Evening star., 1918-01-11
"NuII and void'' Owing to En- ).
tente Refusal to Join Brest- :
Litovsk ParIey.
ISSUE NOW IS SEPARATE y
PACT WITH RUSSIANS
Central Powers Refuse to Transfer
Negotiations to Neutral
Territory.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, January H.
The central powers have with
drawn their peace terms made
public at the Brest-Litovsk con-
ference on December IS, it was
announced by DR.. Won Kuehl-
mann, the German foreign secre-
tary, in his speech at the Brest-
Litovsk conference with the Rus
slams yesterday.
Owing to the non-acceptance by
all the enemy powers of those
terms DR.. Won Kuehlmann stated :
that document had become null
and void"
Count Czernin, the Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister, at a
full sitting of the peace confer
ence at Brest-Litovsk on Thurs
day, said that as Russia's allies
had not replied to the invitation
to participate in the negotiations
it was now question of sepa-
rate peace between Russia and the
central powers.
Not Willing to Transfer Farley. =
Count Czernin gave reasons for not
wishing to transfer the negotiations to
neutral territory. and said that II the
Russtaps were animated by the ssmN
intentions as the central powers tbs
resrtt 0fs the ns9atiasisRs, will be sat-
iafEctsry. II not. sres1 Possibility for
war would fall exclusively on the Rus
slams.
Dr. Won Kuehlmann, the German for
eign minister, said he considered that
the difaculties which had interrupted
the previous negotiations were not
sufficient to justify the failure Of the
Sumption > Of hosti1ities. He said that
it was the fixed and Interchangeable de-
termination of the central powers not
to conduct elsewhere the peace nego- Z
tiations begun at Brest-Litovsk.
Central Powers Terms. @
cember Is were voiced by Count Czernin.
the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister.
They expressed willingness to conclude -
general peace without forcible annexations
was not the intention of the central powers
to deprive of political Independence those
nations which had lost 1t during the war.
but stipulated that the question Of tha
sr,Ia ~ frV,0I vaFnt
now possessing it could not be solved in
ternationally. but must be left to each
government and its peoples. This qualified
recognition OF the right Of self-determfna-
tion was made use Of in the concrete terms
for treaty later proposed to Russia by
the central powers, in which 1t was claim
ed that this right. had already beens exef-
cised in Poland, Courland and Lithuania-
The refusal OF the central powers to con-
sent to the withdrawal Of their troops from
these regions led to the temporary inter-
ruption Of the negotiations and the counter
proposal BY the Russians that further dis
holm. which question apparently was stfll
pending when the full sitting Of the paaeo
conference was called to order, yesterday
Yesterdays Session.
A Brest-Litovsk dispatch. giving an
account of the session yesterday. says
it was opened at II o'clock. all the, dele
cations, including the Ukrainians. par
ticipating. Talaat Pasha, the Turkish
grand vizier. called the meeting to
order and turned over the chair to DR..
Won kuehlmann. who said: Z
'Inasmuch as changes have occurred
in the composition Of some of the dele
cations it will not be out of place to
give a short survey of the history Of
the course of the negotiations"
After a lengthy review Of the pro-
to date DR.. Won Kuehlmann
said he hoped they would lead to
On knowledge gained during the nego- I
tiations and on the expression by the
Russian delegation OF the Russian peo-
pies wish for secure and lasting peAcA
acultfes met with up to. the time the
negotiations were interrupted were not
great enough to cause the failure Of the
peace work and presumably resumption
If war in the east, with its unforeseen
Trotzky Shows Fight.
PETRoGkAD. January 11.-Unof- &
fieial reports Of the peace negotiations
bolshevik foreign minister. on Tuesday !.
nsistes upon the removal of the con- :
ference to Stockholm. He is reported
o have told the German and Austrian
MS request they would feel the weight
II the arms Of the Russian democracy
md the weight OF the voice OF their 3
,wn democracies. >f..f -
The social rsvolutionists are plan
ainE to hold a convention OF psAsAnfa
deputies and other organizations In
connection with the all-Russian work
mems and soldiers congress- on JAM
Iary 81. An effort Will be made to
,orm a federation Of Russian republics.
including the Ukraine. Siberia. the DON
erritory and the Caucasus. ss -
Try to Create New Army.
LONDON. January 11.-Confrminx
,revious reports that the bolsheviki are :
,reparing to re-estahlish the fighting Y
,ower df the army against a possible
NAL break in the negotiations with the
entral powers. the Petrograd corre-
pondent Of the Daily News says that
hey are not attempting to reanimate
he old worn-out army. but to create o. @
lew and much smaller one Concern
ng this new army Foreign Minister
.rotxky Is reported to have said:
TT will wage mot war, but revolution. 4
q front trenchss VIII be barricades