GREAT DEEDS IN PALESTINE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9871, 17 January 1918, Page 5

GREAT DEEDS IN PALESTINE

RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION By T(‘!;'"rr! ph ■ Press •Ljanriction—Copyrights Australian and New Zealand Cable Association,. AMSTERDAM, Janu my 15 Dr. Kuhlmann, speaking at the Brest-Litoysk negotiations, adopted 1 standpoint that portions of Russia which were striving to obtain separation n already qualified to conclude agreements with Germany. M. Trotsky replied that the present representative bodies could i prove that they spoke in the name of the entire people. Dr. Kuhlmann and. Count Ozernin intimated that they were • willing invite representatives of' these sections to Elrest-Litovsk. M. Trotsky replied that the territories concerned had no democra representative bodies. The Russian delegates there had propoaad stio conditions in regard to the right of self-determination for these -jnaoples. Herr Hoffmann protested that the Russians spoke as if they were t conquering party. ‘ The German Army Command would refuse to evacui Courland and Lithuania and the islands in the Gulf of Riga. Herr Hoffmann continued that the Russian delegation demanded ngl ,of self-determination for occupied territories, while they id not - apply it their own country. . , T . “It is a Government founded purely on power which ruthlessly suppres all who think differently from it. and under which everyone wuth differc views is declared outlaw." Herr Hoffmann went on to instance the maxim ists’ outrages -upon the bourgeois counter revolutionary people. The negotiations were adjourned, but no date lias been lixed tor m next meeting. CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY MEETS TO-MORROW ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS WILL TRY TO REPLACE BOLSHEVIKS. 1 Australian and Now Zealand Cable Association, LONDON, January 15 The Petrcgrad correspondent of the “Daily News” states that the, C< stituonfc Assembly i s fixed to meet on Friday, when the anti-Bolshc majority will try to replace the Bolsheviks by a weaker Government co mitted to the-securing of peace by pressure upon the Allies. The Bolsheviks are preparing to set up a new Conference- of boviets opposition to the Constituent Assembly. ~ . - „ , ■ During the last few days the Bolsheviks have dismissed all the othci of the Ministry of Finance, have decreed compulsory lahqur with a view clearing the streets of snow, and have ordered that religion is not to _ taught in the schools. They will probably issue a decree abolishing the ii£ of inheritance. *