ANTI-ANNEXATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 5

ANTI-ANNEXATION

CAMPAIGN BY RUSSIAN WORKMEN'S PARTY APPEAL TO iIELLIGERENT . PEOPLES • Petrograd, April 13. The Congress of-Workmen's Councils passed a resolution congratulating the Government on the decision to abandon the annexation policy, and promising the Government the support of the Labour Parties. The resolution appeals to all belligerent peoples to urge their Governments to abandon proposals of annexation. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ -. WHAT THE RESOLUTION SETS FORTH SECRET PEACE MISSION EMPHATICALLY DENIED, ,' (Rec. April 15, 5.5 p.m.) Petrograd, April 14. , !A meeting of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Committte .adopted, by 825 votes to 55, a resolution endorsing the Provisional Government's proclamation, which the. Committee considers to he an important step towards the realisation of democratic principles in foreign policy, and declaring that an official renunciation'by all the Governments: of ideas of territorial j expansion would contribute powerfully to the'ending of the war. , • " - ' ..' ■'.'

"But," says the declaration, "while the war continues, the Russian democracy recognises, that, any disorganisation of the army, or weakening of its, fighting capacity, would be disastrous to the country and to the cause ofliberty, and appeals to the people to concentrate their energies, assuring the army of the- production of everyfting indispensable to the campaign. "The Executive Committee of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Committee emphatically denies the report that the Russian Socialists have sent delegates to any secret peace nogotiations at Copenhagen or elsewhere, and de-' Clares that it has not the least idea of such negotiations."—Renter. :

FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIALIST DELEGATION

(Bee. April' 16, 0,5 a,ni.) Petrograd, April 15. ' The Franco-British Socialist deputation, conveying the Democratic Party's fraternal greetings, has arrived. The British party, includes , Messrs. Will Tliorne, J. O'Grady, and J. Bowennan, members of the House of Commons.— . Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. ; ' ,-i . POLAND'S UNITrAND INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEED BY THE ALLIES. (Rec. April 16; 0.5 a.m.) ■ , Paris, April 15. . The Allies have given the Russian Government their collective guarantee that Poland's unity and independence, as foreshadowed by the Provisional Government's proclamation* in taking office,. will be 'upheld.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • . . . ■• '■