New-York tribune., 1918-01-15
Though Russian German
Armistice Is Extended,
Negotiations Believed OFF
Trotzky Demands
Pardon of Pacihsts
Tells Teutons Slavs Pun
ished for Preaching Peace
Must Be Freed

LONDON, Jan. 14.-Warning Of the
possibility Of final breach in the
Russo German negotiations is the out
standing feature of tho current news
from Pctrograd. In the meantime, ac-
cording to the correspondent of 'Thc
Daily Mail" in tho Russian capital the
armistce has been extended until Feb
ruary IS and the Russian delegation
returns to Petrograd tomorrow, but the
peace negotiations will bo resumed
after an interval at Warsaw.
Premier Lcnine has returned to
Pctrograd and is reported to be taking
an important hand in guiding tho nego-
tiations with the Central Powers, al
though avoiding the limclight The
correspondent of "The Daily Mail"
says that some extremists are dis
satisfied with Foreign Minister
Trotzky's conduct of the negotiations,
thinking he Is too willing to meet the
German views, and they suggest that
Lcnine take his place at future con-
fcrences.
Immediate repatriation Of dcportcd
Poles and Lithuanians and the liberia
tion Of all Bohemians, Czechs and
others arrested by tho Central Powers
for their connection with pacifist
propaganda were among the demands
made by tho Russian delegates at the
Brcst-Litovsk conference on Friday. &C
cording to the Petrograd correspondent
of the Exchange Telegraph Company.
Evaded by Teuton Delegates
"The return of refugees to Poland
and Lithuania is of the utmost i'm
portance in the question Of self-de-
termination" declared Foreign Minister
Trotzky.
To this the German delegates replied:
"These demands involve questions of
internal policy which cannot possibly
be discussed in the peace parleys."
Foreign Minister Trotzky. however,
declared the Russians will not abandon
their demands.
The Pctrograd correspondent of the
DAILY News" reports that the Ger
mans are doing their utmost to stop
! determination at the front. He inter
prets th.r to mean that the Bolshevlk
propaganda is having it's effect among
the German soldiers. German officers
confscatc all copies of the "Fackcl,' a
Russian newspaper printed In German,
containing a full account of the Brest-
Ltovsk negotiations, and other prop
agandist literature. notwithstanding
this, he adds, the German soldiers
crawl across to the Russian lines every
night to obtain copies of the paper
secretly.
Bolsheviki In Strong Position
Sir George W. Buchanan, British AM
bassador to Russia, in an interview at
Stockholm with a correspondent of the
DAILY News" says that the situation
in Russia is so uncertain that nobody
can know on one day what will hap
pen on the next, but the Bolsheviki are
in such strong position that no other
! party at present is able to turn them
out. He said the Bolsheviki will be
the ruling power as long as they are
able to keep their promises to the peo-
pie.
Asked whether the Entente Allies
were likely to recognize the Bolshe-
''N'' OK &c Icpllcu l!ldl lHcy COulU
not be recognized as representative of
whole Russia, their supporters being
only in the north. South Russia, he
said, was going its own way. The Boil
sheviki had summoned the Constituent
Assembly, but the real rulers of the
country would be the Councils of
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates.
Sir George declared that Foreign
Minister Trotzky was working whole
heartedly for peace and at the same
time fighting the Germans with their
own weapons. His propaganda in the
German army certainly had had a GER
tain amount Of success, although the
Germans denied it,
Whatever happened, Sir George, who
is returning to London on leave be-
cause Of illness, said he was convinced
that Russia's role as an active par
ticipant in the war was ended.