Russian Peace Terms

Taihape Daily Times, 28 December 1917, Page 5

Russian Peace Terms

ACCEPTED BY CENTRAL POWERS £.. ONE DEADLY EXCEPTION. Received 9.50. COPENHAGEN, Dec 27. Official advices from Vienna state that the Central Powers join Russia In condemning continuation of the war, the sole object whereof is conquest. They solemnly declare they TvIII# Lng to sign peace with all belligerents, but demand all must accept the principles of no annexations, no indemnities, and they reqpire a Russian guarantee that all Russia’s allies will adopt this principle. Russia’s proposal peoples deciding their own national grouping is rejected so far as the peoples of the Central Powers are concerned. It is a matter that cannot be settled internationally, hut independently, by each State and people. 2- THE PEACE MOVEMENT. GERMANS WANT POSTPONEMENT PETROGRAD, Dec. 26 The Germans asked the Leninites to postpone the peace negotiations until January 24th. It is generally expected that the Germans at the Brest Litivsk Conference will absolutely refuse to discuss general peace, and that the negotiations will thus quickly break _ jff. Et transpires that . the Maximalist peace conditions include a demand for the speedy evacuation of occupied territories. •The Maximalist News Agency states that the Maximalist delegation at Brest Litovsk has written to the German Foreign Office declaring that the peace negotiations; may be endangered If the German minority Socialists are not allojjfcd to go to the Stockholm Conference to meet the Russian dele- * . ■ Tates. .