The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-12
RUSSANGERMAN
PEACE LIKELY TO !.
Be SHORT-LIVED
Returned Delegate From Best
Litovsk Says Treaty Sign
ed Under CompuIsion
BERL IN, REI0IcES OVER
i''' ROAD LEADING TO EAST
Entire Polish BRIGADE In Service
Of Austria. RevoIts, De-
serts Main Body

WASHINGTON, March 0--tAssOcia. r.
ed Press Peace between Russia and
Germany may be expected TO be short
lived for the peccc treaty was signed
under compulsion pnd was by no means
satisfactory to the Russian peace dele
gates. This IL the startling assertion
made by NJ, AlcxieF, one Of the Bolshe,
Yist peace delegates TO the Rrest Ito
vsk conference upon his return t
Petrograd as. was told in despatrhe
which were received from there las
hight. He commented especially on tic
surrender of the Eastern Caucasus see
ton. which the treaty provides shall be
-cstored TO Turkey and said this SUI
ender was made under such circuTh-
stances that il was probably impos-
able it could ever he recovered AMI
made a part of a great Russian re-
public.
Yield Under compu,sion
The returned delegate regretted that
be and the other delegates were con-
PEELED to yield to terms that must be
unsatisfactory to the proletariat but
18th their country incapable of resuh.
ing hostilities and with the demands Of
the Germans increasing with each day
Of delay there was nothing else that
'ould be done, he said.
rrotzky Resigns
In an address which he delivered q
meeting Of the Maximalist Party il
Petrograd last night and during whic
e sought to explain the reasons .
he Brest-Iitovsk delegates for sigh
hg the peace agreement and submitting
) hn 60 N,on hx hn y "A.
,ian prOletariat Leon Trotzkv annoub
ed he had resigned "a commissary Of
Foreign affairs in the Bolshevist gov
ernment
DELIGHT in Berlin
Berlin y satisfaction in the peace
treaty is indicated in a Wolf despatch
'hi"h wRs received at The Hague and
which said: owe have acquired %
lirect and free route to Afghanistan
md Persia through Russia To this
he Berlin newspapers attach a tremeh
dous Importance.
Polish Brigade Revolts
Dissatisfied with the terms of the
treatv with the Ukraine. it is reported
that an entire Polish brigade in the
Nustri"u service has revolted and has
deserted the main body. This brigade
is reported 10 have gone somewhere
,pto Beserabia' and is apparently act.
~" inaene" nv md taking no Oh
ders from the Austrian government Or
military commanders
Krvlenko Resigns
Resignation of Ensign Krylenko and
ighting by the Russian forces in some
""tions was reported yesterday in
Petrograd dispatches. The commander
chief of the Russian armies is report
ID to have stepped out because of tic
differences between the delegates 70
he workmen y council and the people
IN the question of the ratification Of
he treaty nj the convention which Is
be held at Moscow.
Other Petrograd reports said KiqH
Sad not been taken from the Russian
evolutionary forces by the Teutons as
ad been reported and that the Rus
inns had captured hamburg.
Orders that all workers in Siberia
hail mobilize for service at the front
rprr reported from Hnrhin. The De
,patch said these were Bolshpvist orders
'ut did not Indicate whether it was
Intended to meet possible invasion Of
siberia by Japan and China or was de
igned for other purposes.