SWEDEN TO ACT AS MEDIATOR.
PARIS, Decmeber 2
Le Matin publishes a Copenhagen message stating that Sweden has agreed to become peace mediator between Germany and the Bolsheviks. Le Matin adds: It will be reinarkjftble if a neutral uses her good offices in carrying out a manoeuvre engineered by a combination comprising Lenin, Trotsky, and the Kaiser's agents. COPENHAGEN, December 2. The Russian Legation has received Trotsky's telegram asking whether it is prepared io carry out the Workmen, Soldiers and Peasants' Delegates' international policy. The Legation has wired other Russian Legations intimating that it has no intention of answering the telegram emanating from usurpers and of enemies of the Fatherland, and traitors against the Allies. BERNE, December 2. The Neve Freie Presse says it is minoured t'nat the ex-Czar has escaped from Tobolsk, traversed Kharbin, and reached Japan.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17154, 4 December 1917, Page 3
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