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Show TEUTONS I ill War Prisoners to Be Released, Re-leased, Captured Ships to Be Returned and Commercial Relations Resumed if the Governments Gov-ernments Represented at Brest-Litovsk Consent. Con-sent. POLAND TO HAVE VOTE ON HER FATE Bolsheviki Delegates Willing to Part With ! Lithuania, Courland ! and Parts of Esthonia and Livonia, Which Will Fall Into Hands of Germany. SHANGHAI, Dec. 30. The North China Daily News says the situation at Harbin, Manchuria, is serious. The newspaper says also that Bolshoviki disorders have occurred oc-curred at Vladivostok and the Chi-. Chi-. ne&e are endeavoring to send troops there. LONDON, Dec. 31. One of the forts in Kronstadt, the naval hase near Petrograd, has heen blown up by an extremely violent explosion, according to a Petrograd dispatch to the Times. There are no details. de-tails. BRKST-L1TOVSK. Friday, Dee. 2S, via Berlin and London, Dec. 30. Vrovlslnna 1 agreement on a series of Important points, lnrluding" liberation of war prisoners prison-ers n nd resumption of 10111 mere la 1 re la -lions, v.lis reached today by the delegates ot Russia and the central powers in .discussion .dis-cussion of issues which, in t he event of a genentl peace, wmild have to lie settled amoiuv t he 11a tinnrjs represented In t he negotiations here. This provlnlonal dtn-russion dtn-russion was terminated today, tho basis of an agreement adopted being reached under t he reservation t hat it wna lo bo examined by the governments represented by the delegation.-. In respect to treaty relations, an understanding un-derstanding was arrived at. regarding thn restoration of the situation as it existed when the writ bc-an. ll was provider) that errlaln lawn adopted durlne the war shall- he cancel can-cel k'd. and t ha t t hose H.ffeeted thereby shall he restored to their pievluiir; ri'hla or indemnilied. War Costs and Damages. The mien in re a. rd t 1 he payment, of wa r rostH a nd da in;- c-s '. cta defined in treat hi deta ii. I'mvisioin. wnr ron-I'H'niiiK ron-I'H'niiiK da ma ;-tcs susta incd by cjvi lis 11:1 outside the wa.r area. An Hpreement in principle reached ret-n rdim; t he j eciru 'ocy 1 libera tion and return to their honied of war pripoucrR and interned civil hi ns. and n!so for thrt return of captured merchant vrsselB. speedy resijinption of dlpl-niiatic n.nd consular reintjonn Ip embraced In tiie under: un-der: tandinc. It. is r et fort h that t.hfr shall be Immediate stoppage, ed e--onomi': warfare, c ;.!a bl ! sh tnent of com inr r" lal in tercourse and the organized p' Imiutk of eornmodli -h. A sul'Mt a ut ial u Tid i si a ndint jra s 11 r -r'er" on the tiasl.' of which ernnomh: relations slia.ll he scMlfd pennanentjy, Occupied Territory. f'PK-i 1 1 1 i risr Mie qucRttr.n 01 - Tjpifd tr-rltory. tr-rltory. I ho ItussiaiiK ma'l' )c foiowinn prriprii-3 ) ; "In full H'-cord with (lie nublie docl a rations ra-tions of iK't'i the 1 out 1 ;o I inn luirtlrs that they ' hri::)i no beiin o:-e p'anf and dr:dro u, cinii birlc X'f.irt' without annexations, I.'ussia will v.lHidra , r iroi.j.f. froni all I ' ft - 1 if A n;.i via , 1 1 u n a r '. urkcy and f:--' upied by her. whi the p..-vcrw nf 1 lie '(uadrnple aliiatT-e v p withdraw their'. fi"iu Vn'ritid. In ;iccoiaii''f; with 'lie priti'-ipl"., fif the R'j:v'i;ni Kvern men t., wldch has dei 1rr-d :r y-j,t of all peoples peo-ples iivlnc in Russia to s If-il"t crmlna-tion, crmlna-tion, ii)i'i)iiiK e.et ;-ep,( ra t k.h, ihe rP''-la rP''-la t ions o f I ben- rl ! h t ri -1 p will be Riven ; ri 'Ppoi't unit y within the s-hortest poFslhie re:;od of deejdin;: 'iitirei' and freely the, fj'j'Mion of ti"lr uni"t with one or tbn otlcr empire, or ilieir formation into In- fjer,f ndej.l r-tatep. Troops Must Depart. "In tins '-onnei-tjon the y,y en p of anv troop:-, apart