AUSTRIA DESIRES SEPARATE PEACE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11446, 28 January 1918, Page 5

AUSTRIA DESIRES SEPARATE PEACE.

ACCEPTS DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME. WITH ONE EXCEPTION. Petrograd, Jan. 27. It is reported that Austria lias declared her readiness to conclude a peace without Gerauy. She will accept the democratic programme except the provision for the self-determination of the nations.

The Bolsheviks are contemplating a formal declaration of war against the Ukrainians. It is reported that the Bolshevik troops have surrounded Kioff.

STRIKE AT BUDAPEST.

SOVIETS AT VIENNA. RUSSIAN CONDITIONS EVOLVING. Received Jan. 28, i) a.m, Amtserdam, Jan. 27. The Berliner Tageblatt states that a general strike at Budapest commenced on the morning of the 18th. Bosnian soldiers with machine-guns surrounded the inner city and strongly occupied all the bridges. The strikes were massed in the outer portions of the capital, and none were allowed to enter the inner city. Street traffic was entirely suspended and shops were closed. Thirty members of the Labourers, Soldiers and Students Union were arrested before the strike.

Petrograd, Jan. 37. Bolshevik newspapers state that there are great demonstrations over the whole of Austria-Hungary. Soviet organisations hare been formed in Yieuna and Budapest and a big strike has begun at Warsaw.