DAILY NEWS REPORT OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134038, 4 January 1918, Page 5

DAILY NEWS REPORT OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Friday, at 11.20 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Thursday. The Bolshevik Telegraph Agency at Petrograd confirms the London Daily News' report that peace negotiations have been broken off by Pet- ° M. Trotsky announces that Russia will not consent to Germany's terms. The stipulations of Germany in relation to the occupied territory an Russia are expressed in the articles proposed by the German delegates at Brest Litovsk for a preliminary treaty, as follows: — 1. Russia and Germany declare the state of war to be ended, and resolve to live together in future in peace and friendship, on condition of complete reciprocity; Germany to be ready as soon as peace is concluded with Russia, and the Russian armies demobilised, to evacuate her present positions and occupied Russian territory in so far as no different inference may result from Article 2. 2. After the Russian Government has proclaimed for all the peoples ol Russia the right of self-determination, including complete separation, it takes cognisance of the decisions expressing the will of the peoples demanding a full state of independence and separation from Russia, tor Poland, Lithuania, and Courland, portions of Bsthonia and Livonia. As in these districts to wMch the foregoing stipulations apply, the question of evacuation is not such as is provided in Article 1, a special commission shall arrange for ratification by plebiscite on broad lines, without any military pressuro whatever, of the already existing separation proclamations.