TROTSKY SUGGESTS PEACE CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11417, 21 December 1917, Page 5

TROTSKY SUGGESTS PEACE CONFERENCE.

ACCUSES ALLIES OF SABOTAGE. (Received Thursday. 10. PS p.m.) LONDON, Dee. 19. it. Bouredder reports that, replying to KuoLlmuuir’s telegram of 1 Stir December. Trolsky suggested a direct rein vital ioa to the Allies. If they arc unable to attend the first meeting, Russia will request their presence at a later stage, with the Central Powers ; concurrence. The conference, he states, will receive the Allies with open arms, bur if they continue their sabotage. Russia will conclude a separate peace. Ho points out meaningly the definite results of the armistice, and asks the Allies to declare once for all whether they desire or do not desire peace. lie has instructed the delegates to bluntly ask the Central Powers if they will accept ‘ ‘ no annexations and indemnities,” and the right of self disposal for all nations. The grotesque phraseology, adds Air Bourchior, does not excite surprise, as diplomatic euphemisms are now abolished. The reference to the “doctrine of sabotage” will doubtless please Germany, as, if the inference wore true, it would justify the scrapping of all treaties between Russia and the Allies.