RUSSIA.
PEACE DISCUSSIONS. BROKEN OFF BY RUSSIANS. GERMANY'S GAME SEEN* THROUGH AT LAST. London, .Jan. 2. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily News states that the peace negotiations have been broken off owing to Germany's attitude in regard to Poland and Lithuania. The Petrograd correspondent of tin Daily News states that representatives of the Central Powers, presuming on Russia's isolation, claimed that Poland, Lithuania and C'ourland had already delined their position, but as the Ukraine would not recognise the negotiations Germany demanded the retention of the garrisons at Riga, Libau and other strategic points. The Russian delegates were uncompromising, and declared that self-defini-tion wan impossible until the last German soldier luid left the country. They jeered at the Germans, and asked whether they proposed to take Petrograd, feed three million starving folk, and disarm a country where eVery workman carried a rifle, also what the Germans [imposed to tell their own democracy which opposed annexations. The Germans requested time to consider, but the Russians refused and left Brest Litovsk.
A considerable number of Red Guards have been sent to reinforce the front und other defensive preparations are in progress.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1918, Page 5
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189RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1918, Page 5
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