Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 2 | Calls Francis and other Envoys Foreign Spies

CALLS FRANCIS AND OTHER ENVOYS FOREIGN SPIES STOCKHOLM, Jan. 23. Replying to sharp criticism in the Novaia Zhizn of Petrograd, Maxim Gorky's paper, of the arrest of the Rumanian minister at Petrograd. Petro-grad. the Pravda, .organ of the council of workmen's and soldiers' deputies, says: "And von believe seriously that all these men M Diamandi (the Rumanian min-isterl min-isterl Mr. Francis (the American ambassador! ambas-sador! and M. Noulens (the French ambassador) am-bassador) aie really envoys for the workmen's work-men's and peasants' governments, for the Russian people! You think the government govern-ment should consider as envoys these men. who have declared that this government gov-ernment is not recognized by their governments! govern-ments! Have not these men themselves declared thev are not remaining' in Russia as envoys, lint merely to obtain information'' informa-tion'' ' ., "Worthv gentlemen, lor us all these Rumanian, French diplomats are nothing but agents for international imperialism, which has for its aim the crushing of the Russian revolution. They are spies and helpers of Korniloff, Kaledines and Savin-koff. Savin-koff. If thev sent out spies and understrappers under-strappers begin to take liberties witli our soldiers we shall arrest these agents no matter how much they shriek about their immunity." Merely a Hope. LONDON. Jan. 23. A much more cautious cau-tious account of the result of the negotiations nego-tiations between the central powers and the Ukraine at Brest-Litovsk than was given in the recent German semiofficial statement which reported what appeared to be a virtual settlement is contained in an official statement from Vienna received re-ceived (through Amsterdam today. The Vienna statement speaks of "the well founded hope of negotiations leading to an agreement on the basis of a peace treaty." German reflection of this view is found In the Berlin Tageblatt. which says the Vienna account of the result of the negotiations with the Ukrainians must be regarded as the final one. The previous semiofficial announcement of an agreement agree-ment having been reached, the newspaper points out, does not correspond with the text issued for publication. LONDON, Jan. 2;'.. Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik foreign minister, who returned to Petrograd on Monday night from Brest-Litovsk." Brest-Litovsk." is quoted by the Kxchange Telegraph Tele-graph correspondent at Petrograd, in a dispatch dated Tuesday, as saying that the Germans terms preponderatingly favored fa-vored annexationists, their object being to strangle Russia economically and politically. politi-cally. The Austrian delegates, the foreign for-eign minister said, played no very active role in tlie negotiations, merely assenting to every German proposal. LONDON, Jan. 23. Under penalty of recalling the delegates now in Petrograd for discussion of the question of prisoners of war, the central powers are demanding preferential treatment for officer prisoners, prison-ers, according to an Kxchange Telegraph dispatch from Petrograd. In the name of the central empires, the correspondent states. General Hoffman of the German delegation, made at Brest-Litovsk the threat of withdrawal unless the Russians refrained from insisting upon the same regime for officer prisoners of war as for private soldiers.