GERMAN PRISONERS FREE.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1917, Page 5

GERMAN PRISONERS FREE.

DUNK nrOTS INTLCKaCKD HV <:i;kaia>:s. , cadets get the blame, Received Deo. i:>, 5.5 p.m. London, Dee. 21 Ike Daily Chronicle's IVtrognid correspondent, -itys that (he 'ic'rnum prisoners are. virtually fro.-, and are a/rivin;; daily in Potrivyrad. I'iiiforin'.-d German na\diers are met everywhere in the streets. Undoubtedly German iutkicncc U working strongly, ami it is believed to \w. ■-"■iici-nii'd in the drink riots, which the •-(iviet declares to be the nork of tile Cadets in order to demoralize tin- Soviet troops iiany arrests bare hrten lmidc. HOW THE RUSSIANS WERE FOOLED. A GERMAXO-LEXIN CONSPIRACY. FOR MOVING TROOPS TO WEST FRONT. Received Dee. 22, 5.5 p.m. Aniderdam, Dec. 21. Dutch information reveals that the, Germans and Lenin conspired to fool the Russians by delaying .tin; armistice negotiations till every division and battery intended for the west front had been set in motion before Germany f-iswd the. order, thus taking advantage of tile clause permitting the. completion of movements that had commenced. DISORDERS IN PETROCRAD. DRASTIC MEASURES PROPOSED. PEACE PROPAGANDA GREATLY AFFECTING GERMAN ARMY. Received Dec. 22, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 21. The Daily Chronicle's Pclrograd. correspondent says that drunken disorders continued in Petrograd, which is in u state of siege. The Soviet has prohibited open-air meetings and threatened to machine-gun looters without warning. An important Foreign Office official informed a correspondent that the distribution of peace propaganda literature at the front is proceeding on a large scale and is greatly influencing the Or man troops. Whatever may be the' outcome of the negotiations, the Gorman army will ho unwilling to continue fighting.