JAPANESE AMBASSADOR LEAVES RUSSIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 5

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR LEAVES RUSSIA.

A JAPANESE THREAT. SOVIETS AGREE TO PEACE TERfyIS . (Aust. and N.Z. Gable Association.) Renter. Tokio, Feb. 20. ■lt is officially announced that the Japanese Ambassador, Baron Uchidn, and his staii' Left Petrograd yesterday, TJie Foreign Minister, speaking in the Diet, said; ‘•Should a RussoGerman peace actually be concluded it goes without saying that Japan will have taken decided and adequate steps to meet the occasion.” He sdd the withdrawal of Baron Uchida was due to the unsettled and dangerous conditions in Pefrograd. It does not mean a rupture regarding Russia's separate peace. The fullest understanding exists with Britain, America and the other Allies; Washington, Feb. 26.

The Stste Department is advised that iho silled diplomats had planned to leave Petrograd on the 23rd. It is unknown whether they have left. Petrograd, Feb. 20. The Allied Embassies are le wing Petrograd. The Central Executive Committee of the Soviets agreed to the peace terms by 120 to 85. POSSIBILITY OF PEACE WITH RUSSIA. H UR3 GO TO BREST BITOVSK.

Amsterdam., Feb. 26. Yon Ilertling informed the Reichstag that pe«co delegates have gone to Brest Litovsk. Although a dispute about details was possible, the conclusion of peace must ensue very shortly. A Vienna telegram reports that Austro-Hungarian delegates have gone to Brest Litovsk. KRYLENKO REQUIRES AN ARMISTICE. FOR PEACE TALK. Petrograd, Fob. 3.7. Gcnenil Krylenko lias telegraphed to the Gorman General Stdf requesting a renewal of the armistice with a view to Russia’s accept.nice of the peace Terms. Amsterdam,’ Feb 25.

Krylenko, Commender-in-Chief of the Bolsehviks. was shot and wounded in the neck by a Socialist, who was arrested.