RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

Mataura Ensign, 20 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

ARMISTICE CONDITIONS. RUSSIA TO WITHDRAW FROM PERSIA. LONDON. Dec. 10. An additional clause in the armistice provides for an early military withdrawal from Persia, according 1o the principle of the freedom and independence of a neutral Persia. PEACE OVERTURES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Renter.! PBTROGRAD. Dee. 18. Baron ftuohlmann (German Foreign -sMinisteti ancl. Count CV.ernin (Austrian ■rfeoreign■ Minister) telegraph that they will arrive at Brest Litnvsk to-morrow, and invito M. Trot A.v t Foreign .Minis■£fer) to join thimu iu order to initiate a general peace.

BLATANT GERMAN BHESS. (Australian and N.E-. Cable Association) , BERNE. Dec. 10. The German press, in welcoming (he armistice, adjures the Government to manifest no puerile spirit of sentimentality during the negotiations hut to exact from the Ilnssiaiis all (hat is necessary for the greatness and prosperity of tin? German Empire, to insist on keeping a high hand on the Baltic provinces, ami to dictate conditions making it impossible for the repetition of . a famine such as the Central Empires have undergone during the lastthree years. UKRAINE FORCEC. A MAXIMALIST LI.TIMATLM (Tlou ter’« TeleiT.-Hns. \ i'ETKOGH AD. Dec. Ik. The Maximalist newspaper ‘Pravda* announces that the 'Maximalist, commissioners have sent to the Ukraine Uada a 48-hour ultimatum, declaring tnnt unless the Bada renonnees nil further attempts to support Geneva! Kaledin the Maximalists will declare war upon Ukrainia. The cable news in this issue accreditf a ‘The Times’ has appeared in that nal f but onlv where expressly stated uch news the editorial opinion of j Times.'