New Britain herald., 1918-01-23

London, Jan. 23.-A long state
 ment dealing with the Brest-Litovslz
 negotiations issued through the Bol-
 shevik telegraph agency at Petrograd
 emphasizes the advantage of the
 German refusal to give any sort of
 a guarantee on the evacuation of oc-
 cupied territory.
 In such circumstances says the
 statement *'the words 'self-determin-
 ation' sound like mockery of princi-
 ples and the people concerned"
 The statement then asks what ob-
 ject the Austro- German imperialists
 had on December 25 in recognizing
 the principle of a democratic peace
 and answers: "The same object as
 was followed by Wilson, Lloyd George
 and other imperialists in exhibiting
 their democratic proclamation and
 growing humanity and the complete control of capital After a wordy speculation as to what prompted the Germans to take the course they took in the negotiations the state- ment continues:
 '"The revolution cannot live in att mosphere of deceit and falaehood. The revolution may not at a given l moment be in a position to repudiate
 the annexationists but it will never
 humiliate itself to call black white and won't cover up the brutal an- reXationists pretensions with the fig leaf of democracy.
 "The significances of the Brest- LitoVsk pour parlers are that they
 stripped from German imperialism it's false coats temporarily borrowed from the dem mocratic wardrobe and
 exposed the cruel reality of annexa- tonism of owners and capitalists. l There is nothing more to be demand ed from the pourparlers''
 M. Karakhan, secretary of the Rus- sian delegation at BreSt-Litovsk has announced, says an Exchange Tele- graph despatch from Petrograd that
 the Russian delegation has made an official protest to Dr. Won kuehlmann and Count Czernin, heads of the Ger man and Austrian delegations, re- garding the omission from the official German reports the declaration of Leon Trotz1y at the last sitting re- specting the attitude of the Central Powers. Trotzky said that after a fortnight's negotiations Germany and Austria were insisting on terms con- 1 trary to the principles they axknow- edged in their announcement of Dec 1 ember 25 respecting peace without an- nexations or indemnities.
 On Verge of Starvation Petrograd, Jan. 23-Since the dis solution of the constituent assembly ! and disappearance of any hope of rec- onciling the striving political parties, public attention in north Russia is centered on the bread shortage, the 1o ooJ- of no Fl 2 Inf thn breakdown of transportation and com
 mercial stagnation as the result of the
 closing of the banks. Moscow, Petro-
 grad and the larger cities of north , Russia have little bread.
 The bread allowance in Petrograd today has been reduced to a quarter of a pound daily and the food com mission has limited eggs to children under three years old, each child to ! have four eggs a month. But eggs are not obtainable at any price. The commission has limited meat to small children, and potatoes have been sub- stituted for bread at many places in
 north Russia
 A general suspension of passenger trains began today in an effort to speed the transportation of foodstuffs from Siberia and south Russia to the north, put lTalllC IS nlnoeIeu Dy CH0 masses of wandering soldiers from all sections of the country who insist their trains have precedence over freight Nearly all trains arriving at Petrograd are crowded with soldiers. Withdrawals on checks are limited to 300 rubles to each depositOr daily and long lines form at the banks be- cause of the long delays and difficulty in getting money. BOlSheVik agents are opening safe deposit boxes and rontiScating hoarded gold and silver