SERMANS DEMAND EVACUATION OF PETROGRAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 297, 13 December 1917, Page 5

SERMANS DEMAND EVACUATION OF PETROGRAD.

WHOLE OF UKRAINE TO BE CEDED TO AUSTRIA. l .(Received 10.15 aan.) IXHSDON, Decemter 12. BL Trotzky, Foreign Minister, in a speech, said:—The Allies warded us . *liat Germany is decieving us, but we are a hundredfold stronger than the , cunning Germans. If Germany will not agree to Courland and Lithuania I electing their own forms of Government we -will so strew the enemy trenches with millions of proclamations that the Germans after twenty-eight days will accept our conditions for an armistice. If the Allied Governments do not agree to our conditions they will be thrown down one after another.—(Keufcer.) The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states that the German armistice terms were the evacuation of Petrograd by the Russians until a •general peace is reached, but no provision as to whether it would be occupied ~by Germans; secondly, the Baltic fleet to be disarmed; thirdly, the whole ot Ukraine to be ceded to Austria, including the northern shores of the Black Sea. The population of Petrograd is Testless in anticipation of the meeting iof ihe Constituent Assembly. Only a hundred members have arrived, ahd the Electoral Board, which should make arrangements for the meeting, are imprisoned in Tedley Institute. h NEW YORK, December 12. f The New York "Times" Washington correspondent reports that tho occupying Vladivostok undoubtedly acted with the knowledge and consent of the Entente Powers. The action is important because it will prevent the Bolshevik forces, which have been ordered to occupy the town, securing vast stores of ammunition and other war supplies shipped from ■ ; lAmpric?.—(A. and N.Z. CabJe.)