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Show RUSSIAN PAPERS SAY GERMANS HAVE THROWN OFF MASK PETROGRAD. Wednesday, Jan. 2. (By the Associated Press.) Petrogrrfd newspapers, are unanimous in declaring that the Germans and Austrians have, after one week, thrown off the mask and made it clear that the central powers do not want a real democratic peace. The Pravda says "German imperialism is again beginning begin-ning to show its claws." ,r Gormany'a apparent unwillingness 10 give Poland. Lithuania. Livonia, Courland Cour-land and Ksthonia the privilege of free self-definition is the rock upon whtcttj th negotiations have split. Other peace on-- on-- ditions are ignored by Hie Bolsheviki leaders, who say that Germany opposes the most, vital principle underlying the Russian revolution. In an interview with newspaper men Foreign Minister Trotzky said that peace negotiations probably would' not be resumed re-sumed at Brest-Li tovsk. as the Russians oppose stoutly the principle of annexation.. annexa-tion.. On Tuesday evening at a joint meeting of the central exerutive committee of the congress of soldiers' and workmen's delegates, representatives of the peasants' deputies, t bo Petrograd soldiers' council and representatives of the general army congress for the demobilization of the army a resolution was adopted unanimously unani-mously declaring that the German peaOe terms were unjust. Jt denounced Germany's Ger-many's att it tide toward the Baltic provinces prov-inces as tryannical and authorized the government to take steps to transfer future fu-ture peace negotia tions to a neutral country. Russians generally favor Stockholm as the place of the peace conference, but it is said the Germans are not willing to go to Sweden. |