NO TIME FOR SENTIMENT

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 148, 20 December 1917, Page 7

NO TIME FOR SENTIMENT

, FOREIGN MINISTERS TO MEET

ULTIMATUM TO THE UKRAINE

(»t TEIBOBAPH. —UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COFTBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) BERNE, 18th December. The German press, welcoming the armistice, adjures the Government, to manifest no puerile spirit of sentimentality during the negotiations, but to exact from the Russians all that is necessar- for the greatness and prosperity of the German Empire, to insist on keeping a high hand in the Baltic provinces, and tc- dictate conditions making impossible a repetition pf-the famine such as the Central Empires had undergone during the last three years. ) (MDTBB'B TELEGBAM.) PETROGRAD, 18th December. Herr yon Kuhlmann and Count Czernin (the German and Austrian Foreign Ministers) telegraph that they will arrive at Brest Litovsk to-morrow. They invite M. Trotsky (the Bolshevik Foreign Minister) to join them in order to initiate arrangements for a general peace. (AUSTBALIAN-NHW ZEAI^ANI) CABLE ASSOCIATION AND BETJTBB.) LONDON, 18th December. An additional clause in the Armistice Treaty provides for an early military withdrawal from Persia, according to the principle of the freedom and independence of neutral Persia.

(RJJUTEB'B T&LBQBAH.)

PETROGRAD, 18th December.

The Maximalist newspaper Pravda announces that the Maximalist Commissioners have sent to the Ukraine Rada (Assembly) a forty-eight hour ultimatum declaring that unless the Rada renounces all further attempts to support General. Kaledin, the Maximalists will declare war on the Ukraine.