The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-15
Sees Wilson Message As
First Real Understand
ing of Situation
FRENCH LEND MONEY
TO THE UKRAINE
Rumanians Feel They Have
Been Betrayed Three
Times By Russia
(Rv Associated Press.l

1
| London, Jan. -Bolshevix
parties in Russia. according to a dis
patch to The Daily News from Petro-
| grad, are using the creation OF q
! volunteer army by the BOlshevilSi an
| the basis Of an energetic agitation to
! turn the Petrograd garrison against
the Lenine government.
Efforts also are being made to
start street demonstrations in favor
Of the constituent assembly. If the
efforts are successful, the dispatch
adds, the result will be anarchy
| than which the Germans could wish
nothing better.
The constituent assembly is to
meet Friday. 1t seems probable that
IL will contain a majority against the
Bolshevilt and win try TO replace
them by another government. Such
government, The Daily News corr
respondent says, would be Infinitely
less dangerous as an antagonist OF
Germany than the present one.
The correspondent, In reiterating
his defense of Foreign Minister
Trotzky and in deploring the fact
that the entente allies have not join
ed in the Brest-Litovsk negotiations,
says that the first real help given
Trotzky in the struggle is the mes-
sage Of President Wilson, which ia
also described as ''the first allied Et-
terance that shows an imaginatlva
understanding Of the situation"
London, Jan. 15.-France has Ioan-
ed the Ukraine 100000 rubles in
gold, according to a dispatch from
Odessa correspondent of The Times,
dated Friday. The French mint also
has printed a large quantity Of Tx
raine paper money.
g1Em -
the Ukraine secretariat. IL is added,
in the course Of a long report to the
rada declared that France, the Unit
ed States, Great Britain. Belgium and
Rumania were interested greatly in
the organization Of the Ukraine re-
public.
The correspondent Of The Times
says that the feeling OF Rumanians
toward the Russians is embittered
greatly. The Rumanians feel that
they have been thrice betrayed by
Russia. first by the cars governs
ment; next by the provisional gov-
ernment, and now, worst Of all, by
the Bolshsvik government.
Report Of Conference.
Amsterdam, Monday, Jan. 14s-Th0
Wolff bureau, the semi-oficial neWa
agency Of Berlin, publishes q Brest4
LlLONEk uASphAGA HA I04ABWEs
"A committee composed OF Gers
mans, Austro- -Hungarians and RuB%
SLAMS, for the discussion OF territorial
questions held three long sittings
on Friday and Saturday. It was
agreed that the first paragraph OF
the peace treaty should be a clause
that the state Of war be@
tween the parties had been cone
cluded.
THE Germans proposed a clausa
reading That the contracting parties
have resolved henceforth to live In
peace and friendship
Leon TrOtzlIy, the Bolshevik for-
eign minister, refused to endorse
this, declaring that IL was a decor
ative phrase, which does not describe
the relations which in the future win
exist between the Russian and Gers
man peoples?
'It was confirmed that the evacua~
ton of occupied territory by both
parties should take place on the basis
Of full reciprocity, 80 that the evacus-
alton by the central powers Of Rus
sian territory would synchroni1s
with the evacuation by Russia oe
the occupied regions in Austria
Hungary, Turkey and Persia, Later.
Persia was struck out, as not being
q belligerent party, and M. TrotZlEw
proposed to add the following:
Russia undertakes as speedily
rs possible TO remove her troops from
neutral Persia
He said he had no other ground
FOR this than a desire to emphaEfx@
the crying wrong committed by tha
former Russian government against
4 neutral country
Discuss Evacuation.
The Wolff bureau report covers
nearly five thousand words, and
shows that the discussion concern
ng the date OF the evacuation was
broken of by the parties failing to
agree. A long discussion concerning
which parts Of the occupied territory
should be evacuated also resulted IN
/ disagreement.
A prolonged debate arose over the
question Of admitting represent ntatives
Il Poland. Courland and IhthuRnla
% the negotiations, and on the
question Of what constituted self
by these provinces.
rhe discussion became embittRred
md the only result was a protest
oy General HOFFMAN,, Of the Gar-
nan delegation, against the tone of
he Russian delegation, which he
aid speaks as if it stood victorious
n our countries end could dictate
conditions"
General Hohtmann reminded the
delegates that the Bolsheyis au=
.hOrity, as much as the German, waa
.ounded on force. aa instRnced bg
what he termed the attempts % sup-