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PETROGRAD, NOV. 80 debt, whereby British financiers and

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ALLIED PROTEST AGAINST SEPARATE PEACE.

LONDON, Nov. 80. The Times Petrograd Correspon dent, telegraphing on November 27. Fatutes that the military represenlu-

The Times, in an editorial, says: Lord Lansdowne will be the most popular mas in Central Europe next week. He submitted to us this. ter on Wednesday. We refused to publish is, because we believeilin reflected no responsible plave of British opinion. We are confident it will be read in all the Allied countives of Great Britain; Ramania; * tries with universal regret and re

Italy, Japan, Frances „and Serbia, probation. His action will not be according to the Moscow: Proak, misunderstood in this country, where sent a rote to General Dukhonin on he has long ceased to exercise any against the violation of the treaty Nov. 23 protesting most rigorously influence on public affairs. No more

unpropitious time could be chosen to binding the Allies not to conclude an express weak and illogical arguments armistice separately, and declaring for playing into the bands of the that such violation by Russia will have the most serious consequences.

enemy.

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PEASANTS ·HOSTILE TO LENIN,

REFUSE CONGRATULATIONS ON ARMISTICE.

The Daily Mail Buys: Lord Lans- downe falls to 'recognise that there are worse things than min. He fails to recognise that Germany will be victorious unless she is decisively beaten, and that the alternative to tuin is alavery. Lord Lansdowne.

LONDON, NOT.. 80, does not speak for England, Great

The Daily Chronicle a Petrograd Britain "or the Empire. Our free- | Correspondent, ⠀ telegraphing dom-loving people will accept poverty November 25 states that the Fea- as the price of freedom.

sunts Conference gave Len The Daily Chronicis, says: Lord hostile reception, refusing to vote for Lansdowne writes as German the motion of congratulations on the opinion were ripe for an equitable armistice. It was subsequently an- peace. He views the problems of nounced that a Coalition. Govern Central and Eastern Europe as the ment would be formed of the Victorian statesmen of 1 viewed advanced Sprialists in which an the problem of Schleswig-Holsteinant Leninite section of the Bel

from the consequens of our absten- Bolsheviks are being defeated in the He appears to have learned nothing shevike would be represented. The

tion in 1864. It would be impossible election of the Constituent Assembly to successfully establish a League even in Petrograd.

of Nations if Germany controls a

solid block of two hundred millions

of white people occupping continuou

tentory, right serves Europe and

ONLY THEEE ARMIES SUR

FORT PEACE TACTICSEAF

Only three of the armies bare

Ama, with a disrupted Russia be-Supported the Bolshevik peace tac

tics and the others will probably We prefer President Wilson

disobey the Leniuite instructions judgraent in his reply to the Popecia mai f

yond

that there is no chface of peace at cesse fring therefore the trace h

per little chance of realisation.

prudent.

The Daily Graphic stated that Lord Lansdowne letter is the lette

despairing min

Lew Britons want to end the war by

berging

The Daily Gell

ESCAPE OF A RUSSIAN GRANDI

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