South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-14
Peace ParLeys Are
Again Threatened
BY Teuton Demands
BOISheVk ENJOYS Likely to Reject MitaStC Terms Upon
Which KaiSerS Delegates Have Now Been In
StruCeed to InSSt-ArmiStiCe Said to
Have Been Violated.
InternaLIonaI NeMs SerII-e !.

international News Service:
LONDON, Jan. 14-Efforts by the
German envoys at Brest LitoVsk to
impose militaristic peace terms upon
Russia today threatened TO bring the
negotiations 10 an end.
1t was reported from Petrograd
that the bolshevik ENJOYS probably
would return from Brest Litovsk to-
morrow.
1t is learned further that the
Russians demanded a return Of all
the war refugees TO Poland and
Lithuania in the event an agree
ment was reached on self deter
mination and the peoples of those
districts were given the choice 10
say by their vote what their future
government should be.
The Turks, whose terms were re-
jected by the bolshevik delegates,
are reported 10 have broken the
armistice on the Armenian front
and dghting is believed to have been
resumed there.
A dispatch from Kuban said that
the Turks had landed 10000 troops
from Black sea transports near Ire
bizond and that a submarine which
was with the transports had sunk a
big Russian transport. Both acts
were in direct violation Of the terms
of the armistice.
A report was in circulation at
Petrograd that the parley might be
removed from Brest Litovsk 10 War
saw. but there was no official con-
firmation from the bolshevik or
German governments at the time
this dispatch was written.
Expect Rupture of Relations.
The Petrograd correspondent of
the Daily News takes the attitude
that the negotiations will be broken
off a cablegram from this writer,
published in the Daily News today,
said:
The final rupture Of the Russo
Geman peace negotiations at Brest
LitOvsk may be expected any hour.
1t is now apparent that the Ger
man militarists continue TO impose
their policy upon their delegates
and if this is kept up it probably
will end the conference"
Another Crown Council.
There was another crown council
in Berlin on Sunday which was has
tily called by the kaiser 70 consider
the Russian peace situation, accord
ing to Amsterdam advices today.
The crown prince. Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg and Gen. Won Lu-
dendorff were said 10 have been
among those present.
In the meantime the negotiations
which were being carried on be-
tween representatives of the central
powers and the bolshevik govern
ment at Petrograd to settle econom-
ic questions and arrange for the
exchange of prisoners, has been sus-
pended, pending the action taken
by the cOnferees at Brest Litovsk.
Retiring EnvOy's View.
No matter what fate awaits the
peace negotiations Russia has fin
ished her role as an active power in
the war. according to Sir George
Buchanan, the retiring British am
bassadOr at Petrograd. Sir George
has reached Stockholm on his way
to London and a dispatch from that
city today quoted him as saying:
The bolshevik government has
attained such a position that there
is little likelihood OF its being over
thrown. although il cannot be re-
garded as representative Of all Rus
sia. The constituent assembly has
now been summoned but in my
opinion the Soviets Cbolsheviki) will
still be the real holders OF power.
Trotzky. the foreign minister. is try
ing hard for a separate peace. but
at the same time ne is fighting the
Germans with their own weapons"
Austrian newspapers are now
taking the attitude that with Russia
being split up into small states
eastern Europe will soon be as run
OF danger as the Balkans. Racial
hatreds between the Balkan states
are held b. some 10 be one Of the
contributing causes of the world
war.