Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-11 | Page 2 | Doubt Cast upon Story of Seeking the Aid of Sweden

DOUBT CAST UPON , , STORY OF SEEKING THE AID OF SWEDEN PETROGRAD, Wednesday. Jan. 9. Unofficial Un-official reports of the first session of the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, when they were resumed on Tuesday, say that Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign minister, min-ister, insisted upon the removal of the conference to Stockholm. He is reported to have told the German and Austrian delegations that if they did not accede to his request they would feel the weight of the arms of the Russian democracy and the weight of the voice of their own democracies. The Evening Post says the Germans did not refuse to continue the negotiations, negotia-tions, but that it was not specified where they would take place. The German delegations in Petrograd were sent to take up with the Russians questions such as resumption of commercial com-mercial relations rmd release of certain classes of prisoners. So far as is known, they were not charged with political affairs, af-fairs, and in ordinary circumstances the German government would not employ such agents in seeking Sweden's services as mediators. Negotiations would be carried car-ried on directly with the Swedish minister min-ister at Berlin or through the German minister at Stockholm.