RUSSIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7672, 19 January 1918, Page 1

RUSSIA.

TIIli; PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. PLAIN TALK BY Dii. KU LIL/MANN. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 15. Dr. Kublrmuiu, at the Bres*t Lilovsk • negotiations, adopted the st midpoint that portions oi Russia wfiv striving- lo obtain separation, and wore already to conclude agreements with GermanyDr. Kuhlman and Count Czcrnin ntiniated that 'they were 'willing to invite represental ives of those sections to .Brest Litovsk.

11. Trotzky replied that the territories concerned had no democratic reprosen'tative bodi«s. The Russian dflogalcs proposed strong conditions regarding the right of sclf-dctcrmUia-, lion for these peoples. Hr. I [oilman protested that the Russians spoke as if they were the fompieiinn- party. They made demands for rights of self-determina-tion for (lie occupied tornltories which they did not apply to their own own country. Their fJovemment was founded purely on power, which was ruthlessly used to suppress all who thought otherwise. Everyone with din'erent views was declared an out* law. Dr. Hoffman instanced the Ma.vimalist outrages upon the bour-

K';eoisi() and counter-revolu'bionary poo- | I |ili(. Tlie. (ici'mati ,'U'iKy command re- j fused Lo evacuate o o i"'land, Litta- : ania, antl the lilga Islands. | The lK'n'olintiona wore f.djo.usncd, j and no da to was lixod for tho n ext j meeting-. I