PARTIES IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 90, 16 April 1917, Page 7

PARTIES IN RUSSIA

RALLYING ROUND THE GOVERNMENT

SECRET PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

DISCLAIMED.

(REVTER'3 TELEGRAM.)

PETROGRAD, 14th April.

A meeting of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Committee adopted, by 325 votes to 55, a .resolution endoi'sing the Provisional Government's proclamation, which the 1 Committee considers fb* be 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 expansion would contributa 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 o£ its fighting capacity, would be disastrous to the country and to the cause of liberty, and appeals to the people to concentrate their energies, assuring the army of the production of everything 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 negotiations at Copenhagen or elsewhere, iind declares that it has not the least idea of such negotiations,"