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Show TRDTZKY on m io THE PEACE PARLEYS Delegates of the Cen- tral Powers Reach Brest-Litovsk, but Find No Russians There; Receive Telegram Ask-ing Ask-ing Transfer of Negotiations Nego-tiations to Stockholm. GERMANS MAY NOT AGREE TO CHANGE Draft of Turkish Peace Terms Presented to Russia; Free Passage "of the Dardanelles Offered Of-fered in Return for Advantages Ad-vantages to the Moslems. Mos-lems. I i - LONDON, Jan. 5'. "When the delegates of tlio central powers arrived at Brest-Bltovwk Brest-Bltovwk to resume the peace negotiations they found no Russian delegates 'there, according to a Vienna dispatch to Zurich, forwarded by the lSxchange Telegraph company. All that awaited Lhem was a telegram from the Russians asking for transfer of the negotiations to Stockholm. Stock-holm. I A dispatch from Berlin, forwarded by tie titer's Amsterdam correspondent latei in the day, gave an explanation of this situation and said the Russian delegates j were on the way to the meotlng place, , ompanled by Leon Trotzky, Bolshe-r Bolshe-r foroign Ulster. Trotzky dil not attend the earlier is of the delegates.) From Petrograd. fi rding to this advice. Baron von Busschevladdenhausen, tlie Ger-M Ger-M undersecretary for foreign affairs. 1 .i'ormed the reiyhstag main committee I Kit. he had received this telegram from I Ttrograd: j I "The 1 1 ii u.-lci; of negotiations to ncu-I ncu-I ii. il territory has been suggested only on V ill-count of the stae whii:h the ncgotia-Jiis ncgotia-Jiis have reached. In lew of the arrival ar-rival of (ho German delegation at Brest-I.Hovsk, Brest-I.Hovsk, the Russian delegations, acconi- pauied by M. Trotzky, is leaving Saturday Satur-day for Brest-Litovsk. They are convinced con-vinced that an understanding in regard to the transfer of negotiations to neutral ground will give rise to no difficulty." At t linns h the Bolshevik! foreign minister. min-ister. Leon Trotzky, announced that the I i icrman peace terms would not be ac- i espied, it was expected that the Russian : delegates would return to Brest-Litovsk : fur the meetings which were to be re- I Mimed today to inform the central pow- j rrs of Russia's att it tide. The Russians i requested transference of the negotiations in Stockholm, because they would have less difficulty there In obtaining full pub-licit pub-licit v concerning the negotiations and -, lo" because they preferred a neutral place to the German eastern headquarters headquar-ters for holding the discussions. The i ; or man chancellor, t'ount von Hertling, tnld the reiclistag main committee on Thursday that the German delejtates had been instructed to refuse to transfer tlie negotiations to Stockholm. TURKISH TERMS OF PEACE PRESENTED TO THE RUMANS LONDON. Jan. 5. Free passage of the Dardanelles for Russian ships, Russian evacuation "of Turkish territory and the demobilization of the Russian Black sea Meet ate provided for in the draft of Turkish peace terms presented to Russia, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Petrograd. Turkey, it is provided, is to retain her active army in consequence of the continuation of war against the entente. The main points in the draft presented by the Turkish delegates are given in the dispatch as follows: 1 Frontier lines to remain as be-tore be-tore the war. 2 Within two years of the con-wr" con-wr" elusion of peace the contracting parties par-ties shall conclude a convention re- (Caatinued on Pago Six.). iii 1 WAY TO ! THE PHCE PARLEYS: (Continued from Pago One.) spectinp ea trade and ponFulates. 'I YVor losses incurred by individuals individ-uals to bp refunded. ( Guarantees to be given for the territorial intfrity and development of Persia on tb basis of her entire independence. fi 1-Yee passapre to be granted Russian Rus-sian ships passing through thQ Dardanelles Dar-danelles and the Bosphoritp. 6 Mobilization within limits to be permitted for national defense. 7 Russia to undertake to remove her armies to territory within the previous Russian borders in six to eight weeks after signing the peace agreement, leaving only one division to safeguard her frontier. 8 Russia to 'demobilize her army of sperial Armenian units and also to demobilize the lilac!: sea navy. 9 Turkey to retain her active armies in consequence of continuation continua-tion of war against the entente. |