The daily banner., 1918-01-30
BOLSHEvIkI SPLIT
OVER PEACE ISSUE
Majority Opposed to Granting
German Terms.
Coalition of All Socialist Factions
Now Proposed to Garry Gu. Ma.
jority's Views.

Now Proposed to Carry Gu. Ma
jority's Views.
London, Jan. 20.--The Eo s.:ev X
have split on the question Cf pe ce.
a majority being against til co2clu-
sion of peace on the German terms in
favor of a holy war, an Exchange
Telegraph despatch from Petrograd
says.
AS the present government is un-
able to carry on the w9r the forma-
ton of coalition OF all Socialist fac
tions w9s proposed.
A despatch filed in Petrograd on
Monday says:
Leon TrotsEy, the Bo!sheviki for.
eign minister, and NJ. Kameneff left
Petrog-ad for Rrest-I .itovsk to resume
the peace negotiations with the cen
trail powers. The congress of the
councils of workmen's and soldiers
delegates, while deploring tie i'm
leralistic tenor of the German peace
terms, approved all the actions of the
Russian delegation, and charged the
government to continue the negotia-
tions.
The congress adopted a resolution
to this effect after the minority, made
up of Minimalists and Social revolu-
tionists of TIE right, had sought vain
ly to persuade the adoption OF policy
fatty against separate peace. Dur
ing the debate, Foreign Ministe" Trot-
sky declared he could not give a
qua ua"antee that he would not sign a
separate peace, saying:
"To call separate peace dis
grace is blasphemy in the sight of
blood-covered Europe"
: The report that Trotsky and KN-
! meneff are on the way back TO Brest-
! Litovsk is denied by the semi-offi ial
Russian news agency. A despatch
sent out by the news agency saws NJ.
Kameneff is going to Stockholm, on
don and Paris. with the object of in
| forming the allied governments con-
ce-ning the progress of the peace
pourparlers.
According to reports received from
Berlin by wav of Amsterdam. peace
negotiations Will be re Sumed at Brest
Litovsk. Count CZernin, the Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister, and Dr.
Won Kueh!mann, the German secre
tary of foreign affairs, arrived there
Monday.
Almost three-quarters of the Ger
man troops have been withdrawn from
the Russian front, according to the
| newspaper Nasty Vedomosty No
heavy guns or armored cars are left.
been greatly reduced. Young soldiers
are being removed daily and their
places are being taken by old men
and semi-invalids. The German nor
thern front is strongest. There are
no Germans on the southwestern
/ front, and. although the Austrians
| tifef I'll heri Have not 6een reduced their
heavy artillery has been withdrawn.
Trotsky, addressing the congress of
councils OF workmen's and soldiers
delegates on the question of peace on
Saturday night, declared that the Ger
mans had masked their real inten-
tentions with fine words, but are in
reality demanding all they can get.
"They thought Russia needed peace
at any price" Trotsky said. They
were mistaken. This is not the posi-
tion of the workmen's and soldiers
government We still insist on
! democratic. peace.
when the nation has become ex-
hausted and when all the efforts thata
/ have been made prove unsuccessful
then 1t might be possible for the ma.
ton to conclude an undemocratic
peace. but the present government
has not yet reached that position. But,
If under force of circumstances, 1t
| would be forced to sign an undemo-
cratic peace, it would never tell the
people that 1t was democratic
peace"