RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1917, Page 2

RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

PEACE DELEGATES. i [“REDTER’s” TELEGRAM.] PETROGRAD December 18. Von. Kuhlmann and Count Czernin telegraphed that they will arrive at Brestlitovsk to-morrow and invite Trotsky to join them in order to initiate a general peace. The Maximalist newspaper “Praydn” announces the Afaximalists commissioners have sent to the Ukraine Rada a forty eight hour ultimatum declaring that unless the Rada renounces all further attempts to support Kaledin, the Maximalists will declare, war on the Ukraine. armistice CLAUSE. LONDON December 18. An additional clause in the armistice provides for an early military withdrawal from Persia, and according the principle of freedom and independence of a neutral Persia. GERMAN PEACE ALMS. TO BLEED RUSSIA. (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) BERNE December 18. The German press is 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 necessary for -the greatness and prosperity of the Germain Empire and insist in keeping the high command in the Baltic provinces, and dictate conditions, making -it impossible for a repetition of the famine such as the Central Empires have undergone in the last three years.