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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 August 1918, Page 5

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TREATY OF BREST LITOVSK

LIKELY TO BECOME VALUELESS

FOR GERMANY

(Received Aug. 2, 8.40 a.m.)

LONDON, Aug. 1

The murder of General yon Eichorn German dictator in the Ukraine, which caused consternation in official circles in Germany, has focussed public attention in Britain and France upon the Eastern problem.

General Maurice says: The veil which has long shrouded the East is being gradually lifted, and what we are allowed to see is full of encouragement. The dramatic operations of the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia and the south-eastern corner of European Russia, the appearance of Allied troops on the Murman coast, and the resistance of the Armenians at Baku, coupled with the decline of the Bolsheviki and the troubles in which the Germans are involved in the Ukraine, show that the treaty of Brest Litovsk is likely quickly to become valueless. It is improbable that the Germans hoped for territorial aggrandisement in the West, except a rectification of the frontier and gaining the Briey mineral fields. Ger- ( many looked eastward for expansion.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.