Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-25
HUN DEMAND
 THE BARRIER ID ANY PEACE WITH RUSSIA
Demands of Teutonic Envoy
 at Conference and Declara- tions of Chancellor Fail to Agree in Many Particulars.
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 After weeks of vacillatiOn the Ger mans at last have made their demands at the peace conference at Brest-Lit- ovsk and the Russians have declined to accede to them.
 Notwithstanding the fact that the imperial German chancellor in his ma- ny-times postponed speech to the main committee of the reichstag an- nounces that he still holds the hope that an earl and satisfactory conclu- sion of the Brest-LitOvsk conference will be reached. the terms Of the Ger mans as enunciated hy General Hoff- man. one of their chief delegates to the peace conference. so far form an insuperable barrier for the BOishcvfk government which has expressed a de termination to carry out policy. Of no annexationS and no indemnities.
 Courland in it's entirety and all of RuSsia's Baltic provinces are Co De re- Iained by Germany. according to Gen eral Hoffman in what is termed as Germany's last proposal to the Rus sians, and the added threat was given that if the Russians failed 10 acQuiesce in the demands. further inroads into their territory would follow and the important port of Reval, near the mouth ofSthe Gulf of Finland. would be occupied.
 New German Map
 In theatric fashion Hoffman delin- eated on a may, before the aStoniShcd delegates. of the new Russian frontier as the Germans intend it to rln-from the shores of the Gull of Finland east ward to the Moon Sound Islands and then to the west of AiinSk and thence to Brest-LitOvSk-leaving within Ger man boundaries som of Russia'S most important territory.
 Amazed at th au6acity of the Ger man program the Russian delegates asked for time to consider the demand. This was grudgingly given together with the announcement that it SlS the last poStpOnement that could bc eX- pected. The latest adyices are 10 the effect that the Russians have unani- mOusly rejected the German terms.
 What the new situation will bring forth is problematicaL With tho posi- tical situation in Russia stll in tur- mOT and the battle line depleted of fighting men through 1efectiOns, lt is hardly probable that the Russians will be able to withstand any great show oe force by the Germans toward the cap ture Of Reval. which woulj prove a likely base from which to operate against PetrogTad. or to push their line further eastward from the old h2t tie line.
 Austrian Situation Accounts of the situation in Aus tria gleaned from German newspapers indicate that there still is much G;s- content among the worSsngmen and that not all of the strikers have re- turned to work. Widespread diSSatis- faction continues tO be evincod against the governments concessions 10 the Socialists and bitter attacks are be- ing made on the party leaders. The Czechs in parliament have demanded that the monarchy be made a Gei:l0- cratic federal state of natiOnahtieS In Germany the unrest of the pOpC- lace also continues. but the triumphant militariSt party is managing to keep the people in curb. Nevertheless. ac- cording to unofficial statements, the rebelliOus sentiments of the GcrGian ! workmen. especially the independent Socialists are becoming stronger.
 On Fighting Front ! Of great interest as regards the u,il- itary situation is withdrawal of ,he | AustrO-German armies alOnS the ltal- ian front. from the Piaye river west ward.
 The retrograde movement was un- doubtedly due to the hsrrassfnS ar tacks the Italians. reinforced ly the French and British. have been deliV- ering for several weeks past. The ir- dications are that the enemy has now given up. for the time being at least. his ambition to drive through the mountains and out upon the Venetian plain.
 | On the other fronts the belligerents are keeping up their intensive bomb ardments on various eSctors and here and there sending out bands of infan- try on raiding and reconnOiterirg oper- atiOns.