Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02

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attitude OF the entente powers.
By the Associated Press
LONDON, January 2.-Peace negotia-
tions at Brest-Litovsk have been bfoken
off by the bolshevik government owing
to the German attitude in regard to Po-
land and Lithuania and the enemy,s
proposal that garrisons be retained at
Libau, Riga and elsewhere, according to
a telegram from the Petrograd corre-
spondent of the Daily News, appearing
in late edition of that paper today.
New Phase to Negotiations.
The dispatch quotes an article from
the bolshevik newspaper Izvestia dis
cussing "the new phase in the peace
negotiations" The article SAYS that.
owing to pressure from below, the Ger-
mans have been obliged to soil their
lips with the formula put forward by
the socialists at the beginning of the
war. but the German imperialists would
not be imperialists if they did not try
teeth they yielded in words
The Russian revolution cannot ac-
cept their conditions to retain Poland
and Lithuania- Just you try it. gentle
This sis The line. the Correspondent Of
the Daily News adds, that probably win
be taken at a general meeting tonfsht
(TuesdayD to consider the report OF the
Russian peace delegates
World Revolution Is Aim
The bolshevik aim. he adds, is a world
revolution of peace on their own terms. =
which. they think. will discredit the ir,,-E
perialists generally. The corresponding
continues: -
.And if, in the lohg run. Russia i
driven to conclude separate peace OF,
any other terms l prophesy that the
Russian signatories to such peace
Will not be bolsheviki. but members OF,
opposition political parties
further that considerable Plumbers ~
red guards are being sent to reinforce
the front and that other preparationn
for defense are being made.
Date of Meeting Not Clear.
1t is not clear from the dispatcl, ,f
the Daily News correspondent utee
the meeting which is said to have re-
suited in the breaking Off of peace uo-
gotiations was held and there is a MOI
sibility that the report refers to an all
legged rupture of negotiations several
days ago when the discussions were
adjourned.
Il have private and reliable fnforma.
tion with regard to the breaking on
Of the peace negotiations. which estab-
fishes beyond doubt the honesty of pur.
pose of the bolsheviki," says the cor.
respondent. whose dispatch is dated
Tuesday. The central powers proceeded
to make more detailed statement OF
fav frnY rrh fnI, 80 e
considered Poland, Lithuania CourlanG.
ETC., had already defined themselyes
They further based their demand on
the statement of the Ukraine that it
at which it was not represented ofticIaI-
ly. They demanded that they should
keep garrisons at Riga, Libau and
other strategic points.
Germans Are Jeered.
'"The Russian delegation, acting on
unequiyocal instructions from the boil
shevik authorities, took an uncom-
promising attitude. They said self
definition was impossible until the last
German soldier had left the country.
Further, they jeered the Germans, ask.
ing what they proposed to do They
asked whether they intended to take
Petrograd and feed 100000 starving
folk. or to disarm revolutionary coun-
try. in which every workman had
rifle. They also asked what the Ger
mans proposed to say to their own
democracy. which protested couple of
months ago against the proposed an
nexation of Poland and Lithuania. They
that they were surprised that
even the Prussian junkers had such au-
dacity.
The Germans asked time for con-
and begged that this stage of
the negotiations should not be pub
Iished The Russians refused to allow
this and left Brest-Litovsk."
Germany Will Not Be Bound.
Yeltman PavIovitch. non-bolsheyik
member of the Russian delegation to .
Brest-Litovsk. according to an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Petro-.
grad. says that the German attitude in
regard to the freeing of occupied Rus
sian territories depends entirely on the
of the bolshevik govern
ment with the Ukraine and the Cos
sacks He adds that If the entente
allies refuse to negotiate a general
peace, Germany will rot consider her
to the bolsheviki binding.
Germanys fundamental war aims, NJ.
added. is to create an econ y
omy union stretching from Hamburg
to the Persian gulf. giving Turkey and
Bulgaria. with certain restrictions, the :
same position as that occupied by Aus
tralia and Canada in their economic re-
lations with Great Britain.
Teuton Allies Obstinate.
The representatives of Bulgaria ana
Turkey, the Russian delegate said, are
most obstinate regarding concessions
as cmpared with the German delegates,
and he believes that their attitude VIII
hamper further negotiations.
II. Payloyttch thinks that Germany