A MAXIMALIST STATEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 December 1917, Page 5

A MAXIMALIST STATEMENT.

CAUCASIAN AK.MV MARCHING AGAINST KALEMN. Reu'ter Service. Received Dec. 25, 11.45 p.m. Amsterdam, .Dec. 2-1. Enemy delegations at Brest Lilovsk unanimously agreed as to Hie basis of the reply to the Russian peace proposal?. The reply will be formulated tomorrow. A Petrograd telegram from the Maximalist Press Bureau- states that a Caucasian army 100.000 strong is marching on General Kaledin's rear. ACTION OF UKRAINIANS. 31 MILLIONS OPPOSE LENIN. NO SEPARATE PEACE. LINKING UF WITH KALBDRT. Received Dec. 25, 11.30 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 24.-Thirty-one million people in Ukraine are solidly opposing Lenin's separate peace proposals. The announcement that Ukraine troops are linking up with Kaledin, with a view to defending the southwestern and Roumanian fronts, compelled the Germans to move troops from! the northern sectors in order to meet the new menace. It is reported that the Bolsheviks have sent the Guards from Petrograd and Moscow against Ukraine. FORMING A GERMAN ARMY. OUT OF WAR PRISONERS. EMPIRE TO BE RE-ESTABLISHED. Received Dec. 26, 2.30 a.m. Stockholm, Dec. 25. The National Tidendin states that Herr Lucius, a former German diplomat, is forming a German-army in Petrograd, consisting of prisoners of war, uffloered by a large number of Germans who have arrived at Petrograd from the 'ran Her. Other Petrograd messages state that Germany intends to re-establish the empire of Russia, Berlin's candidate being the Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch, who will enter into an immediate alliance with the German and Austrian Emperors. COMMUNIQUES UNRELIABLE. BOLSHEVIKS STICK AT NOTHING. Received Dec. 2fi, 2.30 a.m. Times Service, Paris, Dec. 25. Le Petit Parisien's Petrograd correspondent states that official communiques are unreliable. Great victories in the south that arc claimed are foundationlcss. It is safe to assume that the Bolsheviks will stick at nothing to realise their programme through the new self-dominated Assembly. LYNCHING OF A COMMANDER. Received Dec. 26, 2.30 a.m. Petrograd, ©ec. 25. A'Tashkent message describes the horrible lynching of General Korovitehenko by the mob. Kerensky appointed Korovitchenko commander of the troops in Turkestan.