THE RUSSIAN MAZE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 53, 26 November 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN MAZE

PEACE INTRIGUERS BUSY

COUNTRY'S HONOUR AT STAKE

PEACE PROPOSALS FROM CENTRAL POWERS

Stockholm, November 23. A Russian diplomat is going to Petro< pad by special train, with orders to hand to the Russian Revolutionary Government proposals of peace from , tho Central Powers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A PEACE WOULD BE THE BASEST TREACHERY BRITISH CABINET MINISTER'S VIEW. (Rec. November 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 23. Lord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs), in an interview, ■ said: "If the Russian people support tho Leninite peace proclamation it will be an act of tho basest treachery/ undoubtedly inspired by tho Germans. "Ono ray of hope," he added, "was Goneral Kaledin's action, but nothing had been heard of him lately. The counter-revolution is tho work of a small 6Cotion of fanatics, and does not reeoiye the support of the Socialist majority. Tho result of the Bolshevik manifesto will bo tho stoppage d American supplies."—United Service. WHERE WOULD A PEACE PLACE RUSSIA? ALMOST IN THE LIST OF HOSTILE NATIONS. (Rec. Novombor 25, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, November 24. The Bolsheviks', peace move is regarded in official circles as placing Russia almost in tho list of unfriendly nations. It is pointed out that should tho peace negotiations 6uccecd it will be difficult to deal with Russia as a neutral.—Reutor.

AN INTERVIEW WITH TROTSKY MASSES WILL ENFORCE PEACE, HE SAYS. (Rec. November 25, 5.5 p.m.) Now York, November 24. Messages from Petrograd cover an interview with M. Trotsky (Foreign Minister in the Lenin Government), who says ho has repudiated the idea of a separate peace. He said that Russia wanted a universal peace, and if the Allied Governments failed to support a democratic peace the Allied peoples would. "Our international policy," he said, "is calculated to gain the support of the masses. If Germany, refuses to negotiate we will pin our. hopo on the German jArmy and the Gorman working men to end the war. If wo receive no response we shall declare a revolutionary War against German Imperialism, and mobilise, all our forces to confiscate large food supplies and prosecute tho war with relentless energy. But we are confident that our proposals will create impossibilities against the oontinuanco of this war anywhere. Only the bourgeoisie oppose the Maximalist Government, and the intellectuals are hesitating. —Aus.N.Z. Cahlo Assn. TROTSKY AND TffITsECRET TREATIE s DECLARES HITwiLL THROW THEM IN THE RUBBISH HEAP. (Reo. November 25, 5.5 p.m.) " London, November 23. The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states that M. Trotsky (Minister of .Foreign Affairs in the Lenin Government), addressing i the Soviet Executivo, said: "The 'Soviets power is now established in Potroprad, Moscow, and the greater part of Russia " He declared that ho now possessed secret treaties which he would throw into the Tubbish heap. At a conference with Army Headquarters he insisted upon tho formation of a Coalition Socialist Government, with M. Tchernoff as Premier.—Aus.-Iv./i.Cable Assn. REPORTED SURRENDER 0? KERENSKY'S TROOPS Coponhagen, November 23. The "Berlingske Tidendo" Btates that the- Bolsheviks claim that Kerensky's troops have all surrendered. The Vkranian Government has sent an army of 150,000 men against Kaledin. General Krasnow has gone to- Kaledin s Hoadquarters to negotiate with him.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LENIN DECREES "REDUCTION OF ARMY London, November 23. A Russian official report states: "A decree signed by Lenin states that it has 'been decided to reduce tho armies by immediately releasing citizen soldiers conscripted in 1899 (now aged 39) Instructions concerning other classes will ho issued later.' -Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. SHADOW OF FAINeTnD STARVATION London, November 23. ■ Mr. Bourchior, writing from Petrograd, says the prospects of starvation on tho northern front'are intensifying. The troops are exhausted and are disgusted with the political quarrels They lack clothing, and threaten wholesale desertions unless they are reinforced. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIANS EVACUATING GAUCIAN ' POSITIONS (Rec. November 25, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, NovpmW 24. A telegram from Tarnopcl announces that the Russians are preparing to evacuate Gravmalow and Skalat, _in Eastern Galicla. An advanced position has already been evacuated.—Reuter. ALLIES REFUSfTtO ACCEPT NEW REGIME (Rec. November 25, 5.5 p.m.) Patrograd, November 24; The Allied Legations refuse to accept tho new regime, and the Bolshoviks refuse to sign the diplomats' passports. Tho Bolshevik Governmen* announces that it intends to step the entire goods traffic throughout Russia—United Sorvice. GERMAN CHIEfIFsTAFF GOES TO THE EASTERN FRONT

A' SECRET MISSION. (Reo. November 25, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, November 24. In connection with the Russian truco offer, Von Ludcndorff and a nunV crous staff have gone to the Eastern front. Their mission is being conducted in secrecy.—United Service.

THE ANZAC STAR

FOR 1914 AND GALLIPOLI MEN. London, November 23.., The War Offico has agreed to sane l tion the - * issue by tho Australian and New Zealand Governments of a medal, shaped liko a star, to Anzacs who embarked for service in 1914, and who landed on Gallipoli.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo