party and NJ. Trotzky proposed to add the follow ing:
 Russia undertakes as speedily as possible to remove her troops from neutral Persia.
 He said he had no other grounds for this than a desire to emphasize the crying wrong committed by the former Russian government against a neutral country"
 The Wolff Bureau report covers nearly 5000 words and shows that the discussion concerning the date of evacuation was broken off by the parties failing to agree. A long dis cussion concerning which parts of the occupied territory should be evacuated also resulted in a dis agreement.
 Embittered Controversy.
 
 A prolonged debate arose over the question of admitting representa- tives of Poland, Courland and Lith- uania to the negotiations on the question of what constituted self determination by these provinces. The discussion became embittered and the only result was protest by General Hoffmann of the German delegation against the tone of the Russian delegation, which he said speaks as if it stood victorious in our countries and could dictate con- ditions."
 General Hoffman reminded the delegates that the Bolsheviki au- thority. as much as the German. Nn9 A1AAihtu DA IbiCts dS iHtodlttU by what he termed the attempts to suppress Che white Russia and the Ukrainian attempts at selfdetermin- alton. General Hoffman finally de- elared that the German supreme army command must refuse to eyacuate Courland, Lithuania, Riga, and the islands of the Gulf of Riga.
 Dr. von Kuehlmann, the German foreign minister, then declared that he must reserve a further statement Of the position of the central pow CTS on all poitns. He protested against the position the Russians had adopted of presenting their views in written declarations and said that the conference must be adjourned in order that there might be consultation between the Teu- tonic allies. No date for the resum- tion of the conference was fixed.