Evening star., 1918-01-24
SIavs Get Their Last Post
ponement of Brest-Litovsk
ParIey to Consider Terms.
FIGHTING IN PROGRESS
IN PETR0GRAD, is REPORT
Kerensky One Leader Of Counter
Revolutionaries, Is Report-1n-
ternal Situation Is Approach
ing a Climax.

PETROGRAD. Wednesday, January
23.-Russia must give up Courland and
all the Baltic provinces or the Germans
will resume military operations and oc'
.upy Reval within a week, the German
delegation at the Brest-Litovsk nego-
tiations informed Russian representa-
tives at the last session of the conferees
An adjournment was taken until Janu-
ary 90 to permit the Russians to con-
sider the German terms.
Reports of the session indicate that
the Germans took definite stand and
most frankly outlined demands upon
which they are insstent.
Ask Final Terms.
The secretary Of the Ukrainian dele
CATION gave out an account OF the
meeting. 1t says the Russians put
question to the delegates of the central
mowers as to what were their hnal
peace terms.
Cen. Hoffman, one of the German
delegates, replied by opening map ana
pointing out the following line, which
they insisted should constitute the
future frontier of Russia:
From the shores of the Gulf OF FIN
,ord to the east of the Moon Sound Is
lands to Walk, to the west OF Minsk. 10
Brest-Litovsk. - oa
T1is completely eliminates Couriano
and all the Baltic provinces
The Russians asked the tens en- territorv ur o,.s
south of Brest-Litovsk. Gen. norman re-
nIied that was a question which they
would discuss only with ukraine. NJ
Kameneff, a member OF Russian oeaeea-
tion. asked: "Supposing we do not agree
to such conditions WHAT are soo so'"e
Gen. Hofrman's answer is reported to
have been: within a week, then. we
would occupy RevaL"
Is Last Postponement.
The Russians then asked for a recess.
which was granted reluctantly. The Ger
mans declared 1t was the last postpone
ment to which they would consent Inc
request was made by Leon Trotzky; neao
Of the Russian delegation. who said ne de-
sired an opportunity to lay the German
peace terms before the council, OF Work
mems and soldiers delegates.
The negotiations between the Ukrat-
mans and the central powers are pro-
ceeding amicably. The Austrians Of
fered to cede Cholmtchina to the Ukrat-
nian republic. but only on condition
that the Ckrainians send grain and
other foodstuffs to the central powers
on the conclusion OF peace.
Deception Is Charged.
LONDON, January 24.-The Russian
according to a wireless
has issued two communica-
tions addressed .'to ALL" the object OF
which is to intimate to the world that
by the declaration Of the German for
eign secretary, DR.. Won Kuehlmann, that
the central powers cannot remove their
armies from the occupied regions until
the conclusion of a general peace, the
peoples of Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary are being deceived.
One communication asserts that the
annexationists have been sufficiently
powerful to impose their will upon the
evasive dipiomatists of the Won Hert-
ling-von kuehlmann school. but that
the governments of the central powers
do not dare divulge this to their own
peoples. and continues:
Their object is monstrous, the an
nexation of Poland, Lithuania, Cour-
sound and the islands. with the pur-
pose of the complete economic and po-
litical sufocation of Russia. while the
role of the Austrian representatives at
Brest-Litovsk has been limited to hum
bic approval.
Austrian statesmen are appeasing
their restless workmen by affirming
that the central powers are striving
for a democratic peace, but to have
such a program and to talk at the same
time of democratic peace surpasses
even the limits permitted to diplomacy"
Important Events Possible.
One of those periods of scarcity of
Russian news which often has proved
to be coincident with important events
is now being experienced. Few dis
patches have been received. except re-
ports of the peace negotiations at
Brest-Litovsk and other items which
the bolshevik government has permit
ted to come through. The arrest of
many socialist members Of the con-
stituent assembly and of a battalion
of death. reported this morning. indi-
,ates that there may have been a recur-
renee of trouble in the Russian CAPT.
tai.