CHILDISH RUSSIAN IDEAS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 13 December 1917, Page 3

CHILDISH RUSSIAN IDEAS.

Fighting the Germans with Proclamations. Woe to the Vanquished^ Received This Day 10.15. a.m. Petrograd > Dec, 12. Trotzky in a speech, said. "The allies warned us that Germany is deceiving us but we are a hundredfold than the cunning Germans. If Germany will not agree to Courland and Lithuania electing their own forms of Government we> will strew the enemy trenches with millions of proclamations. The Germans after twentyeight days will accept our conditions for an armistic. If the Allied Governments do not agree to our conditions they will be thrown down one after another. London, Dec 12. : The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states the German armistice terms were: First, the evacuation of Petrograd by the Russians until a general peace is reached, but no provision as to whether the capital should be occupied by the Germans. Secondly, the Baltic fleet to be disarmed. Thirdly, the whole Ukraine to be cecled to Austria including the northern shores of the Black Sea. The population of Petrograd is restless and many are fleeing in anticipation of the meeting of the Constituert Assembley. Only a hundred members have arrived. The members of the Electoral Board, which should make the arrangements for the meeting; are imprisoned.