Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 17 | Paper Says Russia is Ready for Peace

PAPER SAYS RUSSIA IS READY FOR PEACE Vienna Publication Declares, However, That Terms Demanded Are Totally To-tally Unacceptable. VIENNA, March 17. The Neue Freie Presse learns from a reliable source that tho peace movement U rapidly growing throughout Russia. In the cities and industrial centers it is spread by the labor organizations, and in the rural districts br traveling socialistic so-cialistic agitators, mauy of whom have been arrested and sent to Siberia in the last two or three months. "The war spirit of the cadet party in the Duma has cooled off considerably, consider-ably, and the most influential Russian financial and aristocratic circles desire de-sire peace," says the paper mentioned. "Russia would be ready for a separate sep-arate peaco today if we would return Poland, give up the Bukowina, open the Dardanelles permanently to itassian navigation and force Turkey to turn Armenia over to the czar. These conditions, con-ditions, however, are utterly unacceptable unaccept-able to the central powers, and there is no doubt but that they will be dropped before many more months. "The internal and military situation of Russia is hopeloss, and peace may come much quicker than we dared to hope even a short while ago."