Omaha daily bee., 1918-01-03

caring in that paper today.
: CANNOT ACCEPT TERMS.
The dispatch quotes an article from
the Bolsheviki newspaper "Izvestia"
discussing the new phase in the
peace negotiations" The article says
that owing to pressure from below,
the Germans have been obliged to
soil their lips with the formula put
forward by the socialists at the be-
ginning OF the war, but the German
imperialists would not be imperial
lists if they did not try to take back
in fact what with gritted teeth they
yielded in words.
The Russian revolution cannot &C
cept their conditions to retain Po-
land and Lithuania. Just you try it,
gentlemen" says the Izvestia.
This is the line, the correspondent
of the Daily News adds, that prob
ably will be taken at general meet
ing tonight to consider the report of
the Russian peace delegates.
Discredit Imperialists.
The Bolshevik aim, he adds, is
world revolution of peace on their
own terms, which they think will dis
credit the imperiaists generally. The
correspondent continues:
And, il i'll the long run Russia is
driven to conclude separate peace
on any other terms, | prophesy that
the Russian signatures to such peace
will not be Bolsheviki, but IN I1cmbexa
of opposition POLITICAL parties"
Guards to Border.
The Daily News correspondent
says further that considerable num-
bcrs of Red guards are being sent
to reinforce the front and that other
preparations for defense are being
made.
1t is not clear from the dispatch of
the Daily News correspondent when
the meeting, which is said to have re-
suited in the breaking off of peace
negotiations, was held and there is a
possibility that the report refers to an
alleged rupture of negotiations sew
eral days ago when the discussions
were adjourned.
u have private and reliable infor.
nation with regard to the breaking off
OF the peace negotiations, which
establish beyond doubt the hot.esty of
purpose of the Bolsheviki," says the
correspondent, whose dispatch is
dated Tuesday. THE central powers
proceeded t. make a more detailed
statement Of terms, from which it ape
peared that they considered Poland,
LitEuania, Courland etc, had already
defined themselves. They further
based their demand on the statement
of Ukraine that it would not recognize
peace negotiations at which 1t was not
represented officially. They demanded
that they should keep garrisons at
Riga, Libau and other strategic points.
Jeer Germans.
"The Russian delegation, acting on
unequivocal instructions from tho
Bolsheviki authorities. took an un-
compromising attitude. They said
self-dchn,tion was impossibl, until
the last German soldier had left the
country. Further, they jeered the
Germans asking what they proposed
to do. They asked whether they in
tended to take Petrograd and feed
5000, 900 starving folk; or to disarm
a revolutionary country i'll which
every wo. man had rife They also
askcl what the Germans proposed TO .
say to their own democracy which
protested a couple of months ago
against the proposed annexation of
Poland and Lithuania. They remarked
that they were surprised that even the
Prussian Junkers hal such audacity.
The Germans asked time for con-
sder@tion and begged that this stage
OF the negotiations should not be pub
lished, The Russians refused to allow
this ani left Brcst-Litovsk."
Negotiations for a general peace at
Brest-Litovsk were adjourned Decem-
Der 25 until January 4. Since then at
Brcet-Litovsk and i'll Pctrograd repre-
>entatives of Russia and the central
powers have been discussing inform
ally points to be settled in the event
of peace agreement being reached.
Provis onal agreement has been
reached on some points, but the Rus
sian proposals regarding occupied ter
ritorles were not received with favor,
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