SECRET DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1917, Page 5

SECRET DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED.

RUSSIAN AND ALLIES' CLAIMS. Petrograd, Nov. 26. The Maximalist News Agency has published a scries of secret documents and telegrams, Which include Russia's demands for Constantinople, the west coast of the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmora, and the Dardanelles, southern Thrace up to the Enos-Milia line, the Asiatic const and islands in the Sea of Marmora, also the islands of Intbros and Tenedus. The Allies preferred claims demanding that Constantinople should become a free port, and further demanding recognition of their rights over Asiatic Turkey, as well as the preservation of the sacred places of Arabia under Mussulman sovereignty and the inclusion of the neutral zone of Persia within the sphere of British activity. Russia agreed thereto, being of. opinion that the Klialifate should be separated from Turkey, and bargained for the retention of settlements in the Persian towns of Ispahan and Ye'med. ' As regards the.future frontiers of Germany, France .demanded and Russia concurred in the return of Alsace-Lorraine, a]so the iron ore and coal difctrictsand wooded region on the left bank of the Rli ine; moreover, certain territories were to be separated from Germany and freed from all political and economic dependence thereon, being made a free neutral State and occupied by Russian troops until certain conditions and guarantees were fulfilled and pteace concluded. M. Terestehcnko's telegrams indicate that when Britain, Italy, and France impressed Kerens!;}- with the urgent necessity of maJdng the Russian army capable of fighting this was resented, and M. Terestcheiiko expressed appreciation to the United States of their non-participa-tion on that occasion.

[ SERIOUS DISAGREEMENTS. LENIN'S MACHINATIONS. Received Nov. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 26. The Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent reports that the executive council of the Soviet!? seriously disagree over the peace proposals. Lenin denies that he proposed an immediate peace. Jfe merely suggested making peace proposals. Another version states' that Lenin did promise immediate peace, and thus «e : , cured the support of the masses. Pome members of the Soviet declare that the executive was not cdnsulted. Kamenelt urged the executive to publish a special declaration that peace negotiations would not 'be begun unless the Germans guaranteed they would not use the armistice to remove troops to other fronts. Lenin evaded this demand, i The military revolutionary committee has suppressed three Socialist newspapers. -■■■ .V , The Bolsheviks arrested the manager and seized the State Rank in Moscow, confiscating the gold deposits.

BOLSHEVIK THREATS. ' Petrograd, Nov. 26 Bolshevik soldiers threaten that unless there is a Bolshevik majority in the Constituent Assembly they will disperse it with bayonets. 'PEACE MOVE AFFECTS ENEMY SOLDIERS. New York, Nov. 28» The Petrograd correspondent of the New York Herald reports that the Russian peace move is thoroughly impregnating the Gerinari soldiers and will certainly weaken their moral. The Russians are now doing more damage than they ever accomplished by fighting.