Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-06
TROTzKY TO ENTER
FARLEY FOR PEACE
Delay of Russian Delegates in
Return to Brest-Litovsk
Is Explained.
ALLIED RECOGNITION WAITS
RECOGNITION WAITS
By the Associated Press.

BY Inc Associated Press.
LONDON, January 5.-A dispatch from
Berlin. forwarded by Reuters Amster-
dam correspondent late in the day, gave
an explanation Of the Russian failure
to greet the Teutons on their return to
Brest-Litvosk. and said the Russian
ing place, accompanied by Leon Trot-
zky. bolshevik foreign minister. ON
Trotzky did not attend the earlier ses-
sions Of the delegates.) According to
these advices. Baron Won Dem Busche-
Haddenhausen. the German undersec-
rotary for foreign affairs. informed the
reichstag main committee that he had
received this telegram from Petrograd:
The transfer of negotiations to neutral
territory has been suggested only on &C
count of the stage which the negotia-
tions have reached. In view Of the arri-
val of the German delegation at Brest
Litovsk. the Russian delegation, accom-
panied by NJ Trotzky, is leaving Satur-
day for Brest-Litovsk. They are con-
WINGED that an understanding in regard
to the transfer of the negotiations to
neutral ground will give rise to no dim
Guilty
British Attitude Unchanged.
In reference to the report that the
allies are shortly to recognize the boil
shevik government and that Great
Britain will accept the appointment by
the bolsheviki of Maxim Litvinoff as
Russian ambassador in London, the
Times says 1t has reason to believe no
change has occurred in the attitude of
the British government. Moreover, the
government has received no intimatton
of NJ. Litvinoffs appointment
MI m -. T.
to be necessary to deny this report, but
that any one who needs to be treasured
may take 1t that the story is baseless.
Answers Charge of Arrests.
PETROGRAD, Friday, January A.
Leon Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign min
lister. issued note today saying that
Count Won Mirbach, head of the German
political delegation at Petrograd, had de-
clared at a sitting of the conference
which is considering the situation Of war
prisoners that he could refute by a tele-
gram received by his government the re-
ported arrests of members Of the mi
nority socialist party in Germany. Re-
Gently the count said only eight persons
had been arrested for espionage and
these were not connected with tho indie
pendent socialist party.
NJ. Radek, a member of the Russian
peace delegation, replied that the Ger
man government apparently was misin-
formed. as the Cologne newspapers had
announced the arrest of the Cologne
committee of the Independent socialists.
This, he added, dealt a blow at the
work of peace.
Herr Won Eckert, in the name of the
German delegation. withdrew it's refusal
to discuss the position of Polish work.
men deported to Germany
GA Zurich dispatch on December 81
said that more than 800 Of the German
minority socialists were arrested on
Christmas eve at various towns through
Germany
To Divide Russian Grain.
AMSTERDAM. January 5-The head
officials of the Hungarian war products
bureau. says Budapest dispatch TODAY
have gone to Berlin for consultations
regarding the division among the CEN
trail powers of grain imports from RUS
STA.
Lenine Elevates Cars Friend.
STOCKHOLM. January 5.-A belated
Petrograd dispatch received here TODAY
announced that Nikolai Lenine. the bol-
shevik prime minister, had appointed M
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