The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-16
GERMANY WON'T
YIELD TERRITORY
Peace Farley Reveals Policy
Of Conquest.
TO HOLD LAND in RUSSIA

Division of Sentiment in kaiser's EN-
pire Becomes Sharply Defined Over
Peace Policy.
Amsterdam. Jan. 16.-Further news
of the wrangles between the Bolshe
Wiki and the central powers delegates
at the peace conference at Brest-Lit
ovsk are published by the Wolff bu
reau. the semi-official news agency in
Berlin
More serious disagreements have
developed. The Germans indicated q
refusal to evacuatG COurland. Lithua
mia. Riga and the islands of the gull
II Riga.
Other dispatches from Berlin re
port increasing bitterness in the news
paper conflict between the annexa
tionists and advocates of a moderate
peace policy.
Following is the Wolff bareau dis
patch on the Brest-Litovsk confer
ence:
"a committee composed of Ger
mans. Austro-Hungarians and Rus
slams, for the discussion of territorial
questions, held three long sittings or
Friday and Saturday. 1t was agreed
that the first paragraph of the peace
treaty should be clause announcing
that the state of war between the par
ties had been concluded.
"The Germans proposed a clause
reading: That the contracting parties
have resolved henceforth to live In
Deace and friendship
Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki for
efgn minister, refused to indorse this
declaring that it was "a decorative
phrase, which does not describe the
ist between the Russian and German
Peoples
1T was confirmed that the evacua
ton of occupied territory by both par
ties should take place on the basis OF
full reciprocity, so that the evacuation
by the central powers of Russian ter.
ritory would synchronize with the
evacuation by Russia of the occupied
regions in Austria Hungary, Turkey
and Persia. Later, Persia was struck
out. as not being a belligerent party,
and NJ. Trotzky proposed to add the
following:
Russia undertakes as speedily as
possible to remove her troops from
neutral Persia
''He said he had no other ground
for this than a desire to emphasize
the CRYING wrong committed by the
former Russian government against a
neutral country"
The Wolff bureau report covers
nearly 5000 words. and shows that the
discussion concerning the date of the
evacuation was broken off by the par
ties failing to agree. A long discus
sion concerning which parts Of the
occupied territory should be evacuat-
ed also resulted in a disagreement
4 prolonged debate arose over the
question of admitting representatives
of Portland, Courland and Lithuania
70 the negotiations, and on the ques-
ton of what constituted self-determin-
alton by these provinces. The dis
cussion become embittered, and the
only result was a protest by General
Hoffman,. of the German delegation,
against he tone of the Russian dele
CATION. which he said, "speaks as II
II stood victorious in our countries
and could dictate conditions"
General Hoffman, reminded the
delegates that the Bolsheviki authori-
ty. as much as the German. was
founded on force. as instanced by
what he termed the attempts to srp-
nress the White Russia and the Ukra-
inian attempts at self-determina ion.
General Hoffman, finally declared
that the German supreme army com
mand must refuse to evacuate Cour-
land, Lithuania. Riga and the islands
in the gulf of Riga.