PEACE PROPOSALS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 35207, 18 May 1918, Page 4

PEACE PROPOSALS.

DARK SECRETS OF THK CRAVEN PBAOE WITH GERMANY i'etrograd. Tho whojo Russian pooplo aro still proping blindly ;in tho dark, bluffed and mystified. Itoports of the peace* treaty coming through the second hand channel of Stockholm present a inei'o shadow of the real tiling but a shadow that is sufficient to frighten tho boldest. What tho real thing will ho like when it is finally produced horo must bo left, to the imagination. There am good grounds for keeping ifc in the background. The Government are putting off as long as possible tho evil moment when it must bo produced. The. light-hearted Lenin is still bußily proclaiming that the only course, open is to accept the German terms. Ho is opposed by the Social Revolutionaries of the Left, as well as by the peasants. The task of tho arclidiplonvat who still holds the strings of the colossal puppet show is to conciliate the opposing factions at tho forthcoming Sfoscow congress. It will probably be the. easiest thing in the world to one who up to now has so successfully worked the Bolshevik oracle. ■ Owing to the break-up of winter and the bad condition of the- roads many provincial delegates will bo delayed. The plan is to ratify tho peace treaty before they arrive. Apparently the Government havo neither the 'moral couTago nor tho effrontery to tell the nation the darko.r secrets of the peace treaty. The enemy has no hick of these qualities, as is' eloquently illustrated by steady advance on Moscow and Smolensk.