RUSSIA.
BOLSHEVIK-UKRAINIAN AGREEMENT. UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE RECOGNISED. London, Jan. 11. Mr. Ransome telegraphs from Petrograd that an agreement has been reached between the Bolsheviks and the Ukrainian delegates at Brest Litovsk. Ukraine's, Independence is recognised and the delegates decided to present a united front The agreement ends the Germans' hopes of dividing the Bolsheviks from South Russia, where food and other commodities form the chief German peace objective. M Lenin has departed from Petrograd, either on a holiday to Finland or to confer with Austro-German Socialists at Stockholm. Before leaving he said; "1 fear we shall be compelled to stop demobilisation and prepare for war. We can never agree to a shameful peace."
ARMISTICE PROLONGED. PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES. ORGANISING RESISTANCE. TO POSSIBLE GERMAN OFFENSIVE. Received Jan. 13, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 12. The Central Powers have accepted M. Trotsky's proposal to prolong the armistice for another moilth. By General Krylenko's order, voluntary detachments of the Red Guard are forming on the northern front. The Bolshevik leaders opine that the peace negotiations will be interrupted, and that it is therefore necessary to organise renistanes to the German offensive, which they consider imminent. Continuance of the war on the old scale is impossible, and operations will be limited to defence. They hope to create a voluntary revolutionary armv.
STATEMENT BY TROTSKY. AS TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. REMOVING PRETEXT FOR BREAK--9 ING OFF. Renter Service. Received Jan. 13, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 12. At Brest Litovsk, M. Trotsky said that the Russians desired to continue the peace negotiations, whether or not the Entente Powers participated therein. He disagreed with the difficulties urged by the Germans regarding the transfer of negotiations to Stockholm, but, as the Russian people desired the speediest peace, he consented to remain at Brest Litovsk, in order to deprive the Quadruple Alliance of a pretext for breaking off negotiations on technical grounds.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1918, Page 5
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