New-York tribune., 1918-01-30

Councils Of Workmen's and Soldiers
Delegates has charged the government
to continue the negotiations with the
Central Powers.
Addressing the congress on the sub
ject Of peace Saturday night. according
TO delayed dispatch, Trotzky declared
that the Germans had masked their real
intentions with fine words, but were in
reality demanding all they could get.
He would not give q guarantee that he
would sign separate peace.
Insist on Democratic Peace
They thought Russia needed peace
a. any price" Trotzky said. "They
we're mistaken This is not the posi-
ton of the Workmer's and Soldiers
government We still insist on demo-
cratic peace.
"Whcn the nation has become ex-
kaustcd and when all the efforts that
have been made have proved unsuccess-
ful, then it might be possible for the
nation to conclude an undemocratic
peace. bu. the present government has
not yc. reached that position. But, II
under force of circumstances it would
he forced &c sign Hn undemocratic
peace. / would never tell the people
that it was democratic peace
Teutons Leave Front
Almost three quarters Of the German
troops have been withdrawn from the
Russian front, according to the news
paper "Nashy Nedomosty." No heavy
guns or armored cars are left, while
the number OF light guns has been
greatly reduced Young soldiers are
being moved daily and their places are
being taken by old men and semi~in
valids. The Gesman Northern front
is strongest. There are no Germans o"
the Southwestern front, and although
the Aus.rians there have not been re-
duced. their heavy artillery has been
withdrawn.
Austrian Peace Offer Reported
NJ. Joffe. OF the Russian Peace Com
mission at Brest-LitovsA, has sent
request to Count Czernin, the Austro
Hungarian Foreign Minister, that he be
given permission to go to Vienna to
confer with representatives of the Aus
trian people regarding peace. In
telegram to the Smolny Institute last
Friday NJ Joffe said that his action was
prompted by general belief that the
Austrian people were most anxious for
peace. regardless OF the views OF their
government.
The Petrograd newspapers emphasize
the Importance of disorders in Vienna
and Cracow and claim to have informa-
ton that the unrest is spreading
through out Austra-Hungary.
The "Nechernia Post" declares that
Austria Hungary already has offered to
make a separate peace With Russia
regardless Of the action of Germany.
A Geneva dispatch says that after
three days fighting the ukrainian
Rada's troops have defeated the Boil
shevik army and taken possession OF
from kev TO the Ukrainian committee
in the Swiss city. The fighting was en-
tremely severe and the losses on both
sides We're heavy. Airplanes. the mes
sage adds. greatly aided the Ckrainians
in gaining the victory.
News has been received at the Boil
shevik headquarters in Petrograd, ac-
cording to the semi-oiYicial news
agency, that the secretariat-g general OF
the Jkrainian Rada has resigned and
that new secretarat will be formed.
This will be made up Of representa- .
tves OF the social revolutionaries Of
tves of the Rada al grest-Litovsk will
be replaced.
A Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd
says, on the authority Of the Commits
sioner of National Affairs, that the
commissioners will not negotiate fur
ther with the Ukrainian Rada, and
that nothing remains but a relentless
struggle until victory has been on
tained by the ukrainian Workmen's
and Soldiers Deputies. The bourgeois
rule OF Ukraine, continued the com
missioner. must be completely liqui-
dated and replaced by a new Socialist
been formed at kharkov
Confirming the outbreak OF diseases
AZ Petrograd. the spondcnt of
The London Times" says the popula-
tion is being decimated thereby. The
epidemic is attributed to the extreme
shortage of food and adulteration with
all kinds of injurious admixtures.
unsanitary Conditions Prevail
Various forms of typhus, as we'll as
are rampant. Moreover, ex-
tremely unsanitary conditions now
prevail in the city, while all the or
CARNATIONS concerned with public
health have either been abolished or
have virtually ceased operations owing
TO the revolution. There is no sani-
tary commission; there are no great
specialists, and there is no registration
of diseases.
Very few doctors are in practice and
some Of these threaten to go to Ger
many if the ignorant Russian pro-
letariat doing menal work in the hos
pitals are permitted to continue die
tating to medical officers and trained
nurses.
According to Berlin advices received
VIA Amsterdam, the Russo German
commissioners at Petrograd have
reached q substantial agreement con-
cerning the exchange of invalids, and
the dispatch of men homeward has
begun to restricted extent. But the
question of the exchange of civilians
and the treatment of unwounded
prisoners of war has not been settled.