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1918.

THE WAR.

(Continuad from pone b.)

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION. RECOGNITION OF BOLSHEVIKS URGED.

TOR CHINA, JAPAN, GOZIA

INDO-CHINA, FIAM, STRAITE The Daily Chronicle and the Dasly SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATER | Newa, in editorials, urge the Allies and the United Staten to recognise the Bolshevik Government.

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THE SAVIOURS OF THE REVOLUTION.

Lonpos, January 4th. The Daily Chronicle publishes a Jong interview with M. Litvinoff, the new Russian Plenipotentiary in · London, whom it pictures in most eulogistic terms, emphasising his keen intelligence fores of will and mastery of English M. Litvinoff eloquently defended the Bolsheviks, not se usurpere, but as the Raviours of the Revolution. The respon- sibility for the internecing bloodshed fell

RUSSIANS PROPOSE. STOOK HOLM

FOR POURPARLERS.

GERMANY'S FORMER

COLONIES.

PETROGRAD, -January 4th.

London, January 4th. The President of the Russian Peace A message, from Paris says that in Delegation telegraphed on January 2nd connection with the report that the Gor to the Austro-German and Turco Bulan at Brestlitovsk claimed that the garian Delegations en follow { SYS natives of German colonies were The Russian Government considers whole heartedly loyal, Commandant de it urgent to ultimately conduct the Civrieux, wrinng to the Matin, bea pesce pourparlers in neutral territory pointed out that the German official and proposes to transfer them to Stockgures show that German frightfulness

Petrogra

With reference to The has reduced the population of Togoland Austro German proposal contained in from two and a half millions to a little Article 1 and 9, cabled on

won December

over a million in seventeen years. He also emphasises that the Germans in Russian Government and also the the Central Executive Committee of the South-West Africa, when they surrender Soviets are in agreement with

ed, begged to be allowed to retain their opinion of our Delegation and consid arms because they feared they would bo ers the proposal contrary to the prins murdered by their native auxiliaries.

hotme The

the

ciple of free untional self determina-SA

tion, even in the restricted terms of BRITISH PRISONERS RETURN- the Quadruplics's reply to our Delega

tion.

WARNING TO GERMAN IMPERIALISTS,

The newspapers urge the rejection of the German designs on Poland and the Baltic Provings

The Maximalist Pravda states that the German Ireporialists are out in their reckoning If the Generala do not wish to renounco plunder, the soldiers them solves will conclude a soldiers' peace. It recalls last year's German naval mutiny. adding, Messieurs Imperialista, you on the irreconcilable Social Revolutionare sowing the wind and you will reap

the whirlwind.

nah Golary, Port er Settlemens is prefsen by DESCRIPTION, sarefully revised oleh YUAT, MO) of which vil servE DE BOGUZZIE GUIDES FOR THE Tounzon, giring every detail in connection with the places, their Mirtoryories with General Korniloff's and Gen- Topography, the, old,

eral Kaledin's foreen. It was prosAL TO PACIFY UKRAINE. mischievous to represent the Bolsheviks The People's Commissioners promise as pro-German, as anti Ally, or as mere that they will not make war against Ukraine if Ukraine, allows the Maxima): pacifiste. They realised that Kaiseria ista to attack General Kaledin. and mere Junkeriem were the greatest obstacles to the emancipation of the in- ternational proletariat, but they were op posed to the replacing of Prussian mili- tarism by Russian, French or British militarism.

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REPATRIATION OF WAR

PRISONERS.

PETROGRAD, January 5th.. The negotiations regarding the re- patriation of war prisoners have bem

ING FROM GERMANY.

DELAY IN, EMBARKATION.

AMSTERDAM, January th

co-gelyian bront,

THROUGH BRITNEʼN AGENOW.]

FRENCH FRONT. ATTEMPTED ENEMY ATTACK COMPLETELY FAILS.

