RESUMPTION OF BREST LITOVSK CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 12 January 1918, Page 5

RESUMPTION OF BREST LITOVSK CONGRESS.

HOPES OF SATISFACTORY RESULTS. (Received 1.20 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 11. The Ukraine Government is represented at the resumed Brest Litovsk congress. Baron won Ixuhlmann, the German Foreign Minister, presiding, complained that semi-official Russian statements had been circulated by a Petrograd telegraph agency, containing an imaginary report of the previous sitting, which endangered the continuation of the negotiations. Yon Kuhlmann added: —"I do nod care to give up all hope of the negotiations leading to a satisfactory result. The difficulties of a material character disclosed at the previous sitting ace not great enough to justify the idea that the peace work will fail." Count Czemin, Austrian Foreign Minister, said that the Central Powers had agreed to Defer unsettled matters to a committee and to conclude negotiations on that basis. Both sides had considered that if Russian intentions were unaltered iflie conference would reach satisfactory results, otherwise responsibility for continuation of the war would be exclusively Russian. (A. and >\Z. Cable.)