RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12196, 20 December 1917, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE ARMISTICE. A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Router. IjONDON, December 18. An additional clause in the armistice providos for nn early military withdrawal from Persia according to the. principlo of the freedom and independence of a neutral Persia. ENEMY MINISTERifpOING TO BREST LITOVSK. Keutar'a Telegrams. PErHOGRAD, December 18. Von Kuehlmaim and Count Czernin, Gorman and Austrian Ministers of Foreign Affairs, have telegraphed that they will arrive at Brest Litcvsk tomorrow, aud invite M. Trotsky to join them in order to initiate a general peace. TRUCULENT GERMAN PRESS. BERNE, December 18. The German Press, in welcoming the armistice, adjures the Government to manifest no puerile spirit of sentimentality during the negotiations, but to exact from the Russians all that is necessary for the greatness and prosperity of tho German Empire and to insist on keeping a high hand on the Baltic provinces and dictate conditions Waking it impossible for a repetition of the famine such as the Central Empires have undergone during the last three years. MAXIMALISTS' ULTIMATUM. Reuter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD. December 18. The Maximalist newspaper " Pravda" announ->es that "jVlaximalist commissioners have sent the Ukraine Rada a forty-oight-hour ultimatum, declaring that unless the Rada renounces all further attempts to support General Kaledin.tha Maximalists will declare war on Ukraine.