PARIS, January 4th. A COMMERIQUÉ states:An enemy at- tempe pe "attack, opposite Aspach,

Upper. Anese, completely desp

Germans suffered appreciable

losses.

dow

Two enemy aeroplance were brought and six other fell over their own Uur air squadrons dropped 7,300 kilo Back railways stations at Metz, Sablons, grammes of bombs on factories at Bom-

Landatis, Argirelle, etc.

of

BRITISH FRONT. RAIDERS, DRIVEN OFF,

LONDON, January 4th. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a The Correspondent of the Telegraaf report, statas Raiders were driven off states that Major-General Hambury before they roached our

east our positions Prisons at The Hague, has protested to the Dutch Government in connection with west and west of Cambrai and is also yesterday's confusion during the embarks native along the front south of Lens to tion of the wounded men from Germany. Armentieres and in the neighbourhood of The trouble was apparently due to the Zonnebeke delayed arrival of trains, in connection Our aeroplanes last night dropped a with which a Dutch protest to Germany few bombs on Carvin, despite the bad is pending

sixty

weather. and Three hundred

British civilians and twenty tascars including Beventeen mental cases, arrived in the morning from Rubloten. The train took 24 hours.

Williams Chief of the British Warstile artillery is more active south

Three thousand prisonere still remain at Bubleben, of which a thousand are expecting release shortly.

LOCAL FIGHTING.

LONDON, January 4th. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a report, states: There was local fighting yesterday afternoon on the Cambrai front, near the Canal du Nord, but it did not produce any material change.

We advanced our line slightly at south of Lens

is hostile

at night

GREAT BRITAIN'S – MAN-Bullecourt and ery ti

POWER

LONDON, January 4th

held up, owing to the Maximalist insist THE PRE REQUISITES TO VICTORY etice on free communication with Austrỡ German Socialists, and the appointment of a Commission to report on the hun- dreds of thousands of Poles forced to work in German factories.

Ho rose to his feet his voice ringing with the conviction of religious fervour, and said he was sanguine enough to in- agine that the Russian and the Germany armies on the Eastern Front may some day march together against the common foes of the world's proletarist in Ger- many and perhaps in other countries.

TY AND FATEFUL DECISIONS." Mark He believed, in fact, that by the negotin-

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THE MAPS AND PLANS

THE RUSSO-GERMAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONE.

REICHSTAG DISCUSSES WEIGH

In the Reichstag, the Chancellor announced that Herr von Dembussche, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs would report upon the peace negotiations after which the Government and the Reichstag would confidentially discuss and make weighty and fateful deci- sions.

an old dat een sting of the Gov. An official messago states that Mr. ernment and Trade Unions associated with recruiting in connection with pro tected occupations

Sir Auckland Geddes stated that the War Cabinet had studied the man- power resources of all the belligerents. The Russian situation had completely. altered the position in the last six months, but the American armies would ultimate speed with which they would be put in the field was almost entirely a question of tonnage. Meanwhile a great strain would be thrown on Britain resources There were three prerequisites to victory an increase in the output of shipping, a saving of tonnage and the maintenance of the armies in the field Hence & departure from the existing arrangements was imperative, inasmuch as the maintenance of the armies in the held was impossible unless a large num ber was recruited from munitions, both for technical and fighting units.

in the Far East weshalay the name of uration and propaganda now proceeding M.

Trotaky and M. Lenin were contributing LONDON, January 4th.ly more than redress the balance. The more effectively to the downfall of Ka West serism than the Allies fighting in the He concluded by saying that the Bolsheviks would regard a separate peace ne a disnator, but it might be inevitatile It was for the Allied demoorncien to prevent it by raising their voices immé diately a VAGAS Herr von Dembuasche stated that the EFFECT OF DEVELOPMENTS negotiations had naturally been difficult The Daily Chronicle says that in view owing to the fact that they had had to of the developments between Russia and to conducted by a coalition on one side. the Central Powers it is understood that and a single Power on the other. An de facto recognition may be accorded by other difficulty was public reporting, the Western Powers to the Lenin Govern which permitted enemies to impede the ment and that a democratio statement negotiations. Strong efforts had been of the Allied policy will shortly be sent mado in this respect. - to Russia,

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M, Litvinoff may, de facto, be recognis ed and Bir George Buchanan be replaced by a diplomat sympathetic to the Russian Revolutionary ideas.

