BREST LITOVSK TREATY

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14857, 3 September 1918, Page 5

BREST LITOVSK TREATY

ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS

ARCHDUCAL RECRUIT FOR THE

ALLIES.

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Additional provisions of the BrestLitovsk treaty. • provide that. Esthonia and Livonia are to be independent, but Russia has secured a commercial arrangement with the Baltic. Russia also acknowledges the State of Georgia. Russia gives Germany the greater part of the naphtha production in the Baku district, and also pays Germany an indemnification of six milliards of marks.

A Finnish newspaper states that Grand Duke Dimitri Pauloviteh has joined the British troops in Russia. He is mentioned as a candidate for the Russian throne.