PRUSSIANISED RUSSIA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 13 February 1918, Page 5

PRUSSIANISED RUSSIA.

Progress of the Betrayal.

Bolshevik Activity in Siberia.

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{AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.! Amsterdam, February 12

Russia and Austro-lhnigary hate agreed on a mutual repatriation of all under 16, and those unlit for military service between that age and 45, also doclors and priests. Pans, February 12. “ Le Matin’s ” Stockholm correspondent interviewed MSaminoff, who >aid that the Germans at Brest Litovsk from the beginning systematically hampered peace. General Hottmann with cynical frankness showed him a map of the future German frontiers, which onlv left the Pinsk marshes to Russia. We thereupon broke off negotiations. The Soviet declared that the frontiers mu.-t not be traced with the point of the -word, but by the will of the people. A separate peace between Germanv and Russia was improbable. We should regard it a=> a misfortune. He did not expect any resumption of hostilities bv Russia. IF considered that the Ukraine had betrayed them. [“ THE TIMES.”I Petrograd, February 12. The Bolsheviks have arre-ted members of the Siberian Pro--.i-ional Government, also deputies to the Tomsk Duma, in order to prevent the establishment of an autonomous Siberia. Some roo sailors from Petrograd have arrived at Vladivostok t.. prevent the Amur Gos-rck- -ecuring control of \ ladivostok. Stockholm, February 12. The Bolsheviks at Helsmgfor.-, have decreed that workers mn<t be paid wages during the -trike. Amsterdam, February 12. Ihree official representadives of Au.-tnan agricultural societies have gone to Kicff to discuss economic question-.

MAXIMALIST PROPHECY.

PEACE- MADE IX BEREJX

Eondon, February 1. An official statement i--ued ir-Tn Petrograd by the Maxim--11 " l F vent bin indicates that the general .-.trike in Austria has --haken to it- foundation the Austr .-(onnan annexationist p.-Tc'- m the Fa-!. Formerlv Germany decided to unite the ..oupied provinces with herself bv a < n.-tems agreement and bmhlmg ot o-lwav-. hut the Au-trmn workmen compelled I'••’mt CziTiiin, the Austrian I’reitiivr. to t ’i.—ociate himself fr.-m the German annexatiom.-t plans. " If Au-tri.i refu-es t,, adopt the German plan -4 putting the Emper. r Karl on the throe- of Poland, the wh he ot the t entral P„-.ver-' ca-tcrn plan- will collapse. ■‘Pee a- w-.1l pl.t he conceded at Rrc-t Litovsk. hut m the streets of Vienna and Berlin. “If Rus-ia’s revolution refuses to compromise, the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs, victory will be hers.”