RUSSIAN SITUATION.
AN IMPORTANT PACT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Saturday at 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. Mr Ransouie ,the war correspondent, telegraphs from Petrograd _ that an agreement has been reached between the Bolshevik and Ukrainian delegates at Brest Litovsk. . Ukraine's independence is recognised, and the delegates decided to present a united front. The agreement ends the Germans' hopes of dividing the Bolsheviks from South Russia, where food and other commodities form the chief German peace objective. . Lenin has departed from Petrograd, being either on a holiday m 1 inland, or conferring with the Austro-Hungarian Socialists at Stockholm. Before leaving, Lenin said: "I fear we will be compelled to stop demobilisation and prepare for war. We will never agree to a shameful peace.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134045, 12 January 1918, Page 5
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