RUSSIA'S PEACE TERMS.

Evening Star, Issue 16676, 7 March 1918, Page 6

RUSSIA'S PEACE TERMS.

ANGER AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS. LENIN’S TREACHERY REALISED. HE DENOUNCES THE ALLIES. LONDON, March 6. (Received March 7, at 9.55 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Express’s ’ Petrograd correspondent says that Lenin's peace terms have caused a storm of indignation among the local Soviets, who were not consulted concerning them. The Soviets fear that the terms mean the “ mailed fist,” and will crush the revolution, cripple Russian industry, and alienate the sympathy ot European workers. Maxime Gorky’s newspaper is particularly bitter, and calls the treaty a criminal Eof paper, and wanders why the i Government are still in power. WASHINGTON, March 6. (Received March 7, at 9.5 a.m.) The United Press reports that authoritative advices have been received here stating that Lenin is attempting to deliver Russia into Germany’s hands, and is trying to arouse the Russian people against' the "Allies’ militarism.” JAPAN’S INTERVENTION. AMERICAN OPPOSITION. A HANDY EXCUSE. NEW YORK, March 6. (Received March 7, at 9.15 a.m.) The United Press correspondent at Washington states that the United States officials still believe that Trotsky is trying to keep the revolution alive, 'with the result that the Bolshevik Government are divided. Washington officials, he states, feel that the Japanese expedition to Siberia will aid Lenin’s campaign against the Allies. The Washington Government have therefore informed Japan through the Allies that America does not consider Japanese intervention advisable. GERMAN COMMENT. IMPROVING THE OCCASION. AMSTERDAM, March 6. (Received March 7, at 10.30 a.m.) The German newspapers, commenting on Japan, profess to believe that she is jdaying her own game against the Entente, borne even say that her real intention is to hoodwink the Allies, and enter into friendly contact with the Central Powers across Russia. The ‘Weser Zeitung’ ridicules the idea that there is any danger due to German gnd Austrian prisoners in Siberia. Japan’s object is to increase her colonial empire on the Asiatic Continent, and the present opportunity is highly favorable, ‘as the

Gormans are nearly 4,000 miles away. Japan would like to act alone, but there would bo advantages in co-operating with America and England. t ‘ Westfalische Zeitung ’ says that Japan’s policy is purely selfish. She seeks to realise her dream of Japanising China and Siberia. BOLSHEVIK EMISSARY AT BROKEN HILL. SYDNEY", March 7. (Received March 7, at 8.5 a.m.) Limcnoff, a- voting Broken Hill miner, formerly a journalist in Russia, who has been appointed by the Bolshevik Government as “ Russian Consul-General in the Commonwealth,” declares that the Bolsheviks’ main objects are the establishment of a common ownership of the land, just and equal distribution of commodities, and the abolition of all exploiting. He believes that tho Bolsheviks will remain long in power. They are strong enough, he says, to carry out their purpose unless something happens from outside. He declares that the Royalists’ regime is dead, with no possibility of revival unless forced by outside intervention. FINLAND. TREATY WITH RUSSIA. RESENTMENT AGAINST GERMANY. STOCKHOLM, March 6. (Received March 7, at 9.55 a.m ) An act of liquidation between Russia arid Finland was signed on Friday, by which Russia cedes the territory bordering on the. Arctic Ocean to Finland, and gives np the Yal ke a ? aari -P e t rograd. Railway. Russia retains Itno fortress. Gormauv’s action is agitating Helsingfors, and 'the President of the revolutionary Government has declared that the whole of the Finnish population will resist aggression. RUMANIA’S PEACE DICTATED BY GERMANY. AMSTERDAM, March 6. (Received March 7. at 9.55 a.m.) The treaty, carving up Rumania, will be signed to-day. Under it Rumania cedes to Bulgaria. It also fixes a new Rumano-Hungarian frontier, and grants the Central Powers economic concessions. WEST FRONT. LOXDOX. Mardi 5. (Received Mardi 7, at 8.5 a.m.) A French communique reports a somewhat violent artillery duel on the right (east) bank of the Meuse, especially in the 1 region of Fosses Wood : also 'marked enemy artillorying in the Vosges sector. A ROYAL MESSAGE. HEW Y ORK, March 6. (Received Mardi 7, at 9.15 a.m.) _ Replying to greetings from tho Xew York Pilgrims, King George cabled: “ I deeply appreciate your hopes for tho victory of our common cause, whereby alone, the world's future peace can be assured.” NEW ZEALAND RED GROSS. COLONEL RHODES INQUIRING. LOXDOX, March 6(Received March 7, at 10.5 a.m.) Lieutenant-colonel Heaton Rhodes, the Xew Zealand M.H.R., has arrived in London, and is inqiiirinsr into tho organisation of the X’ew Zealand Red Gross. BRITIBH 'PRISONERS SLAVES IN GERMAN MINES. LOXDOX, March 6. (Received March 7, at noon.) In the House of Lords, replying to Lord Beresford, Lord Xewton admitted that the condition of British prisoners employed in German miners was often deplorable. They worked in parties of two or three, scattered over a largo area, these circumstances allowing them to be treated with great brutality. Germany usually explained that prisoners were not worked harder than civilians. Representations to Berlin were made whenever a case was proved.