NO SEPARATE PEACE FOR RUSSIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15191, 11 April 1917, Page 5

NO SEPARATE PEACE FOR RUSSIA.

BITTEE PILL FOR GERMAN SOCIALISTS CLAIM FOR CONSTANTINOPLE RENOUNCED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,) Received April 11, 10.0 a.m. PETROGRAD, April 10. M. Kerensky has officially declared that M. Liliukoff's .statement that Russia desired Constantinople does not represent the Provisional Government's point of view. M. Kerensky, who is vice-president of the Council of Soldiers' and Workers' Deputies, further declares that the Labourites, while realising that Russian defeat will mean the defeat of Russian freedom, are willing only to conduct a war of defence, and renounce absolutely any desire for Constantinople, and by a majority have asked the Government to express their readiness to conclude peace when all the Powers agree, and relinquish ideas of annexation and an indemnity. M. Kerensky adds: —If German Socialists think we will make a separate peace they will be bitterly mistaken. The Provisional Government has announced the relinquishment of the Rtasflian claim to Constantinople as part of the peace price.