from naMona) or lo-a militia, mili-tia, in the territories winch ;,r vothiK h'vd! not be perinif-slbln nnli) this question ques-tion decided. The unvfrnmcnt of Lhesn rep-ions will remain In the hands of rtp-re'-enu t ; vep. tf t he Joc;( j npu l at I ons, 'i"' tcf) flemo'ratl'ally. The dats of qvb''-ua qvb''-ua t Ion and ot her cin nmsiatifos a nd th cf.riinieiir ernen t rd dein')hi liza t Ion of th'i iirmv is to be fixer t,y H ppfteia.) military co'ci n i ion. ir r;.a uy t lien proposes thr- fo!lov;jnp form f --r t);e fjri nrtien r,f a preHm-hi-irv treaty whl-ll is to be Concluded: 'Tirt.1 KiiFsia and Uermany are to d- (Contlnaed on Page Trwo.) DISS ID TEUTONS flGHEE IE THE MAIN (Continued from Page One.) dare the state of war at an end. Both nations are resolved to live together in the future in peace and friendship on condition of complete reciprocity. Gei many will be- ready as soon as peace ia concluded with Russia, and the demobilization demobili-zation of the Russian armies lias been accomplished to evacuate her present positions po-sitions in occupied Russian territory, In-so In-so fur a g no different inferences result from article 2. Provinces Given Up. "SecondThe Russian government, having in accordance with itw principles proclaimed for all peoples without exception excep-tion living within the Russian empire the riKiit of self-determination. Including' complete separation, takes cognizance of the decisions expressing thewtlj of the people, demanding a full state of independence inde-pendence and separation from tho Russian Rus-sian empire, for Poland, Lithuania, Cour-land Cour-land and portions of Esthania ana .Livonia. .Li-vonia. "The Russian government recognizes that in the present circumstances these ma pi festal ions must be retrardofl as an expression of the will of the people and is readv to draw conclusions therefrom-As therefrom-As in those districts to which the tore-going tore-going stipulations apply the question of evacuation is not such as provided for In article 1, a special commission shall discuss and fix the time and other details de-tails in conformity and in accordance with tne Russian idea of the necessary ratification by a plebiscite on broad lines and without any military pressure whatever what-ever of tho already existing proclamation proclama-tion of separation." The Austrian delegation made a similar simi-lar statement. Russian Standpoint. Tho Russian delegation took cognizance of these statements and set forth its standpoint as follows: "Our standpoint is that only such man ifestation of will can be regarded as a de facto expression of the will of the people as results from a free vote taken In the districts in question, with the complete absence of troops. We therefore there-fore propose, and must insist thereon, that a clearer ac.d more precise formulation formula-tion of this point be made. We consent, however, to the appointment of a special commission for tne examination of technical tech-nical conditions for the realization of such referetidums and also for the fixing of a definite time for evacuation. "In view of the course which the ne-r gotiations hitherto have taken, it may be stated with satisfaction that, regarding set lenient of the most important questions, ques-tions, the views of the represented powers pow-ers tally in many points, while regarding others tho views approach each other to such an extent that hote for arriving at an agreement on the latter points is well founded." A Petrograd dispatch of Thursday said the peace negotiations had been postponed post-poned for ten days to give the entente nations opporumitv to indicate whether they would participate. A massage from Brest-! ,itovsk on the same day spoke of the continuation of the discussions, and apparently formal negotiations are being carried on during the recess. |