BOLSHEWK AND UKRAINIAN AGREEMENT.
WILL PRESENT UNITED FRONT TO THE ENEMY. THWARJITNG GERMANY'S PEACE OBJECTTVE. (Received 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 11. Mr. Stafford Bansome, the special correspondent of the "Morning Post," telegraphs from Petxograd that an agreement has been reached between the Bolshevik and UTnainian delegates at Brest Lrtovsk. The Ukraine's independence will be recognised. The delegates also decided to present a united front. This agreement ends the Germans' hopes of dividing the Bolsheviks from South Russia, where the stocks of food and other commodities form the chief German peace objective. M. Lenin has departed from Petrograd, and is either spending a holiday in Finland ox is confexring with the Austrian and German Socialists at Stockholm- BefoTe leaving he said: T fear that we shall be compelled to stop demobilisation and prepare fox war. We can never agree to a shameful peace."—(A. and N_Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 12 January 1918, Page 5
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