Į

ERNED RUSSIANS RELEASED

Tchiteherin, whom the Bolshevika first proposed to appoint as Ambassador to London while interned at Brixton, bas been released and left for Russia last night, accompanied by M. Petroff re- leased from internment at Islington

MR HENDERSON EXPLAINS BRITISH LABOUR VIEWS Mr. Arthur Henderson interviewed Tchitchering at Brixton, when he plained to him the views of British Labour for conveyance to the Bolshevik Government.

The remainder of the brief report which the German censors have hitherto per mitted of von Deinbussche's speech speaks of him as emphasising vertain territorial difficulties, and referring to economic questions, but it gives no details.

ONLY A BRIEF REFORT PERMITTED.

LATER

Only a brief report of the discussion has been permitted, containing a declara tion by a Centre Deputy that the present

constitutional bodies of Poland Courland, and Lithuania are fully entitled to express the people's will as regards the destiny of these territories, and also some mild Socialist criticism, AUSTRALIA AND CONSCRIP

TION

THE BRITISH EMBASSY ATULLA

PETROGRAD,

MELBOURNE, January 4th. The Timer gives an account of a some The latest returns of the Referendum what serious breakdown in health of Bir show that there is a majority of 750 votes George Buchanan, the British Ambass in the Australian Forces in favour of dor in Petrograd. He has been granted leave of absence and shortly returns Home. It is improbable that any succes sor will be appointed for, the present

If events make the retention of the Embassy desirable, it will be left under the control of the Charge d'Affaires,

THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY,

A message from Petrograd states that the Council of Commissaries has fixed the 18th instant as the date for the op ing of the Constituent Assembly, provid- ed there is the necessary quorum of 400. ARCHIVES REVEAL INTERESTING DOCUMENTS.

A Petrograd

message BAYA the Bolsheviks announce that among the papers discovered at the Foreign Minis Try an interesting documents dealing with pourparlers between the German and Russian Imperial Governments on the subject of an International Conven tion for fighting Socialian. Other curi- documenta bava. Istely been unearth- ød dealing with the time immediately preceding the war and relating to Ger man policy. The contents will be pub- lished when the documents have been

classified.

ENEMY DELEGATIONS DIVIDED.

The Daily News Correspondent at tions at Bresilitoval there were two di

not tendencies among the epemy Dele

Conscription.

The totals of all classes show a majority against Conscription of 170,000

PARTY LEADERSHIP IN AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE, January 4th.

The Nationalist Party hag resolved by 63 votes to 2 that Mr. Hughes retain the leadership.

THE ANNUAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.

LONDON, January 4th. M, Huysman, the Secretary of the International Socialist Bureau will at tend the annual Labour Conference at Nottingham on Joaṇary 22ndri

CANADA'S SHIPBUILDING

The meeting adjourned until

morrow.

to-

PRIME MINISTER'S APPEAL TO AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS,

Lospor, January 4th,

The Prime Minister, in a message to the agricultural labourers of Great Britain, appeals to all to do their utmost to help grow more food

Le says There is a world wide shortage of food and we may have to feed the Ariny and the Nevy, also ourselves, on what we grow at Home."

UNITED STATES' WAR SPIRIT PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE. PERSZE, Agenda

LONDON, January 4th, President Wilson in a New Year message to Mr. Lloyd George, refers to America's resolution to continue to put every man and resource of the United Stales into the imperative task of wine ning an honourable peace.

The message says, Your message on behalf of the British War Cabinet is deeply appreciated and our spirita re spond to its friendly challenge.

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NTO THE CAM- ̈ REVERSE TAMARA The Daily Chronicle reports that the enquiry conducted by Field-Marshal Sir Dougisa Haig and Lord Dorby into the Several responsible officers have already reverse at Cambrai has been completed. been retiredAMA

NO HUMILIATING, PEACE. SPEECH BY RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

At the meeting of the Preliminary Parliament at Petrograd on October 20th, M. Terestchenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the course of a long speech on Russian foreign policy said:

