Evening star., 1918-01-14
RUSS SPLIT GROWS;
EXTEND ARM|ST|CE
Delegation to Resume Peace
Negotiations at Warsaw
February 18.
LENINE LEADING FACTOR
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, January IA Warning of
the possibility of a final breach IN the
Russo-German negotiations is the out
standing feature of the current news
from Petrograd In the meantime, ac-
eording to the correspondent of the
Daily Mail in the Russian capital, the
armistice had been extended until Feb
ruary IS. and the Russian delegation re-
turns to Petrograd tomorrow, but the
peace negotiations will be resumed after
an interval at Warsaw.
Premier Lenine has returned to fet-
rograd and is reported to be taking an
important part in guiding the negotia-
t!ons with the central powers, al
though avoiding the limelight. The cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says that
some extremists are dissatisfied with
Foreign. Minister Trotzky's conduct OF
the negotiations. thinking he is too
willing to meet the German views and
they suggest that Lenine take his place
at future conferences.
Propaganda Wins Huns.
The Petrograd correspondent of the
;. Daily News reports that the Germans
!. are doing their utmost to stop frater-
: nization at the front. He lnterprets
!. this to mean that the boishevik propa-
!. ganda is having its effect among the
: German soldiers. The Germans con-
: fscated all copies of the Fackel, Rus
sian newspaper printed in German, con-
!. tanning full account of the hrest-
: Litovsk negotiations and other propa-
: gandist literature. Notwithstanding
!, this, he adds. the German soldiers
8 crawl across the Russian lines every
Z night TO obtain copies of the paper Sc
: cretly.
: A dispatch to the Times from Odessa
{ describes the disorders at Sebastopol,
5 in which sixty-two naval offlcers were
! killed, as two days of butchering, IN
!: which the horrors of Kronstadt were
: re-enacted 1t is added that most of
3 those killed were members of the COM
mittee which, in 1912, under the old
5 regime, held an inquiry into the re-
!. bellious sailors revolutionary union.
!. which resulted in the execution of many
: sailors and the exile of others. The al
: fair, apparently forgotten, has now
: been brought up against those respon-
!. sible. who were regarded as meritins
!. death 1t is reported in Odessa that the
!. number of officers killed is greater than
: sixty-two.
!. Loot Russian Venice.
The town of Killia, at the mouth OF
Z the Danube, which has been called the
: Russian Venice, another dispatch TO
! the Times says, was looted during the
. Christmas holidays by soldiers station
I ed there, assisted by hoodlums.' Much
! of the town was burned, the rloters
: firing the buildings after the houses
: and shops we're sacked. The work was
dome systematically. showing that prep
Z aration had been made beforehand
!. The population fed in terror. Some
!. crossed into Rumania. while others
4 scattered into the surrounding coun-
Z try. where they are destitute. Still 9th
9 ers came to Odessa by steamer. me
Sperpetrators of the outrage also came
Eto Odessa, where they were allowed 70
+ take trains north without being mo-
Elested. The superior, council Of national
= Scornmissartes, according to a Reuter-
:dispatch from Petrograd. has drafted
s decree declaring null and void all ma
is tional loans issued by the imperial ana
!: bourgeois Lvoff-Kerensky) govern
sments All domestic loans held by for
8 eigners are to be annulled without
Preservation The only loans to be de,
nclared valid are short-term loans ana
2 the series of the national treasury.