PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 January 1918, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

EPARATE PEACE CONCLUDED IT WEEN RUSSIA AND BULGARIA. Received 8.35, f NEW YORK ; Jan 10, is reported that Russia and Bulhave signed a separate peace. IE AtrSTEO-GEEMAN PEACE [ OFFEE. ■BOTSKY INTERVIEWED. BTAKEN VIEW OF ALLIES’ | PPOLICY. I LONDON, January 9. I Eansome, at Petrograd, |d Trotsky when the latter was K point o£ departing for Brest Ik with the mistaken impression ■the Allies wanted Germany to Rd in making. advantageous sepI peace with Russia, so that GerI guarding herself on the East ■ might be more willing to sur- ■- what Allies desired on the ■ front. Trotsky interpreted Mr. ■ George thuswise: “The Allies, ■ blame the Bolsheviks for the ■freedoms of Lithuania fcourland. ’ ’ Mr. Ransomc assurBotsky that he was mistaken. The I replied, "that is the Allied B.” Further questioned, he said Biternational labour conference Ido harm. The attitude of the Iviks would not be influenced by but only by ■Hied peojiTes. “It is difficult,” Ifrotsky, ‘'to say what are the ■ for a general peace, because the Ins have not yet been offered the 1 of a general acceptable peace, lust need it. They have abandonlir attempts to move the large Iront units westward, and now Ihe men singly. They Jump* out lins to escape. Deserters tell me Ihe soldiers will not go to the H*n front. Twenty-five thousand Ins are at this moment mutiny? l?hind the German front in the I district. The high command, I to get their comrades to I the mutineers, surrounded them I to starve them into submisI Trotsky refused to be drawn ling the actual terms he hopes lain, adding, laughingly, “Log■we ought; to declare war on Hid now, for the sake of India, H and Ireland.”

MANN’S NARROW ESCAPE. PARIS January 9, “Petit JournalV’ Zurich coricnt says that Admiral Tirpitz’s ce with the Kaiser and Chanin the Ludendorff-Kuhlmann , ended in a Pan-German vicluhlmann narrowly escaped disi LUSTS OPPOSE SEPARATE PEACE. LONDON, January 9. Echo de Paris’ Zurich correst says the Soviet and all Sogroups at Petrograd have isproelamation against the Bol- ’ separate peace, declaring that peace might save Russia from ■icaj* and Economic catastrophe K-il war. The Biifeheviks began ■ Constituent Aodemyy or conI the P eo Several divisions ■ntry and cavalry passed a reft condemning Lenin and TrotBoliey.

KERENSKY’S REPORT. STOCKHOLM, January 9. Kerensky is drafting a report for the Constituent Assembly, explaining why he refrained from attending the peace negotiations ; the reason why he sent the Czar to Tobolsk; and the circumstances causing the fall of his own Government. AUSTRIANS BLAME GERMANS. LONDON, January 9. The Vienna “Arbciter Zeitung” says: If the whole world is fighting us and all the nations hate us, the fault lies with Germany, who to-day wants to dictate* a conqueror’s peace. It is doAA’nright madness to pretend that a victorious peace is possible. The madness is typified in the statement that if we hold out for a few months longer the whole world will submit. ROME, January 9. The Stuttgart Tageblatt states that there Avere gra\ T e divergences between the Austrian and German delegates at Brest Litovsk. GREAT PEACE MEETINGS IN VIENNA. SYMPATHY WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS. COTteNNHAGEN, Jan. 10. The Social Demokratcn learns that great peace meetings in Vienna passed resolutions of sympathy AA’ith the Bolshe\ r iks and demanded the release of Dr. Adler. A new Peace Party has been, formed Avhich is agitating for peace by undrstanding.