Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-01-06

DEMANDS RECOGNITION.
Pending the resumption of confer
ences at Brest-Litovsk today no fresh
developments are reported from Rus
sia regarding the peace negotiations.
Special dispatches from Pctrograd re-
port attempts by the German dele
gates at Petrograd to make some sort
OF a clanestine agreement with the
members Of the constituent assembly.
Regarding the attitude Of the Uk.
raine towards the Germans, the Daily
News says that the rada Is willing to
strike bargain with the Germans.
The Petrograd correspondent of the
Times, who Is now in London, writes
that the Ukranians are determined to
send mission to Brest-Litovsk. not
to negotiate separate peace, but to
ascertain Germany's intentions toward
little Russia. The Germans are will
ing. he says, to recognize the rada
on the basis that the Ukraine supply
Germany with foodstuffs and recog-
nize German economic, interests i'll
the Ukraine. Neither of these points,
the correspondent adds, is to little
Russian taste. but if the allies fail to
help the ukrainians. or adopt policy
OF compromise with the Bolsheviki
the .rada must have to yield and the
Cossacks, too . ,.. ,f,.
Civil War Rages.
Newspapers in Petrograd continue
to report fighting in the south,
where. according to the correspond
ent of the Times. civil war is wag.
ing fast, andifurious.
The, Austro-Germat delegations in
Petrograd profess to have inforrla-
ton that the allies have decided to
break relations with Russia. Per-
haps this is the reason why the Off
cials OF the British embassy have
taken pains to assure Trotzky that
the departure OF Sir George Bu.
chanan is purely on account of i'll
health and that he would have left
last March but for the persuasion of
former Foreign Minister Terest-
chenko. go
Change the Alphabet. 's
Amidst the whirl OF events involv-
ing the fate of the nation the Boil
sheviki government has found time
to decree that Russia shall adopt pho
netic spelling on January Ia. Three
vowels and one consonant were
eliminated from the Russian alphabet.
Request Transfer to Stockholm.
Although the Bolsheviki foreign
minister, Leon Trotzky, announced
that the German peace terms would
not be accepted, it was expected that
the Russian delegates would return
to Brest-Litovsk for the meetings
which were to be resumed today, to
inform the central powers OF Rus
sia's attitude. The Russians requested
transference of the negotiations to
Stockholm, because they would have
less difficulty there in obtaining full
publicity concerning the negotiations,
and also because they preferred
neutral place to the German eastern
headquarters for holding the discus
sions. The German chancellor, Count
Won Hertling. told the Reichstag main
committee Thursday that the German
delegates had been instructed to re-
fuse to transfer the negotiations to
Stockholm. .y-
Lloyd George Talks to Labor Men.
Premier Lloyd George, addressing
the trades unions today on the subject
of war aims, said that only the clear
est, greatest and most just of causes
could justify the continuance even for
a day of this unspeakable agony of
nations" .Ftt'...
The premier continued:
I'VE ought to be able to state clearly
and definitely NOT only the principles
for which we are fighting, but their
definite. concrete application to the
map of the world.
1--WE have arrived" the premier went
on, "at the most critical hour of this
terrible conflict. and before any gov
ernment takes the fateful decision as
to the conditions under which it ought
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