RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14654, 7 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE PEACE TREATY,

ADDITIONAL STIPULATIONS

A FORTNIGHT FOR RATIFICA-

TION

SERIOUS DEFENCE IMPOSSIBLE

(Australian and h.Z. Cable Associatiou

London, March 5. The following are additional particulars of the Russo-German 'Treaty :— Starting from the fact that Persia and Afghanistan are free and independent States, the contracting parties Undertake to respect their political and economic independence, and territorial integrity.

War prisoners tfill be mutually repatriated.

The contracting parties mutually renounce indemnification bf war costs, namely, State expenditure and public and private damage, which have arisen througb military measures, including axi requisitions undertaken in enemy country.

A final ;dause provides for ratification within a fortnight.

The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states that the majority of the Social Revolutionaries of the Left and a section of the Bolsleviki still favour a revolutionary war, but serious defence is impossible. The regular army, with few exceptions, is flocking to the interior as far as possible from the invader. The bulk of the Petrograd regiments have sold their regimental property and divided the proceeds.and gone to their homes. . •-' - I

The new Red Army is enthusiastic but raw, and cannot seriously resist the invaders. The capital is uncannily quiet.

The peace terms seem to have struck a blow at the national feeling.

Tho Cadet Party have issuod a manifesto declaring that anarchy, deplorable as it is, cannot be compared to the horror of enslavement to a foreign yoke. It appeals to the country to .rally to the defence of the country in association with Russia's alliea.

The British Embassy staff from Petrograd have arrived at Helsingfors.