Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-03
PEACE PARLEYS
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EQUATIONS at which il was not repre-
scented officially. They demanded that
they should keep garrisons al Riga
and other strategic points.
THE Russian delegation acting on
uncqUiNocal instructions from the Bol-
shcViki authorities, took up an uncom-
promising attitude. They said self-defi-
milton was impossible until the last
German soldier had left the country.
Further they jeered the Germans. ask
ing what they proposed to do. They
asked whether they intended to take
Petrograd and feed 100000 starving
folk. or to d;sarm revolutionary cou:i-
Try in which every workman had a RI
tle. They also asked what the Germans
Proposed to say to their own denoc-
racy, which protested a couple of
months ago against the proposed an
ncX2tion of Poland and Lithuania,
They remarked that they were surprls-
ed that even the Prussian junkers had
such auuacity.
The Germans asked time fer cor
sideration and begged that this stage
of the negotiations should ont be pub
lished. The Russians refused to allow
this. and left Brest- Litovsn.
Weltman Paviovtch. a non-Bolshevlhi
member of the Russian delegation to
Brest-Litovsk, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Petrograd, says
that the German attitude in regard to the
freeing of occupied Russian territories
depends entirely on the relationship of the
Dol ho aiy1a
and the Cossacks. He adds that if the
Entente Allies refuse to negotiate a gen.
eral peace Germany will not consider her
declarations to the Bolsheviki binding.
Germany Seeks Economic Union
Germany's fundamental war aim, NJ.
Pavlovtch added, is to create an econom-
ic union stretching from Hamburg to the
Persian gulf. giving Turkey and Bulgaria,
with certain restrictions, the same posi-
ton as that occupied by Australia and
Canada III their economic rela tons with
Great Britain.
The Representatives Of Bulgaria and Tur-
key. the Russian delegate said. are most
obstinate regarding concessions as COM
pared with the. German delegates and he
further negotiations.
NJ. Pavlovitch thinks that Germany GER
tainly will demand the evacuation of Me-
sopotamia Arabia and Palestine for the
freeing Of Belgium and occupied French
territory. and, if the successes OF the Cen
trail Powers in Italy continue. also will
demand the return of Tripoli
M. Rade's Position
NJ. Kaden, on behalf of the Russian del
egation. according TO the Russian official
news bureau, made the following state
ment at meeting with the .Austro-Ge
man delegates to discuss the condition of
prisoners.
AT the moment our conference assem-
bles with the object OF alleviatins the mis-
cries of war, | have to announce that to
those victims who fell in the battle for
peace, now have been added still more
sufferers. -
Many German frienuS Of peace
social democrats and Independents. &C
cordin% To information received. have
been put into prison in consequence
of their fight for peace. Ii is impos-
sible at present to verify this report.
but if it should ho we'll founded the
possibility Of making a successful
start with orr humanitarian work will
he made infinitely more difficult. We
hope that the Austro- German delega-
ton now in the heart of revolution
airy Petrograd will at last have an OPP
portunity of understanding the spirit
which broke the chains of Russian
of war as free men.
1t is the hope that members of the
Austro-Gernlan delegation will make
that situation known 10 their respec-
tive governments so that suitable
measure may he taken which will en-
able the representatives of this revo-
lutionary spirit TO apply themselves
with complete confidence to the com
mon task.
AT the same time ! feel compelled
on behalf of the Polish and Lettish
delegations to draw the attention of
the AustrO-German representatives to
the fact that many Russian citizens.
for instance, DR.. Marklovsky. the Pol
iSh Social Democrat. and Daveschey-
sky, leader Of the Lettsh Social Dem
liberty by the German government for
conducting peace propaganda"
History Of Negotiations
Negotiations for d separate peace at
Brest -Litovsk were adjourned Dec %
until. Jan. 4. Since then at Brest-
LitoNsk and in Petroerad, representa-
Uves OF Russia and the Central Pow
crs have been discussing informally
points to be settled III the event of a
peace agreement being reached
German Terms Submitted
Brest-LitOvsk Farley
Pctrosrad, Tuesday Jan. 1.-The
German terms as submitted to the
Brest -Litovsk conference were re-
ported in substance as follows:
Article Russia and Germany are
to declare the state of war at an end.
Both nations resolved to live to-
eether in the future peace and friend