RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

UKRAINE TREATY. j, SO INDKMNJTIES. Received Feb. 12, ii'i p.m. Copenhagen, Keb. 11. The Ukraine peace treaty secures the maintenance of the pre-war frontiers between Austria arid Russia, and the evacuation of the occupied territory as soon as the treaty is ratified by both parties. There will be no repatriation or indemnities on either side, but a mutual exchange of surplus agricultural and industrial produce will be made for • Tnly 31. A special commission will li\the quantity, quality, and prices. The general Russian tariff of 1903 will be maintained. THE REPATRIATION CONDITIONS. Received Feb. 13, 12.3 ft a.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 11. Russia and Austria-Hungary agreed upon the mutual repatriation of all under sixteen and those, unlit for military service between sixteen and forty-five; also doctors and priests. Three official representatives of the Austrian agricultural societies have gone to Kieff to discuss economic questions.

RUSSIA TO DEMOBILISE. ON ALL FRONTS. Received Feb. 12, 6.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 11. At the Brest Litovsk Conference the president of the Russian delegation stated that Russia, while desisting from signing a formal peace treaty, declares she had ended the state of war with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, anil Bulgaria, and is giving orders for the complete demobilisation of the Russian forces on all fronts.

GERMANS HAMPERED PEACE. THE BREST-LITOVSK NEGOTIATIONS. / Received Feb. 13, 12.30 a.m. Paris, Feb. 11. Le Matin's Stockholm correspondent % liad an interview with M. Kamenou", who stated that, the Germans at Brest Litovsk from the beginning systematically hampered peace. Herr Ho'll'maim, with cynical frankness, sliowed him a map of the future German frontier, which only left the. Pinsk marches to Russia, We thereupon broke off negotiations. The Soviet declared the frontiers must not bo traced with the point of the sword, but by the will of the people. A separate peace between Germany and Russia is improbable. We should regard it as a misfortune.

He did not expect the resumption of hostilities by Russia. He continued: The German people will disavow its Government and refuse to tight against Russia. He considered the Ukrainians had betrayed them.

AN AUTONOMOUS SIBERIA. BOLSHEVIKS BUSY. Reutor Service. Received Feb. 13, 12.30 a.m. Petrograd, Feb. 11. Tiio Bolsheviks have arrested the members of the Siberian Provisional Government; also deputies of the Tomsk Duma, in order to prevent the establishment of an autonomous Siberia. Twelve hundred sailors from Petrograd have arrived ut Vladivostok to prevent the Amur Cossacks securing control of Vladivostok. BOLSHEVIKS NEAR WAR WITH GERMANY. New York, Feb. 11. The Stockholm correspondent of the New York Herald interviewed M. Orlovsky,_ Bolshevik Minister in Sweden, who said that the Bolsheviks were nearer war with Germany than ever since the revolution.

RUMOR OF PEACE. London, Feb. 11. It is reported that Russia has signed a peace with the Central Powers. NEWS FROM A TAINTED SOURCE. London, Fob. 11. A Russian wireless official message from Brest Litovsk informs Trotsky that prior to the Bth Die whole of KicfY was in the hands of the Soviets, with the exception of the Poehersky Monastery, where the remnants of 'the Kicff Eada were entrenched. The .Peohersky position was captured <> n the Bth and remnants of the Ra.la forces tied. Nothing remains of the Rada but a I sad memory and its delegation to Brest Litovsk is therefore from an authority that no longer exists. NEW ROUMANIAN CABINET. m „. J(, ss.y, Feb. 11. llic King has charged General Averescu with the formation of a new Cabinet