RUSSIAN PEACE TREATY RATIFIED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 154, 19 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN PEACE TREATY RATIFIED

TURKISH OCCUPATION OF CEDED DISTRICTS TO BE RESISTED GERMANY'S WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IN SIBERIA (Rec. March 18, 8.35 p.m.) Petrograd, March 17. _ Peace was ratified late to-night. M. Leilin, in a two-hours' speech,' for which he received'an ovation, pointed out that the opponents of ratification were suffering from despondency, and desired to throw off the Soviets' power. They should defend the peace policy as best until the international proletariat were able to assert their power. Tho Oppositionists strongly opposed tho ratification. Mr. Kamkoff, leader of tho Socialists' Left, scathingly criticised M. Lenin's policy. M. Lenin, at a second sitting, said tho Bolshcviki were not traitors to the Revolution. They wero bound to conclude peace with the Gc-rman imperialists. M. Trotskys absence was commented on.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. ' REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS REFUSE TO DISARM CAUCASIANS .WILL RESIST TURKISH OCCUPATION OF CEDED DISTRICTS. (Rec. March 18, 10 p.m.) Petrograd, March 18. The Moscow section of tho Revolutionary Socialists are withdrawing from the Government, declaring that they will not lay down their arms. They intend to organise an independent armed res.istance. The Caucasian delegates to the conference reported that ,tho Caucasian Government was ignoring the peace treaty, and vould organise resistance should Turkey attempt, to occupy the coded districts of ICars, Batoum, and Ardahan. The sailors of the Black Sea Fleet have offered assistance in defending Batoum.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FACTORY WORKERS CONDEMN THE BOLSHEVIK POLICY. (Rec. March 18, 7.50 p.m.) Petrograd, March 17. A conference representing 40,000 factory, workers has considered the paralysis of industry, and passed a resolution against the Bolsheviki's policy and condemned the attempted syndicalistic control of industry.—United Service. APPOINTMENT OF A RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN. (Rec. March 18, 11.30 p.m.) r , ' Petrograd, March 17. M. Wolf, who was president of the peace delegation, lias been appointed Russian Ambassador at Berlin.—Reuter. GERMANY AGREES TO CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE FOR LITHUANIA. .(Rec. March 18, 8.35 p.m.) n , , , T>l , ~. •, , Petrograd, March 17. Uermany has agreed to Lithuania's independence, conditional on her making a railway, customs and financial convention with Germany.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIKI LEAVE ODHSSA BEFORE' THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. . Jassy, March 17. The Bolsheviki at Odessa- went to Sebastopol before the German occupation. Before leaving, the Bolshevik General ordered a massacre- of officers, capitalists, and bourgeois residents, and fined the population twenty million roubles—R-euter. RUMANIA'S KING GOES TO SWITZERLAND. m (en i- at i » n j u , , , Berne, March 17. The "Pesti Naplo," a Budapest paper, declares ' that the King of Rumania has gone to Switzerland rather than hinder the peace negotiations — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' GERMAN PREPARATIONS IN SIBERIA MEN AND MUNITIONS BEING TRANSPORTED. (Rec. March 18, 11.30 p.m.) mi r Tokio, March 17. t i f olegra-ms from reliable quarters describe the German preparations at Irkutsk and elsewhere m Siberia. Two army corps n,nd two cavalry corps composed of German and Austrian prisoners of war, have been formed One hundred and thirty German officers have arrived at Irkutsk, and others disguised, are pouring m. _ Field guns and armoured cars'are being transported from European Russia.—Reuter. ' ; BOLSHEVIK RAIDING FORCE DEFEATED. (Rec. March 18, 11.30 p.m.) ai\ iii -it , -r Toklo, March 17. A thousand volunteers, including a few Japanese, fought and defeated a raiding Bolshevik force at Blagovesensk. The sensational early report of 100 Japanese having been murdered was unfounded. The actual loss was one killed and eight missing.—"The-Times."* ■ JAPANESE IN SIBERIA ORDERED TO WITHDRAW. (Rec. March 18, 11.30 p.m.) , The "Daily MailV' Tientsin correspondent says at Harbin from Siberia state that their Government has ordered their withdrawal, as the situation might necessitate military intervention —United Service. 1 '