The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-11


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With - G Russian soldiers opposite
the. il was announced here today
>msterdam. Jan. 11.-After Brest-
I.itovek dispatches, received via Ber-
In. had declared the Russo-German
pence negotiations definitely suspend
ed yesterday. messages arriving late
this afternoon reported resumption
the meetings. 1t was stated that
the Ckrain.ah delegates were present
ine their demands.
Whether this meant that the full
conference was resumed or that TO-
day : meeting was merely between
central powers delegates and repre-
sontativds of Ukrainia-now recog-
nized as an independent state-was
not clear in dispatches received here
Foreign Minister TrotZky was re-
u lited in the earlier messages as him
If moving suspension of the peace
meetings.
Amsterdam, Jan. 1.-THE Russo
German peace conferences at Brest-
Litovsk have been terminated. The
strings were suspended Thursday, ac-
riding to dispatches received here to-
d y. when the Germans flatly and
fin. lily refused to transfer negotiations
neutral soil Bolsheviki Foreign
Minister Trotzky himself moved the
CGUTlUSlOn OF the meeting
~ German delegates formally an
noupced that all plans for a general
peace meeting were considered as
definitely off by the central powers,
because of the failure of the entente
powers to respond within ten days to
tn invitation to participate. Count
CZcrnin, Austrian foreign minister,
formally announced that henceforth
the central powers were willing to
negotiate only separate peace with
Russia.
Exchange Bitter Words.
That the session was more or less
bitter was evident from dispatches
quoting General Won Hoffman, one of
the German delegates. as protesting
angrily to the conference against wire
less messa Ees signed by the repre-
sentatives of the Russian government
which he said ''insulted" the German
military command by urging the Ger
man troops to revolt.
Hoffman protested that such mes
cages ''transgressed the spirit of the
armistiee Other central powers
delegates joined in this protest
1t was Immediately following this
assault on the Russian plan to estab-
lish harmony of effort between the
plain people of Germany and the Rus
sian proletariat that Foreign Minister
Trotzky formally moved suspension of
the sittings.
Kuchlmann Would Heal Breach
Immediately before this. however.
German Foreign Minister Kuehlrnann
asserted positively:
Il do not consider the difficulties
now developed as great enough to
make our peace efforts fail, or to force
resumption of war on the eastern
front"
Count Czernin announced formally
that henceforth only the question of a
separate peace could be considered bv
no I If ha
days limit within which the German
delegates granted the entente allies
time to join the general peace deliber-
atoms having expired. He insisted the
Russian scheme for transfer of the ne
ROTATIONS to neutral soil would simply
grant the allies a chance to interfere
with the Russo German separate
peace negotiations, altho he expressed
for signing such a peace agreement on
neutral soil
May Proceed Thru Committee.
Regarding the points in disagree
ment between the two sides, Count
Czernin recalled that it had been de-
cided at a previous session to place
them in the hands of a committee
The central powers he said, had now
decided to conclude the negotiations
on the basis which Foreign Secretary
Kuehlmann and the Russian commit
tee members had already considered
'If the Russians intentions are not
altered" he added satisfactory re-
suits may be reached. If not-matters
will take their necessary course and
responsibility for continuation of the
war will fall exclusively on the Rus
slams"
General Popoff. for Bulgaria, and
Talaat Bey for Turkey, both announced
their or,s1or-er~l71ent 81 til rrOSftion thus
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