RUSSIAN REVELATIONS.
How Europe Was To Be Divided. /Received This .Day, 8.40 a.m. Petrograd, Nov. 26. The Maximalists' news agency has published a series of secret documents and telegrams whidln include Russia s demand)* for Constantinople, the west coast of the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles, southern Thrace up to the Bnois-Midia line, the Asiatic coast and islands in the Sea cf Marmora, also the islands of Imbros and Tenedos. The Allies put forward claims demanding that Constantinople should be,Mme a free port and further demanding recognition of their (rights over Turkey, as well as the preservation of the sacred places of Arabia innder Mussulman sovereignty, and the inclusion of the neutral zone in Per- ■ «da within the sphere of British activ- I ity. RusS'ta agreed thereto, being of opinion that the Tvhalifate should be sepa rated from Turkey, and bargaining f a r 4110 retention of lier (settlements in th e * Persian towns of Ispahan and. Yem «d" As regards the future frontiers 01 Germ any, France demanded and Rusia ooncui wed in the return of Alsaco and jjoprai:. ne, flso the iron ore and coa.l district P and tlie wooded region on the left bardi't of tho Rhine, Moreover, certain -territories were to be separated from' Iftermany and freed. 1 from all 'political and' economic dependence thereon, being made a free, neutral state and oocup«<*l &.Y Russian troops until certain con 'ditions and guarantees wore fulfilled nnal peace concluded. AI. Terestclienko V the first forcl2n Minister in the Kc vrensfcy regime, rent telegrams indicating; that when Britain, Italy, and France impressed Kerenpky .with the urgent necessity of making the' Russian army ciapaHe of fighting, tilvis w«is resented, arid Terestchenko expressed his appreciiailbn of United States for their nom-participation 011 that occasion. Received This 3>«y, 9-10 am - „ Petrograd, Nov. 27. THie Bolshevik soldiers that unlo'-'s theVe is a, Bolshevik majority in the Constituent-assembly they vn" disperse it with bayonets.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 November 1917, Page 3
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