South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-09
MUTINY REPORTED
n ARMY or EAST.

international News Service.
COPENHAGEN. Jan. 9- Wide
spread mutiny i'm the German army
on the eastern front is giving the
bolshevik government at Perrograd
ground for hope that Germany viii
modify her terms for separate
peace, according 10 dispatch from
Petrograd today
The cablegram contained quota
tions from an interview with Leon
Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign min
lister. 90 support this belief
According TO Trotzky deserters are
swarming into the Russian lines
bringing with them stories OF gen
eral disaffection An army" of
more than 25.0o0 mutiueers was
said TO have deserted the German
trenches in the Kovuo district. bur
were later surrounded and isloated
by other German forces Their fate
is unknown
(It was stated several daEs ago
that 5000 German soldiers had
mutinied on the eastern front. but
at that time the report was said 10
be without confirmation and no de-
tails We're given. This was the first
definite statement on the natter
TrOtzky's View of Peace.
AS TO the peace situation Trotzky
was quoted as saying.
THE bolsheviki Will fight inde-
/ pendently OF the rulings OF the Brest
Litovsk conference unless they CO.
incide with our ideas Of democratic
10 allow us to make a peace advan-
tageous to Germany. however, so
that Germany would be willing 10
concede more elsewhere There II
no question that Germany needs "a
general peace, but SO far she has
not offered a chance for IT,"
The interview was given before
Trotzkv left for Brest Litovsk 20
renew the peace NEGOTIATIONS with
Germany. He is AT Bre-r TItovsl,
now
The German envoys uou at Brest
Litovsk are reported to have oeen
I instructed TO notify the boIshevfk
delegates thar Germany uiII not re-
move her armies from tho eastern
front until the Russian army is de-
m0buized.
THE HAGUE. Jan -Nomeutous
conferences are taking place iu Ger
many % allay the crisis which de-
velopcd over the announcement that
the imperial government Is prepared
I % negotiate peace on the basis of
no annexations nor indamnities
/ according tr information reaching
I diplomatic circles today.
Powerful pressure being
brought to bear upon the kaiser to
make a definite statement ir sup
port of the war aims of Tho Pan
/ Germans
While the miiur-t- ae calling
T for "A strong peace" the socialists
are increasing their agitation fn boz
7 hair ~ democratic peace with con-
I cessi0us. II necessary and The situa-
ton has become Ed acute that
military dictatorship seems fa he
certain
The threats of the mElar.-ts In-
clude the gnatou ~ TTeia Mar
4 shall Won Hiudeuaur- ~ chief ~ Tho
German general -t8T unless the
, kaiser repudiates the -Heas terms
/ OF the socialists and Gelrrel .l-ns
/ himself with the anuezatlaas
Gazette sounds Warnn4
/ In this connection the semi -oGtcial
Cologne Gazette sounds this warn
\ ing.
Tine socialists must take heed
that The names of Eon Hindenburg
land Won r.uderdorrr r.-.r-teIr must
not be- dragged into political 1garreis
in the corridors OF the re.eas-ag.'
stern repressive measures are
urged against the socialists by the
/ miiitarists who have af least uu-
/ masked themselves and stand forth
/ today bon their true coIors determined
20 dominate an of Germany even
1.-THE throne