RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN PEACE TERMS. DISINTEGRATION OF RUSSIA. London, Feb. 21. A Russian wireless message say?: Replying to the Russian proposals of February lfl, Germany, on the 21st, iiitiuuiicd her readiness to conclude pence as follows : 1, Germany and Russia to declme that the state of war lias ended, •2. The regions west of the line indicated at Brest Litovsk to tin Russian delegation, formerly belonging to Russia, are r.o under Russian territorial protection.. In the region of Dvinsk this • lino must he advanced in the eastern frontier of Conrland. Germany and Austria, will define the further fate of these regions in agreement with their populations. 3. Livonia and IC-stlsosiia must immediately he cleared ol Russian troops and Red Guards and be occupied by German police till sec.n'itv is guaranteed hy tlioir constitutions. 4. Russia will conclude peace with the Ukraine and evacuate the Ukraine and Finland 3. Russia will do her utmost to secure the orderly return of her e.istern Anatolian frontiers to Turkey. C. The Russian army must ho completely demobilised. .. The Russian fleets, including the Entente warships, must he kept in Rusmiui harbors till the general peace, or till they are disarmed. 5. The Russo-Gernmn commercial treaty of lilot shall come into force. The free export of ores must he guaranteed ami a new commercial treaty must be negotiated. 9. Legal and political relations must bo regulated in accordance with the first German-Russian Convention. 10 Russia promises to end the propaganda against the Quadruple Alliance. 11. The conditions must he accepted Within 4S hpurs, and the Russian plenipotentiaries must sign at IJrest Litovsk within three days the peace treaty, which must he ratified within a fortnight. EFFECT OF THE TERMS. Paris, Feb. 24. The Matin states that a so-called ethnographical map, published in Heme in Ifll? hy German propagandists, shows the delineation of the Ukrainian and Polish frontiers as defined at Brest Litovsk. It shows that the western- frontier given to 'Russia would run hy P.skotl' and Kharkoff, merging into that Which formerly was the eastern limit of Greater Poland, while Petrograd was shown as belonging to Finland, thus driving Russia back to the Muscovite steppes CONFESSIONS OF INCOMPETENCE. BY LENIN AND TROTSKY. Received Feb. 25 ; 8.,'i0 p.m. Petrograd, Feb. 24. Lenin, in urging the acceptance of Ih-> German terms, stated that the retreating, demoralised army refused to fight, and he declined to remain in a government relying on mere phrases. The Commissaries had suppressed anti-Soviet papers and ordered the managers to continue to pay the wages of the staffs. A wild panic seized the Seventh and Eleventh Armies, which are retreating in disorder. Trotslcy, in an interview, declared: Wo have no army, for it has boen in a state of rebellion for three months. Crowds continued to live in the trendies, but waited the first chance of escape. GERMAN TISRM~4CCEPTED. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Feb. 15, 8 p.m. London, Feb. 24. Wireless Russian official: Lenin and Trotsky have sent a message to Berlin, notifying Russia's acceptance of the Germans' peace conditions, and the sending of a delegation to Brest Litovsk. A GERMAN REPORT. FURTHER SUCCESSES CLAIMED. Received Feb. 2,", 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 24. Wireless German official: We advanced >y forced marches in Esthonia, tiie enemy resisting at some points. We are approaching Reval. We took 1000 prison-n-s and liberated 000 Austro-Germans at Jalk. We also captured Ostrov. FIGHTING AND BICKERING. ! Petrograd, Feb. 24. The chairman of the -Soviet states that Dvinsk was taken by only a hundred Germans, owing to the local committee osing their heads. The committee would )e tried by the revolutionary tribunal. Stockholm, Feb- 24. The White Guards have driven hack ;he Red Guards at many points. They lave captured Bjorneborg and Tammerots, and are now advancing towards in important junction on the Helsing-iors-Viborg railway. THE MASSES AROUSED. Petrograd, Feb. 24. The advance of the Germans has Housed the masses, who are rapidly enrolling to defend the capital, where martial law has been proclaimed and a drastic press censorship established. There U'e stringent regulations against looting wd looters are to ibe handed over to the nilitary. MORE IDLE TALK. Paris, Feb. 24. Telegrams from Petrograd indicate that the Council of Commissaries has resolved on resistance, and has sounded the French Mission, under General Disselle, on the organisation of defence.