The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-14
.W|LSON'SWAR
AIMS CAUSE
SPLIT AMONG
B0LSHEvIkl
German Political and Military
Leaders Are Having Hur-
ried Conferences In Berlin.
as Result, is Belief.
WILL ANSWER WILSON

LONDON, Jan. 14-Warning Of the
possibility Of final breach in the
RussoGerman negotiations is the out
standing feature Of the current news
from Petrograd. In the meantime, ac-
cOrding to the correspondent Of the
Daily Mail. in the Russian capital, the
armistice had been extended until
February Is and the Russian delega-
ton returns to Petrograd tomorrow,
but the peace negotiations will be re-
sumed after an interval at Warsaw
(By Associated Press)
Russo-German negotiations at Rrest-
Litovsk apparently again have been
broken Off Temporarily and the possi-
bility Of final breach is not unlocked
for In Petrograd. The armistice on
the eastern front has been extended
until February Is, wnIIe it is expected
that the conferences will be resumed
at Warsaw.
Nickola Lenine, the Bolsheviki pre-
mier is again back in Petrograd and is
reported to be taking a more import
ant part In the negotiations. There is
some dissatisfaction in Petrograd with
the way in which Foreign Minister
Trotzky has conducted negotiations,
Trotzky's campaign of propaganda
among the German soldiers is said to
be growing in effect and the German
military authorities are doing all in
their power to check It.
Conferences in Berlin.
Meanwhile German political and mil.
1tary leaders have been having hurried
conferences in Berlin. The crown
prince has returned to the German cap
ftal and he, with Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg, General Ludendorff and
chancellor Won Hertling, has conferred
with the emperor. The recall. by the
emperor Of the assistant to the Ger.
man foreign secretary at the Brest.
Litsvsk meeting indicates that the con.
ferences may have had to do with the
peace negotiations the conduct OF
which has caused much political fury
In Germany during the past two weeks.
Chancellor VonHertling Is expected
to address the main committee Of the
Reichstag on Wednesday and probably
will answer the recent war aim state
ments of President Wilson and Pre-
mier Lloyd George.
The basin of the Don river has been
cleared OF Cossack troops by Bolshe-
Wiki soldiers according to an Official
announcement. The Bolsheviki also
are said to have taken Ekaterinaslav,
a stronghold of the Ukraine
Lynch 81 Officers
Russian soldiers in Sebastopols are
reported to have killed and lynched
more than So of their officers includ-
Ing four admirals. The Kilia have been
looted by Russian soldiers who SET fire
TO buildings after having robbed
houses and shops causing the popula
ton to fee in terror.
David R. Francis. the American am
bassador to Russia, in a New Year's
message to the Russian people re-
minds thenf that a separate peace
with Germany would rob them of the
results of the revolution. President
Wilson's message is greeted with d.
vided opinion by the leading Bolshe
Wiki newspapers.
Ambassador Frances says the mes
sage is the best greeting he can give
Russia from America.
Patrol encounters at several points
and artillery activities in the Ypres-
Arras area Is reported from the British
front North of the Aisne on the
French front, the artillery fire has
been violent. Engagements between
patrols in the mountain zones and
artillery fire along the Piaxe, are
marks of the situation on the Italian
front.