STUBBORN REFUSAL TO FORSAKE SMALL NATIONALITIES.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14026, 18 January 1918, Page 5

STUBBORN REFUSAL TO FORSAKE SMALL NATIONALITIES.

■■■■ •••t -:: - - ~ M 1..'.. i • BREAK-DOWN OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH -p' GERMANS /c'- - . , sr _ m, , •"V, --P-v' . . ' ' : ssm THREATENS ARGUMENT OF FORCE ;'?• vV ;■■ ■ r - GRAVE CRISIS IN GERMANY ' ■ : :SIWjiKIE BETWEEN MILITARY AND PEOPLE : DECREASE IN SUBMARINE SINKINGS :h" ■ • I ' . . , • " • ' (Cable—Press Aasociatian —Coypright.) PEACE CONFERENCE ENDS IN DEADLOCK it# ! STUBBOMTNBiS OF RUSSIANS CONFOUND QEEMAH BUNS \; . $ TALK OF MILITARY MEASURES AGAINST BOLSIIEYIKIB. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.! Received January 17, 7.50 p-m. ROME, January 16. Swiss advices confirm-the gravity of the difficulties in Berlin and Brest-Litovsk. The at Brest-Litovsk have reached a deadlock, . owing to the Russian stubbornness in demanding n Constitution lor Poland, Consultations' in .Berlin have raised the question of ••' the necessity of a military doiTtoustr/ilion to bring-the Russian delegates to teniis, even to the extent of threatening the occupation of Petrograd and Moscow. " GERMAN VERSION OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, ' ;V i ACCUSED OP DELIBERATE DISTORTION. (Heuter's Telegrams.) • Received January 17, 8.50 p.m. • PETROGRAD, January l(j. I It is officially declared that the German-version of the peace pourparlers distorts: the real meaning. Dr von Kuhlmann said the German Government reserved the right to delete everything tending to excite the German masses. PK ; ' / RUSSIA'S BRUTAL BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS RUMANIA. THREATS OF STERN MEASURES. •V > ' ; : $ ■ , ■ (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received January 17,8.50 pan. . LONDON January 16, ' -Representatives of the Allies have strongly protested to M. Lenin .against the arrest of the Rumanian Legation, and have demanded ' ■ • their release. The Rumanian. Minister and a few other Rumanians : were released oil Tuesday afternoon. • ' . The Russian Government accuses Rumania of hostile acts against ■■ Russian troops, also of arresting tl/e. committee of a Russian regiuiejit, and the Austrian officers who were visiting the regiment. / ■ The Russian Government has sent an ultimatum to Rumania, demanding the release of the officers, the ..punishment of the . -authorities concerned, and a guarantee against the repetition of such acts. Failing a reply in twenty-four hours, Russia will break off relations and tak6 energetic military* measures. ¥'• J : : ~ . GREAT BRITAIN'S UNOFFICIAL RELATIONS WITH THE x * . INDEPENDENCE OF FINLAND RECOGNISED. !■' "" " (Reuter's Talegroma.) 'Received January 17, sl-SO p.m. , • • . LONDON, January I' 6, . • _ n. Ie House of Commons, replying to a question . : to s attitude towards the Bolstieviki Government Mr '' a ,. our tliat Britain had not recognised the present Adminis- • ■ iration .at PetVograd as de facto or de jure the Government of r. '' S '^+1 Administratioll iQ an unofficial manner," Mr Balfour , . addedi through an agent attached to the Embassy. We are estabhshmg similar unofficial relations with Citizen Litvinoff, whom the • Bolshevikis appointed Russian representative)in London- The-e * aw best suited' to the We have.instructed our Consul-General at .Helsingfora to crter • v ; mto : relations wth.the de facto authorities there." ' - .

VOLUNTEERS IN. NEW- ABMY j)EPA|T to¥<" \ FRONT, ■ ; Ul ' > -: , , ' JAPAN PREPARING'TO INTERVENE AT VMDIVOSTOCK. !:■ ■■ / i ■■■''''■ I '■■*. • . '• -"' ■'-' •• " .' : . ,"• r; : i' '' w •. ' •'", . 1 .'. ■', •;. \ ' (Australian and New Zealand Association,) . ' ■ " , Received January 17, 9.5 p;m. 1 ( , i January IG. '•. '. Five thousand voluntas" of -the for the front to .protect, the border. The papulace was tremeu- • dously enthusiastic.i ' j". , : . : - ■ .-/* ; : Received January 17,- 9.5 p.m. " : j ; • ' > - ' TOElO,'January 16. . ' Tt is officially ainioimced : that: Japanese warships-liave been sent to Yladivostock. •" " , --,. ■ ut;.. 1 Japan does u,ot> desire to coerce Russia, but foreign lives and property mustbe protected. • '. 1 . .v' ■. GRAVE NATIONAL DISASTER THREATENS RUSSIANS. ~ GAUNT SPECTRE OF HUNGER STALKS THE COUNTRY. Australian nnd Now Zealand CaMo Association andjLcutcr.) • , ' * LONDON,- January 16. A Russian wireless says: An appeal lo all urges that immediate help is necessary. The Army is perishing from famine, and provis-., ioning has ceased. Several-regiments are- without"bread, and the horses are,without fodder. Every citizciyof Russia must do-his duty and work. The appeal directs the Council'of Soviets to. do. everything necessary, even to making work compulsory, to ensure the feeding of the armies. The appeal says that any attempts of'. lailwajmen arid others to capture military food will be severely / punished. • v •' ' v / ' / REPORTED ATTEMPTS TO SHOOT LENIN." • "MADE-IN GERMANY" STORY OF COSSACK DEMOBILISATION. ' (Australian' and New Zealand Cabla Aesonlntlon.) '' _ ■ •. LONDON, January... 1(!. . Tlnjre is an unconfirmed report current of imsnieeoiwful aiicmpts to shoot M. Lenin, in Petrograd. ' ' COPENHAGEN, January If!. The Berlin correspondent of the Politikeu states'tliat Kalc.din has requested the Ukraine delegates at Brest-Litovsk'towatch the interests of the Don districts, and adding: "If the Ukraine reached an "agreement with the Central Powers, the Cossacks at the front will 'be demobilised." , I ' |