Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-06-03 | Page 13 | Cool Reception is Given to Emissaries

COOL RECEPTION IS GIVEN TO EMISSARIES Friends of Dethroned Czar Said to Have Approached Germans With Peace Terms. ZURICH, June 2. A Swiss news agency learns that two former members of the court of the dethroned czar recently came to Stockholm and tried to get into communication com-munication with the German government. The two emissaries approached the German Ger-man minister in the Swedish capital and informed him that they represented a large number of the army officers and the monarchists elements of the Russian people, and were empowered to make some kind of a deal to bring about a separate peace, provided the German government gov-ernment would promise aid to re-establish czarism In Russia. The offer was communicated to the1 Berlin foreign office, but found a very cold reception there. Secretary of State Dr. Zlmmermann instructed the German minister in Stockholm to inform the two envoys of the czarists that peace negotiations nego-tiations could only be entered into with the existing Russian government, and that Germany does not intend to interfere inter-fere with the Internal affairp of the Russian nation. After this answer was delivered to them the emissaries left the Swedish capital hurriedly. They came to Switzerland Swit-zerland by the way of England and France and are etill trying to win the support of the central powers for the lost cause of Nicholas Romanoff. It has been learned that soon after their arrival on Swiss soil they tried to get into connection with the Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian government, but do not seem to have had better success there than with Germany.