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Show RESOLUTION OF MAXIMALISTS ON TERMS OF PEACE hON'POX, Nov. 1. A dispatch from the semiofficial Russian new s a goney gives tiie text of a resolution adopted last Friday Fri-day by the workmen's and soldier' congress con-gress in Pt trocrr.ii. calling for peac the proposal declaring thai ad belligerent governments gov-ernments should enter immediately into negotiations "for a democratic and equitable equit-able peace." "The government considers a pea--e to be democi a t ic and e'p;i:abio," sn th resohttion, "which is asmhei io hv a majority ma-jority of the woiking i'lastc9 of ail tiie belligerent ' oi'.mries. v om ou; and ruined I by warthe r eaa e w hih the Russian (workmen tailed for on the fall of the ! monarchy. It should re an immediate i pe.ve. without annexation di at is to say. witho.it nsarpatiun o: foreign territory and without iolent con,-p;est of nationalities) nationali-ties) and without indemnities. "The Russian :rovernne:U prorejs to ail belligerents to make this peace im- n,r-3 in toty, dec a r; n r t hem se h es ve.-'dy (without delay to c.irry ..: I a'i thr Qadi-t Qadi-t in:s of this peace t :i ro-g h ph-:i 'r i; en- liaries of ail the co;;-iiifs am t.a'ions. "H;.' anuexatii:i or ns-UTation of territory terri-tory the government means.inac.-orri.-ir.ee 'with tiie son.-e of justice of democracy in 1 cererai and of t he working cp,ss-"-s in particilar, any anncal;o;i to a great and I powerful h te of a ueak n" t im.'i Ii t wtrh-jo.it wtrh-jo.it the i n?.sen I of I r,A t na t lotiah: y and I indepennentiv of ' p- degree of clv;h",at:on ! md its g ogr.ip.i.t.il giuiation in Kuiop oi across I he o. ean. "if a ;v. popn.a t ,on be kept bv for e urdi r the eont-jl of any state and if or.-trarv or.-trarv 1o it" will expressed 'n the iress or !i, :t.t i in, P, assembiy. or to, d--- '.sions of j-jU", it-s. or in op-cos;; ;on to reielil"ns and uprifin-s against an eppressor. the popu-lanon popu-lanon is reiusrd tne richt of univenal suffrage, of dri mg out an army of o- pat ion and organizing hs own pol.th a I recime. such a state ot things annexa-! annexa-! ti'Mi or inbviL n-:irpatiou. The :"i'c:n-I :"i'c:n-I ment consid. s t! at T'ae a-'tivo - arrymg on oV the v ar in order to share weak nationalities na-tionalities whhh have been conrju.-re I be-ecu be-ecu rich and power!" d nations is a gieM crime aga inst human!' . "Ac-onilngl:'. the government solenmh prociiims it decision to sign pea. e terms which wlil bring ibi w:r to an end on ;he ronditmns n icut ion--d a'.vwe. which are f-imtal-ie for all the r.ation.iiltieg." The pnvj osal fu; the;- s.(s the fotogning ii,i;st tiot be con sal i red final, but t ha t I the government con-.m-.s to (aniine int ' an v other peace i-rnw "only intcs'.h.ii that thrsr terms be set forth os sp.-eclh' as possible by some h 1 h g t e n t . and that the terms be aboh;Tely lear. without th slightest amt'iguit- and without seciei. character." The pioj.o-al suggests an immrdl.it.' ar-mis' ar-mis' a e of u.ree iiamths t hat tic re pi e-sentatives e-sentatives of all the nations in the war "or Its vi.r.ms" mav par in ip.i: c U the io-cotiaiion.-. and de. lat es t hat a i mi (ei -enr-e of all the nations of the world should he convoked t give ;inal appixu.il lo the pe.u e terms urofied. |