The practical interests of the State imperatively demand that Russia should. not remain isolated, that the grouping of existing forces should correspond perfect.. ly to her interests and that on the other hand, if in Russa, as throughout the world the desire for peace has become general, no one in Russia should agree to

peace which would humiliate her or adversely affect her vital interests. Such a peace would be an historical blunder which would retard for many years the triumph of democratic principles and bring a cure upon those who permitted it. Buch a peace would soon be followed by another war, Boca There is no domain whero 5 falay step would have such a repercus- sion as in that of foreign policy Future historians of the Russian Revolution will be astonished to note that during the first few months of the Revolution the man who was then Minister of War, and who wished to see the Army successful, signed a series of documents which showed him in a wrong light, and that during the same period, when the head of the Foreign Ministry was a man who thought more than any other citizen of the greatness. of Russia, Russia approached nearer than evar before to a separate peace. I can vouch for it, because since I have become Minister of Foreign Affairs I have en countered the current which, in oppost-

tion to the real interests of the Father- land, was carrying it towards obscure and

staat enda, W

You have surely not yet forgotten the days in Mey when the armistice began on our front, threatening to bring the war to a premature conclusion, which would inevitably have dragged the country into concluding separate and disgraceful peace, Then se now such a pence was re Sected by all parties. You have not yet forgotten the efforts which the Adminis tration had to make in order to inspire the human masses at the front with the realization that this was not the way to conclude the war and to assure the in- ENEMY BATTERIES terests of Bussia I tell you that this

[THROWON REUTER'S AGENCY.}

BOMBARDED.

period, namely, from the middle of May until the end of June, was the hardest and most trying for the Ministry for

LONDON, January örd A British Italian official message Foreign Affairs, states; - Our artillery carried out

THE FRENCH BUCCESS.

But what encouragement did it not bat give us all when we heard of our offen- destieve bombardment on me to the days of June and July, which Our airmen carried out superseful gaye zipp with it to the idea of bombing raidu.

the Russian Revolution

advancing We raided across the Piave and took | into the territory of our enemies. You know also, through the roue prisoners.

representatives of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates who LONDON, January 4th.

visited Europe, too impression which the, Router's Correspondent at the British powerful advance of the Russian revolu Haudquarters in Italy, writing on Jan- uary 3rd, states:-In the recent Monte ionary army produced in the Allied Tombas success the French applied a countries And I tell you that if this lesson learnt on the Somme and other effort had not weakened we should bare OTTAWA, January 4th battlefelda PRAEA Ahad pesce already b

attack was prepared most care Unfortunately the deep ignorance. vigorous shipbuilding policy which will fully and carried out in the most bril and the look of the sense of responsibility style of mountain warfare inherited from the old régime again dis from the French artillary prepara Bitter disappoitment and defeat, and Three classes of ships will he built-of loft flank soult task was on the resulted according to the above-mentioned

ravine.

When this delegates, in the most terrible disillusion, contra and right confusion did not understand how it

and - dimmany in Allied ovun

SCHEME

The Government is inaugurating, #3,

utilise all the Canadian shipyards, the masses suffered consider organized the Army and left a trail of

caproity of which is 250,000 tona an-

Petrograd says that during the negotia three thousand tons, five thousand, and WAN 14 2 2s that the Russian Revolution, which

gationale

One was annexationist, represented by General Hoffmann, Prince Leopold Chief of Stan, and the other which was

mors moderata was, represented by Baron von Kuehlmaan and Count Ozernin

Disputes ware frequent and constant appeals were sent to Berlin, which weze supported by the moderates.

The Russians have refused to their prisoners of war till peace signed.

tight thousand to ten thousand executed a

The Government is also pegesisting for junction with the left, which co on March had appealed to all the peoples the construction of the necessary rolling whelmed milky

resistanos, The German reserves counter-attacked

to conclude a fraternal penes, had re- late to produce & serious effect. FRENCH SHIPFING LOSSES. ther side of Monte Tombs and the Alana Continuing, the Minister said he con French now overlook all the fur cuced the Russian people to a stato of

impotence.

2 Bidered that in such questions as the re prevented enemy olservation and reported within twenty

nunciation of conquests and the demand-

Alle grikith aristors

ACURRECTION

LONDON, January 4th minuten that all the objectives had boning of indemnities everybody should be In the French shipping returns, the

gained

on sa equal footing, and the aspirations number of vessels chove 1,000 tons annk British patrols crossed the Piave, in- of peoples to independence and the right chould by two, and not nine, es previously Iflicting losses and bringing hack prison to dispose of their politics! future should

bensured

cabled