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London, Jan. 2.-Peace negotia-
tions at Brest cmfw yatm fatmatmm
tions at Best-Litovosk have been
broken off by the Bolsheviki govern
ment owing to the German attitude
in regard to Poland and Lithuania
and the enemy's proposal that gar
risons be retained at Libau, Riga
an delsewhere, according to a tele-
gram from the Petrograd correspon-
dent of The Daily News appearing
in late edition Of that paper today.
The dispatch quotes an article from
the Bolshevik newspaper Izvestia,
discussing "the new phase in the
peace negotiations" The article says
that owing to pressure from below
the Germans have been obliged to
soil their lips with the formula put
forward by the Socialists at the be-
ginning of the war, but the German
imperialists would not be imperialists
if they did not try to take back in
fact what with gritted teeth they
yielded in words.
"The Russian revolution cannot ac-
cept their conditions to retain Poland
and Lithuania. Just you try it, gen
tlemen," says The Izvestia.
This is the line, the correspondent
of The Daily News adds, that prob
ably will be taken at a general meet
ing tonight (Tuesday?) to consider
the report of the Russia peace dele
gates.
The Bolsheviki aim, he adds, is a
world revision of peace on their own
terms which they thing will discredit
the imperialists generally.
The correspondent continues:
"And, if in the long run Russia is
droven to conclude a separate peace
on any other terms, I prophesy that
the Russian signatories to such a
peace will not be Bolsheviki but
members of opposition political par
ties"
The Daily News correspondent
says further that considerable num-
bers of Red Guards are being sent
to reinforce the front and that other
preparations for defense are being
made.
1t is not clear from the dispatch of
The Daily News correspondent when
the meeting which is said to have re-
suited in the breaking off of peace
negotiations was held and there is a
possibility that the report refers to
an alleged rupture of negotiations
several days ago when the discus
| sions were adjourned.
German Demands
T have private and reliable in1or-
nation with regard to the breaking
off of the peace negotiations, which
establishes beyond doubt the honesty
of purpose of the Bolsheviki," says
the correspondent, whose dispatch is
dated Tuesday, "The central powers
proceeded to make more detailed
statement of terms, from which it ap-
peared that they consider Poland,
Lithuania, Courland ETC., had already
defined themselves. They further
based their demand on the statement
of Ukraine that it would not recog-
nize peace negotiations at which it
was not represented officially. They
demanded that they should keep gar
sisons at Riga, Libau and other
strategic points
"The Russian delegation, acting on
unequivocal instructions from the
Boleshevik authorities, took an un-
compromising attitude. They said
self-defnition was impossible until
the last German soldier had left the
country. Further, they jeered the
Germans asking what they proposed
to do. They asked whether they in
tended to take Petrograd and feed
100000 starving folk, or to disarm
a revolutionary country in which
every workman had rifle. They
also asked what the Germans pro- !.
posed to say to their own democracy
which protested a couple of months
ago against the proposed annexation
of Poland and Lithuania. They re-
marked that they were surprised that
even the Prussian junkers had such |
'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."
Negotiations for a general peace
at Brest- Lotovsk were adjourned Dec.
25 until Jan. 4. Since then at Brest-
Litovsk and in Petrograd represen-
tatives of Russia an dthe central
powers have been discussing infor-
mally points to be settled in the event
IF peace agreement being reached.
agreement has been
reached on some points but the Rus
sian proposals regarding occupied
territories were not received with ia
7or apparently by the Germans. A
report from Amsterdam on Dec. 81
said that DR.. Won Kuehlmann, the
German foreign secretary, would ap-
pear before the foreign committee of
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