Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
RUSSIAN PEACE MOVE
HALTED, LONDON SAYS
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own terms. which they think wils
discredit the Imperialists generally
The correspondent continues
And If in the long run !:ussia is
driven to conclude a separate peace
on any other terms, ! prophesy that
the Russian signatories\ to such a
peace will not be Bolsheviki, buS
members of opposition political par-
ties"
1t is not clear from the dispatch
of the Daily News correspondent
when the meeting which is said to
have resulted in the declaring off of.
peace negotiations was held and
there is possibility the report refers
to an alleged rupture of negotiations
several days ago when the discuss,
sions were adjourned.
Il have private and reliable in-s.
formation with regard to the break
ing off of the peace negotiations.
which established beyond doubt the
honesty of purpose of the Bolshe-
WIKI says the correspondent. whosey
dispatch is dated Tuesday. THE,
central powers proceeded to makes
a more detailed statement of terms
from which it appeared that they
considered Poland, Lithuania, Cour-,
land, etc, had already defined them-
selves. They further based their
demand on the statement of Ukraine
that it would not recognize peace
negotiations at which it was not rep
resented officially. They demanded.
that they should keep garrisons an
Riga, Libau and other strategic
points.
THE Russian delegation, acting
on unequivocal instructions from the
Bolsheviki authorities, took up an
uncompromising attitude. They said
self-detinition was impossible until
the last German soldier had left thu.
country. Further, they jeered the
Germans asking what they proposed
to do. They asked whether they in
tended to take Petrograd and feed
5000, 600 starving folk, or to disarm
revolutionary country in which ev-
cry workman had rifle. They also
asked what the Germans proposed
to say to their own democracy.
which protested couple of months
ago against the proposed apnexation
of Poland and Lithuania. They re-
marked that they were surprised
that even the Prussian iunkers had
such audacity.
The Germans asked time for con-
sideration and begged that this stage
of the negotiations should not be
published. The Russians refused to
allow this and left Brest-Litovsk."
The Petrograd correspondent OF
the Daily News referring to NJ.
Radek's speech, the Russians de-
manded that all Socialists imprison-
ed in Germany be released immedi-
ately. Count Won Hirbach, head OF
the German political delegation in
Petrograd, replied that this was "a
! political question and that the dele
| CATION was only empowered to deal
! with technical matters. The corre-
spondent reports that the Russians
insisted, however, and that Count
! Won Mirbach agreed to transmit the
demand to the German government.
The delegation, adds the CORE
! spondent, will probably he embar-
rassed by the further demand that
large numbers of civilians who had
been taken to Germany and forced
to labor be released.
| London, Jan. 2-The representatives
of Bulgaria and Turkey, Russian del
| egates say, are most obstinate re-
| garding peace concessions as COM
pared with the German delegates and
| he believes that their attitude will
hamper further negotiations.
NJ. Pavlovitch thinks Germany GER
tainly will demand the evacuation OF
Mesopotamia, Arabia and Palestine
| for the freedom of Belgium and occu-
pied French territory. and if the sue
cesses of the central powers in Italy
continue, also will demand the return
of Tripoli.
Negotiations for a general peace at
| Brest-Ltovsk were adjourned Decem-
Der 25 until January 4. Since then
| at BrestLitovsk and in Petrograd
representatives of Russia and the
central powers have been discussing
| informally points to be settled in the
event of a peace agreement being
| reached. Provisional agreement has
been reached on some points but the
Russian proposals regarding occu-
pied territory were not received with
favor apparently by the Germans. A.
report from Amsterdam on December
81 said DR.. Won Kuehlmann, the Ger
man foreign secretary, would appear
before the foreign committee of the
German Bundesrath on Wednesday to
| explain the status of the Russian me-
| gotiations.