Arizona republican., 1918-02-16

Trotzky had introduced the subject of the Ukraine at the peace conference.
 The relations between the Ukraine and the Petrograd government" said Count CZernin, do not concern the central powers, and our conclusion of a peace with the Ukraine cannot be re garded as an unfriendly act toward the Petrograd government, but only a treaty of peace which makes the Ukraine, so far as the central powers are concerned. merely a neutral state"
 Replies to Trotzky
 Replying to Trotzky's inquiry re- garding the frontier south of Brest- Litovsk, Dr. von Kuehlmann said:
 Tn drawing these frontiers we at tempted to find a middle course be- tween racial divisions and the histori- cal frontier
 Dr. Von Kuehlmann proposed a new text for the second article of the peace treaty, to the effect that certain from | tier territories, which were not defined, should no longer be subject to the ter | rltorial sovereignty of Russia, and that in the future the lot of these territories should "be decided in agreement with ! their respective peoples according to agreements which Germany or Aus trla- Hungary shall make with them The point was, Dr. von Kuehlmann added, that evacuation of certain ter ritories by the central powers was promised on condition that the Rus sians evacuate Turkish territory simul- | taneous. A sub- committee having failed to reach an agreement on the new frontier proposed by the central powers, another plenary meeting was i held Sunday, when M. Trotzky made | his statement regarding the ending of the war and the demobilization of the 1 Russian army.
 | After Trotzky had made his final statement, pr. von Kuehlmann declared that he must only conclude that the 1 central powers were at war with Rus | Sia. The acts of war, he added. stopped | when the aTmiStice was signed, but when that came to an end the acts of war must revive. The fact that one or two contracting parties demobilized 1 their armies would, he continued, in no wise alter this, either in fact or in | law.
 Dr. von Kuehlmann then asked 1 Trotzky to state where the frontiers of Russia ran and whether Russia was willing to resume commercial and legal | relations with the central powers Trotzky replied that his delegation had exhausted all it's powers and considered 1t necessary to return to Petrograd Communications he added, might be resumed by wireless or through the representatives of the central powers then in Petrograd.
 Russia Will Not Fight
 LONDON, Feb. 15.-Russia's with drawal from the war was a real with drawal, and the throwing away of al agreements with her former allies, saiC Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreigr minister, in reporting to the all-Rus- sian Workmen's and Soldiers councils | on the result of the Bresr-L Litovsk con- ference, according to- a Russian wire. less dispatch received here
 The dispatch says the councils ap. proved Trotzkys policy.
 The wireless communication says:
 M. Trotzky yesterday reported tC the all-Russian central executive com mittee of the councils the results of the Brest-Litovsk negotiations. All par ties, including the opposition groups recognized that the decision taken by the commissioners was the only correc and dignified outcome of the newly created international situation.
 ''The question of the possibility of ; German offensive against Russia wa!